The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-06-11
For the Register.
Notes of Hand.

our boast, that wo live in the country
but. in certain relations, we permit our
selves to remember that we live in town.
We are made a centre, in certain sense,
to the rural municipalities about us, us
five were the clasp to tie their closely
packed circlet together. Let US extend
the string therefore, and look .at it in
the view of rural public improvement,
and see what display we make compar.
atively together.
Orwell has the choicest place, proba.
BILE, for private improvements, and for
neatness of finish at the centre There
is more of gold goes to the inlayiug of
Orwell, than Of any other town, perhaps
with proportional effect. We say pro-
portional, for its old Addison County
competitor has been long Leid by those
who studied the geography of the coun.
try from our Lake stage, to be nearly
the best built farming town in all the
North. Shofeham and Orwell both
might be examples to US for rural i'm
provement of public kind, if they as
pired to 1.-THE former from plenty of
facilities, the latter from oxteut of op-
portuuity in It's public grounds but they
do not, and We set them copy easy
Bridport- How the crop premiums in
the Agricultural Society run to Bird
port aud, as Mr.. Meacham would say,
what neighipg of horses we hear from
Dan ! In its newer brick church, also,
it competes with its first ment Oned
neighbors. but with commons If tine ex-
tent and beautiful surface, the enemy
seems to have their cultivation all to
himself: if thistles be tares. his chance
for premium crop upon the street is q
crack one. Above, on the common
proper, al outlay is due 70: an enclos.
.ure, to one of the very plcasautcst pub
lie lots any where
Cornwall has plenty Of nice homes and
a selection Of pleasant occupants, doubt
less, in them. Some new dwellings have
been tastily fitted up of late, aud some
attempts. isolated, made in ornamcnting
streets More are to be, for education
penetratcs tha. rural community, it has
been held of certain kinds. more than
any other with us They must be, for
these germs of mental cultivation will
blossom out, and we shall meet their
beauty and fragrance upon the landscape.
Addison, with n historical name above
every local name We rereat, has scarcely
a name to live iu the matter we treat of.
or indeed particular chance for any. The
little centre at East Addison 50 far as
religious facilities are concerned, has
been acrccably fit up the natural ad-
vantages of the West Street remain in
some degree what they were designed to
be, when the liheral.souleC first settlers
laid it out ten rods wide like the long
town avenues. embowered in elms and
sycamores on Connecticut river. both
above and below the beat of tide water
The rest of the string the reader may
undo at his leisure. So many go for
specimens. 1t must be very wicked
Catholic. that has for his sins to tell ev-
every bead upon his rosary.
The city We know is q clasp by itself,
in string within a string. and right
fairly in some things she is doing il
now in the use Of her water-power he.
gun anew. in pretty goodly walks, and
an example she deserves to be in some
thing Of this, to those who visit her
marts and read the Citizen-ourselve
among the number The sound Of the
hammer at her falls should quicken us
with the Same spirit Of local enterprise.
if We would not find oursclvc, laid out as
cold as Siscra. some dewy morning
Bristol and Now Haven are waking
! up to extra schools. and If MS towns they
treat them literally, plentiful return
will result into their bosoms of knowl-
edge of matters which concern home and
will produce the love Of it, Who will
90 straying TO Oregon for a farm, ii he
has the secrets Of the planting Of paradise
in his head Bristol is place also for
mechanical, work and trade. New lHa-
ven, whore the soil is king-lct her tench.
ers treat of nature in fun proportion to
her interests, aud princes Of her powers
and priests Of her arcana-priucesse
and priestesses Of course, to stra ghten
them-will spring up like goodly palms
at her homesteads.
Salisbury, Leicester aud Weybridee,
alike in their pursuits, differon, enough
in character, but all conscious enough of
sensibilities to the amenities of life, the
| graces of rural ornament. and Whiting