The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-11-02

The following items came too late for
publication last week, but we believe they
havn't spoit with time.
For the Register.
Ticonlerosa, y. Y, Oct. 10Th, 1863
Our academy now numbers 80 stu
dents.
The corner stone Of the NJ. f. Church
edifce was laid at > o'clock on the 10Th
by Rev. Mr.. King. He made very
able and appropriate address on the oc-
caSion. The exercises were largely at
tended.
The Association Of Methodist cler-
gymen of this district met here on Tues.
day, Wednesday and Thursday of last
week. The rain dampened their clothes
but not their spirits. There were not so
many present, however as there would
have been, had it not rained.
On ground through the town" few
mornings since, We noticed new sign
which reads; Hooper, Clark & Weed "
This sign indicates a change of partners
in the business, but the increased custom
indicates it more emphatically. The firm
also runs a foundry where all kinds of
good casting is done.
"A Mr. st. Johns, miner on Graph
lite MI, and also a cripple, was attacked
and so brutally pounded by a fellow miner,
Mr.. Bennett and his wife on Friday even
ing last, that at first he was thought to be
beyond recovery. But his physician
now express hopes of his recovery. The
wife " used a stick of cordwood on the
poor victim after he was insensible
Taking up the historical thread where,
in my last | let it drop, | will tell you
something about Trout Brook valley.
had the pleasure Of living near the CEN
ter of it three weeks this fall at friends,
The row Of mountains along the north
west side, tower in stately grandeur show
ing in many places the pure granite OF
which they are formed, which places are
so nearly perpendicular that no soil will
lie upon them,
The mountains on the east side are as
rugged as the others, under the eastern
range runs the road, the most delightful
one | ever travelled. The mounts along
the valley range from 200 to 1000 feet
in hight The highest is Old Fort on
the top Of which is a natural fort.
took many delightful walk through
the fields and groves of this valley. |
have read of pleasant places where nature
had lavished her overplus beauties, Of
paradise" and hundreds oflovely places
but never realized the pleasure of behold
ing a place that eclipses every earthly
place of which read, till | came here
What "Old III" possessing attractions
This town cannot be equaled by any il
Vermont for beauty grandeur and utility
combined. Switzerland and Italy would
be at loss to find one spot of equal beauty
and lovclincss. The valley averages
about a mile in width, and is about SIX
in length. Trout Brook goes wandering
through green pastures, rich meadows
waving fields of grain, through fields o.
rustling corn; now girgling over pebbly
bottom, now spreading out to sun itsel
where the banks have been washed away
now running beneath the dropping viii
lows ON either bank. 1t receives, here
and there a little riyulet which starts il
some mountain spring.
In days that are told Of" single
man is said to have caught, with singl,
hook and line barrel of trout in sly
hours But the trout have all been caught
There are none now worth catching
The farmers boast of the richness anC
beauty of their farms, There is not /
pasture or meadow that is not abundantly
supplied with springs. No wells need b.
dug. Water runs in tubes into every
kitchen or to the door.
In the valley there are no marshes OF
Dogs which indicates healthy as well a
delightful condition of things. Thu
greater part of the timber is maple ant
beech other varieties are quite plenty
Now when the trees are dressed in thei
autumn robes, the place seems to have
richness added to it which words fail Il
, describes Beauty sits enthroned OF