The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-09-21
Essex Center. Sent q

Will tnat Essex center Is quiet place
you tell him you don't believe it. You
may even land | should advise the ex.
treme) go so far as to apply the end OF
your editorial thumb to the tin of Won,
editorial nose, and, executing with YOU
phisage the graceful gyrations of the
Japanese Fam" playfully inform the
misguided individual that you "can't see
it." In my present condition of out.
ragged sensibilities, betrayed confidence in
human nature, and broken rest, l should
be tempted to apply my pedal extremity
to the posterior physical corporosity OF
the luckless person making the said state.
ment; in fact, | may say kick him. Ev-
erybody said, "you going to Essex ? why
you'll be bored to death" "Such stu
pid place" you'll die of eanu, it is the
lonesomcst place in Vermont"
Now, Mr.. Editor, this is Just what |
wanted. "Ah said |, "this suits me, in
this retired, quiet spot, | can mediate
and commence with Nature, undisturbed. -
Laying to my soul this fattering JUNCTION
came to the Junction poetry uninten-
tionaI and took stage for the Center. At
the Junction | heard mysterious remarks
about "big squable to-day, sir, at the
Center" "Comc up to the Center" &C.,
but did not particularly mind them. Oh
had paid more attention to the mutter-
ings of the storm, warnings of the danger
ahead, should not now be unfolding this
terrible personal experience. | came to
the Center. stopped at the hotel. A
crowd of boys were playing ball on the
green lat least it was mostly bawD. A
crowd Of loafers hung about the hotel.
"Ahn' thought |, sis this the retired spot
where am to commence ~ &c. | in
quired, why is the Forum crowded p
What means this stir in Rome "Why,"
said huge red-nosed belli-cose chap,
with an immense mouth that opened like
the opening of navigation, sit is election
day, and we are going to have big
squabble, the Republicans is split, and
we's going to run in Democrat" |
went into store, all were excitedly dis
cussing the great topic. One individual
in a coat which seemed once to have exul-
ted in the pendulosity of swallowtails, but
having in some way lost them, looked ex-
tremely Inundated in the form of a round
about, remarked in mysterious man.
ner that "some folks was playing their
cards pretty sharp, some tellers knew
what they was about, he guessed, and he
knew thing or two himself that every
body didn't know" A dozen eager
questioners Immediately sought to ex-
tract this tremendous secret, but, with an
air of worldly Importance and repressed
wisdom that was sublime to behold, the
Inundated swallowtail replied with a
knowing nod of the head, that he "want
going to tell nothing now, but he guessed
folks would find whether he was right or
not after lection" After this exceeding
ly sage and safe remark, he carefully
ssttnwed e. away u huge quid of tobacco in
determined to keep his mouth shut over
Well, the prophecies in regard to squad.
bic were amply fulfilled All the after.
noon it went OH. Once an hour the an
nouncement "no choice" was greeted
with yells, groans, and screches, that grew
louder with each repetition of the state
ment. The "election" consisted mostly
of yelling. Night closed in and l haC
not "meditated" any. Nine o'clock cam,
and in desperation determined to $50
in" and see for myself. | looked in
shade of the quiet Essex of which
dreamed what sight ! A yelling
sweating, swearing, struggling bedlam o
lunatics, each intent on exercising thu
"Heaven bestowed right of suffrage" anC
each one seeming to think it necessary t.
the enjoyment of this Heaven bestowe,
right" to yell saw one man put out
| presume it was for not yelling.
got little way. "Vote for Butler,
yelled sweating diabolical lunatic in m,
ear. "Of course" said [, starting bacl
stunned. Vote for Brigham" explode,
s. d. ,lunatic number two, in my left ear
"Certainly," yelled |, and ight hav
said more but for the sudden insertion O
the end of II walking stick in my mouth
I turned to 90. Two men gouged me i
the ribs with their elbows, another ma
punched me in the small of the bac
with his knee, a tall man spit down IN
neck. At last, sore, steamed, bewildereC
l got out in an extreme state of dilapi
dation, with humbled shirt collar. Out
side some chaps were dancing. A littl
boy with the seat of his breeches disol
ganized, said they We're 'circus fellows,
and seemed to look upon them as wonder
dcrful beings. Aonthcr being whom
took at first to be u "nan and brother
of Ethiopian decent, but whom | afteI
wards heard designated as the damn,
CUR" Il think it waS) was singing.
ten o'clock yell that shook the tow
-. announced that Brigham was elected
|. Now said |, there may be silence in f
E sex for the space of haitian hour. liver
to bed To sleep? Alas for the falibi
ity Of human expectations. The who
crowd, some much discouraged by tn
? time, adjourned to the ball room to ha,
some hm (which means in Essex 10 veil
My room opened of from the bali roo,
and | distinctly heard all that transpir,
in that room. The head of my he'd WI
i. against the thin partition that separat,
+ me from it, \ fiddler had been procur,
n who proceeded to exercise his voeatio
/. and "oircus feller" danced. When II
applause (!) had subSided C') the fddl
fddled, and all the circus fellers" al
A the "damnegur' dahced. Then ~ci
Gus feller" danced and sung am acconp
niment, of which | could only catch i
= earnest and oft repeated assertion III
y y ',he was hunky niger andh his name W
/" ~ Polly Ann" Up to this time / had n
J; "meditated" much. The "daninegu
III now stated that he was equine fer
sing A "circus TELLER" endeavored
= shut him up by remarking that if
:" ''sung for pea nuts he couldn't get
shucks.' But the irrepressible adamr