The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-10-04

Iul Ieucner VI COnSlutTdDic tApeTitI'c
will take Mr.. Kiles place as Principal 0
the Vergennes Graded and High School
for the present.
A LARGE Bmp.--Mr. Clark l.. Smith
of Leicester, shot few days since, or
Landon's Pond in Sudbury, blue Heror
which measured from tip to tip. six fee
and two inches.
On the 23d ut, bright little sol
Of A. l.. Wheeler. named Willie, of Fer
risburgh, about 10 years old, was run
over by wagon, and so injured that he
died the next day.
A barn belonging to Mr.. Lyman Il
NJ 'Allister of Whiting, with its contents
was burned to the ground about the 10th
ult Estimated loss 5000. Insured for
$500.
The Legislature meets tomorrow
the time having been changed by the late
Constitutional Convention from the second
Thursday to tho first Wednesday in
October The representatives elect will
generally start to-day.
MIR. Kile, so long the faithful and
successful Principal of the Vergennes
Graded and High School, has finally ac-
cepted the offer of the school in Westerly
r. l., and he will soon leave for his new
post of labor. He will be greatly missed
in Vergennes and Addison county.
NoTIcE.-The Addison Association will
meet at the house of Brother Winchester
in Bridport. on the 4th "Wednesday Of
October, at o'clock p NJ
The parts will be the same as assigned
for the last meeting.
II. +. LKAvIrr, Register,
Middlebury, Oct, LIST 1870.
Nermontcr will please copy. ii. F. l..
Deacon d. Warner of Cornwall left
at our office, on Saturday, a stem of grapes
not much over foot in length having on
it four large clusters of ripe fruit superior
in quantity and equal in quality to any.
thing We have seen. 1t is Seeding from
the vines of DR.. r. +. Warner of Port
Henry. DR.. Warner is large fruit grower
having now ton of grapes on his vines
after having sold and given away large
quantities.
The Whiting Band, which SO accep.
tablv furnished music for the Fair, last
week. is about twelve years old, though
it existed in a suspended condition during
the war, which drew from their members
so largely as to embarrass their opera.
tons. Two or three of their numbers
found their final resting place in the sun
ny South By the earnestness and per-
sistency of the leader, W. II. Casey, Esq,
the vacant places were filled, and by
faithful practice and competent instruction
they now do credit to themselves, and
give pleasure to all who hear them. Con.
sidcrng their advantages for practice they
have certainly made wonderful attain.
ments.
There are two places IN tho town OF
Orwell where large piles Of chips aud
waste pieces of flint have been found
giving nnmistakeable evidence Of the ex.
istence If IN arrow manufactory at each
of those places while this country was oc-
cupiel by the aboriginal inhabitants.
One is on Mount independence and the
other near the lake shore in the northwest
part of the town. Flint quarrics will I'M.
doubleday be found near those places, at
some future day,if they have not already
lti> an interesting problem how those
delicate and symmetrical arrowpoints
could have been shaped with so much un.
ilormity without the use of iron TOOLS
The Indians must have been skilled me-
chanics.
SAIIsnrnY.-Th Seventh Triennial Meet.
ting of the Bump Family was held in
Salisbury on Wednesday the II, of Sept,
The day was very fine, and at an early
hour, a large company gathered at the
Old Homestead
This branch Of the Bump Family EN-.
brace the descendants Of Salathiel Bump,
who moved to Salisbury from Walingford
Vt, in 1889.
He was born in Oblong, n. Y. now
Armcnia) in 1850.
The family history reaches back more
than two hundred and fifty years
On the first Of July 1921 Edward
Bump sailed from London in the ship For
tune for the new world. A very stormy
season, and small vessel (55 tons) made
the voyage one of uncommon hardship.
He with others landed at Plymouth Mass,
on the 10Th of November 1921, having
been four months and half on the way.
A famine then oppressed the colonists,
and all were put upon half rations; but
the next spring help came, and when the
vessel sailed for England none thought OF
returning.
Thus in hardship and suffering. those
traits Of character were developed, which
have made the family prosperous, and
strong
While yet boy Salathiel Bump bore
arms in the Revolution and helped to Sc
cure our rights, Loved and respected by
all he soon became leader among his
townsmcn. For thirteen years he repre-.
sented the town of Salisbury, in the Leg
islature, and in 1922 was member Of
the Constitutional Convention.
He died in 1912, in the eighty second
year of his age
An incident in his life is often recalled
by the few who now remember him.
While a resident of " allingford, he
rode on horseback to Salisbury, and there
taking Miss Mary Strong on his horse
behind him went to Middlebury, where
they were married by Daniel Chapman
Esq They then journeyed to Waiing.
ford, in the same primitive manner.
On the 18th, ninety of the family de.
scendants met at the Old Homestead, now
the property of Franklin Bump Esq, and
passed the time until two p. NJ. in social
reunion. Then came dinner in the old
hall and attoruo ri snnoohoa ,:.z. -