The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-07-05
Addison County.

Col. Axtell, agent of the state
Temperance Society lectured on temper
ance at Orwell! last Wednesday evening
-- Some twenty or twenty-five couples
from Wcybridge, Middlebury, New Haven
and Cornwall visited Bread Loaf Inn yes
terday.
About 5000 quarts OF milk are daily
converted into cheese at the North Fer
risburgh cheese factory, and the produc-
ton amounts about 900 lbs.
PERsoNAL.-Th Holyoke selectmen
have paid Miss Helen l.. Smith, of Yer
gennes w., SIG to withdraw her suit
for damages.
The Shoreham niversaist Society
held a picnic at l.arabee's Point on Sat
urday last. The weather was delightful
and the occasion must have been an ex-
ceedingly pleasant one.
There was an exhibition of Moving
ing Machines at Orwell on Thursday last
and the following were present kniflen,
Woods, Clipper, Warrior, Newell. They
all appeared well on the trial.
Drowned. -Enos, eldest son Of Fran
els S. Mills, Of Monkton, about II years
of age, was drowned while bathing in
Suoi's creek, about one mile above Ed
ward Daniels WOODEN factory, in North
Ferrisburgh, Monday evening, 81 ult.
FOURTH OF july AT HuNTINGToN.-
The Fourth of July was to be celebrated
in fine style in Huntington Center. They
were to have an Grafton by Col. w. G.
Veasey of Rutland, a military and civil
display, fire works in the evening, etc.
Mr.. Rollin Shaw, on Tuesday last,
drew splinter from his hand which he
affirms has been in under the flesh for
nine years His hand had not been much
sore until recently. The wood was not de-
cayed at ALL
KILLED By THE CARs.-A boy about
l6 years old named James Conlon. OF
Rutland attempting to jump aboard the
midnight train at Salisbury Station last
night, while the train was in motion, fell
between the cars and was run over and
instantly killed. The body was cut en-
tirely in two and badly mangled.
ErIscopAL-In the parish work OF
Ncrgennes, the city has been divided into
districts and visitors are appointed whose
duty it is to assist the rector in calling
upon every parishoner, searching out the
sick and poor, bringlngpersons to attend the
public services of the Lords House, the
children to Sunday school and to holy
baptism. The parish guild is the special
and most happy agency in the excellent
success of this renovated aud living par
ish.
The Cornwall Sunday Schools united
in an excursion to Plattsburg on Thursday
last. The weather was comfortable though
drenching rain kept them under cover
on their return The children didn't
mind it however for with their singing
and promenlding about the boat and the
pleasant chats and sightseeing they were
happy as the birds Everything passed
off pleasantly'no accidents happened, they
had plenty to satisfy the cravings Of appe-
tite and all was lovely.
We extract the following from the
report of the Cor Secretary of the YER
mont General Conference al its late ses-
sion in Montpelier with reference to the re-
vival last winter in Orwell. "For months
the pastor and church had been preparing
for the blessing. The pastor visited
Systematically from house to house. When
the Week of Prayer came, the meetings
were full and solemn. The third evening
several desired to be remembered in the
prayers Of Christians. The work became
general, and continued through the win
ter. The Pastor had no ministerial aid.
not even an exchange of pulpits with his
neighbors, as they also were pressed by a
similar work 1t is yet too soon to state
in numbers the extent Of the work
because the subjects of it have not been
gathered into the church. but it has been
such as to strengthen very much the peo-
pie of the Lord"
The Bristol Picnic yesterday drew
large crowds and the occasion was very
pleasant one Rev. f. Mills who was to
be the orator of the day, was called away
in another direction by the death of his
mother, to the disappointment of those
who were anxious to hear him. There was
no lack of impromptu speeches, however,
and every thing passed of satisfactorily.
Among the speakers were Rev. Mr.. Ste
vens Of Bristol, Ira W. Clark, ESD, of
Middlebury, Mr.. Roberts of Bristol, DR..
Warner Of New Haven, Rev. Mr.. Pickett
Of Lincoln and DR.. Nimbet of Monkton.
There was some little sparring between
MIR. Stevens and Mr. Clark as representa-
tives of the clergy and the legal profes.
sion which afforded considerable amuse-
ment. DR.. Levi IIaseltine was master of
ceremonies, presiding handsomely. We
shall be able to give more details of the
exercises next week.
STARK sBoRo.-One day week before
last, Oscar Baldwin, lumber dealer in
Starksboro, got his hand badly raked by
coming IN contact with the saw in his
sawmiil-Mr Richard Hill, an old man
about ~ years old, living back in what is
called lllllsboro," was recently severely
hurt BY II fall in his barn from ladder
he had mounted. We are relieved to
learn, however, that he is likely to sur
,vive it and get along Benz l.. Knight,
one of the villagers, an oldish man. got
somewhat hurt the other day, being
thrown from his wagon by his horse run
ming away with him--A French woman
named Mnum recently waylaid and beat
"a boy about II years old while on his
return from school, in revenge for his hav-
ing given her boy Il shake for stoning
him.-The veteran editor of the Auto.
graph endorses the proposition to select Il
new candidate for Member Of Congress
from this District, on the ground of in
justice to Rutland and Bennington coun-
ties, whose turn it evidently is to furnish