The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-06-21

y Tho work on Gains block, Bristol
), going forward rapidly.
+. Quarterly meeting u, Bristol next Fri
: day and Sunday. At Lincoln Saturda
and Sunday.
= There are now twelve Congregation
al churches in this county, FIVE Of whom
are without pastors.
i SnoREnAM.-- Delegate to State Con
! vention, Davis Rich r. Brookins, Sub
stitute.
}. H. Barnum has bought out PER-,
! Gillett Of the firm of Hodge & Gillett
, Bristol.
The late rains have given vegetation
a jog, and the farmers arc rejoicing il
the prospect of a bountiful crop.
The average attendance upon tn,
Cornwall Congregations Sunday .schoo
during the last year 1876, and of the
teachers Is 1-3
Rev Mr. Marks of Yale Theo
; logical Seminary, is at present supplying
the Congregational Church, in Bristol.
RouTE AoENr.-M. +. Allen, of North
Ferrisburgh, has been appointed Route
Agent between Burlington and Boston,
in place of S. NJ Southland, of Vergennes.
The Bridport Congregational Sum
day-school averaged during the fast year
123 in total of 207. The teachers aver
aged 13 in total of is.
Died in Ferrisburgh, June 18th,
Mrs. Esther Webster, wife of the late
Benaiah Webster, in the 18th year of her
age.
Martin Simon, of vergennes, sus7
tanned a fracture of his right leg while
engaged in playing base buif- nearthe de-
pot on Thursday.
Hon. H. Munsill, of Bristol, has
held the Office of Judge of Probate in
the New Haven District for thirty-four
years
On Saturday the lth instant Char
ley Coleson. foreman in Durfee 4 East
mans factory in Little Notch Bristol,
had the misfortune to break his leg while
wrestling.
Shipped from New Haven Depot on
Monday of last week, 1903 lbs. of but
ter, contained in 306 packages. On the
same day 70 packages weighing 1900 lbs.
were shipped from North Ferrisburgh.
At the recent session Of the Congre-
gational County Conference two revivals
were reported as having occurred in con-
nection with these churches in the county
during the the last year; at Orwell and
at Ripton.
1t is thought that there is old hay
enough left over in the towns of Whiting,
Orwell, and some other parts of the coun-
ty, to winter the stock so that the indi-
cations of short hay crop does not
irighten the people much.
The Bristol Good Tenplars propose
to celebrate the Fourth by Picnic
in Riders grove. Other lodges and the
Bristol Sunday Schools will be invited.
Rev. E. Mills will be the orator of the
day. Hon. G. W. Grandey, q. W. G.
T. is expected to be present
Mr.. Albert Carpenter sawed the
thumb and forefnger of his left hand
very badly last week Monday, at the mill
of Durfee 4 Tucker, in the Little Notch.
Bristol. Under the care of DR.. Prime
he is doing WELL This is the third acct.
dent of similar character which has oc.
arred at this mill within five weeks.
Hon. S. d. Hocomb of Starksboro,
last week made his 42d payment for the
Register.
Mr.. Holcomb has always been an ont
and-out Republican, and is among the
many who have snsta;nnd Va~,nent j., Le-
struggle to maintain her pre-emlnence, IN
intelligence and religious and civil free
DOM Long may he enjoy the fruits Of
many years of honest industry, in his
pleasant home among the hills.
Three quarters of an acre Of potatoes
belonging to Chester Pratt Esq, Of Bird
port, planted during the late dry weather
failed to put in an appearance. lnvesti-
CATION showed that the seed had all de-
caycd, with peculiar dry rot resembling
Il baking or drying process. He planted
them over and is likely to secure n reasons
able crop -
ELopEMENr. - The quiet town of Or
well was entertained with Il genuine elope
ment one day last week. Tpe wife of
Joseph Ward, an honest, Woodworking
citizen Of that place, concluded to abandon
her sworn protector, her comfortable home
and her little Wards, and elope with one
William Baker-a penniless fellow of the
baser sort. Ward missed the partner of
his joys and sorrows, and when pursuit Of
the guilty pair was suggested he shook
his head and answered Not for Joe y.
So Says the Fairhhaven journal.
Late arrivals at the Bread Loaf Inn:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sanders, Salem,
Mass. John Montgomery West Brain
tree; c. w. Richardson, Canaan, n. H.,
s. Austin, +. r. Buxton, W. w. Lyford;
Z. d. Scagel, Warren; r. A. Flint,
Braintrce j. Linsley, Burlington VIM.
Linsley, Middlebury A. Wilder, St.
.Johnsbury d. j. Myrick, l.. b. Newell
and wife, Hanover, N. H.; f. b. Stew
art and wife, Bristol G. p. Langworthy
and wife, Mary H. Ford, Martha Ford,
Jennie Pride, Fordie G. Langworthy Mid
dlebury; Chas. WILDER and wife, Hart
ford, Conn. Hon. Osmyn Baker, Miss
Lizzie Baker, Northampton, Mass.
Snow FALL, lS69-70-Apropos Of the
hot weather we give below n report of
the amount of snow which fell last winter,
from the record kept by Mr. A. b Mills
of New Haven.
IT, inches.
Thursday, % ~, o