The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-03-28
In March 1915 the ThermOnetcr st(
as follows in Caledonia Co., Vt.

There is quite a contrast between March
in 1868 and March thus far in 1871.
1t is related ola clergyman in north
crn Vermont, who years ago made visit
to New York, and was invited to fill a
city pulpit during the time of dog-day
pastoral vacations; that he never had the
pleasure of listening to church organ,
and was totally unacquaintcd with the
fashion of hiring few vocalsts to do the
singing for the congregation. Giving out
the first hymn, the organist played fan
cy prelude and in the highest style of
the art the choir rendered the four verses.
Addressing the throne of grace in a fer
vent invocation, which stamped him as Il
man of intellect and power with his audi
ence, he coolly reopened the hymh-book,
and turning to page, exclaimed The
audience will now join with me in sing
ing a good old Methodist hymn, aud
those persons running that bag Of wind
in the gallery will please not interrupt
Henry Buzzell, horse breaker and
brute, of CRANKY, deserves to be passed
around. A citizen of that town who signs
his name to his note. writes to the Union
that in order TO cure a kicking mare,
Buzzell recently cast her, and with an
ak, chopped her tail off within two inches
of her body. lie then whipped her till
she was exhausted with loss Of blood and
excitement, and left her in pen, without
doors or windows, exposed to the wind
and cold. The walls and ceiling of the
pen were all spattered with blood occa-
stoned by the punishment. The mare was
as rea ly to kick the human brute, with
what strength she had left after this treat
ment, as before, and we do not blame her
Mr.. Buzzell is needed in the town
CRANKY.
SENTENCE OF NOTED CRIMINALs.-
Timothy Handin and Elvaro St. John,
who have committed so many burglarie.
in Vermont. New Hampshire and New
York within the past two years, pleaded
guilty to the indictments against them at
Montpelier, on Monday, and were sen
fenced by Judge Asahel Peck to Windsor
State Prison for five and six years respec
lively. Edward Cook also pleaded guilty
to going off with a team and another
mans coat and gloves, and was sentenced
to two years Frank Sherman, who fired
revolver at a conductor on the Vermont
Central Railroad while intoxicated
pleaded not guilty, and will stand trial
William Davis, one of the Waterbury
National Bank burglars, who has beer
out ofjail onS5000 bail has been recon
mittcd for trial, not being able to rails,
$4,000, the amount to which his bond,
have been increased.
MONTPELIER. - The winter term o
Washington county Grammar Schoo
closed ON the Oath inst, with a rhetorical
exhibition under the direction of Mis-
Angie nj. Lamb, elocutionist. Heretofor
there has been no separate department o
elocution in the school but recently tn
Trustees have placed Miss Lamb upon it
corps Of instructors and by her critica
and thorough instruction in this essential
though much neglected branch of educa
! tion, she has proved herself in ever
particular fully adequate to the position
ror several years past, Iroi. H. ~. uor
ham graduate of Middlebury Colleg
has had charge of the Grammar School i
, connection with the Montpelier Unto
School. BY years of constant labor il
the school room Prof Gorham has becom
widely known as public educator note
for thoroughness and originality in hi
method of instruction. Under his mar
agenent Washington County Gramma
School will ever remain the pride of tn
> community in which it is located.
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