The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1871-10-24

as lpacncr OF NOtN lilNl' lN ilW FVhpul.
Prof. Bates i, considered the most
thorough teacher that ever laugh, here.
On Tuesday last Mes~is. Suith n
Spaulding butter buyers at Blidport
shipped 400 pounds Of butter, taken at
that place, on Monday, at from - to -
cents. They have already shipped this
season, nearly 100000 worth of this
product
Rev Dr. Kitchel preached an able
discourse at the Wcybridge Cougrega-
tional church, on Sunday morning, from
the text take heed what We hear )" and
in the afternoon from the words"O wretch
cd man that | am Who shall deliver me
from the body Of this death.
Mr.. II. b. Ripley, Of Ripton, raised
upon tbrec-fourths of an acre Of ground
the present season, three hundred aud
forty bushels of No. potatoes, from six
bushels of seed. He has also raised two
bushels from one No. 6 potato. A good
yield that, and if the basket Of the No.
Us sent to us, are samples Of his product,
they will certainly bear recommending.
"A Cornwall gentleman, last week
saw or imagined that he saw, huge
panther with jaws distcndcd to the width
OF eight or ten inches, swimming across
Lemon Fair in Whiting, aud making for
the aforesaid gentleman, with appetite
whetted by hunger and action stimulated
by fcrocious desire. The gentleman
didn't wait to time the panthcr's aquatic
race but made good time himself upon
the turf
-Veigenncs got frightened on Tues
day evening because persons got of the
cars at that station, whom they didn't
know. The Vermonter, speaking OF this
,frair, takes occasion to advocate lYnching
as remedy Tor certain oftenses against
the peace Of the State. We would sug-
gest &c propricty Of at least waiting for
he commission Of some offence, before
resorting to such summary methods OF
dealing with supposed offenders.
-Chauncey Coukey, ESQ, promi-
nent citizen Of Orwell, died at his resi-
dence on Saturday, October IA, at the
age of 66. Mr.. Conkey represented
Orwell in the Legislature in 1868 ..
He was an estimabIe man in every way
and his loss wa, deeply felt. The funera
was attended by large concUurse OF
people, many from other towns. Rev
VIM. n. Bacon OF Shorcham was present
and assisted the pastor in the funeral ser
vices.
The Bristol village meeting n Tues.
day evening, was well attended. Select
man Warn y presided. FIRE District No
| was organized by tho election of W
II. Needham, Clerk DR.. Levi llassel.
tine, r. T. Hodge, NJ :. Wids, pruden.
tia committee; A. L. Nahum, collector
w. f. Duushee, Treasurer. Another
meeting is warned for the purpose Of
el Letting a chief engineer, an assistant, and
other off rs, and also to vote a tax tc
dcfray expenses.
I Tho Weybridgc Farmers Club held
4 their annual meeting on Monday Of last
week and elected the following officers
President, Deacon Samuel James
Vice. Pres, j. B. Cherbino; Secretary
II. b. Hagar. Subject for discussion
Monday evening, October 30th, "ls il
for the interest Of the farmers Of thi'
community to sustain the Club, and how
can we make its meetings interesting.
Deacon f. Samson, firstspeaker, j. f. Cot
on, second speaker There will be nc
, essay. The ladies are especially invited
An interesting quadranguar iigh
occurred in Weybridge on the 18th inst
Charles Ash and Henry Merritt got int
fierce dispute which progressed into al
indifferent fight, when two Wales broth
ers came up and ondeavoring to enforc
peace became involved in the melee whicl
: by this time would have done credit t.
gladators amusing the heather Of ole
Rome. Ash claims that he whipped tn
crowd, aud the sorry appearance OF tn
. clothes of the party rather indicate tina
- all Of them received sound thrashing.
Z ACcIDENr-H Henry Gooslaw of Add
{ son, had his right hand caught in
: threshing machine, last Wednesday morn
+ ing, and part of it was torn off and tn
rest of it so badly crushed and manglo
: as to render amputation necessary. On
u cord was drawn out from the elbow. Dr.
). Kidder Of Vergennes was called and tn
d and was taken of at the wrist join
O Gooslaw had previously lost one eye an
;, all but one fnger on his left hand; S
e that now be has only one eye, one hanC
j. one 6uger, one child, and how man
VI wives we cannot say On Friday it wa
= thought that his arm was doing we'll 9
t could he expected.
: "A lady from "Jerusalem" writes l
{ as follows The singlar phenomena {
T, herrys was observed in Jerusalem ais,
We gathered them from our field on ii
: Sth Of the present month aud had thc'
u upon our table. Also we notice that Il
u water in this vicinity is impregna'ed ;
' l spoken of IN your paper Especially II
70 soft water 1t is not pure enough fl
81 washing nicely May we be kept fro
+ T. drinking the dregs Of Chicago. Thoul
10 we have relatives among the suiteril
u ones and when seated around, our col
i' Portable bo I'd we do not forget theI
III may they have food aud raiment and
81 comfortably sheltered from the chilli
blasts OF the coming winter, is our desii
y RIproN.-On Sunday 18th inst, Re
" Mr.. Powers preached at the NJ. l.. chur