The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-07-15

The last piece was not less than thirty
five feet in height, and twenty feet in
breadth at or near thu base. | copy from
the Inquirer a description Of it: An
allegory of America, AN epic, drama and
history painted in fire, battle piece
with the goddess OF liberty on base Of
thirteen stars suddenly intervening, while
the date 1776 is rapidly changed to 1876,
with thirty-seven stars, with the word
centennial; the American Eagle and the
Star Spanged Banner in colors as varied
and as brilliant as it is possible TO imag-
inc,-and this was the sight presented,
while shells, rockets and the innumerable
devices known to pyrotechny, were in full
blast OF all sides" As the great piece
was burning there were two others, one
on either side of the mammoth one, on
fire also. They looked like guards of
honor, and had the appearance Of large
monuments, disclosing thousands OF bril-
liant jets OF all colors imaginable. Not
until these flames lighted up the heavens
and earth, was any one aware Of the vast
multitude that " no man could number
that were in that portion of the parS, and
were witnesses of the great sight Per
haps some Of the readers Of the REGISTER
may be acquainted with the locality /;
therefore, will say, that from near the
Coates and Green Street entrances to the
Park, to the Lincoln Monument and the
case Of i" Lemon Ilill," and from the
banks Of Fairmount Reservoir and the
Schuyl kill river, to tho ridge aloDg,ide
the Reading Railroad track, on which
were planted the fire works, was COM
plete dense mass OF men, women and chill
dren, all in their holiday attire. The pa
pers estimated the party at one hundred
thousand, and doubt whether they over
estimated But perhaps, enough of the
Fourth Of July and its conccmi;auts
1t may not be generally known that
all the paper for the money used by the
Government is manufactured at the G!>n
Mills, about fifteen miles west Of this city.
Short pieces of red silk are mixed with
the pulp in the engine, aud the flushed
stuff is conducted to the wire without
passing through any screens which might
retain the silk thread. BY an arrange
mcnt above the wire cloth shower OF
short pieces OF fue blue silk thread, is
dropped in streaks upon the paper while
it is forming. The uDper side. on which
the blue silk is dropped is the one used
for the face of the notes, aud from the
manner in which the threads are applied,
must show them more distinctly than the
lower or reverse side, although they are
embedded deeply enough to remain fixed.
The mill is guarded by officers, night and
day, to prevent the abstraction Of any
paper. -...... ....- .....-- -.-.
In ay last | think | made reference
to the then recent death of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fisher Of Vermont, t,who perished on board
the ocean steam ship Atlantic" which
foundered off the coast of Nova Scotia,
and have never noticed any reliable ac.
count of the recovery of their bodies.
think, however, there was at one time Il
telegram published that the body Of Mrs
Fisher had been recovered, but subse.
quentIy doubted. had formed a pleas
ant acquaintance with Mr. Fisher some
time previous to his leaving for Europe
and found him genial and social gentle
man. With Mrs. Fisher had not the
pleasure Of a personal acquaintance, but
the reputation and prestige of the family
with which she was connected would in.
sure her passport, or commend her tC
recognition in any society. however hon
orable, cultured or refined but inexora
BILE death strikes right and !eft,regardles'
whether it reaches the depraved and de
bauched, or the loved, the refined aud the
virtuous. The thought is truly saddeniuI
that the eddying waters should prove thei
winding sheet, and the bottom of tn,
great deep their final resting place, an,
that the white caps on Scotia's restles
, shore should be their only grave stones
+ and that the murmuring waves shoult
. continue to whisper their requiem unit
. the sea shall give up its dead, and unit
: myriads that have trodden the earth
through the alternating phases of the sun
shine OF hope, of anticipation and Of JOY
aud through the msts OF doubt, Of ap
b prehension and Of sorrow, shall then wal
1 the streets of the celestial city, with un
J couded vision, with fear and appreheu
c -iou disarmed. joy eliminated from sor
. row, and at last experience peace JOY an
, rest in full frution.
u The prohbiiiouists Of this city purpos
\ 10 October making au assault on the cit
Il adel oi rum, aud, it possible, capture an
lafh ha bn 4 Fl
e order, virtue aud morality, and who's
u touch is contamination, whose breath
:. pollution, aud whose tread is death.
e The philauthropists Of this town hay
Al again iDaugurated, this season, systeI
Of excur' ions for the poor and lowl,
b. About twelve hundred tickets are usual
II distributed, and there are generally tw
Al excursions each week Slow New Yorl
n ers are at length bestirring themselves
II the same direction, and appear to be i'm
~ tating the magnanimity of the Philade
Of phans. Baltimore and Washington al
A. pursuing the same laudabe course.
,t Mr. Editor. have many times, durir
Al my life, been puzzled, from thinking wi
ID IA certain species Of wrench, which is
p. general use, was called Monk,
at Wrench A few months since the pro
#. lem was solved, oL reading in the publ
is prints of the death, in New Jersey, of
n. Mr.. Monkey who, it was said, was Il
g. inventor Of the implement whose nan
of was, to me, and perhaps to others, so lol
ne OF a mystic character
of In my last, 10 speaking Of the numb
er of men employed in the extensive Bal
of win Locomotive works, the types had
&c 300 1t should have read 3000-a po
of ulation sufficiently large to constitute
IS. very respectable township. p. w. G..
oo Lieut.. Col. Puffners party, who u
70 exploring the Ute country, encounter
y a snow storm 10 the mountains at I