The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-08-26
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Capt Jas. +. Bolton, is in town On.
|yiug his annual summer vacation.
SOMEWHAT IMrRovED-That rough bit
walk 10 front Of Beckwith & Co.'S.
Goop.-Not a single row to be record.
for the past week, and We are very
ad Of it.
A Coon DAYS SpoRT.-One day last
eek, Thad Chapman went hunting and
hgged eleven partridges, and twenty.three
uglish snipes.
The supply of Postal cards at the
iodlebury Office was exhausted several
eeks ago A new supply is soon ex-
ected.
u. D. Twitchell will pay 20 and
7c. for unwashed and 35 to 40c. for best
ashed wool next Tuesday, at Wooden
o's cloth store.
The Fall Term at the Graded School
bmmences next Monday. The scholars
1--we had long vacation and will now
ably take up their books.
The Brandon Union comes to us reg
lar every week. 1t is handsome sheet,
picy and full of life. Brandon seems
ore wide.a wake since the Union put in
appearance.
AT St. Stephens Episcopal church,
unday, Rev. Geo. A. Weeks preached
cry interesting sermon to good congre.
alton, taking for his text the subject OF
Jacobs Ladder"
"A full supply of school books and
,hool registers, Webster's Dictionaries,
nd miscellaneous books, including the
test and most popular publications. for
ale by Alden & Co.
Pensioners who are obliged TO be
xamined annually or bi.annually will be
lad to hear that there will be an exam.
hing surgeon at the Office of DR.. Currier
Sept. 4th, from : A. NJ. to 8 P. M.
Drugs, medicines, chemicals, toilet
nd fancy goods. perfumeries, nair, tooth
nd nail brushes, paints, oils, varnishes,
Window glass, putty, &C., cheap for cash,
s>case q Riders.
THE B1eD .SUNFLowER.-Our attention
vas recently called to large sunfower
the yard Of D. McGoldrick. 1t is a
liant Of its kind, and is covered with
bout one hundred and seventy.Gve bios.
oms.
Ladies you will find all the para
hernalia for wax making at Sheldons.
leaf moulds, stamens, stem wire, moss
&c &c. They also keep pure drugs pa.
ent medicines, perfumcry and toilet arti.
les.
INDIAN RELIc.-Saturday, Ii. Board
nan ploughed up on his farm, in the East
part of the town, stone Ratchet head
t is well preserved specimen and tells
ls in silent way that &" Io, the poor
ndiau," once frolicked here abouts.
ACCIDENr.-We learn that Fred
.andon was run down ut the camp
ground Saturday 10y the reckless driv-
ny of II team, and now is suffering with
broken leg. We all know Fred and
egret that he has met with such n pain
ul accident.
AT a meeting, on Monday evening
pf last week, called by Rev. Mr. Meeker,
resolution was proposed unanimously to
sxpend about $1,000, mainly in atera-
ions and improvements, and furnishing
anew the vestry of the Methodist Church
q our village. a committee composed
Pf the following gentlemen viz, Geo.
Smith, o. P. Mead, and s. b. Rockwell
we're chosen to superinteDd and effect the
improvements.
-Messrs. Cherbino d Williamson, at
he earnest request Of many Of our bes,
sheep breeders and finding the price Of
81 900 was hardly enough for the year
ling ram sold last week to Messrs. Pee,
& Severance, have repurchased him at 8
large advance, the latter gentlemen re-
tanning the use of him for fifty ewes. Ii
the opinion Of some of our best breeders
and judges, he is the best young ram il
Addison County, and We are certainly
pleased he is to be retained to improve
the sheep of Vermont instead Of being ia
ken away. ED. Ao'L DEr'T.
BIO TURNOUT. - The attendance a
camp meeting on Sunday, was very large
Men, women and children, all over the
country put on their best bib and tuck :
and went to Spring Grove. The colec
ton of conveyauces was perhaps the arg
est and most varied ever gotten together il
this vicinity. Every vehicle capable of con
veyipg one or more persons, was hitchet
up, from the elegant top buggy down t.
the " old one hoss shay" We are told o
one cavalcade of promising young mel
trotting gaily to Spring Grove early Sun
day morning, under the leadership of two
festive youths who were astride aut
squirting along the ghost of Don Quixote'
old charger, &" Rozinante.
PIcNIc.-The picnic Of the Congrega
tional Sabbath school, at Lovctt's Grove
on Thursday last, was pleasant affair. /
goodly number of boys and girls, maid
and matrous, with a small sprinklDg of me
were on the ground to partake of the ex
cellent repast which Middlebury ladies S
we'll know how to get up. Although Ii,
tie delay was occasioned in starting b
the non.appearance of teams, that ha
been depended on for the rransportatio
Of such as had not means of conveyanc
Of their own. Some hall dozen swing
and hammocks we're in constant use, an
no bones were broken. although, a fe
got falls. The meadows and pastures nea
by we're well patronized by the ball pla,
era, and the very common inaiction of S,
speeches was hapf lily omitted. 1t is
mistake to preach too much to children
or to grown folks either, for that matte
and especially when they are out for
fIolic. =
>SHAM FIGHT.-On the return Of Il
boys in blue from the muster Friday, OF
citizens we're treated to bloodess bait
on small scale. The line Of battle draw
up on the north side OF the park, was vi
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