The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-08-10
LOCAL NEWS.

Rev. Dr. and Mrs. II. ~. Mitchell are
at home again, for Two weeks sojourn,
before finally surrendering their beautiful
home to the new president Vi the college
Rev. MIR. Montgomery, at the Con-
gregationel church, Sunday morning dis
cussed the way to secure beautiful old
age; and in the evening he addressed the
Sunday school.
shipments from the Middlebury sta.
ton for the week ending August 9: r..
$40 lbs butter, 1000 lbs paper, ZOO lbs
yarn, 3 cars stock, 2 cars clapboards, 2
cars hay, ! car slaves, 2 cases wooens.
Rev. George W. Brooks is bathing
his brow in the pure blasts of the Adiron.
people ere smeared with coal dust and
their mouths are fringed with huckleber.
ry. and for a that are natures noblomen."
"A brakeman on the down freight
last Saturday in jumping from his train
fell upon his knee, and striking with con
siderable force, fractured the knee pan
DR.. Day was called, and the injured
limb was put in the best possible condi-
ton.
Mr. Henry Powell, the popular jan
itor of the college, who has been on a
tour to the land Of his nativity the island
where there are neither frogs, or snakes
arrived home on Wednesday evening
He enjoyed his visit very much but when
he learned that the college bell had been
stolen he started right back.
Rev. W. H. Bidwcll, of New York,
for many years editor Of the Eclectic
Magazine, is in town, stopping with Mr..
A. j. Sumner. Mr.. Bidwel has been
something Of a traveller in his day, having
visited the Holy Land and other scenes
Of historic interest in the east and made
ten trips to Europe.
Capt. Clark G. Cady aud his daugh.
ter, Miss Lizzie, returned on Wednesday
evening from an extended visit to the
Pacific coast and among the mines Of
California Mr. Cadys impressions of
Of the land of the setting sun" as place
to live, are not tinted with blue and gold.
He thinks "it is not fit place for hogs
to live in"
On Friday morning last Mr. John
e. Nancy was arraigned for selling in
toxicating liquor without authority, and
be pleaded guilty to one otfense and was
6ned ten dollars aud costa, which he paid
and was discharged. Two others were
asked to walkIup aud settle. but they were
not ready for trial and the casea were
continued one and two weeks.
The Middlebury Temperance Society
held their fourth annual meeting at the
vestry of the Congregational church on
Monday evening Of last week There
was not large attendance. The officers
Of the last year were reelected, as fol-
lows j. L. Barker, president NJ G.
Foote, vice-president H. A. Peck, sec
rotary and treasurer; O P. Mead, Rev
+. p, Hooker, S. L. Cooke. executive
committee.
The exhibitors OF modern magic
and spiritualism given by Mr.. f, G. Tay
lor at School House Hall, the past three
evenings, have been altogether the bes
of the kind we ever saw. Mr.. Taylor
tricks are wonderful. and performed ST
neatly and deity that it is continue
establishment to see them We under
stand that he has decided to remain ou'
evening more, ending this evening. W,
can assure our readers that it will pay t.
see him.
The officers OF the Addison Count,
Agricultural Society held meeting a
The Addison House in this village, OF
Saturday afternoon, to complete arrange
ments for the annual fair, which is to b.
held in this place on Tuesday, Wodnes
day and Thursday, September 18th, Sth
9th. 1t is proposed to make it more o
an agricultural fair aud less Of al
agricultural horse trot than usual onl,
two galar sporting races being provides
for. There will BE strictly farmers
race. and walking match for single o
double. teams in addition. There is
band premium, which, it is thought, vii
bring in all the bands Of the county, an
perhaps some from outside. The premi
um list will be laid before our reader
next week This society regrets the OF
currence of their fair anl the Crownpoir
fair during the same days, but the tim
had been too extensively advertised
allow change.