The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-12-21
YERGENNES.
Hunt Il Aim have opened new
saloon 10 the Melvin block.

VERGENNES,
Hunt Il Aim have opened new
saloon in the Melvin block.
Charles Strong, son of f. 9. Strong
was appointed teller in the Vergennes
National Bank, vice Henry NJ Smith,
deceased.
Shipments from the Vergennes sta
ton last week 1850 pounds of butter
1854 pounds Of poultry; two carloads
sheep and cattle.
"A burglary was committed in Ba.
cons barber shop last Wednesday night
The kind Of goods taken proves the thiei
to have tonsorial tastes, as he lugged of
every razor in the shop. The sane night
Fishers restaurant was found to be minus
two boxes of cigars. An apprentice in
Bacous shop was suspected.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Vergennes take this means OF
expressing their thanks to President
Hulburt, Of Middlebury college, for his
very able address on woman's work in
the temperance enterprise, delivered Sab.
bath evening, December II. BY vote OF
society. Mrs. Il. b, STEWART, Sec.
The Vergenncs people were called
out by an alarm of fire about ten o'clock
last Tuesday night 1t took from fric.
ton on wooden pulley or some other
part Of the machinery in Farlardo e.
Parker's door factory, and would have
done serious damage but for energetic
action on the part of the workmen. The
hose companies turned out handsomely,
but had nothing to do.
Tho common council have lately
proved themselves successful strategists
in respect to the tramp question They
have had quantity of stone drawn to a
vacant lot near the Jail, and when a
tramp applies for aid give him his sup
per, lodge him in the Jail, give him his
breakfast and then make him work out
the costs breaking stone for the city
highway, under the direction Of q police.
man. The result is, tramps are becoming
scarce.
Tho Vergenncs graded school is un.
dcrgoing the agonies of its annual public
examination. Prof. Ross, the principal,
in making his announcement, mildly sug-
gests that he is gfa'cful for the confidence
which leads tho patrons to omit any visits
to the school OF Inquiries as to the
efficiency Of teachers, but expresses a
hope that some Of the parents would be
present at this particular examination.
In other words, he is not exactly pleased
with the policy O! indifference"
-Vergenncs millionaire Manning sent
to New York kcg which he claimed
contained gold to the amount Of some
thousands. BY some means the keg was
returned and when opened nothing but
sand appeared. 1t is altogether curious
affair, and most people think his wealth
is a fable. The value of sand as a COM
mercial commodity was illustrated some
years since by one Isaac Frost, of New
Haven, who placed the aand in his wool.
10 his case the sand was one Of the aids
in procuring him free ride to Windsor
How it will terminate in the present in-
stance remains to be seen. Sand is sand.
a bubble is a bubble. Humbuggery is
humbuggery, but the latter is largely
used at the present time, and often seems
for time to possess commercial value
and is mixed in with business so nicely
that it often serves rs an ornament, but
sooner or later it comes to grief but is
not vauquished, for it soon springs up
again in new form, favored by some
other extract, and finds men who are
easily induced to swallow the mixture.