The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-08-03
LOCAL NEWS.
Butter &c cents, Yesterday

Butter ~ cents, yesterday.
The old accounts in favor Of Knapp
& Fuller must be settled at once. other.
wise there is danger of the judgment.
The Middlebury "Chip and Hungry
club will be received at the Bread Loaf
luu, Ripton, on Wednesday evening Of
next week
The Middlebury Lecture Association
had full meeting of two, last Wednes.
day evening. 1t was thought best to
defer the election of officers.
Among the shipments from this sta
ton for the week ending August 2, we
6nd the following 1915 lbs butter !;
1900 lbs. yarn 5 cars live stock 2 cars
lumber.
Tho Otter Creek at this place has
almost reached low water mark, while
the earth all about this rcgior is dry and
thirsty as the African desert. Still the
crops are looking well.
1t was quarterly meeting at the
Methodist church, last Sunday. and the
presiding elder, Rev f. Watson was
present. There was the usual love feast
and Sunday service, Mr.. Watson preach.
ing.
Quarterly meeting will be held at
East Middlebury, Providence permitting
Aug. 8. Presiding Elder E. Watson is
expected to preach. Services to commence
at l:45 O'Clock, P. NJ. After Aug. s
services to be held at 1:30P NJ.
On Saturday week Mr. Burt. the
occupant Of the town farm in East Mid
dlebury, was gored by an enraged bull
and was seriously injured. His escape
from death was only narrow one He
crawled TO fence and worked himself
through. The bull had previously at.
tackled pauper, who escaped without
mueh injury.
The Middlebury Rife Club was or.
ganized in this place last June. and its
members have been quietly practicing in
what will soon be the national pastimc.
Targets have been made that would rank
high at Oreedmore. Tho club meets the
first Saturday in each month. S. Holton
and Fl, i. Sheldon are its president and
secretary.
The excursion period has fully ar.
rived. A large number Of our people
arc of somewhere in the pursuit OF pleas
ure, or health, or some other iancied
good. The vacancies are fully made up,
however. by the presence among us of a
large number Of strangers, or annual
visitors, who find. in the retirement of
cur quiet village, the rest they need.
1t is wicked, very wicked to lie, but
what is man to do when his wife asks
him If he has posted that letter she gave
him last Monday when he suddenly re,
collects that the letter is at that moment
ip bis coat pocket Any one who has
been in this narrowing situation will for.
give him if in the confusion of the
moment, he tells her that he has posted
Rev. +. p. Hooker pastor Of the Con
gregational church, is abseDt on his anDu
al vacation and Rev. j. A. Montgomery
of Morris, ILL.,, is supplying the pulpit il
his absence, Mr. Montgomery's dis
course on Sunday morning was an able
exposition of the fear Of God 1t is moi
that servile, slavish fear which prevent.
love. but loving, trusting fear ; the de-
sire of doing nothing to dispease hin
because we love him
The authorities are evidently deter
mined to enforce the ordinance agains
fast driving across the bridge in this vii
lage. The furious Jehus are frequently
warned Of its illegality and they are
sometimes stopped and fines are threaten
ed. The only fine actually imposed tool
two dollars out of the pocket of an cx
states attorney whose height rendered
him good exemplsr This terrible fat,
is here held up as an awful warning.
"A writer in the N. Y. hdependen
ieara. among other results of ths Beeche
scandal, that kisses and words Of endear
mept will be less pure and sacred on &C
count Of their recent unsayory associa
lions Iftbat person could have seen
young couple 10 the cemetery the othe
evening, sitting on grave and carefully
holding each other, whiia .he words IAN
GEL, sweet" darling &c, were TO 8
heard as often as their faces got quar-
ter Of an inch apart, be would hav
ceased bis nonsense suddenly.