The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-12-21
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quite n number of cars.
The people of Charlotte arc wide
awake on the temperance question,
and the pledge is being circulated in
every school district in town.
The.Vermont state Spiritual Associa-
ton will hold its next quarterly con-
vention ut Cuttingsvilie, on Friday, |
and Sunday, January IA, 10
and Is, 1876.
Gov. Peck, seeing an old woman in
Jericho saving wood, the other day,
stopped his horse, took off his coat and |
sawed and split enough to last her and
her aged husband for some time.
The December term of Windsor
County Court opened Tuesday of last
week. Eifty-three cases were set for
the jury, the first trial being that of
Moses G. Gage vs.. Nicholas S. Vespor,
action for hush money.
A young man kissed pretty girl at
prayermeeting in Alburgh, the 9th
er evening, and she thought it was
splendid until she was subpmnaed to
testify against him before II justice for
disorderly conduct in the house Of the
Lord.
o. S. Senter, of Philadelphia, centen-
NAL agent for Vermont, has lost his
enthusiasm, somewhat, since Il Green
Mountaineer stole his satchel at Essex
Junction, containing valuable papers
on the centennial collection of the
state.
Rev. II. w. Tilden, the bogus Bap-
fist minister, has been arrested for big
amy and sent to the Fayetteville Jail,
pending his examination. Tilden has
another wife and child at Lewiston,
Maine, where he was known as John
NJ. Washburne.
The suspension of II. G. Hubbard,
Rutland grocer, is reported. Ills liza
bilities are said to exceed $500 his
assets $12,0 to $4,000. He offers his
creditors thirty cents on the dollar,
which they decline, and he will prob
ably go into bankruptcy.
The dedication of the new Metho-
dist church in Ludlow will take place
on Wednesday, December %. A SER
mon will be delivered in the morning
by Rev. n. f. Perry, a former pastor.
Dedication sermon in the afternoon by
Rev. b. /. Ives of Auburn, N, Y.
Feast of dedication in the evening.
The bears are getting TO be quite ia
miliar in Bolton. Several valuable
sheep have recently been killed by
them. Eleazar Stockwell had large
buck killed last week, who, by appear
ance of the ground, must have done
some tall fighting before he succumbed
to bruin. The same bear came into the
barnyard of Andrew Cox, one night
last week.
The diptheria epidemic at South
Vernon Is now pretty well over, and
the people are recovering from their
| fright. A correspondent says that all
| the twenty cases were of persons who
were exposed in some way at the hotel
| kept by the Priest Brothers. The
drainage has been defective for Il long
time, and the sewer gases escaped into
the building.
On Monday evening, the 9th inst.
the organization known as the Sons of
Vermont at Worcester, Mass, held
their annual meeting. EX-Mayor
Clark Jllson was reelected president
and the name of the organization has
been changed to "Sons and Daughters
of Vermont The annual supper will
be eaten on or about February 10,
The church-going people Of Ryegate
are divided by curious controversy.
Some approve of singing hymns while
others contemn the pious Watts, frown
on that species of religious lyrics, and
will tune up only on psalms. Conse-
quently the first party hold meeting
Sundays, and sing hymns to their
hearts content, and then unite with
their opponents and indulge in psalm
odXyi c,,
The Chicago correspondent Of the
Burlington Sentinel says: "a few
words concerning the Nermonlcrs who
are up in music here. Capt, a. r.
Sabin, well known to many of your
readers as a graduate of Mddlebury
College, and as an officer in the Ninth
Vermont, and who led the Unitarian
choir for a year or so in Burlington, is
at the head of teachers in singing in
Chicago and has large schools.
The Weldon house. st. Adams, was
sold Thursday week, to the Hon. Brad
ley Barlow for S25, 900. The house and
furniture are said to have cost about
1926 ,000 The house will be owned
jointly by Mr.. Barlow, Gov. Smith
w. G. Smith, Il. A. Smith and l.. Mil
lis. and will be opened as a hotel, thor
oughly refitted and made first-class il
every respect now lacking, The pres
ent landlord Mr.: Lavender. will prob
ably be retained.
/. Three voters in the north part of the
town of Ira are compelled TO go on
pilgrimage of sixteen miles to attend
t".'., .,,~e.i".s" mo '";,, l., r"on, Trs
into Castleton, thence To West Rut
r land, and then through Clarendon in
r to Ira again. They return by the SANE
, route, making, in all, a journey o
about thirty-two miles. The oldest O
these mon has been this round for NOR,
than fifty years, and has been elected
, justice of the peace once in that time.
Mr.. +. r. Forbes florist of Brandon
= has one of the finest and most exten
sive conseryatOries in these parts. ii,
, has a great variety of plants and flow
, ers, many rare eXotics, to which II,
gives his personal care and attention
and meets with a corresponding sue
cess in their culture. He is prepared
TO furnish choice bouquets of cut flow
ers for parties and other public ooOa
! sions, or any other purpose for which
= they are desired He also furnishe
\ plants to suit customers.
Aurlck CreSSey ol NoouloTu cailnO
o tell one figure from another. and i
e densely ignorant in all the othe
Y branches of education, yet if any per
4 son will tell him their age in years H.
3 will almost instantly tell them how
old thoy are in minutes or seconds.
the dimensions of wood or timber ar
= given him. he will tell as accuratel,
: and quickly the number of feet the,
8 contain as the most exper. mathemati
: clan. He uses no figures because H.
e does not know how to make them, an,
I does it all by head work, rs he says.
1 Springfield is to have "steamer.
( They held an adjourned corporation
+ meeting, last week, Monday evening
' After much discussion it was voted t
: buy first-class new hand fire engin
and five hundred feet new rubber hos
Immediately. John G. Holmes, +