The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-16
NEW HAVEN.
Mr. Erwin Hascltine Of Bristol has
opened a singing school in town.

Mr. Erwin Hascltine Of Bristol has
opened a singing school in town.
Dedication services OF the new Con-
gregational church in New Haven will
be holden Thursday, Dec. 81, commence
ing at IL o'clock, A. NJ.
The sale Of pews 10 the church, on
Tuesday last, was q success, The debt
aside from what has been provided for,
amounted, in round numbers, to $4,000.
Forty.three slips we're sold, at price,
ranging from $50 to s345, amounting t
$500, The sale was then adjourned t
Saturday, when six moro pews were dis.
posed Of, which sales covered the debt
leaving nearly s400 in the treasury, and
five pews remaining unsold. The worl
thus brought to a close in SO successful
and satisfactory a way is due largely t
the energy Of the building committee
Messrs. Bottom, Dowd and Nash-who
without compensation, have devoted Q
large share Of their time to superiutend,
ing the work.
Mrs, Betscy Wright, wife Of d. Fl
Wright, Esq, Of New Haven, died al
their residence, Saturday, Nov. 25, in the
SEVENTEEN year Of her age. 1t will have
been fifty years in the coming February
since their marriage. In many respect.
Mrs. Wright has been q superior woman
Her father dying when she was q small
child, her mother was left in widowhood
with a family Of small children, without
much pecuniary means. Beginning early
to develop the unmistakable evidences OIL
capability and trustworthiness, this girl
soon found a home 10 the family Of Gap.
tain Ward in Waltham, where she re.
manned, surrounded with all the advan.
tages and privileges Of q daughter, until
she was married, that event occurring
early 10 the year 1927. The young
couple went Immediately to live on the
farm where they resided until her death.
Prosperity and adversely have been
mingled in their lot. In the winter Of
1880, before they had got their house
well furnished, their home with most Of
its effects was consumed by fire. Before
the middle of the succeeding summer,
however, they were again reinstated in o
new house. Surrounded with q numerous
family, she has ever been a devoted wife
and an affectionate mother. Amid all
the trials that have befallen them, she
was always bravo, cheerful, hopeful and
p%rovident. Since their family we're all
educated and grown to maturity, and
several of them settled in life, they have
not ceased to suffer q variety Of calami.
ties. Their Oldest son having acquired a
good business education before he was we'll
started in business, by accident lost his
right arm. Another son, on coming to
majority, having provided himself with q
valuable horse and buggy, lost it all by
the hand Of a villainous thief. Not many
winters ago, they suffered the loss by fire
Of a newly filled barn that was full Of
hay, grain, horses. cattle and farming
tools, amounting to q total loss Of moro
than a thousand dollars. Through these
losses. and such as these, the deceased
has with great fortitude and ~equanimity
made herself a prominent stay of the
Always ready to lend a helping
hand to sustain and cheer her own and
in q responding hour, she has won
respect of her neighbors, and now,
while deeply mourning her loss. her
children will rise and call her
blessed.