The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-06-24


street.
The reading room of the Middlebury
Reform Club was formally opened to tho
public on Saturday last, with fair snp-
ply Of dailies and weekles. The maya.
zines are soon to be supplied. The
rooms are located in Park Block, up
stairs, and they are handsomely fitted up
and furnished with necessary furniture.
They will be kept open to the general
public during the day and evening. L.
Is an attractive place, and much good is
hoped TO result from the establishment Of
this,inSttution,
'I[There are to be three changes 10
che board Of teachers in the Middlebury
Graded School for the next year Miss
Humphrey leaves the High School Tor q
post Of labor similar to this in California.
Miss Hamilton leaves the profession Of
teaching and Miss Delano takes Fletcher
Academy in Bridport at the beginning of
the fall term. Miss Humphreys place is
not yet certainly filled Miss lIolcomb
Of Starksboro and Miss Kirby Of
take the schools of Misses ilamiltO" 2pd
Delano.
The senior class Of Middlebury col.
lege have engaged the well.known TEN.
pie Quartette Of Boston and the Ger.
mania Band for their Commencement
concert. The combination will be one
that has rarely been equalled, and will
ha xsah IL
Quartette has sung in Burlington several
times and has always been received with
great favor. The Germania Band will
furnish the music for commencement ex.
erciscs and also for the commencement
promenade concert.
Miss Katie OLeary, daughter OF
Mr.. j. OLcary, died Thursday morning
at the age of fifteen years and eleven
months. She was taken i'll about four
weeks ago, and growing worse, took to
the bed after about one week, The dis
ease finally developed into bilious
pneumonia, which carried her of about
eleven o'clock Thursday morning. She
was quiet and unobtrusive, but fine
scholar and was observed as such. She
was much beloved by her companions. who
with her family will mourn her loss deep
ly. They receive the sincere sympathy
Of neighbors and friends in this bereave.
meut
The Middebury Republicans met in
caucus at the town room. on Saturday
evening, to elect delegates to the state
and county conventions. l.. d. Eldredge,
Esq, was elected chairman, and Mr..
Charles H. Matthews, secretary For
the state convention the following were
elected delegates James NJ. Slade, l..
F. Knapp, j. L. Barker, A. S. Tracy, L.
J. Matthews II. NJ. Seeleyi substitutes,
II. Il. Harris, G. S. Wainwright, Albert
Chapman, G. c. Cady, A. j. Marshall,
Henry Persons. The delegates to the
county convention are named in the pro.
ceeding5 of the convention elsewhere 10
this issue
A. II. Nichols is improving aud hos
been up in chair to have his bad made.
AS he RECEIVERS his interest in the matters
going on in the community -evivcs. as
appears from the following card
EDIToRs REGISTER Il desire through
your paper to make the following state.
ment The causes which led me to at.
tempt to take my own life arc manifold +,
principally among which may be mention.
cd i'll health, inability to work steadily,
inability 10 pay my debts, and poverty.
| make this public statement, not for the
purpose of gratifying a morbid curiosity,
but TO clear from suspicion one whose
name has been connected with mine with.
out any reason whatever one who is
entirely blameless, and had nothing what.
ever to do in influencing me to do as |
did. AS | hold myself entirely response.
Bile for my own acts, am perfectly will.
ling to abide the consequences
A. II. NICHOLS,
Nhdllehury, w. june %, 1876.
Coinelia Sheldon who has lived
al Mr. j W. Martins for the last five
years, was taken with fit OF apopexy,
Wednesday, about one O'Clock p. NJ. Sho
boon became unconscious and remained
80 until her death Dispatches were sent
to her two sons ,who were in Philadelphia,
and Drs Allen and Sheldon OF Rutland,
the latter being her bro.her-n.aw. Dr.
Sutton was called Immediately, and Drs
Allen and Sheldon arrived toward eve.
ming remaining all night, She died
about one o'clock, Thursday morning.
The sons. Horace and Walter, started for
home on receiving the dispatch, arriving
at Troy before learning of her death. The
fuueral was attended from st. Step ems
Church on Friday morning and the
remains were taken to Center Rutland
and laid by the side Of her husband in
the family lot Mrs. Sheldon was a
native OF Troy. and her husband Preston
Sheldon, native Of West Rutland. After
marriage their home was in New York
and Brooklyn until his death, which oc.
CURED by drowning in St. Johns river,
Florida, some ten years ago. Since then
Mrs Sheldon has been al Rutland, Man.
chester aud MiddlcbnIy, 70 keep her
family together during the school days
Of the boys, OF whom Horace, having
completed his college course in 1874, is
studying medicine at Rutland Walter
has Just entered Middlebury college. =
Examinations III the Graded School,
which occupied the whole Of last week
and part OF the previous, were conducted
in great part with reference to promotion
from one grade to another. These ex.
nminaiions, except in the lower grades,
we're partly written, partly oral. Large
} classes were promoted from each of the
lower schools to the one above a few
failed to pass, and few were conditioned
!, in some particulars. OF the graduating
class, six or seven young men will prob.
ably enter college here this year, and