The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-09-16

L postpone " 10 Inc ZOtn ana E1tni Wne
there will be two days trotting.
"A good many have missed tn
familiar face Of the town clock thi
week. The dial plate and hands are On
dergoing repainting at the hands Of MI
Stearus, while Mr.. II. l.. Sheldon, tn
superintendent, ia cleaning the''..intorio
works.
"Wednesday evening Il. z. Holton
nt practice shooting, made two target
measuring I8s inches and liz inches re
spoctively. Thia latter figure has beef
excelled but once IN this place. so far o.
we know, and then by but small frac
ton Of an inch.
About ono hundred, persons from
Middlobury went on the railroad ant
steamboat excursion to Essex, N. Y, OF
last week, Thursday. They had a splen
did .ime. uarred only by tho number o.
drunken roughs from numerous places
who also went.
w W. Swiney, one Of onr hardware
mon, while loading stove on a wagon
last Saturday, clipped over backward
getting his loft foot caught between
the framc and wheel, spraining the log
eifeotually, so that he walks with cane
and very perceptible limp.
A well known republican of Mid.
dlebury boastR that on Sunday proceed.
ing the election he wont to Hancock and
Granville and carried away all the tenn.
pcrance ballots bearing the name Of
Mr.. Lucia for states attorney. md left
In their place ballots bearing The name
of MIR Chapman.--E1.
Several adies, mcmbers OF the Mid.
die bury W. G. T. u. went to Whiting
last Wednesday, 10 assist 10 organizing
an auxiliary society there. They char.
tered Cassidy and one of his teams. and
had good time, being splendidly enter.
tanned after their duties were done, at
Mrs. A f. Ellsworth. There we're
seven in the party.
"A disappointed admirer of horse
trotS, noticing the uniformity with which
| the Addison county fair ia interrupted by
rain, suggests that the fair be held 10
the season Of drought when rain is
needed. and as often as rain is desirable
He claims that thereby the fair will be
productive Of little good at least, foi
in such season as we have passed, rain
has been almost as desirable ss horse
trot.
This town affords Its duo share Of
marital infelicity. The last case which
is making talk is that Of Mr.. A. II.
Mills, whose particular locality on upper
Main street seems to afford more than its
proportion OF this particular style of un.
happiness His better half the other day
took wings and departed, doubtless wish.
ing to experience the pleasure Of going
it alone 1t is said she has gone to
Iowa Mr. Mills is man in the decline
Of life and IN i'll health. and matter 80
serious to him ought to DO let alone by
the scandal mongers. who know nothing
Of the causes leading to the unhappy oc.
currcnce.
"Wednesday night, about ten o'clock,
as Col. Tracy was driving up Main Street
in top buggy belonging to ono of the
livery stables, when opposite the Park
House, he came into violent contact With
heavy team driven by Mr.. A. A. Farms.
worth. Of New Haven. The result was
ruinous to thrill. whifiletrec and top of
the coloncl's turnout. and he was some.
what bruised. Mr.. Farnsworth's wagon
came out with but little damage. The
night was so extremely dark that the
drivers could not see TO turn out for each
other in time Some discussion in regard
to fol cling the street lamps TO give light
enough 10 show top buggy twenty feet
of in the immediate vicinity Of the lamps.
will now be in order
Ono of orr hotel kecpors, who has
several times received little attentions
from hi fellow townsmon- and women--
involving fashionable calls uron justices
Of tho peace and other high dignitaries,
the other evening told Il citizen that. if
Luoia had been elected, he should have
packed up anj left the town; for"
sad he, this town would have been in
hot water all the time" Thus the people
Of Middlebury see by how narrow q
chance seventy Cd! votes they retain
in town business which enriches this
hotel keeper and-makes the town poor.
Verify. the rumsellers of Addison county
voted for Chapman in order to promote
the cause Of temperance. which they
have 10 earnestly at heart.
Barnes. the Photographic artist, has
new and handsome thing 10 his business,
which he calls the oil photograph. It
consists Of Photographic picture trans.
ferred to glass aud with background on
which the appropriate colors are touched
in oil colors. The picture itself, being
rendered nearly transparent by some pro.
cess, the colors appear through it with o
softness and richness Of effect obtainable
in no other picture of the same cost
Several specimens we have seen. and they
will compare favorably with some Of the
finest porcelain pictures. This new
wrinkle" is going to be immensely pop.
ular after enough specimens of the work
have been seen to give the public an idea
of the capabilities Of the process.
The idea Of town like Middlebury
having bridge Of two spans, on it's most
frequented thoroughfare. over which
teams are forbidden. to drive faster than
a walk, is calculated to strike 40 outsider
az a curious one. Hundreds of teams
are driven over the street every day, and
nothing can be more vsxatious to tray.
eler than to be obliged to stop short for
a hundred feet of the street. The town
can afford bridge that will stand I'll tho
wear and tear to which our Main street
bridge ia subject, and it ought to do it.
Such a thing as forbidding fast speed
over bridge Of fifty feet spsus, and on
such thoroughiare as Main street, is un.
urN - al a.