The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-07-15

Sunday, at lO:45 a. m.
The Middlebu-y Cornet Band fur.
nished the music for the fireworks and
races at Bridport on Saturday evening
and assisted at the closing exercises Of
the Vergenues Fourth on Wednesday
evening
/-Dr. John Avery, whose graduation
at the Long Island Medical College we
mentioned last week, has completed his
arrangements for permanent settlement
at Starksboro, where he will 90 and en-.
ter upon his work in a few days.
Some fifteen horses from the livery
stable OF NIessrs. Cassidy Il Hammond
went to Vergennes on Wednesday eve.
ming. OF course the fifteen carriages had
fifteen couples of occupants and they we're
mostly young people from this place.
"A limited number of bridge law
breakers came to grief the latter part of
last week and the fore part of this. Two
or three stood trial and were defeated.
Others paid their fines and went away
disguised. The number Of lapses of men,
ory among drivers is rapidly diminishing.
The annual examination OF the three
lower classes at the college has been In
progress since Tuesday morning. Mr..
Owen OF the Morah Academy, who was
expected to assist in the examinations, for
some reason failed to come, and the facul.
ty have been assisted only by Mr.. 8. A.
Gifin, of Ludlow. The examinations
have been thorough aud comprehensive,
and the students have generally acquitted
themselves with credit to themselves aud
their instructors.
The ladies Of the Women's Temper.
auce Union gave an entertainment at
the reading rooms on Tuesday evening
There we're present quite as many as
could be seated. The entertainment con.
sisted Of readings by Mrs G. f. Rider.
instrumental music upon the violin by
Master Rider, and songs bv Mrs. Henry
$, Fooie, of Brooklyn, N. Y The parts
we're admirably performed and the graft.
ication Of the audience was shown by
frequent applause.
The Lake George train leaves Essex
Junction 10 p. m. Burlington, 100;
Vergennes, 210; Middlebury. 2,33 /;
Leicester Junction, 800; Orwell, 3. &c.
Arrives at Ticonderoga, $50. Return.
ing leaves Ticondcroga, 9.20 a. M; Or.
well, 9.43; Leicester junction, 1912
Middlebury, 1910; vergennes, IL ,l6;
Burlington, 1910. This trains stops
only at Burlington, Vergennes and Mid.
dlebury until it strikes tho Addison road,
when stops are made at all the stations.
During the shower Of Monday noon,
the lightning played about quite careless.
ly through western Vermont and por.
tions OF Massachusetts. and in the latter
state several lives were lost Mr.. G. G.
Cady's woodshed in the east part of this
town was struck the electric fluid passing
down through crack under the roof be.
hind the wood but inside the shed, disar-
ranging things generally For some
time the heat was SO great that it was
feared the building was on fire but it
proved not to be the case
--"Billy, said South street mother to
her seven.year old hopeful, "go right and
get pail Of water for me-" Cant do
it, ma, it's too gosh darned hot" replied
the youth, turning over in the shade.
You naughty, wicked boy, come here
and let me spank you" IL wouldn't,
ma he answered. chewing u blade of
grass, "it'l make you sweat like every
thing | don't care darn for myself at
all, but hate to see you suffer, awfully."
And the mother sighed and resolved that
when it got to be cooler weather, that
boy should have spanking that he would
remember
Tho Flyers Sisters concert company
appeared in Middlebury on Saturday
evening according to advertisement, and
gave two entertainments. on Saturday
and Monday evenings They rendered a
drama written expressly for them. Gu.
titled "Out of Bondage" illustrative Of
slave life aud the progress OF the colored
race out of bondage into freedom and its
privileges. There was good audience
on the first evening. but fewer on the sec.
ond. The entertainment was excellent,
with nothing coarse or offensive, aud
their rich voices blended most harmoni.
ously in the wild plantation melodies as
well as in the music they gave Of high.
er character Tho music could hardly
be excelled for sweetness of tone or rich.
ness of melody. and the execution was
unexceptional for that class Of music
The dramatic part detracted from the
pleasure afforded by the entertainment
rather than added to it,
By the courtsey OF Mr.. Charles ID.
Lane Of Cornwall, We have had the priv.
ilege OF inspecting centennial relic 10
the form Of diploma by the President
and fellows of Yale college. to d. Job
Lane, conferriug upon him the degree of
bachelor of arts. 1t is dated 1854. and
signed by Thomas Clap. President, Ben.
jamin Lord, Thomas Ruggles. Elnathan
Whitman, Moses Dickinson, Fellows.
We understand that d. Job Lane was
great uncle of Mr. Charles d. Lane,
With this document was "a copy of the
Mariners New Calendar" owned by Job
Lane while student. which was publish.
ed 10 London in 1859. 1t announces it.
self to contain The principles of arith.
metic aud practical geometry with the
extraction Of square and cubic roots also
rules for finding the prime, epact, moons
age, time Of high water with tables for
the same" also all sorts OF mathematical
and astronomical tables, mariners inform.
alton, sc.
"A Bridport man was in town tho
other day, who doesn't believe much 10
Paris green as a mode of maui'esting
hostility toward potato bugs. lie says
he was visited by these amusing creatures
in vast numbers. They at once proceed
ed to pull IN the hills in order. as thew