The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-03-21

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term yesterday, with full rooms, as
usual.
"A free lecture will be given 10 the
Graded School course, on Friday eve,
March "a, by Edward Conant, suporin.
tendent of education. Subject: "The
Education Needed by the Children of
Vermont, and where to get it." Doors
open at 1880, TO commence at 8.
The school meeting, now regulated
by law to occur upon the same day
throughout the state, comes on Tuesday,
March %. The meeting in district No.
4, Middlebury, will be held in the after.
noon. There are the usual provisions for
the election Of officers, raising money, &c.
-" The fall Of Secretary Bolknap,"
read a Middleburv man to his wife. "By
gracious, Hammer, Secretary Belknap's
had an accident" "Poor man it's too
bad. Did it hurt him much 2" inquired
Hannah. And when he went on to read
the article she saw that it did hurt him
some.
We understand the exhibition of the
Junior class, which is to take place on
Tuesday evening, April 4, will be given
this year according to ye manner Of a
hundred years ago. We are glad to soc
the interest of the class to make this al
ready popular entertainment more attrac.
tive by tho addition of this Centennial
feature.
Our townsman Hon. j. w. Stewart,
and his wife, are finding quarters, during
March this year at Savannah, as last
year at Charleston. the voyage being made
for Mr. Stewards health. The Governor
has sent home bushcl Of Florida orang-
es, OF which the REGISTER family have
enjoyed taste.
The Oldest inhabitant fails to re.
member such winter as the present,
with so much warm weather and so little
snow. la consequence. trade has been
dull in this village, and the woodpiles
are not quite so large as they otherwise
would have been. But for these unfor.
tunatc circumstances the people would at
length become reconcied.
Some Of our exchanges still talk
wisely about the floods along Otter Greek
in Middlcbury, and the enormous amount
of damage done to fences and other NOV
able property. Our Rutland friends are
hereby notified that the statement is a
canard, and is without foundation We
have had high water, but no food. and
no damage thcrelrom.
One of the best musical entertain
meLts ever given in Middlcbury was that
by the Barnabce Troupe last winter.
They are advertised again for Tuesday,
March 2S, 1876. The troupe consist Of
Mrs. H. Il II. Garter, the distinguished
soprano. Miss Anna IIolbrook the favorite
contralto. Mr.. w. j. Winch the eminent
tenor, Miss Persis Bell tho talented violin
list, Mr.. Howard NJ Dow pianist, and II.
G. Barnabec, the side splitter" or in 9th.
er words the funniest singer in New Eng
land.
st. Stephens Episcopal church in
this place was built in 1896, under the
direction Of Bishop Smith, now senior
Bishop in the United States. The stone,
was quarned in Cornwall and raised to the
walls by means Of an inclined plane ex-
tending easicrly toward the upper side
Of the park, and moved on a wheelbarrow
by Mr.. Dan. Shaw, now living in Wey
bridge. Its fiftieth anniversary occurs
the prcsont-the centennial year, and i,
would be very appropriate time for q
semi. centennial and memorial service.
Mr.. r. b. Smith. for four years past
the worthy and popular proprietor of the
Middlcbury House, has leased the resi-
dence Of DR.. n Harris, on the west side
Of the bridge, and proposes fitting up the
house for hotel Immediately. This useG
to be a famous boarding house in thu
good old days" and when the sigr
"Smith's HOTEL is swung to the bretzc
from its ample porch no doubt its ancient
prestige will return, and "mne host
Smith will be even more successful there
as caterer to the public than he has
been in the house which he now abaDdons
The location Of the new hotel is one o.
the pleasantest in town. The house will
be opened to the public about the lst O
April.
Twas moonlight, not moonlight il
. | EInn ~ tho III n tuboraof
but that CHASTITY, weak ,jointed moouligh
which is used as substitute for stree
lamps in Middlebury. Blifkins was al
ternatipg between chewing the gate pos
in his ecstacy and repeating love passage
from Byron and ARENAS Ward. Sh,
leaned from the balcony, with love auC
confdence-in the balcony railing
beaming from her purely Celtic features
The passages from the poets becam,
sweeter, she leaned farther, when thu
treacherous balcony gave way, and will
a pathetic howl she came, not to his DO
som, but plump upon his cerebrum
Poor Blifkins, as he struggled amid tn
ruins of the balcony and the clinginy
folds OF her drapery, imagining it to b.
a cottage bedstead hurled from the han,
of an enraged pater familias, heard tn
stentorian tones of the old gent crying
"Stu-boy take him, my noble mastiff !!
and shouting murder Visions of tn
enraged parent, in light and airy cos
tune, armed to the teeth with a ihre
dollar shot gun aud cheese knife. fol
lowed by the noble mastif (by the way,
; dirty looking cur) were too much 70
l Blifkins, and spite Of all his galantry an
devotion to the fair sex he fled, iguomin
} iously fed, leaving the lovely Hulda t
explain matters to the enraged parent
who was now on the ground But Hui
da was equal to the task. Her All.pow
! erful love for the glossy beard and hype
rion curls of Blifkins bore her up an
G she explained to the bloody minded pal
ent that it was all the result of sleeE
l. walking, brought on by an overdose
loo oraan, h. lo,t L.