The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-07-13

| Iue SeSslOu VI Lue AlntIlChn ln5lttule VI
Instruction held at Montpelier, this
week.
The Middlebury Cornet Band sere-
naded Mr.. A. W. Lamb and his bride
last Monday evening. Mr.. Lamb very
generously invited them to supper at
the Addison House the following even
ing, which they, of course, accepted,
and enjoyed very much.
The number of our city visitors is
already large and constantly increasing.
There have been quite a number Of ar
rivals this week--on one train eight.
They certainly can find no pleasanter or
more healthful locality in New England
or the world, in which to spend their
annual summer vacation.
The railroad bridge builders have
been doing good work in this place,
building two new bridges over the rail-
road, one on Main street and one on
Merchants Row, and repaired and ma
terially improved the railroad bridge
near the depot. Their work Is just fin
ished and they are moving on
There will be a picnic for the
Juvenile Temperance Union OH Chip
mans hill Saturday July 21. Ladies in
terested In the Union are invited to at
tend. The children will meet at the
club rooms at o'clock p. NJ. The boys
appearing in uniform and the girls In
white, with bright sashes.
we regret to announce that Messrs.
Swiney q Sargent were obliged to sus-
pend, last week. They made an assign
ment to Mr.. U. D. Twitchell, and the
business is kept running by the assign
&c. We hope they may be able to get
past their present difficulties by some
arrangement, and go on with their bust
ness
Mr.. Edward Richardson had the
misfortune to lose valuable COW, which
was found dead in the pasture, Sunday
morning. She did not come home as
usual, Saturday night, and search
next morning disclosed the fact that she
got cast and mired in hole in the pas
ture, from which she could not cxtricate
herself, and there died.
There is absolutely no excuse for So
Der men not to find the liquor agency in
reasonable hours, now that they have a
large, new and attractive sign pointing
the way clearly. We understand that
the agents close questioning of patrons
has diminished certain class Of custom
very materially. The sales are now
only about twenty dollars per week.
The dog license money taken by
the town of Middlebury is likely to be
used up in paying damages for sheep
killed by dogs, at the rate the applica-
lions are coming in. In addition to the
killing Of Mr.. Douglas sheep, referred
to elsewhere, we have to report one
killed for Mr.. NJ. G. Foote, Yesterday.
The dog which did the mischief is I'M
known
We are glad to notice that the vii
lage trustees are doing their duty.
Knowing that the only way to have the
new fre-engine effective in the upper
part Of the village was to preserve the
pond in front of G. E. Pinneys and not
have it wasted for fishing purposes, the
following notice has been posted: ''The
chap that gets caught in piscatorial
pastimc in this pond will be prosecuted.
by order of the Trustees"
Plumbers are at work in force upon
the county Jail building, and the I'M
provements in progress are extensive
and important. A large reservoir has
been put into the second story, to be
supplied with water from the roof,
which will be utilized for the general
supply of the house, and especially for
protection in case of fire. These i'm
provements will add materially to the
healthfulness (snd perhaps the popu-
larity) of the institution.
TaLa Dunr,oro r odoo n n II
held their semi-annual election of off,
GERS "Wednesday evening, with the fol-
Y. r., {. j. Soper; secretary, Z. E.
smith; treasurer, G. E. Pinney; con-
ductor, Geo. W. Pinney; warden, Geo.
R. Langworthy, Jr.; R: S. n. G., H.
A. Footei R. s. V. g., VIM. Latimer;
L. ). V. g., |. Seeley; R. s. s., j. NJ.
Slade; L. s. S., John H. Sargent; I.
g., L. Kidder; 0. G., VIM. Slade; S.
5. n. G., j. L. Buttolph. The carpen-
tiers are at work on their new hall which
will soon be ready for occupancy.
1t now appears that the new fire.
engine, which we have had Oh trial and
under discussion for some weeks, was
only obtained by the trustees for the
purposes of trial with agreement to pur-
chase If all were suited. There is so
much difference of opinion among the
trustees as to the desirability of its re-
tention that they finally determined to
refer the whole matter back to the peo-
pie i'll public meeting assembled. For
that purpose meeting has been called
to be held at the town room on Tuesday
afternoon next, July II, at PPM. It
Is hoped the views of the taxpayers may
be there given.
Pres. Hubert gave the address at
the one hundredth anniversary of the
adoption Of the constitution of Vermont
at Windsor, Sunday, July s. OF this
address the Boston Journal correspon-
dent, under date of July 9, remarks:
Gone hundred years ago yesterday the
first constitution of Vermont was adopt
cd at Windsor, which event was duly
commemorated by the citizens of Yer
mont in accordance with the spirit of
that convention before which Rev.
Aaron Hutchinson preached from the
word of God. II was deemed especial
ly fitting that Vermont's distinguished
scholar, President c. B. Hubert of
Middlebury College, should deliver a
Christian and patriotic discourse to open
tho commemorative exercises,
--Boyce and Baxter, of the class of
'76, recently returned from a four
weeks camping tour in the Adirondack
wilderness. While there, they killed a
bear and large eagle, and caught a
good number of fine lake trout. It was
contrary to law to kill deer, so they
killed an Adirondack Sheep" instead.
They bagged fair amount of smaller
game, altogether making very little eff
fort in that direction. A much larger
score might have been made had the
needs of their camp required it, but
they did not purposely Kill to waste !;
but yet they were obliged to give away
a large amount of meat, TO save IL from
spelling. They made their tour in that
vast mesh-Mork of lakes. rivera and