The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-08-17

-Qudrttrly HleeI.1g ut East M1uule-
bury Aug. 10, at two o'clock in the af-
ternoon. There Y5ll be quarterly con-
ference in the sS4e place Monday, at
ten o'clock1p& morning. Brethren
from Ripton He requested to be pres
ent.
The train due at 6 :20, known as the
sleeper, was three hours late this morn
ing. The Queen City band of Burlingt
ton, Sherman's, band of Winooski, aid
other organizations, besides q Large
number of passengers for Middlebrry,
were on the train.
There have been hardly two DAYS
in the past two weeks in which it has
not rained. Farmers have been consid-
erably delayed in getting in their grain
One farmer says that on three different
days he went out to get in a load of
grain, and each time q shower started
him back to his house before he reached
his field.
In consequence of the number and
size of the trains running owe this rail-
road this week, nearly all trains have
necessarily been late. The mail Tues
day was over al hour late, and the New
York papers got in so late Tuesday and
Wednesday that they were not brought
uptown for distribution till the next
morning.
Mr.. j. ii. Batchelder, our enterpris-
ing clapboard manufacturer, has just
completed a sign board which reads ~.
III. Batchelder, wholesale clapboards,"
seven feet wide and the whole length of
his new store house, about one hundred
feet. This is thought TO be the largest
in the state. The work was done by
the artist, j. T. Kingsley.
The thunder shower of Tuesday
night is said by those who experienced
it to have been the heaviest we have
had this season. Umbrellas were no
good, and those who trusted TO any
thing short of good roof over their
heads were "wet as drowned rats" in
less time than it takes TO tell it. For
~tunately the shower was not of very
long duration.
Mr.. A. f. Marley, who has been
engaged by the Addison County Mar
BILE Company to open their quarry and
develop the vein of statuary marble,
will begin operations next week. He
will draw off the water that fills the
quarry and remove the rock that COW
ers the desired layer. 1t will probably
be an odorous place there in a short
time, as the water is alive with small
fish.
-Messrs. Jonathan Russell and John
Hyde have bought out the hardware
store lately owned by Swiney q
Sargent, and have formed a partnership
under the name of Russell & Hyde.
They took possession this week. They
are both 'solid men,. Mr.. Hyde has
been long known to the people of Mid
dlebury as a good workman. They
will carry on the old business, and we
insure them a good trade and hope for
their success.
-Messrs. Garlick & Williamson,
whom we mentioned last week as hav-
ing purchased the Central market, have
taken possession and thoroughly clean
ed and painted the rooms and improved
the internal arrangements. There is
an abundance of indication that there
will hereafter be a general supply of all
the requisites for the table in the meat
line at Garlick Il Williamson's, and in
the vegetable line at Mr.. Ainsworth's.
The Stewart Guards left their ar
mory Saturday morning, and under es-
cort of the Band, marched through
Main to Pleasant, through North Pleas
ant down the lane to the freight depot,
where extra cars were placed for them.
They were taken by an extra train fol-
lowing the mail, and bringing the other
state troops from the north part of the
| ctafn Thax- raao1a1 pa.to, about.
two O'Clock and went into camp the
same afternoon.
Last Monday, U. d. Twitchcll, as
signec of the William Ellis estate, sold
at auction, j. S. Ward auctioneer, the
personal property and real estate of his
trust, consisting of several carriages
and the Ellis house opposite the bakery,
with the lot of land attached to il. A.
p. Topper bid off the house for another
gentleman, and Mr.. IL. L. Sheldon took
the lot of land between the house and
The Nichols block at four hundred and
fifty dollars. The carriages sold at
good prices for these hard times.
An immense reservoir is being
made in the ground in the square in
front of the Court house, where the lib
erty pole stood. Ii is to be sixteen feet
deep and twenty feet in diameter, ofcir-
cular form, and lined with cement. 1t
will be supplied with water from the
creek, through the hose OIL. III. Stoves
grist-mill. Ii is put in at the expense
of the village. This water will be avail
able for some distance, and will be used
as a protection from fire. II would be
a good idea to have q few more such.
Last Tuesday night was the darkest
night this season. The fact is, one
couldn't see anything. A man and wife
from Middlebury, returning from Ver-
gennes, experienced some difficulty in
navigating in the right channel, so when
about at Summers hotel, just over Chip
man Hill, the gentleman got out and
tried to lead the horses, but could not
improve matters. His wife, afraid the
horses would run off the bank, got out
also, and they both walked the rest of
the way in the mud and drenching rain,
leading the team.
"A returning train from Bennington
yesterday afternoon, was found TO be
too much for the ''loky'' to draw, and
the conductor smiled a guileful smile as
he ordered the five rear cars to be I'M
coupled, and left behind. The cars
were packed full, and the sentiments
expressed by the victims can be imag-
ined. Two Middlebury brothers, who
had sworn never to part, so it is said,
were OH different cars and were separ-
ated by this fiendish act. The afternoon
train arrived in M%iddlebury two and a
half hours late, and the mex one two
hours late.
Special tickets to Spring Grove
camp grounds will be sold at Middle
bury railroad station from "Wednesday
morning. August %, to Thursday,
August 80, inclusive, good for return
till August 80, if properly stamped at