The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-02-03
Local News.

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st. Stephens church on Sunday, ser
vices commencing at 10:l5 A. NJ. and
T.. NJ.
The Bristol singers have SET tn,
time for presenting the cantata esther
in Middlebury for Monday evening, Feb
ruary II.
The Middlebury lodge of Coco
Templars is weekly receiving accession,
to their numbers. AT the meeting OF
Tuesday evening five persons were in
itiated.
Mrs. Jennie Pride, last Saturday
evening. presented to Rev. s. Wash.
burn in behalf of the ladies of the
Methodist congregation an elegant copy
of the Bible.
An unfortunate accident occurred
to sleigh, Thursday, about noon, as the
team was passing around the corner OF
Weybridge and Academy streets. We
have not learned the amount of damage
done.
Mr.. Munroe Peck proposes to start
a singing school in this village. Meet
ings to be held on Thursday evening OF
each week in the Reform Club Rooms
Terms $1.00 for 20 lessons. All are
wanted TO attend.
Some sixty persons went TO Yer
9ennes on Tuesday afternoon from this
place including the Reform Club ORA
matte Association, the Middlebury Cor
net Band, and some ladies of the Mid
dlebury w. c. II. L.
Parties returning from dance in
Munger street, while passing through
Nova Zembla last Friday night, had the
misfortune to be upset, and seriously
damage one side of their sleigh. They
were obliged to put rail under one
side TO get home, and some called it
''riding on rail-"
William H. Ellis has been adiudged
bankrupt upon his own petition, and a
meeting of the creditors has been called
to be held at the Office OF Stewart &,
Eldredge before W. G. Veazey, Esq,
register, on Thursday, February 10, for
The purpose of choosing an assignee.
"A fox hunt of considerable proper
lion and extending over two days time,
occurred at Nova Zembla last week.
The parties engaged were Royal Place,
Burleigh Baen and young Amidon, be-
sides fine fox and two dogs. Reynard
was at length driven. under Prince
Kings barn and pulled ont with hooks.
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-lhe physician a'iendihg MIS-. John
Te'ie! Ill her iast sickness INFORMS us
mat IL was an error that 'hey supposed
inc 'roupie TO De cancer. Beng some
the exact nature of the disease was.
The post mortem revealed ii more fully.
II was a tuberculous disease, which be-
fore her death came 10 affect nearly all
the internal organs.
The Ladies' Society of st. Stephens
church will give a parlor entertainment
at the residence of Edwin Vallette,
Wednesday evening next, at half past
seven. All are cordially invited TO at
tend. And we feel assured from the
list Of attractions offered, that none will
regret the fifty cents contributed in aid
inc oysters, will be served.
The clothes line swindlcr is ubiqui-
tOus. He is heard ofin Orleans county.
been arrested in Windsor county, has
done the Rutland county farmers fear
fully and now turns mp in this town.
Our adyices are that he made two vic
tins of honest farmers residing near
East Middlebury the other day. They
siSned fair seeming contract and il
turns out TO be an enormous order for
the clothes line. BY what necromamcy
il is done is not vet stated
Valley Grange, held in this village on
Tuesday evening, p. S. Severance was
elected lecturer in the place of Mpe
j. w. Halliday resigned. A relief com.
mittee of seven was also appointed &c
look after the sick and needy of the or
der. The agent made his quarterly re-
port, from which il appears the financial
condition of the grange is good, they
having something more than one hun
bred dollars on hand. The purchases
by the grange during the past year have
amounted to above $1,000
-"Why don't You take your teetl
out, Mr.. Jones?' inquired n six-year
old hopeful as he pered up into the fact
OF his intended step-father, who had JUS
DERBY stroking the child's silken hair
Mr.. j., replied, mature, nv son, ha!
blessed me with teeth that are as firm
and enduring as the rock of Gibraltar
and like the hills they cannot be shaken.
"Why-e-e!' calculated johnny, an,
puts hers in the drawer every night.
Then they concluded that they coult
dispense with his company, and m
tucked him in his little bed.
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MI w. Il. andrews OF camden
Name, mas taEen the place Of Arthn
brown, as clerk III Dr. u. ii. Plumley'
drng store. Mr.. Andrews comes wei
recommended, and the camden Heral.
speaks OF nm Ill Inc following compll
meniary manner: MI. %. X: Andrews
who has been the efficient clerk in tn
drug store OF \. {. Fletcher for III
past I'VE years, left on the train Monda
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