The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-07-06

at Rutland at the request OF the circus
detective, but after being kept in jail q
little time was allowed to go. He has
not yet been caught
Last Friday evening, Mr.. Button Of
| Waterford, N. Y, the manufacturer OF
the fire engine lately purchased by the
village of Middlebury, was in town and
another trial of the machine was given
under his supervision. He assured
them that with fifty trained men upon
the brakes the engine would throw a
stream one hundred and eighty feet.
They placed It near Mr.. OConnor's
bakery, played through three hundred
feet of hose, and with an inch nozzle,
with forty men, some of them unaccus-
toned to working the brakes, threw
one hundred and eighty-one feet.
Through an inch and quarter nozzle
they threw one hundred and forty feet.
"A lively scrimmage occurred
among the circus employees, Monday,
while in this place, which, had il occur
into the courts; but as 1t was, very lit
tie notice was taken of it. An alterca-
ton arose between two men with refer
ence to the dinner, when one of them
armed with carving knife made an
attack upon tho other, outing his arm
quite severely. The other seized n
small sledge hammer, knocked his an
tagonist down and was pounding him
in frightful manner upon the head
when they were separated and the
| fight ended. The stories in circulation
that one man was killed, &C., are exag-
gerations.
-"O'Bricn's Six Shows" struck Mid
dlebury, Monday, and exhibited after
noon and evening. Their audiences
were not so large as Barnum has some
times called out, but there was fair
number present in the afternoon. In
the evening the audience was thin.
Some parts of their exhibition were
good, almost superior, especially the
dog exhibition, the slack rope perform
ance and the boy tumblers. The riding
could not be said to excel and the Jokes
of the clowns were about as stale as
usual. The usual side shows and other
and the inevitable pickpocket was also
present, as some incautious ones found
out TO their sorrow. The police regula-
tions were good and the best of order
was preserved. There was very little
evidence upon the streets of drinking.
by the courtesy of Sheriff and Mrs
Tripp few friends were permitted, last
ment given at their residence with &
sciopticon, by Mr.. Palmer of Aiken, S
c., who with his wife (sister of Mrs
Tripp) and son are visiting their friends
here. These views represented charac.
teristic southern life and scenery In theiI
various phases, and many of them were
very beautiful and some of them ex.
ceedingly funny. There were also
some fine views of the magnificent
scenery of North Georgia. They were
all taken from lie and nature by Mr.
Aiken himself, who is Photographic ar
list. The sciopticon is all Instrument
by which pictures taken by the ordinary
processes of photography, after being
prepared in transparencies, are enlarged
at will and projected in light and shadow
upon an immense canvas at the further
end of the room so that all present cal
sec them.
j. L. Martin, ESQ, of Londonderry
StdtC > VI w luuuQin COuutN
was in town, Monday, with his pocket
on complaints that he was exhibiting
without license. 1t appears that whel
in the state two years ago Mr.. O'Briel
waited until be arrived at Montpelier
then paid his license to Treasurer Page
and all were satisfied. This year b.
met no one who had authority to TAX
the money, and of course he thought /
he paid it before his departure from tn
state, or when called for, every reason
able person would be satisfied. State
Attorney Martin had been cmpowere,
to collect the money at Brattleboro, an,
not being at home, construed his au
thority from the treasurer to be to fol
J low Mr.. O'Brien and prosecute him q
delinquent. OF course Mr.. O'Brie
was technically in the wrong and ha
to submit to the demands of the Office
of the law. His offense was not YER
heinous one, and this fact was taken In
to the reckoning in the settlement. II
paid $40 costs and the suits were dis
r continued.
. The Cold Water Army gave thci
first public exhibition of themselves o
| w CtllCSuuN ny u pal dIi
drill in the streets. BY the favor of tn
ladies Of the Woman's Christian Ten
perance Union, they appeared in ne,
uniforms of blue trimmed with scarlet
and made a fine appearance. Majo
Martin, who has kindly given his tim
q to drill and instruct them for som
weeks past, had general direction an
/ control, and Of course the success Of tn
exhibition depended in large measul
upon his management. The compan
4 was differed among themselves by
S previous election as follows: Captain
Perry Fletcher; 1st lieutenant, HoraC
=. Tracy; I'd lieutenant, Arthur Dodge
e LIST sergeant, George Tobin; other Sc
. geants, Stowell Wright, Ed Ainswortl
4 Willie Fletcher, George Knapp; CO
d porals, John Hyde, Harrison Drak
: Wallace Dewey, Willie Alden. I'll
: young soldiers marched like old vete
ans and executed the manual of arms
4 a very creditable manner. The ladi,
> who have given their time and directe
n their efforts so perseveringly and su
!, cessfully TO the benefit of these boys d
II serve the thanks of the whole comm
\. nifty, and especially of the parents.
-MIo CllLi ocNcrdnCc IlcICc, WHO
q of the late Rodney Pierce, of Brando
J. died at the residence of her son-in-lay
{ DR.. G. II. Plumley, in this village, Thur
day morning about six o'clock. 81
" had been an invalid since the death
IS her husband, six years ago, and h
is been quite low and gradually failil
e. for many weeks. She was born
Middlebury and brought up here, b
Is had lived in Brandon for thirty yea
ID last past. She was sister Of Mrs. Elm
le Of this village. In her youth she unit
20 with the Congregational church in Il
" place, but removed her church relatio
ship on going TO Brandon, since viii
, time she was member of the Brand
u Congregational church. Her life W
y one of peculiar sweetness all throug
"a and in her last sickness her gentleneI
3U xaottosnn nd 90 .st..arn 81,