The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-08-17
Local News.
Potatoes twenty-five cents.

Potatoes twenty-five cents.
Did you go to the Centennial?
-Campmeeting at New Haven next
week.
Butter was % cents in market last
Monday.
&C. NJ. Wild of Bristol, was in town
this week.
The most of the Bennington visitors
will return to-day.
Our state has been drawn down to
one corner this week.
Most of our local correspondents
must have gone to Bennington.
South Pleasant street has been i'm
proved by a new gravel sidewalk.
The thunder shower of Thursday
night did considerable damage TO fruit
trees.
More parties have gone and are
about going camping ont, several over
the lake.
Miss Susie Sheldon sang with the
choir in the Congregational church, last
Sabbath.
The militia will return from Ben
nington tomorrow, that is, what there
is left of them.
"A large number of people were in
town Monday and Tuesday to take the
cars for Bennington.
MIR. Henry Soper shipped a car
load of fine horses this morning for
Middleboro, Mass.
Mr.. j. II. Batchelder stopped his
mill this week, and with nearly all the
hands went to the Centennial.
Mr.. G. NJ. Waller and wife, former
ly.of this place, are running a public
bathing house in Los Angeles, Cal.
Mr.. j. E. Ainsworth has opened a
produce store in ii. l.. Sheldon's block,
next door to Central market.
The streets looked a little %livelier
this morning, with the return of many
of our citizens from Bennington.
The evening express south Tuesday
AMI Wednesday evenings had ten coach
tss ~ &c WV MllOh IL IClt Nllt-
dlebury.
Hon. Nathan b. Smith, of Pulaski,
N. Y, a graduate of Middlebury col
lege in '63, was in town on Monday,
visiting friends.
Mr.. VIM. Goodrich suffered from a
relapse of his illness the first of this
week, but we are happy to learn that he
is now better.
The monthly prayer-meeting of the
w. c. II. U. will be held in the Con-
gregational vestry OH Wednesday next
at three O'Clock p. NJ.
The next meeting of the Juvenile
Temperance Union will be held at the
Congregational vestry at three O'Clock
tomorrow afternoon.
Professor and Mrs. Brainerd, Miss
Addie Brainerd, Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus
Wainwright and Col. Joseph Battell
have gone to Mount Mansfield.
We are glad to learn that the Rev.
f. p. Hooker is recovering from his Sc
we're illness, though but slowly. He
Among the shipments from Middle
bury station this week we notice | car
hay; ! car wool; 3 cars lumber; G cars
live stock; 1919 pounds butter.
Rev. ii. Vandecar, pastor at East
Middlebury and Salisbury, preached at
the Methodist church in this village last
sabbath morning, in the absence of Mr..
Rowsom.
"A stranger, while passing through
that part of East Middlebury known as
Nova Zembla the other day, with a val
liable span of horses, had one drop dead
in the harness.
Rev. Geo. w. Brooks, late of An
dover Theological Seminary, and now
stopping at his home in town, preached
at the Congregational church, morning
and evening, on Sunday last.
John w. Chapman has drawn a
comical picture and advertisement for
Mr.. ii. Ii. Dodge. 1t hangs in the post
Office, and shows natural adaptation 10
this work on the part of the artist.
Mr.. +. Vallette and wife have gone
on a pleasure trip by land and sea, going
to Boston by rail, by steamer TO ST
Johns, N. b., and around home by Wav
20, 6'' i"W Nv INV NiontItul.
The next quarterly meeting for
this year will be held next Sabbath in
the Nj. T.. church, Rev. W. II. RoWsoIn
pastor. The services will be conducted
by the presiding elder, Rev. NJ. b.
Mead.
"Wednesday morning, when the
mail train south stopped at the depot,
there were six locomotives behind il,
all in sight of the depot at the same
time. One was handsomely trimmed
with evergreens and flags.
The Band marched to the depot
Tuesday morning on their way TO the
Centennial, to the tune of a beautiful
new quickstep, "The Battle of Benning-
tom composed for the occasion by the
leader, Prof. L. l.. Hatch.
AT the last meeting of the Juvenile
Temperance Union the superintendent
called on all the boys who had never
tasted liquor or cider to rise. But
three arose, which indicates that there
is not much safety for even small boys
in this town.
VIII III. Sheldon and George Abbey
went trolling up the creek Wednesday
about three hours and a half and sue
ceeded in catching a string Of pickerel
weighing twenty-seven and a halt
pounds. One whopper weighed eleven
and a quarter pounds.
Hey. DIR. Berry, of the Japanese
Mission, stopped last Monday night with
Deacon l.. C.. Barrows. lie brought
news to the family concerning Miss
Martha Barrows, with whom they and
the church here parted early in last
year to go to that field. DIR. Berry left
Japan but a few months ago.