The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-09-14


the position of assistant teacher in Bee
man academy, at New Haven.
Shipments from the Middlebury
station for the week ending September
IS include the following: Z cars pota.
toes; 6 cars live stock, including two
of sheep; | car wooden bowls cars
lumber; 6 IA tons of butter.
The sociable in the vestry of the
Congregational church, last Friday eve
ming, was, financially, quite success,
having taken in quite sum of money.
The receipts are to be applied to the re-
newing of the Sunday school library.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Middlebury Womail's Christian
Temperance Union will be held at the
vestry of the Congregational church on
Wednesday afternoon, September 10,
at three o'clock p. NJ. A full attendance
is desired.
Two OF three days after it was set,
one of the large panes of plate glass in
Brewster's store front commenced to
crack and one corner, about six by fif-
teen inches, crumbled all to pieces. The
pane will be removed and replaced by
new one.
Mr.. Thomas Z. Boyce, of the class
of '76 of Middlebury college, has taken
position as teacher in the school of
Prof. M. f. Cady, formerly of this
place, in the thriving city of Aurora,
Ill. Mr. Boyce started for his western
home on Thursday afternoon.
The next sociable at the lecture room
of the Congregations church will be
Wednesday evening next. There will
be some provision for entertainment in
addition to the usual proceedings, of a
nature to interest everybody. 1t is
hoped there may be full attendance.
The Central Vermont Railroad has
arranged an excursion to Montreal and
return, next Tuesday, September 10,
from New Haven, Middlebury and
Tickets good for four days. Tickets
not good to stop over on and not trans
ferable.
Mr.. Harrison Holden shipped from
this station, Tuesday afternoon, car
load of fine Merino sheep for the Ohio
market. Hiland Hall accompanied
them. On the same day Mr.. j. A.
Wright also shipped a car load of sheep
selected from various flocks in this
county, for the same destination.
The pleasant autumn weather has
enticed our sportsmen to take their lit
tie guns and HE them away to the for
ests. DIR. Plumley, last Friday, went
ont and shot four cartridges without
moving out ofhis tracks. On Tuesday,
the doctor and William Tomlinson bag
ged six cartridges, besides some other
game.
Those deluded mortals who, being
deceived by the few cold days we have
experienced, trotted out their flannels,
overcoats, muffiers, ETC., in anticipation
of "winter's drear and chilling blasts, ;"
are now laying them ruefully aside, or
are sweating in their wintry robes, and
Illuminating on the uncertainty of hui
man life.
The Sabbath school concert of last
Sunday evening was very fine exer-
else, all showing deep interest in it.
An interesting letter from Japan was
read by Mr.. Barrows, superintendent
of the Sabbath school, whose sister,
Miss Matte Barrows, is a missionary in
that country. She reports an encOur-
aging progress of the work in Japan.
C. S. Wainwright's gelding NJer-
ry' and ii. G. Sessions stock horse
"Challenge" trotted around the track
together to exhibit their style and mo-
ton, on the last day of the fair, making
mile heat, and drew the admiring
gaze of the crowd about as attentivelv
as the trials of speed. They made a
fine appearance and secured many COM
pliments for the blood they represented.
They are both Lambert horses.
On Tuesday and Wednesday eve
nings of this week, large number of
invited persons gathered at the resi-
dence of our townsman, j. f. Negus,
for the purpose of witnessing the open
ing of a night blooming cereus. One
blossom opened on Tuesday evening,
and at the same time another bud SEEM
ed about ready to open, and Wednesday
evening that also opened, much to the
qualification of those present.
"A little two-year-old boy of Mrs.
Clark, who is stopping at Mr.. Peter
Champagne's, fell head foremost
through stove pipe hole in an unoccu-
pied room in the second story of the
house, few days ago, and struck the
side of his head upon the floor, ten feet
below. They were much frightened
lest the little fellow was killed, but he
has come out of it with nothing more
serious than a very lame neck. 1t was
certainly a wonderful escape.
In spite of all the unfavorable cir
cumstances and heavy expenditures for
band, premiums for base ball clubs,
and other things too numerous to men,
ton, the premiums offered by the Ad-
olson County Agricultural Society are
all to be paid in full. The only thing
lacking to have made this thirty-third
annual fair complete success was the
lack of a proper exhibition. And this
lack WAS one which ihnse who nlinhi