The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-09-28
Local News.

Rev. W. ii. Rowsom will preach at
East Middlebury, next Sunday, Sept
80.
Miss Belle Abbott, of East Middle
bury, remains as yet in a low, PROSTATE
condition.
There will be no meeting of the
Juvenile Temperance Union tomorrow,
on account of the Green Mountain Rill
pic mic.
Rev. ii. Vandecar has finished
preaching at East Middlebury, and now
breaches at West Salisbury and Sails
bury village.
The tenement house of Mr.. II. L.
Sheldon near the dry bridge is improv-
ing rapidly under the magic influence
of a painters brush.
The cold weather Wednesday even
ing would respectfully remind the peo-
pie of Middlebury and adjoining towns
that winter approacheth.
james Norton and Myron Eldridge
have opened new cabinet shop on
Court street, at the old wagon shop of
b. +. Hope. See advertisement.
Rev. S. W. Bidwell, of East Mid
dlebury, is evidently ''some" on pump
kins. He has raised one of the cheer
full looking fruits this season that tip
ped the scales AT 81 l-2 pounds.
The hardware business for some
time carried on by FaInsworth &
Fletcher will hereafter be conducted by
Mr.. FarnswOrth. The old firm has
been dissolved, Mr.. Fletcher retiring.
Mr.. j. p. Douglas shipments of
potatoes this fall thus far amount to
about thirty-seven hundred bushels.
A. X. Carr Il Co. have shipped about
seven thousand bushels from this sta
ton.
Shipments from this station for the
week are as follows: Seven car loads of
potatoes, three car loads of cattle, four
car loads of lumber, two car loads of
snndries and II $50 pounds of butter.
Whether it is owing to the rapid
driving across the bridge or not we do
not know, but being quite badly out of
repair the selectmen are earnestly at
work upon ii and are doing good job.
Several cases of insanity are report
ed in town this week, some quite Sc
we're. Cause, an immense harp with
an Infatuated Italian climbing around
il and fiantically demanding pennies of
the distracted crowd.
The extensive and thorough re-
pairs which Brewster's block has been
undergoing are nearly completed. The
man with the saw, however, is ''riling"
up DR.. Plumley's rooms to some con-
siderable extent as yet.
Mr.. VIM. Roach, sober and indus
trious citizen of this town, was found
dead i'll his yard on Thursday morning
lie went out to do his mornings work
in usual health. 1t is supposed heart
disease was the trouble.
Our townsman, Mr.. Comstock, re-
ports fine second crop of red raspber-
ries, well ripened, in the east part of
this town. Apple blossoms and ripened
fruit upon the same tree are so common
as to excite no comment.
-Drs. Sweet are having pretty
good business in town, at least Judging
by the numbers that are holding the
even tenor of their way up to their pri-
vate Office. They have prolonged their
stay one day beyond their appointed
time.
-Messrs. ii. G. Burwell of Bridport,
j. A. Wright of Middlebury and Cher
blno ~ Williamson of Cornwall, sent
three fine Spanish merino rams by ex-
press from this place to Columbus,
Ohio, yesterday. Mr.. Burwell went
with them.
E. A. Sturtevant, Esq, had the
misfortune, last Monday, while return
ing from Bristol, TO have his carriage
upset and broken and himself left be-
hind by his horse. The horse was soon
stopped and the wagon fixed up so that
he drove home with it.
Two or three of "Columbia's olori-
Gus sons'(O from out of town were
making an awful racket, on Thursday,
with an assortment of bells which they
exhibited for sale, and occasionally
pounded to convince bystanders that
they had the genuine metal in them.
Potatoes and onions are passing our
office by the wholesale en- route for the
depot. We should think by the number
Of loads that daily pass that the adjoin-
ing towns would either exhaust them
selves or flood the country with them,
If other places arc as productive as this.
The explosion heard distinctly at
Middlebury, brandon and all the
towns in the vicinity, Thursday after
noon, shaking buildings and making
many of the people believe il was
an earthquake, proves to have been
the explosion of five tons of powder at
Larrabee's Point.
-Below is the programme for the
open air concert to be given this (Fri-
day. evening by the band:
March-IIard Pan. oani,
Amazon foika (cornct solo. Robinson
Waltz-Charming Beauty. .Zikof,
s snsii ua res't NJ, Faust.
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