The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-10-10

We congratulate the Register on the
splendid appearance of its last issue,
with both chief and lesser devil absent.
Rev. Evarts Kent occupied the
Methodist pulpit and preached an ef-
fcctive sermon from Cor. rs, Sc: "Tbe
sting OF death is SIM
George Browns new house grows
apace, but the promised new school.
house in the Hollow district has not vel
arisen from its ashes. Hope it will
soon.
w. l.. Billings has sold his interest
in the stage route 10 the former owner,
j. l.. Cook, who takes immediate pos.
session. The consideration was moi
made public.
Our first heavy frost or freeze OF
the season called upon us on the 26th,
and was SO thorough that had Yellow
Jack been here he would have taken O
hasty clearance for southern port.
Snow whitened The tops of our
mountains on the morning of the 25th
inst. According to what |" the oldest
inhabitant says, we must prepare for
the advent of winter within the next
thirty days.
Quarterly meeting with the Meth
odists, and Communion Sunday with
the Congregationalists at the latter
house, Rev. Evarts Kent, son of the
pastor, delivered discourse that was
well received, while at the former
house of worship, Presiding Elder Mead
preached an effective discourse from
p" And who, then, is willing to conse-
crate his service this day unto the Lord?"
The Rev. G. ii. Kent has been quite
low for some time. DR.. Eddy of Mid
dlcbury attends. We do not know
what the Doctor says of the case, but
Judging by what we can hear of his
symptoms, he must be i'm q very preca-
rious condition. Owing to his advanced
age and present illness, the pastoral re-
latlon between him and the Congrega-
llonal church is dissolved, and he finds
q home with son-in-law, Rcv. S.
knowlton of New Haven, Vt. lie left
town Wednesday the LIST inst
News came to us of another of
hose performances looking to the pub
tic good that cool" Battell is SO IA
nous for. A practicable road from the |
in District No. l to the |
clearings in Goshen, has long been one
Of the desiderata for that section, but I
the authorities of the |
owns could not or would not agree as
% location, etc, and there the matter
lad stood for years, people in our town |
hoping that the tangle would untangle |
Itself, and that many of the weary |
miles from their mills and farms to
dispensed with,-when this |
Bartlett steps in and Alexander-like |
cuts the knot by furnishing the means
the end has been we'll reache Il, |
md the road put in so good condition
hat he with companion drove over
he road from the schoolhousc to the |
regular Brandon road i'm an bour.
Though we have not seen it, we have
no doubt that it is thoroughly done, for |
I is thorough with him, or not at all. |
We are no prophet or son of q prophet. |
,ut we apprehend that many loads Of
arm produce will find market i'm Bran |
lon that otherwise would have found |
IN outlet towards Middlebury, for many |
10 not always like the prices offered |
here, and it must be conceded that at |
INES there is too much reason for com |
,laint; as for instance, about year ago |
buyers of potatoes at Middlebury, sup
posing themselves lord of the manor. |
or one week offered sixty-two cents
Der bushel, while one of our friends |
ook a load TO Il. and obtained seventy
line cents, the extra seventeen cents |
certainly paying him for the extra trav-
u and trouble. That class of men will |
certainly rise up and call the Colonel
blessed.