The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05

III NIB yShts
Tho work on the bridge has pro
dressed we'll this week, and the timber
on the upper half are about ready to re
! ceive their covering.
The fair posters are out at last
They were printed at the Vermontel
Office and are very handsome, being
printed 10 two colors.
. &C. ID. Earl, of the firm of Earl 4
Barnum of this place, is away at the
north part of this state and northern
New York on business.
--17s tickets were sold from this sta.
ton TO Queen City Park Wednesday,
for the Cornwall and Weybridge Sab
bath school excursionists. tt
We understand that social event
is to take place in Leicester next
Wednesday, in which one of Middle
bury's young men will act as principal,
--Rev. WIN. b. Brown, ID. D., OF
New York City, secretary of the Amer
lean Congregational Union, preached
at the Congregational church last Sab
bath.
The Crown Point and Dridport
farmers and mechanics fair was held
at Crown Point on Tuesday aud We'd
nesday. Some few attended from Mid
dlebury. re- M
Mr.. Fletcher Chapman's baby
daughter died last Saturday of cholera
infantum. The parents have the SYM
patty Of their many friends in their
early sorrow.
MIR. l.. II. Stowe and son with Mr..
Goodrich have been on camping and
fishing excursion for the past week to
the mouth of Otter creek. They are TO
return home to day.
The poles for the new telegraph
wires being erected along the Central
Vermont by the American Union Tele-
graph Company have arrived at Mid
dlebury and will be set next week.
cdr" Will Sheldon is compliment
ed on the skillfnl manner in which he
set the broken leg of Bigor at the camp
grounds last Saturday. We predict q
brilliant future for him as surgeon.
The graded school opened last
Monday with about the usual attendance
for q fall term. Miss Geer, the new
teacher in the high school, is liked very
much SO far, aud is probably just the
person to I'LL that difficult position sue
cesslully.
Werner, the weather pr ophet, "prc.
diets" that we are 10 have dry weather
the rest of the season. He also says:
" now look forward to very fine aud
agreeable period in the weather, posi-
bly, with early and severe frosts, but
late snow falls"
An interesting medical subject
about seven inches long, was found in
the Creek below the barber shop, last
Sunday morning. A town Juror and q
physician " ere called, but life was ex-
tinct. The latter has the unfortunate in
his possession now.
The village authorities are digging
another huge reservoir, for use in time
of fire, IN front of Mr.. George Chap
mans. The earth has been removed
To the rocks and a great hole blasted
ont. The cavity is now nearly large
enough for the reservoir.
Rev. Mr.. Rowsom returned from
his trip north on Tuesday much invig-
GRATED, and will occupy his pulpit in
Middlebury next Sabbath morning, and
preach at the Munger street school
house in the afternoon. His family are
yet in Canada, where they will remain
for while longer.
Saturday morning Frank Mellcn, a
brakeman on the freight train going
north, had his foot badly crushed at the
freight depot by being caught between
two foot boards. No bones were
broken, but his boot was nearly torn to
pieces. II was very narrow escape
from losing his foot.
TT. w. Fletcher has just made some
IMPROVEMENTS in his store, having con-
lverted the entire floor below into q
4 tailor-shop. He keeps full line OF
every variety of cloths and can COM
pete with any one in this section for
prices and workmanship. See new ad.
in another column.
Mr.. Albert Chapman, our aericul-
tural editor, snd secretary of the Ver-
mont Merino Sheep Breeders Associa-
ton, went west this week, to act with
sub committees of the v. M. S. Il. A.
in admitting sheep to registry; He will
be gone a month or more and will visit
\ arhhS tony D' ", pcioic lis IcturH
Rather expensive eating was that EN-
ljoyed by Baxter Talias JohnJ Whitney
of Middlebury, the other day, when he
had the misfortune to smash $40 set
\ of teeth, while eating an ear of corn,
(snd still the jaw manipulating fraterni-
Hy bellows forth the thread bare and
lpie-bald extravaganza entitled "hard
times. "-[Bristol Herald.
President Hubert gave an address
at the Rutland County Fair yesterday
upon "Agricnlture in Vermont" and
of it the Rutland Herald and GLOBE
says among other praises: ''The ad-
dress was an eloquent and able presenta-
ton of the topic selected, which marked
the speaker as among the foremost ad-
yocates of intelligent agriculture and OF
the material industries of Vermont"
II "A. w. Carey, our excellent black
smith, has made quite curiosity in the
shape of circular horse shoe without
single weld in it, being turned in
some way out of a solid piece OF iron
lie has also made great many inven.
tons relative to horse shooting which no
one but practical horseman could pos
sibly understand, but Mr.. Carey Seems
to take pleasure in explaining to any
one the uses of the different articles
1t would pay any one who takes any in
terest in Workmanship to call at his shoI
I OH Court street and see them.
Stewards fine brick block on Mali
street, Is now approaching completion
: The walls and ceilings of the first an,
i third stories have been hard finishes
and the carpenters and joiners are nov
>. at work upon the wood finish of til
a first floor. The third story complet
Is to be used by the Free Masons, an,
has been divided off into apartments t.
j suit their convenience. The secon,
o story is for offices etc., and the firs
story is a double store, one part for dr.
a goods and the other for groceries. Tn
v ont;..o hl<cL Mill ha f;u;ehod ..,1 900,