The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-08-29
Local News.
Fruit of all kinds abounds.
The NJ Brace man is around.

Inc DrlO8e is now rapluly conVai-
escing.
Rev. G. w. Brooks returns to his
pastorate next week.
No more fishing for trout on and
after next Monday.
Owners of cornfields are yearning
for u spell of hot weather.
The sign of w. S. Alden is some
what dilapidated in appearance.
Mr.. &C. Peck has taken western
trip, 10 be gone about one week.
e. H. Baxter began his school at
Westport, N. Y, ON Monday last.
The campmeeting is already lessen
ing the village population perceptibly.
Rev. G. w. Brooks occupied very
acceptably the pulpit of the Methodist
church last Sabbath.
The movement of merino sheep
westward has been lively this week,
many of our best hocks losing choice
III embers.
-Sportsmen are laying in powder
and shot, in readiness for the open
season. cartridges and squirrels must
look sharp.
Tho report last evening that two
persons were killed by being run over
by the excursion train proves to be to-
tally erroneous.
Mr.. Charles j. Pride, of Rand g.
is in town visiting at his wife's mothers,
Mrs. III. e. Slade.
Miss Wicker's reading, Tuesday
evening, was listened to by cultivated
audience, who, we hear, received her
efforts with much pleasure.
Mr.. E. A. Pratt, of East Middle
bury, last week left at our Office some
oak twigs covered with curious looking
and handsomely colored gals. They
appear to be something new.
will Allen announces harvest ball
to be given at the Glen House, East
Middlebury, Sept. IS. AS is we'll
known, Will always has good dances,
SO far as they depend upon his own
efforts.
"A large congregation listened to
the sermon of Rev. Byron Sunderland,
ID. D., at the Congregational church
last Sabbath, and his fame as a preacher
was not belied. His sermon was a
powerful and pleasing one.
The lawn party at Mr.. w. c. Lang
worthy's, Weybridge street, last Tues
day evening was very pleasant affair
and a success financially. There were
flowers in abundance and ice cream
and cake were bountifully served.
The windows and doors of the new
Episcopal chapel are in place, and the
work of building the stone walls is pro-
crossing rapidly. The placing of the
chapel on its present site involved the
removal of the large organ TO the other
side Of the church.
The Rutland Convocation will hold
a special meeting in st. Stephens
church next week. Prominent clergy
men and laymen from elsewhere are
expected. The first service will be held
on Tuesday evening. The public are
cordially invited. All seats free.
Charles A. Mead last Wednesday
afternoon, started for Colorado to seek
for health and possibly to grow up with
the country. He will go on a sheep
trust that the genial climate may show
its reputed efficacy in restoring ~
impaired health.
The excursion TO Old Orchard
Beach, Me-, next week, advertised in
another column, will be splendid
opportunity TO have first-class excur-
sion cheap. The cost from Middlebury
will be only S11.40 for the three days,
including all necessary expenses. 1t
will, doubtless, be largely patronized.
-Cherbino e. Williamson this week
sold one of their stock rams to A. &
o. b. Taylor. of York Center, Ohio,
for five hundred dollars. They also
sold to the same parties five other rams
and four ewes. One OF these five rams
brought two hundred, and come of the
others over one hundred dollars.
The narrowness of the present
means of communication across the
creek occasionally develops little exhi-
billions of human nature, when teams
are compelled to wait for long strings
of teams to come across before they
can proceed. Sometimes, when care
less individuals stop their teams on the
bridge for few moments to talk, lit
tie profanity will creep to the surface.
"A large number from this and the
surrounding towns went to the farmers
picnic at Queen City Park yesterday.
Thirty-nine loaded cars In all passed
by here, most of them platform cars
with seats placed on them, wherein the
luckless riders got the full benefit of
the dust which rose in clouds about the
trains, and large percentage arrived
at the park with cinders in their eyes.