The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-04-23


Every member of the Good Tenn
plars is requested 10 be at Lodge to-
morrow evening, as business of impor-
lance will come before the meeting.
The Baptist Ladies' Aid Society
will meet with Miss l.. II. Comstock on
Tuesday afternoon next, at two O'Clock.
All are cordially invited, gentlemen to
tea. Admission ten cents.
The new instructor in Latin, Prof.
Bush, met his classes for the first time
yesterday. The boys talked of giving
him an "'initiation," whence we con-
clude that he was favorably received.
Geo. Marshall has bought of Ed
| Richardson his house north of Mrs. W.
w. Thomas, and has moved into IL.
Will Pinney, who has occupied the
house, has moved into the place vacated
by MIR. Marshall.
AT the book sale in Dyer's block
You can get lots of good books ut your
| own prices. The auctioneers are cour-
teous, and you will not fail of being
pleased after a visit. We are sorry
that they are going to make a short stop.
DIR. Plumley returned from his
winter %sojourn last week. He finds it
about as cold weather here as he has
about the same, but we hope our pre-
dicted warm summer will enable him
to attend to business.
AT the book auction last evening a
valuable work was put up by the pro-
prietors to be voted to the best looking
gentleman present. Frank June, Of the
college, bore of the prize, and the fame
attendant thereupon, which W. trust will
be borne by him with christian humility.
Letters remaining in the post office
one month and not called for. Gents
James Clark, Dennis Bradley, Wallace
Sumner, Charles Duchin, &. w. Fay,
Jerry Brosscau, Hiram w. Wicker, &.
N. Willard. Ladics--Mrs. Sarah Powell,
Mrs. Minnie Brown, Miss Anna
Sprague, Hannah l.. Clark, Addic L.
Hall.
Will. Allen gives a "May-Day
dance, on the evening of April 80, which
will be the last of the series he has been
giving this winter. These dances have
been very pleasant affairs, and credita-
BILE to Mr.. Allen, and we have little
doubt that those fond of dancing will be
out in force on this occasion.
Last Monday, John Halnon's team,
which was hitched opposite the post
office, was frightened by some boys
who were playing ball in the street,
and the "nigh boss" pulled its headstall
off AMI they started for home. They
brought up against a single team stand
ing in front of McLeod's block and
were stopped, without having done or
suffered any damage. There was con-
siderable excitement for q few minutes.
The book sales by Mossrs. Dayton
& Knox have been largely attended,
and have added materially to the num-
Der of books owned in Middlcbury.
The sales have been conducted strictly |
according TO announcements, and every
body appears to be satisfied with the
bargains made. They arc pleasant gen.
tlemen to deal with, and we trust they |
will be satisfied with the result of their
experiment in coming to a place so
small as this.
An edifying spectacle upon the
bridge last Sunday evening was a
horse lying down. too tired TO stand up,
and IFS owner persuasively hauling it
with a heavy club to induce it TO ac-
company him on his way home. 1t
vas doubtless amusing TO the man,
while the spectators had a vivid real
cation of the fact that there can be a
more complete and utter brute than an
exhausted horse. II does not speak
well for the %bystandcrs that the brute
1--WE do not mean the horse) was not
complained of.
The W. G. T. U. met on the after
noon of Wednesday last att he hospiteble
house of Mrs. w. c. Langworthy. The
president, Mrs. Il. A. Sturtcvant in the
chair. The meeting was opened by pray
err. After the usual reports were read
and adopted, arrangements were made
for the annual meeting, which occurs
May 10, when there will be a devotion
al meeting and social reunion in the af-
ternOon, and n childrens' meeting i'm the
evening. After tea an hour was pleas
antly spent by the ladies and gentlemen
upon the subject selected at the last
meeting. This is the last parlor meet
ing for the year.
Mr.. Joseph Battell shows that his
public spirit is as lively as ever by the
work he is doing in setting out young
trees along the streets. Ont of several
hundred trees set out by him in previ-
GUS seasons fifty-five have died. These
have deem replaced, and, in addition he
is setting out trees on Seminary street
which will be continued as far as E. j.
Matthew'S place. We believe that to
Mr.. Battell more than to any other one
man is due the great improvements
made in our streets during recent years,
a large part of the expense of which, as
in the setting out of these trees, has
come out of his own pocket. Middle
bury is fortunate in possessing a citizen
combining the means and dispositionof
Mr.. Battell. ~
1.-The death of Mrs. Mary b. Shear,
err, of Huntington, w. Va, will be no
ticed among our obituary list. She was
a sister of. Dea. Geo. l.. Porter of this
place. She spent most of her giIlhood