The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-04-08

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There was an elegant basket o
| flowers Intended for Mr.. Ross, Tuesday
evening, which was overlooked by thu
stupidity of one Of the ushers.
THE Burlington Clipper says thai
Middlebury has the best water power
and the least enterprise Of any d, wn In
Vermont. If the Clipper ma was no
quaihted with the Mi,ldlsbury Of If
teen years ago, as well as with, the
place to-day, perhaps he might be in
duced 10 cease his senscless stuff abou,
Middlebury.
The Junior Exhibition took plact
at Academy hall, Tuesday evening
The programme is as follows.
| Music overture, "Lebenslust," I.ataun.
Scientific Grafton The Sciences and the Clas
sizes. Frank Brown. Cornwall
OrationoModern oratory, II. M. buchanan
Grafton Gladstone and Disraei. Parallel. J
e. Buttolph, Middebury.
Oration-spelling Reform, II. E. Howard, Con
-Piccoiolsolo. "La tiazoulleuse."' N. Bos
Classical oration--Atbcn MAN oratory, j. d
hutchinson, Antrim. n. truf Il .sflL ta-
Oration-Self. Consciousness In Society, G. G
Leayenworth, RanuOlph. Hi
Oration-Danton and the Revolution, g. N.
Pollard, Ludlow.
*Oration-"C thou art Jewel" C.
ID: Piilsbury. Mlddlebury.
Musc--Swedish Wedding March, A. Soderman.
Historical Oration-Methods of Historical Wri
ting. J: c, Miller. Hartlend.
Oration-seward's Folly. ii. p Powers, sutner-
land Falls.
Oration-The True Hero, $. J. Preston, Walt.
ham.
,.oration-lIreland; her Needs and Future, +. A.
Music-Cornet Solo, Polka, Levey.
Literary Conference.-The Legal Profession, e.
Colloquii Persona Judge Tompson, S. J. Pres.
ton; Jack (his sony. J. Il. Buttolph; Charley (his
nephew, G. ID. Ross; solomon Raihbone IA CLIENT,
Music-Piraies Of Peuzance waltzes, L. N. Cat
lin.
Excused.
We have not space for an extended
notice of the orations which were fully
up to the average and reflect credit on
the gentlemen of the class. The music
was furnished by the Howard Opera
House Orchestra, and was very good.
The hall was well filed with an atten-
tive audience aud the exhibition of
1899" can Justly be called a complete
success. President Hamlin presided,
Introducing the speakers in very hap
Ply manner.
The absent family, numbering elev-
en- person, who were among the impor-
tations made by the cotton mill compa-
ny from Canada last fall, had become a
town charge by reason of the inability
OF its members TO earn their living.
Last Saturday morning they were ship
ed back to where they came from, at
considerable expense, one half of which
was furnished by the oyerseer of the
poor, and the balance BY Gov.
Steward, Philip and Joseph Battell and
Rev. p. Cunningham and a few others,
by subscriptions. We are desired 10
make mention of the share taken by
these men ,as their liberality relieved the
bothered neighbors of the family from
an undesirable proximity, and the town
from what promised to be c0nsidera-
BILE expense. 91c iF
THE MEETING OF Town SUPERINTEN.
DENTs.-The meeting on last Tuesday
was larger than usual, seventeen out of
the twenty-three towns of the county
being represented. T.. Broolins of
Shoreham, was elected chairman and
Ezra Brainerd, of Middlebury, secre-
tary. The days fixed upon for the
public examination of teachers were:
Thursday, April 81, and Wednes-
day, November 20. The examining
board for the county were elected by
ballot as follows: #. Brookins, of
Shoreham, G. ID. Mead, Middlebury,
II. Ii. Ross, Vergennes. This board,
when properly applied 10, can grant
licenses to teach In the common schools
of the county for five years. The con-
vention was divided into fonr commit
tees 10 prepare questions for the written
examinations of the year, as follows:
On Arithmetic George A. Kimball,
Orwell, Z. r. Smith, Addison, F. K,
Sears, Panton, c. +. Kingsley, Sails
bury.
On Geography-Miss l.. ii. Hitch
cock, Leicester, Miss Anne Huntley,
Bridport, l.. w. Peet, Cornwall, &. E.
Child, Weybridge, Alison McQuivey,
Ripton.
On Grammar Brainerd, Mid
dlebury, S. B. M. Cowles, New Haven,
G. p. Collins, Ferrlsburg, T. Brookins,
Shoreham.
On History aud Civil Government
R.!H. Mardin, Bristol, w. s. Wright,
Waltham, L. f. Ferguson, Starksboro,
M. j. Stearns, Lincoln.
After recess oftwo hours, the re-
ports of the several committees were
acted upon, and the convention ad-
joured. EZRA BRAINERD, Sec.
cold Alexander" who has for SO
many years been character on our
streets, died at the town farm on Friday
last. His was singular and sad his
tory. His name was Francis William
Alexander. Ho was a native of the
Highlands of Scotland. When q child
his parents removed TO the north of Ire
land. His father was man of means
and young Alexander evidently had the
best of advantages. lie fitted for and
afterward entered the University OF
Dublin, and was probably diligent
student, as he showed to his last year &
familiarity with classic literature and
Acquaintance with higher mathematics
Why he came to this country is not cer-
tainly known, but 1t Is said that some
crime committed by him obliged him to
fly to avoid transportation to Australia
as q convict. lie has lived in Cornwall
and Middlebury for many years, vary.
ing his existence by occasionally going
upon tramp, he probably travelled In
the different states quite extensively
supporting himself In the manner usua
TO tramps, and occasionally working as
mason, at which trade he was quite
expert. He was always quarelsome
profane and foul-laDguaged man, ant
his appearance was source ofterror L
women and children. II Is said that b,
was married in the old country, and hi
married the second time In Cornwall
many years ago, but his wife left hin
after having borne him four children
who have all died. Until within few
years he annually received a sum 0
money from the old country, the amour