The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-01-21

49, 1zzlsn ezEzzn1llgzIlEln
attracted TO bin by many pleasing
traits. lie was good boy aud good
: man, gentleman in language and
demeanor, genial and unassuming In
disposition, kind hearted and obliging,
aud always ready to do favor. MAY
he rest in peace.
There has been considerable dissatis.
faction among the French hands recent
ly engaged by tho proprietors of the
cotton mill. So far as we can learn.
they agree in saying that they were en-.
gagged on the understanding by them
that they were to be employed at weav-
Ing, at from one dollar to q dollar and
a quarter day for the older hands, aud
seventy-flve cents for the younger.
When brought here they were put to
work that they were unfamiliar with.
and received wages insufficient TO live
upon. A number Of them, who last
year had been at work in Chicopee
Mass, wrote down and secured situa-
tons there, and gave notice of their in
tention to leave The mill here. But OH
quitting the mill here they had no
means 10 get to- Chicopec, and mott fed
the parties there of their G ,nditiOn,
They waited two or three days for ex-
pected assistance to arrive 10 enable
them to go, aud meanwhile were desti-
tutc OF food. They applied to Mfr.
Comstock, Overscer of The poor, for
for assistance, who, finding them
able-bodicd, very properly required
that they should work to pay for their
keeping. The cotton mill folks agree
ing with him TO allow them to work
for their board. Thursday MIR. James
Gilbert, boarding house keeper in
Chicopee, who had arrived to take TIE
people TO that place, was arrested on d
body writ, charging him with unlaw-
ully enticing away the servants of the
otlon mill owners, and placed in Jail,
fter>he had purchased tickets for the
! tx persons whom he was to take with
h i'm. The latter, after being given a
supper at the Jail BY the charity of Mr..
Darwin Rider and Mr.. Cobb, went
away on the evening train. This morn
ing Mr.. Gilbert was about the streets
under Mr.. CObb's charge trying to get
bail. He Is an intelligent Frenchman,
and told some pretty hard stories con-
corning the treatment and condition of
the hands here, but n little ipvestiga-
ton of some of them showed that he
had been partly misnformed. He
claims that all the hands he had en-
gagged had served out their notice to
quit and been discharged, and he had
right to help them to Chicopee. He
threatens a suit for damages against
the proprietors of the cotton mill for his
detention. A call upon Mr.. Ashley at
the cotton mill brought forth curt
| g., aa1 Ia.
ter, except to deny the truth of the
statements of the hands as to the terms
on which they had been engaged. The
French people seem to be very re-
spectacle aud intelligent lot, several of
them being able TO read and write.
They claim to have worked in mills In
Massac lusetts, and to know when they
are decently treated. 1t is difficult to
learn with certainty the whole truth of
some of the statements inside. We
have little doubt, however, that the
managers of the cotton mill do as they
agree by their help. 1t is not TO be
expected that everything will go salts
factorily with lot of green hands
in such business. We do not hear of
dissatisfaction on the part of older en-
ployes, aud perhaps great part of the
eagerness of the new French hands to
leave pay arise from a desire to get to
aplace where they had friends and were
better acquainted with the work
An unique entertainment is prom
ised the people of Middlebury for next
week Saturday evening. in the appear
ance of company of Hindoo jugglers |
in connection with lecture upon ORR |
entail India, to be illustrated by stereop-
ticOn views. The company have receiv-
ed the greatest favor wherever they
have appeared, and the press notices
of them are first-class. Suitable an
nouncements will be made TO our citi-
zens. Tho sale of tickets will begin
Monday next at l.. Hanaford's drug
store. We condense the following no.
tice of this company from the Boston
Journal of Dec. 2 last.
A few weeks ago bit of Palestine
was set down In Boston in the form of
a unique exhibition by troupe of
Arabs. Last night further insight
into Eastern travel, life, customs and
amusements was given at fremont
Temple, in an entertainment of the BIZ
bic Union Course, by company of re-
Gently arrived Hindoos. The party is
under the charge and direction of Mr..
Harry w. French, and forms an adjunct
to his illustrated lecture on his travels
in India. The lecturer proceeded to
describe Bombay and its surroundings,
and large number of very beautiful
views were thrown upon tho screen.
After an intermission, in which an ex-
hibition was given in Hindoo Juggling,
the lecturer continued with ali interest
ing account, fully illustrated with col
ored stereopticon views, as in the first
instance, of journey among tho lofty
lIimalayas. AT the end of the lecture
there was another exhibition by the
jugglers. In addition to an arstocratic-
looking Hindoo gentleman, Esoofally |
Hiptolla, who accompanies Mr.. French,
and who was seated upon the platform,
and exercised a sort of general charge |
over the Ilindoo part of the entertain.
ment, there were four performers. The |
Juggling tricks were, in some cases, |
familiar, at least in kind, but some of
them were quite remarkable. The |
growing of o plant or tree on the stage |
was one of tie achievements which has
been done by several American and
European performers. The famous
basket trick was the most mysterious.
A boy was tied, hands, feet, and neck
next placed within net, and finally
placed In basket. The net afterward
appeared ontside, and after the basket
had been tied up, sword was thrust
through the top and IN all directions.
After this had been done tho package
was unloosed, and the boy came forth
entirely free and uniformed. Dressed
in female costume the boy gave an ex-
hibition of dancing, some of the other
natives furnishing the mnsic- with voice
and with peculiar sort of drum. An
other instrument introduced was pipe.
The lecture and accompanying exhibit
ton interested large audience.