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

The lake crossing at Chimney Point
Is still good for terms.
Work has commenced on the new
buildings at the state school. IS.
Fred. E. Scovel is creating quite a
sensation with the "Little JOKER
clothes washer. He is the agent for
Vergennes.
The Baptists held q sociable at the
residence of Mr.. j. Garfield Hindee,
Friday evening. 1t was very pleas-
ant occasion.
After fifteen years of faithful SER
vice, o family horse belonging to
Messrs. G. T. q g. o. Stevens, died
with the harness ON at the railroad sta
ton, Monday afternoon.
We had narrow escape from an
ugly fire, Monday afternoon. A barn
belonging to VIM. E. Greene, ESQ.,, on
Elbow street, caught fire from some UNI
known cause and was burned with its
contents. In the barn were Is tons of
hay, quantity of pine lumber, 3 plat
form scales, carriagev sleds, etc., one
Jersey bull and three cows. Total loss,
500, insurance, $3.50 on barn and $3.50
on produce and stock. The barn was In
immediate vicinity to several dwellings,
but the firemen fought the fire nobly
and confined 1t to the barn.
Father Patrick Cunningham of the
Catholic church, Vergennes, over which
he has been established since May, 1866,
took fare we'll of his parish and people on
ted 10 the charge of the large church and
school In Brattleb0ro. He will be sue
ceeded by his former assistant, Father
Kerlideau of Newport, who will reside
In Vergennes. 1t is greatly desired
that Father Cunningham shonld con-
tinue to reside In Middlebury and have
charge OF the parish there and in Bristol.
He has many warm personal friends
among all classes. He founed the
church here without building and be
leaves them with large and handsome
place of worship. itH .1rH r.
Your humble correspondent has had
the misfortune to fall under the extin-
gushing criticism of the village journ-
al. We modestly hiated that the grad
cd school building needed better VEN
tilation. We are told by the critic that
we have ''just discovered" the existence
of this "want of ventilation" The
man who told him what to write
should have prompted him differently.
We were among those who labored for
the purchase of the ground on which the
graded school buildings stands, and
know about the structure itself. But the
writer of the article taking us to task
for complaining of the injurious effect
of the unventilated rooms, voluntarily
puts himself upon, the witness stand
and says in the first five lines of his ar
ticle on the negative of the question,
that we are right, aud that the fact of
poor ventilation Is we'll known to ell
connected with the school. That is our
side Of the question, but we are pleased
10 know that while he fights our article
he admits its truth. If the writer
would inform himself, he would learn
that our statement Is equally true, viz:
that teachers and scholars have suffered
more this winter from the bad air in
some of the rooms than heretofore.
"Ilet the matter be ventilated, but let
it be done at home" says our journal.
We say amen, to that. But just give
us home journal. The advice comes
with bad grace from q paper In the
same number of which are local articles
taken from Massachusetts, Rutland and
Burlington papers Of days and weeks
before. One gentleman on reading the
"ventilation" article said he thanked us
that we had been unwittingly instru.
mental In producing an article on
local matters IN the editorial columns
of our home paper; a circumstance &C
rare as TO attract general remark.