The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-07-15

: .ohnPorary coOlness. 1t has been reg
q commencement weather" sine
the season evidently being one wee
late.
Mr.. Hiram Smith, who will |
remembered as q gigantic wooden-le,
geo and y armed veteran of the WI
and a graduate of the class of III of OIL
college, was in town Wednesday, stol
ping over till the next day. He Is no,
asuccessful lawyer, located at Cameron
Missouri.
-Haying has progressed rapidly III
der the ~favoring influence of the weatl
er, and we hear of several farmers VIII
have slowed away their last load |
their barns already. 1t is gratifying {
learn that many of them have secure
a much larger crop than they anticipate
q few weeks ago.
CAMPMEETNG.-The fourth camr
meeting for the promotion of holmes
will be held at Silver Lake, near Bran
don, beginning September 6 and cor
tinuing ten DAYS. Half fare on the {
Y. r. r. Address the secretary, Rev
b. s. Taylor A. M, Silver Lake, Bran
don, Vt.
The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union having lost by death a val
ued and beloved member, Mrs. Eliza
beth ID. Rockwell, a devotional meet
Ing is called in her memory to be hell
in the vestry Of the Congregations
church next Wednesday afternoon a
three o'clock.
Gov. Stewart and party, consist
ing of his son Phil and Miss Elga, ant
Misses Addie Brainerd and Abbit
Wainwright and others, started yester.
day to camp on Diadama Island on
the lake. Prof. H;gley and Prof. Kel.
logg were also to be of the party.
They expected to meet Rev. Stuart
Phelps at their destination.
Wesley Phelps, who graduated
from the scientific course at Dartmouth
college at the last commencement, after
a short visit home, has gone to Michl-
gan, and is to engage upon a railroad
constructing from Port Huron in that
state in the capacity of civil engineer.
We wish him the best OF success
II. B. Smith & Son have reconsid-
cred their determination to give up
their lease of the Franklin House, YER
gennes, and will continue its landlords.
We hope their patronage will grow as
1t deserves. They keep a good house,
where everything is in clean and nice
have plenty of room and set an
excellent table. Those who patronize
them will not regret it.
H. H. Ross has accepted the charge
of the Vermont Episcopal Institute at
Rock Point, near Burlington. Prof.
Ross has won an enviable reputation as
principal of the Vergennes graded
and Is a man of excellent judg-
ment and knowledge of human nature,
to which his success is largely due, and
his many friends will watch with inter-
est his caree in his new and RESPONSE
bic position.
Parents having children to edu-
cate will do well to put them in Bee
nan Academy, whose advertisement
we give in another column. All
know that it is most important in Sc
Getting q school, to choose one where
he temptations to vice are the least,
md where quail flied teachers who can
rain their pupils for the duties of citi-
.ens are employed. All who are ac-
Iuainted with New Haven and the
work done in the Academy, know that
hese advantages are enjoyed by the
Students.
The Natick (Mass.) Citizen gives
! half column account of a visit to the
of Mr.. N. B. Douglas in Sher-
porn, near that place. A large num-
Der from the surrounding towns partic.
in response to invitations.
from the description given we judge
hat Mr.. Douglas has been quite success
'ul in retaining a worn out farm and
making it remarkably productive. An
interesting description of his extensive
Ind skillful dairying is given. A local
interest is given to Mr.. Douglas sue
less from the fact that he is an Addison
boy, being the son of L. B..
Douglas, of Shoreham, and nephew of
A. p. Upper, Esq, of this place.
The Keesville IN. W Republican
concerning Prof. ID. N. Bnrke's
delivered at the Fourth of
July celebration in that place:
"That the committee fully kept their
,anted nm the occasion Dan o~rat;on hv
e%ia and eIe~amt ero"ter 10 ,Ibso
,ard;nt % al, thosa ,nha haS ,ho r,aa'
os t;stan;mm 90 sho nrnf.ssnr p' "a
= oontioman ef Enc snpaeronco fonit,
ess gesture and perfect diction, and in
the history and growth of
,ur country and its prosperity, as we'll
IS commenting on and warning his
hearers against the dangers that sur
'ound our institutions, he treated our
to an address long to be re-
The Munger street school closed
ast week Monday for a vacation The
chool has had a large attendance. and
he work of the teacher. Miss Charlotte
NcOuiyey.bas been the subiect Of mncb
,ommendation from tbo nairons Altar
close of the school The scholars snr-
,rised the teacber with the off Of a