The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-05
YERGENNE.S.

Mr.. Lewis Geror, aged so years,
died Sunday night last, ana was buried
Tuesday.
Oats, rye, and wheat never did
better than this season. 1t will be tru-
ly n harvest year.
Fort Cassin House, with h. Gillett
for manager, is entertaining goodly
number of pleasure seekers.
Mr.. NJ. W. Spooner, clothing mcr-
chant, who has been spending some five
weeks in Montreal, has returned.
The Lily makes her daily trips
across the lake, while the little Gazelle
is in constant demand for private par
ties for day or more.
The breathing time for the hard
working farmers is nigh at hand, when
there will be check up long enough 10
let the boys go fishing without danger
of that hay getting wet.
"A not very successful attempt at
the sale of buggies and phaetons was
made Saturday by the agent of Mcssrs.
Emerson, Fisher 81 Co., of Cincinnati.
Those disposed of were sold cheap.
Our market is well stocked with
green vegetables, aud generally in good
condition. We have two markets, viz:
that of the Forth boys, aud The other
by T.. G.. Scott-both are well patron
lied.
This is the season for enjoyment TO
all who can find opportunity to leave
the cares of business and seek the lake
shore, the shady grove or the camping
ground. Great numbers are indulging
in picnics, mountain trips, fishing, &c.
Grand View Mountain is well pat
ronized this season. Basin lIarbor
homestead, NJ. w. Winans, proprietor,
is doing fine business this summer.
He would be crowded il his house
could accommodate twice the num-
Der.
The festival in the park, Tuesday
evening, by the ladies' of st. Panl's
church was a decided success. First
rate music was furnished by The Yer
genncs band. The park looked very
attractive, and the receipts were be-
tween $50 and $50.
-Chas. w. Buckley, who is con.
nected with the foreign department of
the New York post office, has been
l..
just returned to his post of duty again. |
Charlie is jewel in the post-oflicc, and
true as steel. The best proof of this is
the fact that he has been ten years at
the same post under Postmaster James,
now Postmaster General.
We sec that samples of polished
stone from the quarry of the Champlain
Granite and Marble Co. are called for
by various parties interested in valua-
bic marble and granite. A piece with
one side polished and weighing nearly
three pounds was recently forwarded
TO Kansas City for inspection by inter
ested parties. The company can fur
nish oven better article than the sam
pie sent.
We have n curious sample of hui
mainly in this place, a transient, whose
ostensible business is to sell cement, |
but she is personally adhesive, ana |
while changing around" if opporluni-
ty offers, will appropriate any availia-
bic article. One dealer made her pay |
for stolen articles. She purposes to find |
the lady of the house alone, and then |
gets her out Of the room on some ex-
cuse, to favor her thieving propcnsities.
Look out for her.
We remark constant demand for
the machine.made brick from the yard |
of Mr.. John Banyea, not far below
Vergennes on the bank of Otter Creek.
The machine brick sent ont ofthis ward
are not surpassed by any brick made in
the state, either for hardness, beauty or
durability. Some of the finest manu-
70 n nrinc in fha lal-a