The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-09-23


of Middlebury, TO fill the situation o
bookeeper lately vacated by MIR. Henr,
M. Bailey.
The all-engrossing theme here nj
Elsewhere is the sudden death of Prcsi
Hdcnt Garfield. On the announcement
8of the sad event Monday morning, The
church bells were tolled and their echo
carried far over the valley the intell
Hgence of the nations loss. The ole
flag that headed the Republican col
8umn in the late Presidential contest
was again flung to the breeze, but thi,
time heavily draped in black. The
Hpost office is draped with mourning
banners, externally and internally. II
III. Chapman Il Co., f. A. Bond &
HBrothcr and Brewster 81 Co. had theil
CENTRE fronts hrug with black, while
scveral other business places and some
privato residences were less conspicu
ously marked.
The sevcrcst storm of the season
visited this place yesterday afternoon
about three o'clock. For some time
the sky was so dark that lamps were
lighted in most of the business places.
The rain descended in blndidg torrents
such as arc rarely seen in this section.
converting the streets into rapid brooks
IN very few minutes. A tremendous
Hblast Of wind accompanied the onset of
the rain, which lasted less than five
minutes, but which did considerable
damage. Many trees and fences were
Hprostratcd, many limbs were broken
from the willow trees throughout the
8villagc, and loose articles lying outsidc|
Sof houses were scattered. We are cven|
Iassured that cat which was crossing
the street was seized by the tornado,
Eand in spite of her vigorous attemptsI
to anchor herself with her claws, wasI
4whirlcd along until q friendly fence en-|
aabled her to escape its grasp.
81 We learn in addition that the tcle-i
zgraph lines between here and RutlandI
awere all broken, and by the other wavI
communication was TO be had only by5
IA single wire, all the other being brok-
Zen. Also that one or moro trees fell
aacross the railroad track near the Ox-s
9bow bridge, and were removed lust inl
atimc for the afternoon mail north.
MIR. Julius Atwood, who has latelyl
i returned from a years travel abroad.
! iii Europe, Egypt aud the Holy Land,
/ gave very interesting address to the /
1pupils of the graded school, last Fri-s
3day afternoon, in which he took themE
with him in an imaginary trip through
England, Scotland, France, Belgium,
Bohemia, Italy, and Greece, visitinge
land describing the most Interestingly
scenes and places and personages.E
The whole was crowded with a wealthy
Iof historical and classical allusionsE
(which indicate not only most extern
Isive and intimate acquaintance With
lthe literature of the past and Present, Il
Iout also line appreciation of andE
sympathy with all that is best andS
most beautiful in natural scenery, inE
Iarutecture, in painting, in song and
i'm story and in the deeds of earnestk
and true men, back through the ages. s
The young ladies and gentlemen of the
high school as they listened were gladE
that they had read as much as thcyE
have, and were stimulated to rcadE
moro than ever. Friday afternoon adj
dresses in connection with the rhctori-E
cal exercises of the pupils will be aE
feature of the school during the fallE
and winter. &
day morning, between sometime be. q
fore three O'Clock and sunrise thcrcs
was brilliant meteor visible in the q
eastern sky from this place whose unu-H q
sual and unaccountable motions rcnderE
it worthy of record. II was first seenE
by Peter Donnclly, from his bed. His
attention was attracted by seeing i'll
move slowly and majestically alongk
above the horizon in the east towards
the north. lie rose and watched it, d
and saw it after time sink nearly toE
{ he horizon, thon rise in south woe
terly direction until it reached a posi-E
ton few degrees below the moon,
which was in her last quarter andH
about an hour and half high. 1t thenN
began a slow movement TO the northh
again. Mr.. DonneIlv dressed andH
came down town and found OflicerE
Clay Dickinson at his duty as nightH
Waterman, and together they got po- Il
sition where they could see it. MIR. b
Donnelly short time before fourE
O'Clock reused the editor of the Regis.E
ter and called his attention to the pho a
nomenon. The latter watched it Till itE
in the rays of the sun iustH
before sunrise. 1t presented the APP 4
pearancc of a large and magnifcentiyH
blazing white star, strongly rescm-H
bling, but larger than the planet VcnusE
at its brightest. This appearance was
a change from that when first Mr..
Donnclly saw it, as he says it was of al
fiery color with slight blush of lightE
beneath it, which, however, soon disap.H 4
pcared. There was no trail nor any-H
thing else visible outside of the bril-
liant glow. II was at this time stillE
moving TO the north until in fiftcenE
minutes it began backward move-H
mcnt to tho south, having reached itsE
greatest northern declnation at n dis n
lance which may be estimated at sixtyE
degrees from the moon. This moionS
to the south, and little TO the west. n
until il was lost in the lighiH
Of the sun. But the most cxtraordi-H
nary feature about it was slow swing-H
ing motion, sometimes horizontal andH
perpendicular, which wash
noticeable at short intervals of time. n
These oscillations were through al
space OF not more than one or two de.u
grccs. They were slow but unmistak-H
able, being remarked by several OBJ Il
.ervcrs. Through spy glass magni-H
lying between twenty and twenty-fiycH
times no features beyond a blazingA
globe were visible. Altogether it was al
strangely acting meteor. 1t couldu
hardly have been outside of the almost
phcre, as in that case its motion. NOT be u
ling in continuous straight line orb
curve, would be utterly unaccountable. IN
1t was probably floating in the currentsH
|of the air, as its irregular motions sug-E
lgested. But its light is hard TO OK
plain. IL surpassed by many tifhcsB
that OF any star or planet visible. andA
its peculiar white luster could only bek
to that of an enormous clec-E