The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-08-12
Local News.

MIR. Henry >. FOOte an0 WIG, o
Brooklyn, are at his fathers, Mr.. M. q
Foote.
Rev. G. W. Brooks occupied thu
pulpit of the Congregational church las
Sabbath.
Col. A. S. Tracy is travelling aboul
the county selling a convenient prun
ing machine.
intending to take a trip to Lake George
where he will make a stay of some
time.
President Hamlin's inaugural adj
dress has been printed in pamphlet
form. Every alumnus should have 6
copy.
Geo. Wales, whose injured hand
was amputated last week, is getting
along well, and bears his misfortune
bravely.
The types last week made us say
that Rufus Wainwright and family
were in Mortified, Mass. 1t should
have read Marshfield.
MIR. Chas. ID. Lane found it a pref
ty fair season for oats. lie has threshed
out nine hundred bushels as the pro-
uuCc OF 1OurtccH dCTcS.
Rev. Prof. j. f. Hyde, of Chicago,
is visiting here, having arrived on
Tuesday of last week. His many friends
are glad to see him as usual.
Mrs. T. B. Stewart ofNew York,
Mrs. Lewis Smith of Kansas, and Mrs.
Chas. Andrews of Beverly, Mass, are
visiting their sister, Mrs. M. A. Munroe.
The persevering Vennor says we
are to be nearly frozen next week. Get
your thinnest summer clothes in readi-
ness, and arrange for q double supply
of ice.
We would call attention to an adj
vertisement of ellison 81 Woodfin in
another column, which offers a chance
OF employment to those who may be
in want of it.
The will of the late John O'Con-
nor leaves all his property to his wife,
and makes his children residuary lega-
tees. Martin O'Conner will manage the
business of the bakery.
The Cutter Marble Co. announce
that after August 1 they will furnish
and letter any design of monuments
and headstones required, TO patrons in
this vicinity.
Isaac Laventure is so as to be ont
on the streets. Stephen Munroe, his
his companion in his fall, has so far
recovered that he was taken to his
home in Bristol a few days since.
We announced in our previous Is
sue that Rev. DR.. Weber was to
preach at the Congregational church
last Sunday. After searching investi-
CATION we have become convinced that
it was a typographical error.
The w. G. II. U. will hold its regular
meeting for August at the residence of
Clinton Smith, next Wednesday after
noon, at 8 O'Clock. Ladies not men,
bers of the society and temperance gen.
tlemen are invited to supper at G.
According to the most reliable as
Economical authority, if the coming
comet strikes the earth we shall enjoy
a temperature of 10000 degrees Fab
renheit,. i'm the shade. Thunder! we are
going to lay in a linen buster and hall
a dozen palm-leaf fans.
AN enquirer" asks: "If a two
wheeled vehicle is a bicycle and a three
wheeled one a tricycle., what would you
call a one-wheeled vchicle?' Out this
way we wonld call it a w~heclbarrow,
You can, however, call it an icielc if
you want to badly.
"A good sized thunder-shower end.
ed the hot spell last Saturday evening,
since which time it has been quite cool
1t rained nearly all Saturday night
and continued doing so heavily unit
Sunday morning. 1t was the larges
rainfall of the season.
Monday evening as DR.. w. III
Kingsley, Horace Parker, and anothe
gentleman, were driving down Conr
street, a wheel came of from the bug
gy, throwing them all out. Mr.. Kings
ley received a badly sprained ankle ant
a bruised elbow, and went on crutche
for two or three days. The others wer
not hurt.
"A new counterfeit of the silve
dollar has been detected. Experts sa,
it Is the most perfect ever made. i
is silver plated to resist the action O
acids, is of good weight, 95 per cent o
genuine, and has a good coin ring. /
so nearly resembles the genuine coin
that not one in a hundred will be abb,
to detect it in ordinary trade.
j. l.. Barton is now in Peoria, Ill.
which he says is a city of 5000 inhabl
tants, with dust and heat enough TO
50, 700, 900, and makes more fermente
liquors and internal machines than an
one state in the Union. Mr. Barto
will stop there for the present. thong
we presume it is neither the fermente,
liquor nor internal machines which al
tract him.
Last Friday respectable thermom
eters indicated 81 degrees in the shade
Some reckless instruments went abov
100 degrees. Meanwhile everybod
was willing to swear that it was hottie
than blaZes. Paper collars Just willie
right down, boiled shirts lasted no tim
at all, and the prejudice which make
clothing a necessity was deplored b
all. The cold wave of Saturday even
ing restored things to a living basil
however.
Last Friday afternoon a keroscn
stove used to heat glue in Geo. PHI
ney's shop, at Brewster's IL Co.'s, @,
ploded while Mr.. Pinney wa out, an
the burning fluid began to spread Ii
flames on the workbench and anon
the shavings on the fooi. ConsiderabI
alarm was caused, but by the energet
exertions of MI. Pinney, who WI
quickly on hand, and the use of a fe'
pals of water, the fire was exit
guished without doing material dan
age. Mr.. Pinney had both hant
burned, one quite severely.
Last Monday l.. G. Mawson bega
selling out his stock and furniture b
auction, w. G. Langworthy acting
~auctioncer. The sale continued fl
two or three days. Mr.. Mawson d
cided to close out, having, as he O.
planned, Inducements TO go elsewher
lie succeeded in etiecting q pretty cles