The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-02-10

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The many friends of Miss Carrie
Hemenwsy were surprised to hear oil
her death In Bridport, from typhoid fe.
yer on Wednesday last. Miss Hemen'
way had became we'll known during
her residence In Middlebury as an ami
able and promising young lady. She
was, we believe In attendance at the
graded school at the beginning Of the
present term.
1t Is not generally known that Ia
BILE spoons arc manufactured In this
| place, but O call at Mr.. s. Holton's will
demonstrate the fact. Mr.. Ira b,
Smith has left in Sheldon's museum O
copper spoon mould, once owned by
his great-grondfather, of Middleboro,
Mass, and supposed to be $50 years
old. 1t was brought into Vermont
about 1900. Indian pudding aud milk
would be q rare luxury now, eaten with
one of those spoons.
-Whitmore & Clark's Minstrels as
usual filled nearly every seat In AGA.
DENY Hall last Friday evening. The
performance showed no falling off from
that of their previous appearances.
Hank White was as irresistible as ever,
and the Favor brothers perhaps better
then before. The farce, ''the Irish JUS
tice," was a side-splitting affair. The
orchestra was first-class and and all the
other features proved that this favorite
company keeps up with the times.
The arrangements for the masque-
rade sheet and pillow-case and fancy
dress party to be held at Academy
Hall, Wednesday evening, February
Is, 1882, are completed and q good
time Is expected. There will be q free
carriage list at the Addison House
where those desiring to be carried to
the hall will leave their names at their
earliest convenience. There will be re-
served. seats for spectators on the stage
at an admission fee Of thirty-five ceifts,
The marriage is announced OF
James II. .Batchelder to Alfaretta
Haight, of Lincoln. B~atchelder some
time since secured q divorce in Chica.
20 from the wife whose devotion saved
him from q felon's cell, on the ground
of wilful desertion. y His relations with
the Haight girl was a matter of scan
dial at the time. She recently went
west, and the marriage has followed.
Batchelder is evidently an ungrateful
and thorough-going scoundrel, who
was wholly unworthy of the efforts
made to ave him from the consequent
ces of his crimes.
Ill luck has attended the two latest
efforts of the barn burglars whose dep
relations have been 30 unpleasantly
frequent of late. The other night they
twisted off a nice brass paddock from
George e. Barnum's barn, after drilling
into it half an inch to no purpose, but
Mr.. Barnum had unkindly carried his
buffalo robes and other valuables into
his house SO that nothing was left that
the thieves cared for. Wednesday
evening Mr.. E. w. Bird went out to
his barn and found at the door a lantern
which had been left by parties who
suddenly dit out" on his approch.
The temperance meeting on Tues.
day evening was largely attended as
usual. Rev. Mr.. Speare made a very
interesting speech, and was followed
by Mr.. A. P. Upper and w. c. Lang
worthy In appropriate remarks. Prot.
Seely gave the report of the executive
committee. Two persons, l.. H.
Stowe and u. D. Twitchell, were elect.
ed members in place of Albert Chap.
man and Deacon j. B. Benedict, who
were unable TO act upon It. A paper
was circulated for membership in the
organization, which obtsined q large
majority Of the names of those present.
HoP PoLEs.-The hop pole business
has been quite an item in this county,
during the past two seasons. Fine
cedar poles from two to three inches
In diameter at the base and from fifteen
to twenty-five feet in length, are cut
in immense numbers in the swamps In
Leicester, Salisbury and Ferrisburgh,
andt shipped to southwestern New
York for use In the immense hop fields
of that region. Some three hundred
thousand, It is estimated, were shipped
from this county last winter, and the
shipments will be but q little less this
season. 1t Is said that these cedar
poles, If well.cared for, will last and
do good service for twenty years. Y
Mr.. John L. Hammond, of Orweh,
died last Friday night at the residence
OF T. NJ. Chapman, after an illness of
four weeks. He was first taken with
rheumatism, to which he was subject,
while on q visit to his friends here,
and stopped at Mr.. Chapman's. Two
weeks later he was attacked with pneu-
monia which proved fatal. The fune-
raj occurred at Orwell on Monday af-
ternoon. o special train being provided
at Leicester Junction to take the fune-
raj party to the Orwell station. Mr..
Hammond was we'll known as o capt.
talist, and owned more than q third In
terest In the Orwell bank, the most
profitable m In the state. His age
was ifty-nine years. He leaves three
children, q o and two daughters,
Mrs. L. N. Chapman and, Miss Della
Hammond Of this place.
Fast MIMI vuYfpv