The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-11-10
VERGENNES.

-Premonitory symptoms of the holi-
days are beginning to appear III the
various store windows.
Tho streets of Vergcnnes were fill
cd with people on. Saturday giving 0
lively business air to our place.
Music, five cents per copy, can be
had at Mrs. Johnson's counter. Cata'
logues sent to any address on receipt OF
a one cent postage stamp.
Invoices of chickens from tho
rural districts are now in order and
portly turkeys, with n Thanksgiving
finish arc becoming objects of interest.
s-The Hidden Record, not Hidden
Review, as your types made me say, by
E. Blaisdcll, Esq, former editor of the
| Vermonter, is on sale at the stationery
store of Mrs. G. L. johnson, adjoining
the post office.
1t is rumored that Mr.. A. b. Tabor
is about purchasing the so-called Bee.
hive property below the Baptist church
With good care the building could be
made remuneratiye. Try it on, Arthur
"no risk, 10 win"
The sun has gone into winter
quarters with us, and we are having
ice and snow in homeopathic doses, but
sufficiently positive to justify ridging
the gardens, covering the grape vines
and banking the cellars and poorly
protected houses.
Among the most active localities
in this place are the cider mill and the
coal yards. A barrel of good sweet
cider with the bung out, and o full
sized rye straw have great attraction
for the average youth, and for some
pretty mature ones, too, to speak it as
New York officers have secured
one, and, perhaps by this time, both of
the thieves who stole G. S. Elmer's
horses in West Ferrisburgh, some
weeks since. One of the thieves is in
Jail at Pleasant Valley, N. Y, and
Washburne, the other, is in fair way
to be arrested. The thief now in limbo
agrees to make clean breast of it, and
put the officers in possession of all the
facts. Some of the stolen property has
been recovered.
"A long absent resident, recently
arriving in Vergenncs, asked with
wonder, as he gazed down Creek hill
to the bridge, If that was the old place
where he had such gay times in the win
ter days gone by? And when answered
that it was the same with new finish,
he sighed, and hoped that the boys Of
to-day could slide as fast and rs far on
the modern hill AS we did
with our swcethcarts. pretty girls,
just twenty years agoF
Mrs. Pierpoint, widow of the late
chief Justice, loft Vcrgcnncs, Wednes-
day last, with Miss Nellie f.. Pierpoint,
her daughter, for Chicago, 10 remain
until next spring. They will be the
guests of Mrs. A. w. Cobb, Mrs. Pier.
points youngest daughter. Mrs. Pier
point is universally beloved in this
community, and the absence of herself
and daughter from Vergennes will
make the coming winter seem very
long to many who have been accustom-
cd to daily meet their chearful smile
aud kindly greeting.
The loss of Mr.. Isaac Cummings
by fire, Saturday night last, was a
oS'SiS INV oohibS 40 ~ uOcs just NJ the
beginning of winter. His house and
paint shop, west side of the bridge, were
burnt to the ground. The fire broke
out about o'clock, and so infammabla
were the contents of the building that
the whole were heap of ruins in half
an hour. The firemen were promptly
on the ground, but the most they could
do was to confine the flames to the
burning building. Adjoining property
aS.dhrcatencd- but wao oevod. NJ.
in the Watertown, n. Y, Co., for ST.
800, 81 900 on house and $500 on furni-
iure. Several wagons and buggies
were on the premises, but were saved
with the exception of one buggy be-
longing TO Mr.. II. p. Satterly of Ferris
burgh. Mr.. Cummings has moved
into the house of Mr.. j. Paradee, on
the Monkton road, for the present. lie
is a good orkman, industrious and
attentive TO business, and he has the
sympathy of all in his trouble. We
hope he may receive substantial proof
of public favor.