The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1882-01-27
Local News.
thaw continues.

The thaw continues.
The sleighing has vanished.
The mills have been badly bother
ed by anchor ice this week.
The ice taken from the creek IL
eight inches thick and OF good quality,
cd. Miner starts to-day for Oh X
to dispose of his newly purchased 10
Of sheep.
-Profs. s. Berg and N. Marks, op
ticians, are registered at the Add 1901
House. They have notice in ant'the
column.
The icemcn and tho farmers Wit
yearn after solid GOODNESS for use, mex
summer are beginning to have hope
of securing supply.
H. G.. Ellis, who with his wife CONF
to Middlebury with the rem aims o
Miss Leuise Langworthy, will remain
in town for few weeks.
AT the session of the supreme court
this week, Jas. Il. Stapleton was, on mo-
ton of j. M. Slade, admitted to practice
In the supreme court in this state.
The W. c. T. U. mission will
meet to sew in tho Styles Block next
Thursday afternoon. The ladies are
invited to bring refreshments and
break bread together.
The Baptist society have purchas-
ed the Goodrich place on Seminary
street Rs q parsonage. Consideration
&25O0. Their pastor is to be congratu-
lated, as 1t is place just adapted for a
home. .ar- 4larfI
The w. c. 7. U. Mission had a
sewing circle ct T. M. Chapman &c
Co.'s. New Sewing Machine rooms in
Styles Block yesterday afternoon, by
Invitation of Mr.. Chapman, who has
given them standing invitation to do
%. and generously gives them the use
Of the sewing machines, and warns
the room for them. 1t is worthy
act, aud the ladies appreciate it. ...
Prof. Churchills reading on
Wednesday evening, drew very
good-sized audience. That it was a
most delightful entertainment all pres
eat could testify. The selections were
mostly of humorous character, in
WuACu mr. OuuLCulii ecCulo tCTy
1t home, and his rendering Of the diff
very happy, provoking frequent ap-
Dickens, Bret Harte, Edward Eggle-
con, Longfellow and others, and en-
braced All ample variety.
In speaking Of the sheep purchases
last week we were in ignorance that II.
w. Gentry and A. Leonard were pur-
chasing together. 1t seems that the
two above named and d. W. McQuitty
of Rocheport, and Samuel Jewett of
Independence, NO., have together pur-
ched about five hundred sheep, and
have since been waiting for cars to ship
them In. While waiting we learn
that they have continued picking up
more sheep. They are all from the
same section of Missouri, where the
f1ne wool sheep business is compare
uvely now industry.
"A decided change in the weather
began Wednesday afternoon, the tenn
perature undertaking rapidly. Snow
fell fast about ten O'Clock in the eve-
ming, adding about two inches to that
already on the ground. Yesterday
morning tho temperature was above
freezing and at noon it was ten de-
grees above the freezing point. In
fact, the january thaw" had set in,
having apparently delayed its appear
snce until there was something frozen.
Stone and brick walls, which are slow
to respond TO changes of temperature,
showed the Geld they had been sub.
jected to by condensing and freezing
on their surface the moisture of the
air, and were covered with a beauti-
full frosty fur.
-Ybe temperature ofTuesdav was the
spbiact of tall whsrever q rad. hot
stoye couId he found tn cluster aronnS
Thermometers In This VILLAGE showed
twantv-four and twenty. va he,ow 1ero
A. sir o,cloct in the morning Int re,
norts bronght in nv ontsi3ers ware
mach ,sroer' A thermometer A. Pin.
ton Hollow was said IN have stood 81
tbirfv-three beIow. while n Rr;dnort
~.sn ssid that ~ ors n,ac. n H. ,ew,,
IL was thirty.fiye bel NV. Certainiv No
colder dsv hos hean .xner;sncaa IN
many years. Monday and Wednesday
were also very cold, and particularly
disagreeable an account Of the wind
which prevailed.
Elsewhere In the state extreme cold
was universal, two or three places re.
porting thirty-eight below, which ID
within two degrees of the freezing
point of mercury. We believe this
temperature has rarely IL ever beer
reached In Vermont before.
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