The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-10-12

was lOunu uedl III ullc SJaDle, Neu-
nesday morning.
The excursions to New York and Bos-
ton, Monday and Tuesday, were well
patronizcd, 60 persons going to the for
mer city and lG to the latter.
Dispatches received in Rutland an
nounce the safe arrival in Paris of Mrs.
w. G. Clement and party. of whom Miss
A. f. Hammond of this place is one.
There was change of time on the
railroad, Monday. The timetable at the
head of this column shows the time of
trains at this station under the new
arrangement.
Mr.. Snyder and wife of Washington,
ID. c., are at the Addison House, the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Rider. Mrs. Sny
der is a daughter of Gen. John Hammond
of Crown Point.
Charles Speyer, who had been sick II
long time with typhoid fever, died on
Monday evening at his fathers house on
Green street. He was about l6 years of
age. The funeral was attended ycster-
day. the burial taking place in Bridport,
where the family formerly lived.
The controversy over the right of way
to the new Catholic cemetery has result
ed in action by the village trustees.
At their meeting, Saturday evening, they
decided to lay out road. 1t will go
from the Bridport road, through the
premises of MIR. 5. II. Bolton, to the GEM
etery.
Mr.. M. b. Williams on has become the
owner of 3, 200-acre ranch situated near
Colorado city, Colorado. 1t was pur-
chased by Mr.. j. b. Cherbino during his
recent trip to the Southwest. 1t is now
stocked with $500 grade sheep, Mr..
Williamson shipped thither, yesterday,
so one and twO-year-old Merino rams.
The run of ''hares and hounds" taken
by the students. last Friday, in place of
the college hunt, proved interesting. The
run was of II miles, doubling the Storr
place i'm Cornwall. Messrs. Ellsworth
and Barton were the hares and there were
If hounds. In the evening the partici-
pants had supper at the Pierce House.
The Baptist church, which has been
without pastor since the resignation of
Rev. Charles Ilibbard, in June last. has
engaged the services of Rev. a. ID. E. f.
Palmer, late of North Berwick, Me. Nr.
Palmer will enter upon the duties of his
pastorate on Sunday with service at l0:-
40 a. M. prayer and conference meetings
on Sunday and Thursday evenings at I
O'Clock.
Mr.. Charles Landers of Bridport was
the victim of e runaway. Wednesday af-
ternoon. His horses backed out from
Stoves mill shed, where they were
hitched, and ran into the lamp-post at Sar-
gents corner. throwing out the grst and
a trunk and smashing one of the wheels.
They then started across the bridge, but
came in collision with Rob Steele's
wagon before they had gone far and were
stopped. Mr.. Lander's wagon was bad
ly demoraliZed
There was sad and very sudden
death, Wednesday evening, in the family
of Mr.. j. II. Kingsley. His daughter Eva,
aged about Is years had been ill for sew
eral days with a slow fever, but was not
seriously affected. Wednesday evening
>he was much better. When some one
rang the door-bell. she started to rise,
and fell back, dead. Heart disease is
supposed to have been the cause. The
afflicted parents have the sympathy of
all in their bereavement. =
There is good deal doing in the pota-
toe and hay trade just now. Mr.. a. X.
Carr has bought on an average 500 BUSH
els of potatoes Il day, all this week. pay
ing - cents. Contrary to expectations
and reports, Il large amount of those cdi-
bles was grown in the county this season.
In some cases the yield was eXtrlordin-
AIRY. Mr.. j. p. Douglas is busy pressing
hay at his barn near the freight depot.
lie finds a ready market for all that he
can furnish, but farmers are occupied
with other work and do not like to draw
their hay now. The price paid is 80 ton.
At noon of Sunday last the standard
time of the Central, Southern and Rut-
land divisions of the Central Vermont
road was set back twelve minutes to cor
respond with the eastern or sevcnty-fifth
meridian time, adopted by railroads east
OF Buffalo. The Central Vermont line.
extending from st. Johns, Canada. to
Long Island sound, has heretofore been
run on New London time, which is -four
minutes slower than Boston time, and
connecting roads between these points
have formerly used six different stand
ards of time. The new time is siXteeI
minutes slower than Boston time, and
four minutes slower than New York
The railways of the country purpose to
adopt four standards of time--the 75tl
meridian Chat used by the eastern roads,
Tic JUL lncTlulal, lne lUoln anu t1t
10th. AT present the railroads are rur
on fifty-three different standard times
forty-nine of which will be dispensed
with by the plan proposed. Would il
not be well if the college, the high schoo
and the town clock were run by the
standard time ? There has hitherto beer
a wide divergence, causing seemingly
unnecessary confusion.
Mr.. L. G.. Farnham of Shoreham ship
ped thirteen rams from this STATEN, yes
terday, to Henry Burns, San Antonio
Texas. They were all sired by jay
Could" a pure-blood French Merino
and their dams were ewes recorded
in the register of the Vernon
Merino Sheep-Breeders' association
Their average weight, yesterday
eighteen hours after they left home
was one hundred and forty-five pounds
On the twenty-third of this month the,
will average seventeen months old. The,
are large, strong-built animals, will
good tleeces. Except in the point o
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