Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-03-26

ana SkeensDOrO (Nhltehal) was muir
dered. He was "A pedler. There was
school-house on the site of the present
town hall, or near there, in 1894. No
teachers name is on record.
Cattle shipments from this station
Monday, by Wheeler & Sprigg, were as
follows: fourteen cows and calves, eight
veal calves, four oxen, one bull. One
yoke of oxen, bought of Wash. Ward of
New Haven, weighed 1924 lbs. one yoke
from the Miss Challiers, New Haven,
weighed 1925 pounds; one bull from
same farm weighed 1880 lbs. All for
Boston market.
The prudential committee of the grad
ed school have issued their annual report
by which it appears that teachers sala-
ries amounted to S2S3l. Total expenses,
S43l .66. Estimated expenses for the
year ensuing, 81, 1867: estimated assets,
S9l 90. In view of which showing. the
committee recommend the levying of a
tax sufficient to raise $1,000.
Miss Ellen Taboo. who has been an in
mate of the Mary Fletcher hospital, Bur-
lington, and who had limb amputated
on account of a white swelling, is again
suffering from the appearance of the dis
ease on the same limb, and a second oper-
alton seems called for, or fatal result
willfollow. Public sympathy is much
exercised for the sufferer.
1 1t is an open secret that John Donnellv
proposes to sell out his business to Mr..
Ii. +. Goodere. his very competent and
experienced cutter. Mr.. Donnelly has
built up large and fourishing custom
tailoring trade, during the last eight
years, surpassed by few in Vermont. He
purposes going West, to Minneapolis,
we understand, at an early day. Success,
John, wherever you 90.
A part of the result of the late religi-
quarterly meeting Sunday. Nineteen
persons were baptized. Four were re-
ceived into full membership from proba-
ton, five were received by letter and
thirty-one on probation. Since January
LIST there have been thirty-tive persons
baptized, twelve received by letter and
siXty-three on probation. Total, seventy
five new members.
Butter dealers have sent forward only
three tons of butter for February. Of
cattle, twenty tons. The curtain roll
shipments reached thirty tons. Of
Champlan Horse Nails, twenty-seven
tons were forwarded to most of the
States of the Union; the market for their
nails is very broad The kaolin ship
ments have exceeded all other lines of
trade for February, reaching as high as
has been light, probably not much over
three hundred tons shipments all told.
Messrs. Booth & Walker, hay dealers.
are moving Il large body of hay. Taking
the hay season as IA whole, we should in
fer, without particularizing, that from
seven to ten thousand dollars would be
required to keep their entire hay interest
well in hand. They have every facility
for hay pressing and shipping at New
Haven depot. They have storing ca
pacity for two hundred tons of hay at
Vergennes depot, and their shipments
from Ferrisburgh depot are by no means
insignificant. They have handled about
five hundred tons of hay already. Last
months shipment was light, only thirty
tons having been sent forward. March
: will be large in the hay trade
Latterly novel branch of business
has grown up in this vicinity, which is
the furnishing of help, male and female,
to the farming community generally
through regularly established houses in
Boston and New York parties in
Denmark, Switzerland, Germany OF
e Sweden can obtain "A place as farm hand
= or to help in the house work. Mr.. c. ii
/ Simonds looks after the strangers inter
D est if he locates them. Large numbers
of excellent help have been furnished,
1 and. almost without exception, both par
f ties have been pleased. Only parties
: who can furnish positive reference AS tC
( character and fitness are dealt with, thus
making it perfectly safe to employ them
: The presence of Presiding Elder Rev
t j. W. Bennett Sunday evening was wei
t come event to his many friends here
II His sermon on the parable of the leavcI
was plain, impressive. convincing. II,
l. never appeared better in the desk. II
!. matter and manner he has greatly i'm
# proved and few, very few ministers, ar,
II so well adapted rs he to enlist the inter
?. est of an audience and hold it unhaggins
~ to the close. lie depends very little up
# on eXcitability, tlowery rhetoric or gest
q iculation. His gestures are few, bu
q graceful and expressive. His earnes
+ purpose, deep feeling and limitless faitl
convince the nearer that he believe
every word he uttprS He could haV