Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-06-03

hVuiNCiicut VI WillCil dppcuTS tl>eWncIc.
are Mrs. Button, Mrs. Barrows, Mrs.
BRYANT, Mrs. Crane and Mrs. Munroe.
Albert E. Brown, formerly of this
village, but for the past 1G years resi-
dent of Worcester, Mass, was killed in
a railway accident at Warwick. y. Y,
May 8, on his way home from the West.
The big rams of last week and the
week before were followed by extreme
ly hot weather, which began on Tuesday
and still continues. The water in the
creek keeps up, though it is slowly fall
ing. Much damage was done to crops
on the low lands.
Trustee and Highway Surveyor II. w.
Hammond has begun to fill the territory
in the hollow in front of the site of the
old cotton mill. 1t promises to be quite
JOB. The material thus far has come
from the streets, the WORKOUT gravel on
which has been removed.
Satisfactory progress is being made on
the foundations of the Battell block since
the rains ceased. The outlines of nearly
all the walls are now clear. so that it is
possible to see how large the structure
will be. Fully half the walls of the old
cotton factory has been pulled down and
used.
a. Brody, who looks like an Italian,
and is, with his son, engaged in selling
cheap pictures about the village, was
taken in hand by Chief of Police Cush-
man, Wednesday, on a claim for board
in favor of j. A. Mumbo of Vergennes.
Brody paid up when he found that he
must or go to jail.
The wool trade appears to be little
mere active locally. Mr.. Eugene Twitch-
ell IN five days of last week bought 3d.
900 lbs. for shipment in Boston, to which
city the concern for which he has work.
ed in New York lately removed. The
nominal prices paid are II cents for fine
and u cents for medium.
There is to be ''pie social" and
general good time at Mr.. j. L. Kings
ley's on South street next Wednesday
evening. The Epworth league folks al
ways plan for good time. Go and en-
joy it with them. Take ten cents, sure
and if you calculate to feed some fair
damsel on pie, take twenty cents.
Much interest is manifested by the fire
men of the State in the annual meeting
and tournament of the State Firemen's
association, which is to he held in Mid
dlebury on the 9th and 18th of July.
Nine hundred dollars is offered in prizes.
There is every prospect of as big crowd
as this town has seen in years.
"a recent acquisition of the \Sheldon
mpseum is the diary of VIM. Slae, a
captain in the Revolutionary war; WHO
died in Cornwall in lS26. The donor
was Hon. VIM. Slade, grandson of the
captain, who kindly made extended ex-
tracts from the book before turning it
over to Mr.. Sheldon. We shall print
them next week.
Tbe funeral OF George McCue, appoint
ed for last Friday morning, was posNon-
ed I'll Saturday morning because of Nle
pouring rain. 1t was largely attended
from the Catholic church. the pastor,
Rev. FIR. Gelot, officiating. Russell post.
G., \. r., of which he was member,
was there in body, as was the local
camp of Sons of Veterans. DR.. Russell,
Messrs. Allan Calhoun, Jas. Hughes,
Daniel Sawyer, Daniel Shea and j. f.
Stapleton, Esq, were the bearers.
Thirteen head of horses were shipped
from tins station down country on Mon
day by Messrs. Otis Briggs of Middle
boro and iCharles Briggs of Brockton,
Mass. Six of the lot were bought in this
region, six in Morrisville and one of c.
II. Holmes of Charlotte. Escaping steam
from a locomotive scared three of the
horses as they were about to he led into
the car and they got away. One was not
captured till it had gone as far as Hon.
w. Z. Nash's in New Haven, but all were
finally caught unframed.
Mr.. Joseph Battell has secured the
services of Mr.. Patrick Desmond, for
merly of Boston and latterly connected
with the granite quarrles at Barre, who,
with gang of seven or eight experience
ed quarrymen from the same place, are
opening up and developing the Jacobs or
Lawrence quarry in Weybridge. \ DER
rick has been procured and IA small black
smith shop for sharpening tools, etc.,
erected. Operations are conducted for
the present by hand drilling, but it may
b. found eXpedient later to procure Il
steam drill and other additional machin-
cry. Mr. Battell's chief object in utiliz-
ing this quarry is to procure stone for
the creek bridge, his intention being to
quarry it this summer and draw it dur
ing the winter, so "a to he all ready TO
begin the erection of the bridge with the
opening of next season. The quarry