Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-06-14
LOCAL NEWS.


Cycling club are asked to meet at the
Sterns drug store at 7.30 o'clock next
Wednesday evening.
The prices of butter and eggs are the
same as last weeK-l5 cents pound for
the former and II cents dozen for the
latter. These are exactly the quotations
of year ago this week.
Mr.. Jackson has completed the repairs
on his Photographic studio and is once
more doing business. His rooms are
now convenient and comfortable both
for his patrons and for himself.
There will be an unusually excellent
musical programme at the evening service
in the congregational church Sunday
evening. Among the features will be
solos by Prof. Hawn and others.
The new street sprinkler is doing bus
mess on Main street and Merchants
Row. and residents of Court, Pleasant
and Washington streets are raising a
fund to secure its use on those thor
oughfares.
Postmaster Burke has succeeded in
arranging for closed mail pouch to go
to Rutland on the silver" each week day.
The first pouch was sent out yesterday.
1t takes mail for Rutland and all points
South and West. The mail closes at ~:
30 p. m.
The listers have completed their work
The total amount of the list is about
Sl30 greater than II year ago; that is,
about $4,000 more property is taxed.
The gain is almost wholly in personal
estate, the appraisal of real estate being
practically the same as last year
We hope our readers will bear in mind
the notice in last weeks REGISTER of the
lecture on Canterbury Cathedral to be
given Saturday evening at s o'clock. for
the benefit of the Ladies' library, by Miss
Sarah f. Wright of New York city. The
lecture will be in the library; admission,
% cents.
The three men convicted of crimes at
the recent session of the county court
have been disposed of. Deputy Sheriff
Cobb took Ploof and Woods to the house
of correction at Rutland on Wednesday
and yesterday Deputy Sheriff lls@bard of
Orwell escorted Thompson to the State
prison in Windsor.
Two weddings are to take place in the
Congregational church next week.
Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock comes that
of Mr.. w. II. Brewster and Miss Emma
noon Wednesday Miss katharine, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Arthur Bott, will be married
to Wilder d. Bancroft.
Over 20 people attended the tea given
at Mr.. G.. 5. Wainwright's on Wednesday
evening of last week by the Woman's
Home Missionary union. aud had an en-
Ioyable time. The reports presented
showed that during the year the union
had raised SlG5 in money, besides send
ing barrel of clothing to Indian Terri
tory.
Extremely hot weather has been the
rule all the week. Monday was especially
oppressive, the mercury standing at over
80 and no wind blowing. The hot wave
covered the whole country east of the
Mississippi. Tuesday the temperature
was the same at Montreal Us at Chicago,
st. Louis and Memphis and two degrees
higher than at Jacksonville, Fla.
We are informed that the item recently
printed in this column to the effect that
the property of the Smith & Brainerd
Marble company can be bought for $780,
600 is very far from the truth. The
statement was made by the Pittsford
correspondent of an exchange. There
are 10 new developments regarding the
purchase of the property by the Yer
mont Marble company of Proctor.
Dr. Martins little daughter. four years
old, fell Saturday while going down a
flight of stairs and carrying in her hand
an earthen mug. The mug broke and
her forehead struck upon the fragments,
cutting deep cash over the right eye.
1t bed profusely. DIR. Martin was away
from home, as were Drs. Eddy and Smith,
but the rest of the medical brethren, Drs.
Sutton, Russell, Noble and Sheldon. raj
lied and sewed up the wound, which
looked more serious than 1t really was.
The Kaleidoscope, the annual pub
ished by the Junior class of the college,
is out and copies may be had at Mar
shall's for 81 each. 1t is handsome
book of nearly 200 pages, well printed
on fine paper and prettily bound in blue
cloth with design in gilt on the front
cover. 1t contains much information
concerning the college, besides a con-
siderable amount of creditable literary
work in prose and poetry, and is some
shlng every graduate OF the institution
will want.
The London eng Telegraph of Mon
dav contained Shanghai dispatch say
ing it was almost certain that every one
connected with the English, French and
American missions at Chengfu, China,
had been massacred. The report aroused
much apprehension here, as among the
missionaries at that point are Rev. and
Mrs. II. Olin Cady. Mr.. Cady is a son
of Mr.. &. c. Cady, a well-knOwn resident
of this town. Later dispatches show
pretty conclusively that the report was
exaggerated. The mission property was
destroyed, but none of the missionaries
or their families were killed.
The date of the excursion to Platts
burgh by way of Burlington, from Mid
dlebury and stations north to and in
GLIDING Shelburne, for the benefit of the
Middlebury band, has been changed tC
Tuesday next, the 18th inst. A specia
train will leave here at o'clock in the
morning to take eXcursionists to Bur
lington, whence they will go by steamer
Reindeer across the lake. Returning
the special will reach here at $50 in The
afternoon. The fare for the round trip
10 . 70,