The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-12-24
News of the Week.

tleman spoken OF by the poe' WHO
crushed to earth will rise again" When
the smoke clears off we will report the
number "killed and eaten in these wars.
- The gale Of Sunday week, afternoon
and evening, did considerable damage
iu Windhnm County,uprootiug trees and
dcmolisbiug small buildings. The gale
extended to st. Adams where the top Of
the Methodist chapel was blown in.
A new and handsome Rail Road
Station has been erected at Brattlcboro,
nearer the village than the old one.
- Henry Danforth killed bear in
Danville few days ago.
- John Johns chronicles runaway
match from Waterbury. The gay 10th
orio Of the age Of 80 had just procured
a divorce from bis wife, and induced
young girl Of sixteen summers to jump
out of the window, aud escape from her
parents. A Justice in Bristol joined tbs
cratic couple in wcdlock, aud all went
merry as amarriage bell.
- The people Of Mortified are to
have home course Of Lectures" this
winter
- The Christian Messenger hears
from private sources of revivals in pro-
gress in various parts Of the Troy aud
Vermont Conferences, and Of an extern
sive prevalence of the revival spirit,
where conversions ara not yet reported"
a NEW WRINKLE The Universalists,
over the mountain, in several towns will
celebrate Christina. The churches are
to be decorated and Illuminated in hon
or of the birth Of our Savouf.
The Repository published at Mont
pelicr, complains that the design Of the
Liquor Law is frustrated in that vicinity,
and that altogether too much liquor is
sold for Medica! purposes. Washington
County has been father sickly ncigbbor-
hood, ever since the passage of the law.
The Palriot has fallen into hor
nets }. est, by putting the Chronicle at
the expense of other religious papers 10
the State. Several of the papers Of
this u rt arc down IN the Major and he
will be compelled 10 fnht or run.
A communicative, to tho ST. Adams
Messenger states that dnriug the past
year, ending Dec ! the an cut OF But
ter sent to market from that siah
one million eighty eight thousand rine
hundred and seventy three pounds At
twenty cents per pound the receipts for
it have been 1878 75S. More than q
million pounds Of Cheese have beeu sent
from tho same station: during the same
time,
LOOK Our for altered two dollar bills
on the fremont Bank, Boston. The
counterfeit is exceedingly we'll executed.
"A Hotel Company has been organ
lied at Highgate, with Harrison Stevens
OF Montreal at its head 1t is the in
teution to purchase the grounds known
as the llighgatc Springs and erect there
IN a commodious hotel
The town Of Wilmington, at a re-
cent meeting, voted 5000 to purcha sc o
common suitable for the annual town
cattle shows.
A trial Of some interest recently
came off before the Superior Court in
the city of New York. Some time last
summer, the Rev. Dr. Pennington was
put off the Sixth Avenue Cars because
he refused to obey the conductor of tho
train, who, in pursuance of the regula.
tious Of the company, had ordered Li,n
to g. forward upon the Platform, OF
leave the car. Pennington is a colored
man, and the regulations of the company
did not permit negroes In tue car. lie
brought his action against the company
laying hi. damages at $1,000 Il j
Phelps, Esq, was of counsel for plf. and
argued the cause. The court charged
the Jury that the company had right tC
make all reasonable regulations for tho
management of their business, and lef
it to them, to say, under the circumstan
ccs, whether a regulation excluding col
orea men from the cars was rca
sonabIe one The jury decided that ii
was, and brought in the verdict for de
fenIants.
Huntington, the forger, has been oil
trial the past week in the city of New
York. The forgeries, to tho amount .
hundreds OF thousands Of d5llars, were
clearly proved, The defence assumeC
by counsel for defendant is, that he is in
sane 1t is very doubtful whether the
facts stated by the opening lawyer, will
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