The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-06-09


Causes tried up to Tuesday morning, are
as follows
Calvin 7. Austin VS.. A. L. Bingham
and William Miller. Action oil note.
Verdict for plaintif-damages 81 CITE.
Calvin p. Austin vs. A. L. Bingham,
A. Bingham and b. +. Haskell. Action
on note. Verdict for defts.
Calvin 7. Austin VS.. A. L. Bingham.
Action on note. Verdict for plaintiff
damages Sl64l,5e.
Jonas Homenway VS.. Asa H%emenway
and Asa Hemenwsy, Jr. Assault and
battery. Verdict for plaintif-damages
Sl03.7 rs.
Asa Chapman We. Amasa Briggs. Tro.
yer. Verdict for plaintif-damages
SPOIL.
Town of Ripton VS.. Benjamin Hale
Note. Verdict for plaintif-damages
s64.24.
1t is expected that the Briggs case will
be reached on Wednesday.
On Sunday afternoon, this section Of
the country was visited by a severe thun-
derstorm, which was attended with violent
wind. A great amount of water fell and
we are told some trees and fences Jared
the same fate
We have assurances from responsi-
bic men in Shoreham, who had something
to do with the liquor trial spoken of by
"Spectator," that the thing was over
drawn, and a request that the judgment
of those who have read said letter be sus-
pended for the present, as it is possible
the other side may wish for a hearing.
We gave last week an account of q
fatal accident TO Mr.. Furnell, Of Ripton,
On examination Of the body, suspicious
arose that violence had been used by some
person or persons not known, and such q
verdict rendered by the corouer, which, Of
course, produced some excitement in the
vicinity. On this authority we observe
that it is reported in the Citizen as a
murder. We are happy to be able to
state that the investigation referred to
was hasty, and the conclusion without
doubt erroneous. By a subsequent ex-
animation, by several physicians, it is put
beyond a question that the deceased was
killed by the falling Of q tree, and that
afterwards the body was badly burned.
We had expected a full statement from
one of the faculty. 1t may be published
next week.
The birds certainly impress us as on
the increase, under the protection of Law.
We think we observe it FROM year to year
with ourselves, and hear the same from
other villages. The safeguard, if there
be one practically, is in a moral effect, by
sympathy; those who were Indifferent be-
ing reminded by the dignity Of Law of
the value and defencelessness of these
friends of man, their dependence on the
forbearance of those who value them for
leave to multiply their pleasures, and at
once to embellish and charm the life about
them.-It was a fitting exercise of legi..
lative protection if this were the design,
and how pleasingly it commends the bet.
ter impulses of the boys to regard, if such
be tho effect. In other countries the flow.
ers Of the public gardens, the statuary or
other ornaments of places of resort, it is
said, are safe from the interference of the
rude, and contribute a common property
of enjoyment to al. In ours, where the
participation of right in the public prop.
erty is universal, still more a sense of
its sacredness to others is needful, a still
more graceful civilization is to be sought,
and the birds, which are spared by law,
will teach it, to the gallant infancy of
those whose sympathies foreshadow the
history OF the commonwealth, as the mem.
ory Of their forefathcrs reveal. the prin-
ciples in which it was founded.