The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-04-07

management OF the railroad property in !
this State into closer communion with I
those who are the real owners Of the prom |
erty, does not seem to advance. in ts ap-
plication in the hands Of the Chancellors,
very speedily towards the end proposed,
or towards any end.
Various applications have been made
for the confirmation Of Trustees nomi-
mated by the bondholders, but none have
approached within telegraphic distance OF
a decision. The latest OF these " how not
10 ID it cases came on TO be heard Fri.
day at Rutland, before Chancellor Ben
nett, in the case Of the Rutland and Bur
linaton Road and it was by the Court
postponed till late in July, SO as to have
all the Judges hear the argument. judy
ing from the number of counsel present,
one might suppose, not only that the point
was very doubtful, but that it was to be
decided by vote rather than by argu-
mcnt and decision. For the application
r. Pierpoint, G. F. Edmunds aud J. W.
Stewart; against it: Judge Smalley, L.
B. Peck, Asahel Peck, A. Tracy, J.. 4.
Chittenden and L. Underwood. 1t is to
be hoped that at the hearing the Court
will be in the majority.
Can the "intellectual beings " called
corporations, in the long run; overshadow
the Court ?-Erce Press.
A "Gift Enterprise " swindle was
broken up in New York last week. The
proprietor advertised extensively that
he had Il large stock Of gold pencil cases,
and that in consequence of the pressure Of
the times, he was induced to offcr them by
lottery. In his confidence in a generous
and approaching public, he went so far as
to announce that he would send tickets
without the money and after the result OF
the drawing was communicated, the pur.
chaser might forward the money or not
Of course all such adventures we're for
tunate.and received information that their
tickets, at five dollars each, had drawn
| prizes valued Mt from ten to twenty dol
lars 1t is hardly credible that men could
be found such fools as to send their money
on such representations; but they we're;
and every mail brought hundreds of let.
tiers, aud the weekly receipts of the estat-
lishment rose to $1,000. The tn and
twenty dollar prizes consisted mainly of
plated gold pencil cases, worth about sew
enty-6ve cents.
COLLEGE Students IN TRouBLE.-One
hundred of the students of Columbia COL
lege, S. c., have been suspended until o.
tober next for INSTRUMENTATION. They
tarred the benches of the recitation rooms
and committed other exceptional acts be-
cause the faculty refused to suspend the
exercises on Thanksgiving day
Rev. Laban Ainsworth, of Jaffrey, N.
a., died on the 10th ult., aged 100
years, months and q days. He was
probably tho Oldest clergyman in New
England, except Father Sawyer of Ban.
gor. He had been the pastor of the Con-
gregational Society in Jaffrey, since 1881,
though of late years the active pastorshp
had dcvolved on Rev. Leonard Tenncy. of
Thetford, Vt.
--Messrs. Watson & Co., of SPRING
field, Mass, will ship from New Yorl.
next week ten of the forty passenger cais
which they have contracted with the Pa.
sha Of Egypt to build for the Alexandria
and Cairo Railroad. Tho cars are taken
to pieces in sections, packed in boxes, and
will be put up by two Of Watson Il Co.'S
workmen, who 90 out in the same ship.
The remaining thirty cars are TO be built
and forwarded efore the first of July.
That the Egyptians, when they see these
huge boxes unloaded, may not think them
selves sold in their dealings with the Yam
KEGS, II splendid drawing OF the cars, from
the hand of Milton Bradley, the drafts.
man OF the work, is rent to the Pasha,
and will doubtless please the old fellow
very much.
1t is stated that the site for new
post Office building has been selected in
Boston, fronting on Summer and Chauncy
streets The building will be erected by
private enterprise and leased to the gov.
eminent.
The city of st. Paul, Minnesota, has
expended s10,220 for educational purpos
es during tho past year.
z-Hecker & Brother, the well known
and extensive -four manufacturers of New
York. have given away to the poor of that
city during the winter $4,000 worth Of
bread.
H H. Chilson has been appointed
ard confirmed as Post Master at Northamp-
ton, Mass, rice A. Fl. Bullen, whose COM
mission has expired
The St. Louis Herald states that t
kidnapping of children from three to seven
years of age has become very common in
that city-the superstition being that they
are either mutilated and dis6gured, or
taken to.other places to be used for vicious
or criminal purposes.
The Greek Slave has been awarded
to Miss E. L. Coleman of Cincinnati, at
the recent drawing of the Cosmopolitan
Art Association.
Let it be remembered that demo.
cratic Senator brands every man who gets
his living by labor, as a slave, whether
white or black. We expect to see this
principle incorporated into the platform of
the Democratic party.
II B. Cummings, Secretary and act
ing-Governor of Nebraska, died on the
23d ult.