The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-08-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

to Muster At Rutland 90 the ist and "a
OF September,
A Miss c,sh escaped from the jail
in Rutland u few days since. She was
found in Keene, N H.. and brought hack.
The Herald says the work nu the
Jail is going on rapidly. 1t is expected
that the out side walls will be completed
this week
The Germania Band vii! give Con-
cert in Rutland, Aug z.
"A rum riot occurred in Vergennes
Saturday night week, and three rowdies
were arrested, and fined by the Mayor
The Vergennes band gives hebdomi-
nal free concerts in the Park.
The President has published letter.
stating positively, that he will not be
candidate for nomination in the Charleston
Convention.
In Fall River, Mass, on Saturday
last, carriage containing four persons
was run over by train of cars. Two
were instantly killed and two fatally in
jured.
The Republican convention in Gale
donna Go. will be held on the 10th inst,
and the democratic convention on the 18th.
During the session Of the Circuit
Court at Reading, Tenn, Walker fined a
man $50 dollars for kissing respectable
lady against her wish and consent.
The editor Of the Rutland Courier
says the people have been picking up gold
on his premises, and thinks when the Cow
Boys get him out Of the Postof6ce, be car
fall back on his gold diggings!
h A PATRIARcHAL ELM,-Mr. Geo. Allen
Ir, Of Berlin. last spring cut down
mammoth elm on his farm, which made
twenty-five cords of twenty inch wood.
| The Hon. Israel Washburn of Maine
gave the following felicitous sentiment at
the late Bangor celebration on the Fourth;
Orr Counfrv-Our country. right or
wrong; when right, to be kept right; when
wrong, to be put right.
ESCAPE or DR.. DoY.-Dr. boy, who
was Kidnapped from Kansas and taken
to Missouri by band of Border rufians,
and confined in Jail at St. Joseph on the
charge Of enticing away slaves, was res
cued from the Jail on Sunday morning
during a violent storm. Great excitement
prevailed at St. Joseph on the announce.
ment Of his escape, aud pursuit was at
tempted, but without success.
The N. Y. Tribune says it has seen
letter from person who has recently
travelled through some Of the best Wheat
counties of the State, who estimates the
present harvest the best of five years at
least. The crop had ripened and was
nearly all harvested in good weather, and
is very free from the ravages Of insects,
DISTRESSING AND FATAL CASUALTY IN
MoNKToN. IA most heart-rending acct
dent happened at the residence of Mr..
Daniel Collins, Monkton, on Monday night
last. From what we have been able to
learn, it appears that Miss Guiudon, a
girl who was employed in the family, aged
sixteen years, youngest daughter Of Jo-
seph Guindon, of Lincoln, incautiousy
left candle burning near her bed after
retiring, for the pur ose of reading let
ter which she hal Just received from home.
She fell asleep and the candle in some
way set the bed clothes on fire and she
awoke enveloped in flames. Mr.. Collins
hearing an unusual noise up stairs, rushed
up there to find the unfortunate girl a
perfect sheet of fame, crouched down in
one corner Of the room, rendered help
less through fright and agony. She was
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., our informant
stated that her entire person save a mar
row strip around her waist, was actually
charred by the 6re.-She fingered until
about 4 o'clock on TUESDAY morning when
death relieved her suferings.-She was
SO far conscious as TO be able to relate that
she fell asleep while reading and was
aroused by the flames. This is sad and
melancholy warning to those who indulge
In the dangerous practice Of reading in
bed Citizen.
The southern argument for the revi-
val Of the African slave trade is forcibly
stated by John Forsyth Of Alabama az
follows -
"Slavery is right not merely because
we have the "niggers" and do not know
what to do with them-not merely because
present good flows from it-but because
it is divine institution, resting upon the
same basis as government or marriages
The essential condition of all property is
its capacity of being bought aud sold.
The buying and selling of slaves cannot
be more criminal in one place than it
another-in Africa more than 10 Virginia
lfths buying ofslaves Is morally wrong in
Africa it is in Virginia, or anywhere else /;
and if it is morally wrong to buy slaves, it
is morally wrong to hold them. The NOR
atty of the slave trade, therefore, Gamble
assailed only by denying that slavery rests
upon the same foundation as marriage
and government, or the tenure of any
species of property"
Mr.. Sickles has rented Lieut. Mafiits
house at Washington. Some of bis con-
stituents talk about public meeting to
request him to resign, but it will not go.
If they can stand murder without finch
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