The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-08-10
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ALUMNI ANNOUNCEMENT The Annual
Meeting at the College Chapel, Wednes-
day morning at : o'clock-Oratiou by
Prof. JAMES DAVE BUTLER Of Madison, |
Wis, on Thursday at II o'clock A. VI.
Dinner at the Addison House, Thursday !
at l-2 p. M.
TIN BACCALAUREATE.-Thc church
was crowded to it, utmost capacity on
Sunday afternoon, to hear the Baccalau-
reate. by the President. This was his
first appearance in The desk since his re-
turn from Europe, and his appearance
there under any circumstances would
be matter OF unusual interest His
theme was Education, with special refer
ence to the combination of Moral aud Re-
ligious with intellectual Culture. The
life long pursuits of the speaker render
him peculiarly fitted to treat this impor
tant subject The address TO the gradua-
ting class was in his beautiful and I'M
pressive style, and the allusion the late
GILBERT G. LANE, their tutor, was most
moving tribute, such as is seldom heard
in any place.
We have to record another wholesale
railroad slaughter, which occurred on
Thursday last, near Schaghticoke on the
Albany & Northern r. r. The entire
train with the exception of the engine fell
through tressle bridge a distance of 40
feet, twelve or fifteen persons we're killed
and twenty or more were wounded. There
seems to be hardly a mitigating circum.
stance in the case, and the press generally
do not hesitate to pronounce it downright
murder. The verdict of the coroner upon
the body of one of the victims says
THAT the said Charles Plimpton came
to his death from injuries received by the
falling Of bridge over the Albany, Yer.
mont and Canada Railroad over the
Tomhannock Creek, while engaged in a
regular train of said railroad as Mai
Agent; and as said bridge was in "A rotter
and unsafe condition, the Jury believe
that those having charge of said roaC
should be highly censured."
| An extract from the testimony read
thus
| Dir. Jones stated that he spoke to ali
other engineer named Dyer some tint
since, and asked him what he thought o
the bridge. He said there was somethiu,
wrong about Al. Mr.. Jones also spoke tt
DIR. Hamp, the road master about thu
matter but received to satisfaction. Tim
Der had been got out for a new bridge
and was on the ground at the time OF tht
accident.
The witness reported the bridge as be
ing unsafe about year ago, and it wa
repaired A Juryman stated that he hac
often heard the bridge spoken OF unsafe
Edward Burns, the fireman, corrobora
ted the testimony of Mr.. Jones in all it
important points.
Other testimony was gwen, all goin
to show that the bridge was notorous
unsafe, and that the director were full
apprised Of ii, but still suffered the dali
risk OF hundreds of lives until the fna
catastrophe came. The company will G
course suffer very great pecuniary los
but this does nothing TO expiate the gull
involved.
The American ASSOCIATION for th
advancement of Science is now in sesslo
in Springfield, Mass Among other in
terestng subjects OF scientific inquiry ha
been presented that OF the famous " froze
well in Brandon 1t appears that MT
merous phenomena of the iame kind hav
been observed but no satisfactory explana
ton obtained. Prof, Hitchcock presente
: theory which was discussed and obtaine
favor 1t IS, that the peculiar formatio
and position of the earth strata beneat
The well is such as to prevent the radis
ton Of the internal heat OF the earth
The Assessors Returns III the city
New York for 1859 give--real estat
about three hundred and seventeenth
q million. and personal estate nearly on
= hundred and seventy-three millions, NAL
ing IA total Of nearly FIVE hundred an
tifty-twO millions, an increase over til
last year Of nearly twenty-one millions
. dollars.
The democrats of the city Of Charlie
] town, Mass. held convention on Thur
: day last 1t being the first in the Stat
= campaign. it was regarded with some il
terest, The appearance indicated a stron
preponderance in favor OF Douglas
= Nathan II. Churchill, Of Brandon
who was arrested in May last in the Stat
of New York on a charge OF making an