The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-02-18
Local AND STATE ITEMS.

II. WrlShI, Esq OF thlS NiiHBc was
placed in imminent danger of destruction
by fire on Friday evening, by some de-
feet in kerosene lamp. When first OBJ
served the lamp and table were enveloped
in flames. Water thrown upon the lamp
broke it and rendered matters worse.
Just then Mrs Wright came in and with
n presence of mind equal TO the EN-, rgency
she seized II large wooden blanket and
soon smothereJ the fumes.
The Addison Co. temperance So.
ciety will hold it's Annual Meeting at
the Court House on Wednesday at
10 / . o'clock A. Nj. and the County
Convention to nominate candidate for
Commissioners at the same place at .
o'clock p. NJ Col. Mead of Randolph, is
expected to deliver an Address at .
o'clock i. Nj. Ladies and Gentlemen
are invited to attend. by order of Elk.
Committee.
IIrGnwAY RoDBSRY. A most fragrant
act Of highway robbery was perpctratcd
ut Salisbury Plains on Wednesday eve
ming. A peddler was dragged from his
cart and held in the snow, face down.
ward, and robbed of $500 by one of
the villains, while another ransacked the
cart, set it on fire and started il along -
The robbers then made good their escape
u iring the melee the pcddler was shot
Through the leg but he was not sure that
the wound was not inflicted by his own
revolver, for he drew it and attempted to
shoot his ass lilans. On Friday, William
Arnold of Salisbury Plains was brought
before Judge Weeks, charged with this
crime, but after hearing he was dis
charged for lack of evidence.
Names of Par les recently registered at
Bread Loaf Inn:
Colonel Proctor, S. c. Bldwell, Rut-
Iand; WIN. A. Ward, New York; j.
w. Hayden & Wife, H. S. Dewey &
Lady, Rochester A. p. Tupper Esq &
Wife, Miss Helen NJ. Upper. Mr.. & Mrs
Charles +. Partridge, Mrs. Alma Lee,
w. ii. Eldridge, Miss A. Eldridge, E.
N Gilman & Wife, II. +. Farr, Mrs
A. o. Farr, Miss Mary A. Farr, F. A.
Ielani & Wife, East Mddlebury; Mr..
s. Mrs. II. Hill, VIM. Beede & Wife,
Brandon s. S. Rockwell, Cornwall.
School EXAMINATION. There will be
public examination Of the schools of this
village at the Court Room on Thursday
and Friday Of this week. A cordial ia
vitation is extended to parents and others
interested in the progress of education, to
be present.
LEcruRRs.-Rev Calvin Fairbank
lec,urcd in the Methodist Church in this
village on Wednesday and Thursday
evenings of last week. Wednesday even
ing was the celebration of Lincoln's birth,
day and the lecturers theme was "The
birth, fife and death of President Lin
coin and the progress and triumph of Re-
publicanism in America" On Thursday
evening he gave An account of his person
al sutferings for II years in Kentucky
ha taI Cnr
helping slaves to escape to freedom. The
following extiac's from the New York
Independent and the Rochester IN "
Democrat will indicate how Mr. Fairbank
has been elsewhere received.
TIE REV. CALVIN FAIRBANK, who
suffered captivity of twelve years in a
Kentucky prison, on account of his hu-
manity to a fugitive slave, publicly rela>
led at Cooper Institute last week the ex.
periences of his imprisonment. We never
heard tale more full of horrors. The
plain statement Of the facts, ungarnished
with rhetoric or oratory, made the hear
ers' blood run cold. A hearty audience
composed both of whites and blacks, as
all American audiences should be- con-
graduated him on his release into Free
dom. We hope Mr.. Fairbank will make
haste to write his story into book, that
all the world may have proof that the
Iiomssh Inquisition was mt whit more
crucl than American S!arcry.-Iad.oea-
dent.
His revelations Of the cruelty practiced
by different keepers of the prison, who
took il by contract from the State and
made what money they could out OF the
iabot OF the inmates, were horrible and
heart sicksning. And when he described
the daily round of his life thoce-the
cruelties of the taskmaster, the hopeless.
ness Of escape or release, and the strong
temptations TO snicide-hs words lose
mo eloquencc which is possible only when
aspsaker deicribes what he has himself
exp-l!eGc-i.--Democidt
SOUTu BRIsToI "A ccilents On FRI
day last, Wilde Mr.. Myers was endeavOr-
ing TO remove distractions from the lower
end OF GiffJrd's slide he heard log com
ing down, and jumped to get away but
slipping he fell and the log struck his arm