The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-01-04

AT u meeting Of the Directors of the
Vt Valley Railroad, held at Rutland
Thursday, Governor Morris of New York
was elected President, and Geo A. Mer-
ill Of Rutland, Director, to fill vacancies
occasioned by the death of Hon. Hugh
Ii. Henry.
The Directors unanimously adopted the
following resolutions relative to the de-
cease of the Hon. Hugh II. Henry
RcSoi,ri, That we have received with
profound sensibility the intelligence of
the death of Hon. Hugh H. Henry, for
many years the President, and al the time
Of his decease, one of the Trustees of the
Vermont Valley Railroad.
Re,olred, That as mark Of respect for
one ever alive to, and intimately denti-
fed with the railroad interests of Yer
mont, the Clerk be directed to place these
expressions of remembrance and regard
upon the records of the Corporation,
and that a copy Of the resolutions be for
warded to the family of the deceased.
The New "RECOyERl' LIQl or Law .--
Rev W. W. Atwater, of Brandon, secre-
tary Of the State Temperance Society,
makes the following comments on the new
law concerning the responsibility OF rum
sellers, which was originally drawn by
him
BY this law, any person who unlawful
ly sells or furnishes any part Of the liquor
causing the intoxication of an individual,
is liable for all injury done to any per-
son or property by such individual while
thus Intoxicated. 1t also provides that
in case Of the death or disability of any
person from drunkard's violence; or, if
one should be thrown from horse or car
riage and injured, or be disabled for work
during the period Of his drunkenness, OF
die Of deli rium tremens, or be frozen, or
run over by train or otherwise suffer
death or disability in consequence of his
own intoxication or, ifan innocent and So
Der person should be run over in the street
by II team iuriously driven or breaking
away from drunken driver, or otherwise
suffer death or disability in consequence
Of the intoxication of another person from
the use of liquor unawiully sold or fur
nlshed, then any person or party IN any
manner dependent on the person thus sui:
fering death or disability, or on whom
such person may be dependent, may re.
cover for such loss Of protection or wages
or time, or service, or expenses, from any
person unlawfully furnishing any part oil
the liquor causing such intoxication.
No provision is made in this law by
which person may recover for any los
or damage to himself in consequence Of
his own intoxlcation. No earthly tribu
nal could decide the amount OF such dam
age. The drlnkard is also partakcr O
the crime which causes the damage tC
himself. And the law also provides thai
"both parties may be joined in the sam,
action for recovery, so that some day ;
rich rumscllcr in his fine cloth, and /;
poor drunkard in his rags and blood, may
partnership, the one as the accessory, anC
the other rs the perpetrator Of an ac
causing death or disability" 1t is als'
provided that coverture or infancy shall
be no bar to proceedings for recovery il
such cases, and it is easy to be seen tina
any person engaged IN the unlawful trai
fc is liable any day to be called ON tc
support the family of some one losing hi
life or becoming disabled in consequence
of drunkenness from liquor part o
which, perhaps the first glass Of these
may have been furnished by him, or SOM
one in his employment,