The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-05-17

down on top of it, Then the Morgan
lawyers made their speeches, and seemed
to make singularly weak ones--thcy did
really nothing to help the Morgan cause.
And the General, with a great glow Of
triumph on his face, got up and made a
mighty effort he pounded the table, he
banked the law books, he shouted, and
roared and howled; he quoted from ev-
erything and everybody, poetry, sarcasm,
statistics, history, pathos, and blasphemy
and wound mp with grand war-hoop
for free Speech freedom of the press, free
schools, the Glorious Bird Of America
and the principles of eternal justice.
Applause.
When the General sat down, he did it
with the comfortable conviction that if
there were anything in good strong testi-
mony, a big speech and believing and ad-
miring countenances around Mr., Nor.
gan's cake was dough Ext Governor
Roop leant his head upon his hand for
some minutes, thinking profoundly, and
the still audience waited brcathlessly for
the decision Then he got up and stood
erect, with bendcd head, and thought
again. Then he walked the floor, with
long deliberate strides, and his chin in
his hand, and still the audience waited
At last he returned to his throne and seat.
ed himself. The sheritfs commanded the
attention to the court. Judge Roop clear
ed his throat and said -
Gentlemen, ] feel the great response
bility that rests upon me this day, This
is no ordinary case. On the contrary. it
is plain that it is the most solemn and aw-
ful that ever man was called upon to de.
eide. Gentlemen, have listened atten.
lively to the evidence, and the weight OF
it, the overwhelming weight of it, is in
favor of the plaintiff Sides. have also
listened to the remarks of counsel with
high interest, and especially will COM
mend the mastery irrefutablc logic of the
distinguished gentleman who represents
the plaintiff. But, gentlemen, let us be.
ware how we allow human testimony, hu.
man ingenuity in arguments, and human
ideas of equity to influence us to our un.
doing at moment so solemn as this
Gentlemen, it i'll becomes us, worms as
we are, to meddle with the DEGREES ot
Heaven. 1t is plain that Heaven in its
inscrutablc wisdom, has seen fit to move
this defendants ranch for purpose. We
are but creatures, and we must submit
If Heaven has chosen to favor the defen-
dant Morgan in this marked and wonder.
full manner and if Heaven, unsatisfed
with the position of the Morgan rancho
upon the mountain side, has chosen to re.
move it to a position more eligible and
more advantageous for its owner, it i'll
becomes, insects as we are, to question
the legality of the act. No-IIeaven ere
ated the ranches, and it is Heavens pre-.
rogative to rearrange them,to experiment
with them, to shift them around at it.
pleasure. 1t is for us to submit without
repining. warn you that this thing
which has happened is thing with which
the sacrilegIous hands and brains and
tongues of men must not mcddlc. ten
tlcmcn, it is the verdict of this court that
the plaintiff, Richard Sides, has been de
prived of his rancho by the visitation o
God And from this decision there is ne
appeal"
Buncombe seized his cargo Of law book
and plunged ont of the courtroom ray
ing madman, almost. lie pronounced
Roop to be a miraculous ass, Il fool al
inspired idiot In all good faith he re.
turned at night and demonstrated will
Roop upon his extravagant decision, anC
implored him to walk the floor and think
for an hour, and see if he could not tigur,
out some sort of modification of the yer
dict. Roop yielded at last, and got W
to walk. He walked two hours and
half, and at last his face lit up happl,
and he told Buncombc it had occurred tt
him that the ranch underneath the new
Morgan ranch still belonged to Sides, tina
his title to the ground itself was just a
good as it had ever been and therefore h,
was of the opinion that Sides had righ
to dig it out from under there and"
The General never waited to hear th'
end of it. He was always IN impatien,
and irascible man, that way. At the en-,
of two weeks he got it through his under
standing that he had been played upol
with a joke.
He who serves well, need not be airai,
TO ask his wages.
He who says what he likes, often hear
what he does not like.
Appended to a marriage notice latcl
we found "no cards,no company nobody
business There's independence 70
you.
About two hundred acres OF woodlan,
was burned over on Sunday last, in tina
part of the town of Milford called tn
North Purchase.
An assistant secretary Of the Britisl
Astronomical Society has just finished
translation of the Chinese records of com
cts observed for 2250 years, ending A
d., 1910. This is the only continuou
registry of the kind in existence, and i
expected to yield important results here
after.
Joshua Whithey's grst and shingle mill
at Jonesboro', Me-, were burned las
week, at total loss of $4,000.
The old Anthony grist and saw mill i
South Adams, owned by the Renfre,
Manufacturing Company, was destroye
by fire Wednesday.
Two professional burglars from Ne,
York, Charles II. Brooks and John Ste
vens, who conducted the operation of rob
bing the Lime Rock, Rockland, Me
were arrested on Wednesday night in tn
woods near that place, with almost al
the stolen property in their possession.- =
They were betrayed by Keyser, the ex
policeman and their accomplice in tn
robbery.
The first lilacs of the season made thei
appearance in the Paris Aower-market
on April II. They are mostly brough