The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-09-10
IF the line of the buildings named, stands

OF the line OF the buildings named, stands
an transformations, but substantial house,
owned and occupied during the summer,
by President Grant and family. There
are but few other dwellings in the i'm
mediate neighborhood The village of
Lnog Branch is one-half mile inland
from the line Of hotels and cottages.
Although there are indications of greater
wealth here than at either Cape May or
Atlantic City, yet the beach bears no
comparison with Cape May, in point of
beauty, or convenience or safety in bath
ing. Ropes firmly attached to buoys are
necessary here, as precaution to bath
ers, as well as at Atlantic City. At Cape
May no such trappings or attachments
are necessary. The two great actors,
and sensationalists of last season, who
exerted themselves to the utmost, to out.
rival each the other, in getting up six in
hand turnouts, and Haunting their golden
cquippage, to the astonishment Of the
native jersey Blues" are not seen on
1.-THE boards" this season. Fisk sleeps
10 Brattleboro. Helmbold, | understand,
is quietly attending to his drug stores.
He has the finest drug store in this city,
called the Temple Of Pharmacy" The
Ocean House. kept by the Lelands, is the
largest hotel at the Branch, but the
"Stockton House. at Cape May, is much
the larger Of the two.
a series of excursions for tho poor OF
the city have been inaugurated, and now
nearly closed IL in number. The cx-
pense betrayed by voluntary subscr'p-
tlons, aggregatiug about $4,000 the av-
erage number Of excursionsts being about
1900 both white ard colored. Some
have been taken from tho purlicus and
slums Of Shipper aud Alaska streets, A
corps OF physicians aud committees of
various kinds, consisting of both ladies
and gentlemen, have accompanied the
excursions, attending to the wants of the
lowly, embracing all creeds. nationalities
white and colored, and from helpless in
fancy to tottering age. Although the
greater portion were children, and thei,
mothers, Or guardians, amuscments oi
various kinds have oeen provided for the
children. Re freshments of various kind:
for all have been bountifully provided
a temporary hospital is extemporzed
and some days as many as so cases o
slight illness have been trerted, mostly
small children. Many poor aud low
| ly" mother has wept tears Of gratitude
under the kindness and care extended tt
them by those noble and scll.denyinl
phianthropists, who have worked assid
uously in season and out out of season, t
help those sons aud daughters Of toll and
poverty to enjoy the unobstructed breeze
aud sunlight of heaven, and to cheer then
on as they tread their du.ky pathway tt
the tomb. Acts and deeds like these re-
quire no pauegyric. They are alread,
registered on high. They arc norma
aud legitimate outgrowth Of high-toned
civilization, and palpable and tangible
evidence of the divinity Of the Christian
religion, demonstrated 10 one Of its mos
practical forms.
Mr.. Editor, did you ever attend a col
orcd or Negro camp meeting? if not yo,
are yet unposted in one phase of religion
worship, and SO was |, until lately. Ol
a beautiful Sabbath morning, in the earl,
part of this month, in company with ;
friend, down town broker, embarked
on one of the ten railways that diverg
from this great city,-the Philadelphi
and West Chester. a forty minutes
ride brought US to the camp ground, con
Quoted by the sable sons and daughter
Of Ham. The public and leading exer
cises were in form the same as in mos
Of our sanctIaries, but the more socia
meetings in the interim, between preach
ing, which they would denominate,
suppose, prayer or praise meetings, wer
OF novel type to one reared under tn
cid New England conservative orthodox
or the standing order" Such ejacula
tions, such singing, such slapping G
hands, such stamping Of feet in keepin
time to their wild melodies, such shoutin,
such swayiug, such gyratious, such genu
Elections, and such what is it would sc
any one agog, and would emphaticall
set description at defiance, and yet,
doubt not, their seemingly crude devc
t tions were as acceptable to heaven as
they had assembled from marbleized pu
pits, walnut stained and rep cushone
) pews, or elaborated y frcscoed ceilings, O
, they appeared to worship in perfec, an
simple sincerity.
Political matters are getting on tn
rampage in the old key stone State.
the last new departure" should strik
blows sufficiently hard to loosen the key
aud cause the great arch to sway or TOP
pie, We must OF course "stand from III
der" hut better things are looked fol
,, and confidently expected in this grei
commonwealth. L. w. G.
t JEuoyAu's SWIFT WINGS. The Ar;