The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-03-26

A NARROW EsCApE.-Mr. Elihu llol-
den last Monday, tho 18th, hitched his
horse at the south end Of the depot near
the track. The freight express from the
north coming sooner than was expected,
Mr.. Holden sprang to his horse to un-
hitch him but before the horse could be
cleared from the track the COW catcher
come up and the horse made leap carry
ing Mr.. Holden clear across the track.
But the cutter was literally chewed up
and demoralized Mr.. Holden after cast
ing about to see if he was not "kilt entire
ly" found himself and horse about as good
as new. He was thankful that the result
was no worse.
Rev. A. f. Bailey closed his second
year of labor with the Methodist church
in this place, last Sunday. The Confer
ence meets in Saratoga on Wednesday Of
this week when the new assignments will
be made. We hope Mr.. Bailey may be
returned for we can hardly expect any
change will be made which will secure
to this society equal ability in the pull
pit or influence outside. And as far
as we can judge it is the desire of the
church and society that he may be re-
turned for the third year, as we UNDER
stand the rules Of the church now permit.
Mr.. Bailey is a true christian gentlemen
and practices in all his relations 10 his
ielowmen just what he breaches.
Mr. Charles Francis who has owned
the Cotton Factory property in this viii
lage for about six years, has sold it to F.
p. Fletcher, Esq, Of Bridport. Consid-
GRAFTON $4,000. We may reasonably hope
Mr.. Fletcher, who has ample means and
any amount of energy and business enter
prise, will improve the power as it night
and aught to be improved. AS he is in-
terested in several marble quarries, it
would not be a surprising thing if some
day, and not long hence, either, we should
Sc, the old stone building near the rail-
road track which has been idle for so
many years, filed with machinery for
saving marble What his plans are, we
are not Informed but such surn.se is
not an absurd one, to say the least.
The Troy Methodist Conference
meets at Saratoga this week Wednesday.
Prof II. NJ. Seely goes as delegate from
the Methodist church in this place, under
the new system Of lay representation.
Each Annual Conference being entitled
to one luymen in the general Confer ence
tor every thirty clerical members. 1t will
be the especial duty Of delegates from
the churches, to the annual Conference,
to choose the delegates to represent them
at the general Conference. 1t is 10 dis
arrangement to other good men Of the
Methodist church in MiddIebury. to say
that the appointment of rot, Scely, is
one emiDently fit to be made And should
he be selected, as we hope he may be, to
represent the layman Of the Troy Confer
ence in the General Conference. which
meets at Brooklyn, in May next, they
may rest assured Of Il worthy representa-
ton. ----------)
CoLLEdE.-There was held on Friday
evening an interesting, and it is to be
hoped II profitable, temperance meeting
meeting is almost overshadowed however
in the experience Of one of the young men
a little later in the evening 1t seems
he was not 10 the condition to attend the
meeting, and soon afterwards he became
crazy, and found snakes in his boots, and
all the other horrors which, form the natur
al and appropriate sequel to prolonged
drunken spree. 1t is with pain that We
use this defniteness. But the terrible
lesson on the evils of intemperance which
this case affords ought not to be lost The
responsibility Of his connections and the
strenuous efforts he has himself made tc
overcome the terrible appetite which he
had early formed, make the case one pc
culiarly sad and imressive.
Ice MEErINa.-The races on the ic,
at Middlebury last week resulted as fol
f lows:
Tuesday Purse $50, for three yea
, olds. Entries VIM. belongs bay colt
II. n. Sollace, bay colt G. Huntley
brown mare. belongs colt won tn,
race in three straight heats.
| w euneSuay, II ursc 9oO,lor norse5 WHICH
never beat 3 minutes. Entries d. Rider
b. e. Tom" II. w. Hammond b. g
> Tiger; :" Guy IIolcomb bl. G. "BlacI
Jim. Tom won the two first heats 'Blacl
jim" Sd heat, Tom 4th heat aud the race
Thursday, Purse Of 500 open to a
horses. Entries Chas. Taylor gr II
Snow Flake" Thomas Bailey, br. {
e &c. G. Spring
u "Snow Flake" won first heat, &c. {
Spring" I'd and Sd, Snow Flake" tn
4th heat, &C. G. Spring" the 5.h an
c race.