The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-06-24
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TUESDAY. JUNE "a, 1873.

At last Mr.. Kobesou has given 10
the world the official report Of the invcs.
tigation into the Polaris disaster. 1t
i,muvrs Whist little doubt may have
remained that the >tmy OF Halls having
been POISONED Ms hOthing more than
Newspaper s,hsation. The truth about
the expedition Sc,ins to be that Hall aud
Buddingtou quarreled aud Tyson and his
party charge BuddingioL with drunken.
ness, iucspscity and unftucss for his post.
though they DO not charge him with drv-
ing them of to the ship, nor does there
seem any reason to believe that he inten-
,ionally abandoned them. The death Of
Hall completely upset the discipline Of
the party, ard destroyed the last traces
Of harmony and cooperation. The seal
er Tigress will be ready to sail in search
OF the Polaris early in July.
The Temperance Moyemont n Bnrling-
ton.
The friends Of the probibitory law
IN Burlington held meeting, as citi.
zens, last week and appointed COM
mittec to enforce :he liquor law. The
committee consists of Messrs. f. NJ. Van
sicklon, Henry Loomis, William Mead
Henry T. iIickok and b. S. Nichols. The
object, a. stated in the Free Press is ''to
remove temptation from our young men,
and from men who have become the
slaves OF ram; TO check tue greatest
source Of crime and pauporism among us
to c.o,e, If possible, the dram shops in
which hundred, OF men worse than waste
the money they ought to be spending in
shoes for their barefoot children and
clothing for their ragged wives; to save
in some measure the good name Of oul
cits as. a place Of residence, now sadly il
jeopardy, from the increase Oh the liquui
trsilio among us"
Acting by the authority Of the people
this committee entered complaint and oil
Thursday small seizures were made. Or
Friday more extensive operations were
rcnorted Sheriff Drew seized at tn,
Vermont Central Depot and Contra
Wharf and South Dock, wines and liquors
valued at over seven hundred dollars. |
is the heaviest seizure made there fol
years Much excitement prevails in The
city, and this seizure indicates the deter
mnation to enforce the law 1t is goot
movement. undertaken in business way
and we hope it may succeed for the per
manent benefit Of the city, us it certain
ly must and certainly will for its tempo
rary advantage. 1t is, however, mat
ter ofsome curiosity to US to know agains
which one Of this committee the concen
trated and diaboiical spleen will first bt
"'""ght 20 bear for the purpose Of break
.ny down thor Inuuouce auu uvst,v,i..
their power to aid in the good work o
reform. Some may entirely escape
though that i hardly probable, but W,
confidently predict that within lively,
month, some one OF moro Of these stauncl
men who now stand high in the estima
ton Of all the people, and in their con
scious strength defy the poxers OF dark
ness, now the agents of the peoples will
that within one year they will be load
ed with insinuatons Of injudiciousness
malice or other improper motive, impro
prieiies in their own private life, etc an,
II they have the pertnacity and are rasl
enough to perscvere in their labors, com
binations will be made and englnery b
brought to bear upon them which is de
signed to, and perhaps may, cripple an,
crush them and their influence. This vii
be the result most certainly. if they ca
form combinations with persons of NOR
respectable characters and relations, VIII
are willing to sacrifice principle for re
venge, or some other equally unworth
motive.
Bat we may ind partial compensatio
n the though; that 10 moral reform
Gods work ~cau be more that temporarj
y checked, if checked at all, by the dam
age these enemies Of God and man ma
do to one, or to any number, of his agent.
So If the go9d work is making progrcs
we need not stop to mourn over the sacri
ices. The general progress and elevatio
OF men, is Of vastly greater consequence
than holocaust of hundred victims t
the hatred and revenge Of these enemic
OF mankind