The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-02-03

WIN. i. SrOREYs EARLY RELIGIOUS
ExpERiENCE-A reporter OF the Chicago
TriJune has been in Imagination inter.
viewing Mr.. VIM. j, Storey, publisher OF
the Chicago Times, as to his late CONVEX
sion to Spiritualsm. aud during the TO-
terview, an allusion was made to Middle.
bury, where Storey lived aud was well
known in his youthful days. The an.
swcrs, in the following extract,will be rec
ognized as characteristic whether real or
fanciful
Reporter-May | ask you what your
religious views were before you became
interested in this spiritual question?
Mr.. Storey Religious HI. | never
had any religious views. Why, sir, you
might have hunted through all my bag
gage for the last thirty years and never
and anything Of the kind there. My
only creed was the success Of the Times
That is the only principle have had for
the las. fifteen years.
Reporter-But you were brought up
in pious community, Mr.. Storey?
Mr.. Storcy--No sir, | was brought
up in my fathers family.
Reporter-But all the tender iniiu-
cnces OF home, Mr.. Storey-the Sunday
school, the prayer said by the mothers
knee, the little hymn which she had you
say when she laid you down to sleep ?
Mr. Storcy-You arc not old enough to
have known my father. The only hymns
which heard during childhood were the
hum OF the horsewhlp and the rather
louder melody OF the hoo2.pole.
''io''er--- ueh you hau no religlous
experience nj all IN early youth
MIR. Storcy-Ics. | did. Were Won
ovcr in N;ddlebprv "
Reportor-Yes
Mr.. Storcy-Do Won recollec. the old
meeting houso-the old Conorcootional
churcb9tbat was lust off from the square
near Doctor Aliens house?
Reporter-I lust barely recollect it
Mr.. Storey-Well. one SUNDAY after.
noon | had religious experience in from,
of that meeting house. | was standing
out there. There was la &c pile OF
stones near bv. had nothing norticu.
lar to do. saw the stones. did no,
know what else to do with them. and
began throwing them at the meeting
house. made it ring. The result wa.
that a swarm of deacons poured out and
| was seized and underwent nv first re-
ligious experience at the hands of a YER,
strong deacon and | was afterward con
fined for the space of DAY in the Jail a
Middlebury, for what they called an in
reference with divine worship.
,,o ch;oc In.,,oo yn;,o Ioorno, -
His NOMINATION..
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session hv II d Nnsscr ,bot br;lI;.n
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Who IL olwnvs boarcr or alad ,d;nas
Vie saw di.natcb at tho TVS Office ne,
bo;nr warn, personal rr;ond Of Mr.
Wiz ho bostonod 10 n,o Co,yon,ion
That ,uonst body was inst on the eve q
ossoml,I;n, ortor ,ho ,oon r,coss NJ
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: DARING RAILWAY hobBERf.-A ia
lns ana succession fooocry was commute
}. sunday evening on the Iron Moantai
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l. w,s s;,nollod to .,o, the switch wa
u ,nrnol ami III, t.,ir ra,, an - s;ln tracl
l. "A tho train s,onncd Condne,or Ala,
= stenncd off to ,'Iccrta;n what was n
t. maitcr when he WAS confronted Inv mo
l. weoripr moel. 4 ristoI was ,l,ccd
IL his bca1 and he was marched df} II
C engineer Gromap mail agent cxnro
d mes.oracr and o,Lor Twin Non roro thq
&c scizod nv 1--WE masked and heavily armc
$ men who also placed them under cuar,
IS The ,obbcrs then went tbronch tho o,
W tire train and took from the nassenpe
o about 50 Geo and LARGE amonnt
o ;ewelrv. also tool from Adams exnra
'f MESSENGER ahout 800 600 md riaod n
W nail Tho rohbers then lert !, n son,,
l. crIv d;rcction and a(tor the release of :,
y ,r.;n man ,bo ,ra;n s,ar,od .on,h,rar
Inc roooers narmed no one on the trai
ID ihey 'eit oeh'nd a nrs' CLASS news i'el
D. descriptive oil inc transaction, which 'n'
D. nad already written up Inc ORIGIN
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