The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-02-17

tue lnicTestS Oh tue temperance cause IN
Addison County. The evening session
will be public Rev. II. =. Gushing will
deliver an address. The public are cor.
daily invited to be present. Per order
FIX. Com +. W. MOVES, W. s.
ADDISON County TEMPERANCE CoyyRN.
TIoN.-All citizens of Addison county
who favor total abstinence from the use
of intoxicating liquors as beverage, and
who endorse our Temperance laws and de.
sire their enforcement, are requested to
meet at the Lecture Room OF the Con.
grcgational church in Middlebury, on
Wednesday, February 18th, 1874, at
half.past one p. m, to nominate candi.
date for the office of County Commits.
sioner, to be supported Mt the annual
March elections. Per Order Com.
LEICESTER. There will be held at the
residence of VIM. Alden, on Thursday
eve, Feb. 18th, donation party and
oyster supper for the benefit Of Rev. H.
G. Pickett, Pastor of the NJ. f.. church
in this place. a cordial invitation is ex.
tended to all in town, and neighboring
towns, also to be present and aid in max
ing the occasion pleasant and profitable
to oil. So far as we are able to ascertain
Mr.. Pickett has given good satisfaction
during the year he has spent in this town
amid peculiar difficulties. Not only is
be laboring faithfully in the cause Of the
worlds redeemer but he is earnest in the
Temperance cause and all that may lend
to improve and elevate our social inter.
ests. We hope there will be full at.
tendance
We have heard of no casualties re.
sulting from the severe cold weather Of
late and think our people have survived.
Mr.. John Preston OF this town, was
summoned to Poultney on Friday morn
ing, Feb 6, his brother. Mr.. James f.
Preston, Of that town having died the day
before. Mr.. Preston was not unknown
to many of our people, who will. by his
frequent visits, remember him as genial
pleasant man. He had been confined to
his room for some time previous to hi:
death, by that insidious foe of suffering
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. While ther
his friends could scarcely hope for recov.
cry, it was hoped that he might be spared
= to them as long as possible as he was one
whom the world could i'll afford to lose
Although he never to our knowledge
! made professions of christian life, his ex
istence has been an exemplifcation of thu
Q Golden Rule and the higher virtues tina
!, adorn true Observation-Disclosures, honesty
T. love and good will to all his fellow men
t Accepting, then. the record of his life
b. let us therefore be also ready, for in al
4 hour that we think not, we 100 shall b.
e summoned home-We are panied tt
J, state that report has reached US that Mrs
b. \. Dyer, VINO it will be remembered
. removed from this town to Colorado thu
last year. is dead. We can but trust tina
!. it is an error and anxiously await fnrthe
advice
Mr.. u. +. Taylor of Cornwall, vii
lecture the coming week upon the sub
: ject Of temperance. ain different man
. ner" Che anncunces) ethan ever bcior
= presented.
RIProY.-On Wednesday evening, Feb
4, the friends and parshioners of Rev. G
= II. Kent met at the Congregational par
y sonage for their annual donation visit ,an'
after very quiet. enjoyable time dc
u parted for their homes. leaving bchin'
;, them as evidence of their good wishe
$1,000 in cash. one cord Of wood and on
' pound of tea. Tho number that tool
part in the proceedings would probabl
have been larger had it not been fer ih
i fact that on that evening the mercury wa
l. far below par and falling rapidly.
1t is with regret that we chronicle III
IS death of VIM Harrington, Sen on Thurs
!, day, 9th inst, at the advanced ago of a
i bout 50 years. Mr.. ii. was born 10 Hub