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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-08-12
NEW HAVEN.

Mr.. Sylvester Doud. q we'll known
resident Of New Haven. WAS thrown from
his wagon near the depot. Saturday
morning, aud severely injured His
horse took fright aud he was unable to
manage i, He is rapidly improving aud
speedy recovery is promised
The storm at New Haven Sunday
aitei noon was very severe. Trees were
blown down and the telegraph wires
Frustrated in several places 4 barn be.
longing to Stephen Pierce. in the lcuih
part OF the town was struck by lightning
and entirely consumed. together with
most OF its contents. He had just finish.
cd haying aud the barn was full There
were also horses, wagons and harnesses in
the barn but they we're got out When
first discovered TO be on FIRE the devour.
ing element had made such progress that
there was no hope of saving it or much
oil the contents. There was an insurance
Of 5000. BY the most strenuous efforts
shed attached to it was saved without
much injury. The neighbors all about
came to Mr.. Pierce's assistance as soon
as The fact Was known.
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COUNTY NEWS.
RIPTON.

The Methodists have finished shing
ling their church, needed improve
ment.
--Riptonians did not think it worth
while to send delegates to the district
convention
According to report. sleeping is get
ting to be branch taught or practiced
in some schools in town, teacher and
scholars visiting dreamland during school
hours
We hear that George Derby is in
danger Of losing one Of his eyes. He
has been blind in it for some years, but
quite recently it has become injected in
a singular manner.
On the 2Sth ult., the schools Of
Districts No. 2 and 6. taught respective.
ly by Geo. Walker and Miss F. Sumner
enjoyed o joint picnic. About forty
participated in the exercises. Some Of
the children of older growth attended,
and wished, no doubt, that they were
school boys and girls again, il such jolly
times we're to be had occasionally. On
the 4tb lust, Mr.. Walkers school in.
dulged in another picnic
We have no great objection 10 any
journalist copying nur jottings but when
il is done in such a manner as to convey
erroneous impressions we would ask them
to go slow" Especially would We ask
one scribe to alter his item in regard to
ci,in sgr'i- A. it .taid H. tie i,ra il
conveyed that said agent is resident OF
Of Riptop: the KEoIsiER says, Of
another county No, gentlemen, Ripton
is bad enough, but not bad or corrupt
enough to harbor any such swindler.
The King Bros. had the luck to dis.
able the wheel that drives the machinery
in their mill, and on looking it over con.
demned the large Chapman" that used
so much water as to be practically worth,
less in low water, and have purchased of
II. j Spoor 15.inch Leffel that has
been replaced by an engine. with curb
and all attachments, for $3.50. A new
wheel costs S155. They think the
change good one, for additional power
is obtained with less expenditure of
water.
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VERGENNES.

Hon. q. W. Grandey addressed The
Of citizens Hinesburgh few lays since
on the subject of temperance
An effort is being made 10 raise
the necessary funds for completing the
Baptist meeting. house here We irusl
that il may he successful, rs the building
is much needed by the society, aud will
he an ornament to the city.
Last Wednesday night an alarm Of
FIRE was sounded It was found TO be Q
small building on French street, lately
occupied by two or three women of mol
unimpeachabs character. 1t was sup.
posed to be the work Of iucendiaries
Petitions are being circulated for
calling for temperance convention 10
nominate county officers. We think the
nominations OF the county Republican
convention are generally satisfactory to
the people, and the nominees win be
elected without ANY trouble
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UNITING.

Most Of the farmers in town have
finished haying, although one man last
Monday had not even begun, When will
he finish ?
Rev. Mr.. Sutton from Middlebury
occupied the desk of the Union church
last Sabbath. Text, "Speak to the chill.
dren of Israel that they go forward"
"A very heavy storm of wind. rain,
thunder and lightning passed over us last
Sunday afternoon, appearing to center in
the southeast part Of the town. The
lightning ond wind completely demolished
large barn just raised and nearly GOV.
cred, belonging to Abel Walker The
rain was greatly needed.
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SHOREHAM.

Reuben Smith, an honored citizen
passed away, on Monday. after an illness
of four months, Of typhoid pneumonia.
The large attendance at his funeral ndi.
Gated wide sympathy for the only son re
naming. who has been so faithful to his
father during his tedious illness lie was
born seventy.five years ago, gu the very
farm where he died. and has been mark.
ed for his great punctuality iu all his
official, business and church relations.
FIe was long time deputy sheriff 10 the
county and prominent advocate Of
temperance.
CHINA WEDDING. - On the eve Of
the 7th inst. there were gathered about
one hundred invited guests at the pleasant
residence of Mr. and Mrs Myron Platt,
in honor Of their twentieth wedding an.
niversary. Cornwall, Orwell. Glens
Falls. N. Y. Ticonderoga, n. Y, Boston,
Chicago and Minnesota were represented.
There we're twenty present who were 10
attendance at the time of their marriage.
The evening passed away, grand social
success, and everyone seemed thus to en-.
JOY themselves. After bouuteous repast
OF cake, chocolate and ice cream, came
remarks by the pastor, singing by the
choir,and all joined 10 the doIology. May
their future glide as pleasantly as the
past, aud the silver aud golden wedding
hour be theirs to enjoy, was the wish o!
tho, happy company. as they left for their
homes at the hour Of midnight Rarely
have We seen more cultivated gathering,
aud We could but feel that il was oct only
joyous but profitable thus to meet and rest
in time of harvest.
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the yard Of II. G. Scovel, ia the south
part of Cornwall, was split in two, and
splinters thrown to great distance. Four
horses in H. W. Hammond's pasture were
killed by one stroke, and were found ly.
ing together dead next day. They be-.
longed respectively to Messrs. Frank
Goodro, d, Severance, DR.. Sutton and
M. c. Foote. A pine tree in Leicester
had top taken of. The dwelling house
Of Mr.. Peck in Cornwall was struck
without much damage. A large elm tree
near Joram Kings was struck some
twenty feet from the ground and cut into
ahreds, from there to the ground, to the
depth Of about six inches, in an instant,
the splinters flying in all directions.
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LINCOLN.

M. b. Cove has sold his house and
lot, near Simon Danforth's, to Geo. Stone,
Esq,
The wind and rain last Sabbath were
the hardest We have had for long time
The roads we're considerably damaged.
- Thermometer went up above 40
degrees in the sun, on the 18th, and was
lost. Got to get new one with higher
numbers.
Mrs. Thomas Balm has been very
sick. Her daughter. Mrs. Alice Elliott,
who has been with her for few days
past, has returned to her home in Men.
don.
The Sabbath school Of the NJ. 4.
church expect to hold picnic near the
center, Of the town. Aug. 10 Rev. d.
f. Brooks of East Middlebury will be
invited to attend and participate in the
exercises
j. H. Batcheder has raised the roof
OF his store about ten feet. 1t not being
enclosed, the rain oil last Sunday was
driven in by the wind, covering the floor
some two or three inches deep Not
very much damage was done.
Our town is very much interested
in picnics just now. The day school Of
South Lincoln held picnic near T. N.
Bain's, the Goth of July. Also, the
school at Lincoln village enjoyed a pic.
Dic, the 9th inst, in Geo. w. Burpham's
grove.
MIR. G s. Briggs and family, OF
Worcester, Mass. have been visiting
their relatives and friends in This section
for lew days past They expect to
return home this week. Mr.. Briggs is
the Oldest son Of Elisha Briggs of Bristol,
aud has resided 10 Worcester about seven
years, being now one OF the policemen OF
that place. We should Judge him to be
in fair health. as he tips the scales at
267! pounds avoirdupois. lie is len
pounds heavier than his father. they both
weighing 525 pounds Pretty coed
sized Vermonters.
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LEICESTER.

MIR. George Fields, who was so
badly used by the Scott boys week before
last, is out again almost as good as new.
The Brandon Lime and Marble Co.
are running their lime works to their full
lest capacity, having received, few days
since, an order for eighteen hundred
barrels of lime from firm in New
York.
MIR. John Paine, an aged citizen Of
this town, died at his residence, Aug. 2.
He had been i'll for some time, but hopes
were at FIRST entertained that he would
recover. lie had attained the advanced
age Of soventy.eight, and thus 10 his
death Leicester loses another of her aged
ones.
The high wind Of last Sunday after.
noon demolished Mr.. VIM. Powers wind
mill-tho second time it has been de.
stroyed this year. A rather expensive
method Of getting water to ones house
and barn. During the same storm the
lightning struck tree but few feet
from the house OF Mr.. Armstrong 10 tho
same district.
As the blacksmith. John Murray,
was exercising his trotting horse in VIII.
ting the other day. the bit broke. and the
animal finding it out little sooner than
John, started so suddenly as to throw
him backward off his sulky. The horse
ran a short distance in the road, then
turned and ran through Mr.. Abel Walk.
er's horse stable, freeing himself from the
vehicle then turned again into the road,
aud in the shortest possible time brought
up in his own stable, leaving John to
walk home with a bruised head, lame
back and sprained ankle, and we hope
wiser man
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WEYBRIDGE.

Mrs, Orange Brittell Is very low
with scrolulous sore Doubts are enter
tanned as to her recovery.
The wind on Sunday did consijcra.
bic damage in the eastern and cenirai
parts Of the town, tearing Vi, trees. uu.
roofing buildings. &c No Iis's sere
lost.
Some cxcitemrnt prevails here on
the temperance Question The issue bsine
upon the election ul .i,ir's sttorney. II
is likely that the temperance candidate
will be -u-fai.'-, hcre II the coming
election.
Miss Lucy j. ky'ier is At the Sab
bath school assembly at Chatauqua, n
Y. she having been assigned a part il
the doings Of the assembly.
Miss Ryder enters upon her dates il.
lady principal at the Troy Conference
Academy at Poultney. Aug. so
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SALISBURY.
There are about eighty.Gve boarderi
at the Lake Dunmore.

There are about eighty.Gve boarder,
at the Lake Dunmore.
The negro reported as having run
away with white woman 10 last weeks
paper is still in town, and is anxious to
find place for his better half to work
and earn her living.
A horse driven by Charles Everis re.
turning from Salisbury Depot with n load
of trunks etc became frightened and run
away depositing the young. man, trunks
ere beside the road near the residence Of
Lera Scott, Increasing in speed it
passed on toward home aud was soon
minus part of the wagon.
The NJ. T.. Sunday school of West
Salisbury had picnic, Thursday. Aug.
8, at Point No Point cedar grove
nearly opposite the Lake Duumore House
in a southerly direction. The place is
easily reached with horse and buggy, max
ing it q desirable point for Sunday School
picnics. We left the church about nine
A. NJ, and after an hours drive arrived at
the Point, where we found new table,
seven or eight boats, and ice water in
abundance all furnished free by the gen.
tlemanly proprietor, Mr.. John Dyer, who
with his wife and children enjoyed the
occasion with us. Those present. young
and old, about hundred in number, en-.
joyed riding upon the water aud sporting
in the beautiful grove. Some good sing.
ing by the choir,a speech from the pastor
Rev. D. +. Brooks, and vote Of thanks
by the party closed the occasion. A
better day We could not have asked Tor,
better time We never had, better place
is difficult to fad. Great credit is due
the committee for their excellent arrange.
ments, that few pounds of candy and
that excellent lemonade
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RKELL.

Mrs. Branch died July 27. aud
was buried on the Goth She was an
earnest Christian Of sweet spirit aud her
loss is deeply mourned
The Orwell Congregational Sunday
school hss been organized into a mission.
airy society, under the name Of 1.-THE Or.
we'll EvergreeDs." Saturday they had q
very pleasant picnic in grove near the
village and the story about Japan, its
geography, products, people, missionary
stations and prospects was happily told
by the members. They also had singing,
recitations and speeches By superiutend.
ent Branch. Dea. Heminway aud the
pastor. There was also swing for the
dslsctstion Of thu little onss
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NOTICES.

A choice stock Of boots and shoes
at Sheldon & Cos
New goods, embracing novelties,
Just received by WIN. 3. Alden.
VTYKoAR-300 gallons strictly pure
cider vinegar for sale at Sheldon & Cos.
u. D. Twitchel will pay Is to 10
cents for good unwashed wool ; washed
- and 81, at Il. r. Clay's. If
Il know you can, for Barnes told me
so himself, that be would take all kinds
of farmers produce in exchange for photo
graphs.
Soda and Saratoga water, oranges
lemons, cocoanuts pine apples, aud all
kinds OF dried fruit. Ice cream every
afternoon and evening, at John G. Man.
neys. Il
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POST OFFICE NOTICE.

MAILS ARRIVE.
From Ripton, Granville, Hancock,
East Mlddlebury, Cornwall, West
Cornwall and Bridport 900 A. NJ.
Way mail from north $50 A. NJ.
New York, Rutland and Albany, 700 A. NJ.
New York. 345 P. M.
Way mail from south, Jl5 p NJ.
MAILS Ctosk
Way mail going south. 800 A. NJ.
" I" north 3:lj P. NJ.
Mails for Ripton, Granville, Han.
cook, East Middlebury, Cornwall
West Cornwall and Bridport 3ii P NJ
Closed mail for Boston and Rutland, $40 ?. NJ
closed mail for N. York, Albany,
Boston and Rutland, 500 p. NJ.
A. s. TRACY, p. NJ.
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"A severe shower OF rain accom- pau
led with high wind, vivid lightning aud
terrific thunder passed over this place on
Sunday afternoon. doing considerable
damage to graiu and other field crops
fruit and forest trees. fences and build.
ings. The electric fluid PLAYED about
freely and struck 10 almost innuls cradle
places, 10 many of them doing cousidera.
BILE damage. 1t played along the tele-
graph wires, through the station at ond
time giving the operator, who was ia the
Office, severe shock. A fence along Inc
roadside by Grin Phelps farm was struck
and set on fire. but the FIRE was extin
guished and no damage. Al elm and
other trees near the residence of Noble
Brooks. A barn belonging to Stephen
Pierce, who lives two miles north of the
village, in the edge of New Haven. was
set on Ore, and with its contents burned to
the ground. Mention Of particulars else.
where. l.. II. Stowe had barn demol
ished and blown away near the paper.
mill bridge thought to have been struck
by lightning. The electric fluid entered
the dwelling house Of W. d. Bell, by the
chimney, circulated through all the room,
Of the house, leaving it's tracks every
where, but doing no serious damage. The
family were about the house bat none
were hurt. 1t also visited l.. d. Nun.
gers barn cutting up generally, pulling
bits Of leather of Of wagon thills. and
other pranks, but without doing
much damage. An elm tree ia
Mrs. Welchs yard Was stripped and
probably killed Two trees within a few
rods of j. +. Cotton's in Weybridge, wer,
struck and splinters were thrown twent,
<rods A locust tree two feet through, II
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THE BROOKLYN HORROR.

pur readers are referred to the account. IN
another column, Of the destruction OF 1hree
hundred beings by the burning OF = BROOKLYN
theatre. 1t is simply horrible.
Think OF il, All those lives blottsd ous,not IN
the midst OF raging oceans thousand leagues
from shore. but right in the heart Of populous
sity. within few steps Of their homes; SO close
in fac. to human sympathy that their dying
a-oniss were leh.ld by those who locked At
the awful scene through the windows Of the
theatre. Those who escaped by climbing over
tha mountainous mass Of the dead and dying
which blocked up the stairways, continued
shouting and yelling long after they reached
the street, as if they had broken out OF hell
And hell of fire aud suffering indeed 1t was
One man, as the flames approached him, wa
seen 10 draw revolver and shoot himsel
dead.
No such horror has ever before occurred II
our land.
tits the duty Of those having charge OF ou
cities TO sac to il that ample means OF exit Ar
afforded to the audiences from public halls
The sides OF such buildings should b. so mad'
,ha, they would open like doors or coald b
pushed down in case Of emergency. As they
are now many of our halls, theatres and opera
houses are regular traps, into which i: is sas,
70 enter, hut from which it is impossible I
escap<, ifs panic arises.
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THE SECRET BALLOT.

New York Sum- "Was it bull l-dozlng
or what kind of DOING was it, when the
operative of the North Adams, Mass.
manufacturers had put into their hands
HAYES and Rice votes with their names
written on the back for perfect ldentlh>
cation?" :,
Precisely. You might just as we'll
floc man into voting against his Prin-
ciples as starve him into it. And IN
some parts of the east the mill-owRers
have it so fixed that their workmen
must vote to please them or go without
work. We need reformation OF the
whole system of balloting SO that 1t VIII
really be secret: A friend suggests the
Italian system the government furn'
ishes stamped envelope to each reglst-
cred voter in which he encloses his
vote, In this way absolute secrecy is
obtained and the man really votes as ne
wants to.
There should be some general legls'
lation by Congress that would be equally
efficacious in Massachusetts, and II
Louisiana, and that would render coer'
cion and bull-dozing alike impossible.
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TT VALLEY FURGE.

The Junction City Tribune, OF Kansas
says:
..The slave power has fallen, and on
its ruins has risen \ far more comprc-
hcnsive and dangerous Money
nower.' The leaders of the two great
parties OF the country are the advocates
and champions OF this proud tyrant.
which now ,ramples in the dust the
liberties of forty millions of people
The Greonback is tho sleepless Nemesis
OF this arrogant despotism. But. Tor the
present, the greenback cause seems to be
driven back. The defeat is more in ap
pcarance than in reality. An hundred
thousand brave hearts in America-ten
thousand men in Kansas-one hundred
and forty-six in Davis county. have vote'
for the light, with no hope OF presen
victory like the brave men in the da'k
es, days of the revolution, they are nov
in winter quarters at Valley Forge or
canizing Cor victory"
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they labor for an idea. They have not
the faintest glimmer of hope to elect a
constable anywhere, but they are still De, .;,
voted to their taith. None but idiots will
call them fools. If they are called in
sane the question will arise whether the
accusers or the accused are the mad
men. An.essayist once described no.
table fanatic, Geo. Francis Train, as
sublime madman, or else the one sane
man in q nation mad We cannot
legitimately question the motives, 1n the
purpose, the patriotism of these people:
Their unselfshness is beyond question:
The benei6cence Of their intent will non
be intelligently disputed. They are IN
earnest. Men do not cut themselves
loose from party traces without concelv>
able hope of reward unless they are
possessed of convictions. They are be-
levers, to praisew9rthy degree. in ! ne 3e
doctrine that one man with God on hit
side, is majority. We insist that the
Independents are not to be sneered at
if they are, the worse for the sneerers."
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registered this year numbered 5,134 the
colored 13, 2444-a majority Of S,110. If
by intimidation and violence the
democrats could secure in each Of those
parishes a majority al immense gain
would thus be achieved, for if the board
should, upon a canvass, reject all, it
would be powerless to administer that
complete justice which would consist
only in declaring for the republicans
such majority ia each parish as but for
intimidation and violence would have
been cast for other candidates."
:. This is from the report Of the repub-
iilcan committee who visited New Or
leans.
The republican party will now try to
make the whole issue turn upon these
outrages and murders; and while they
concentrate public attention upon them
q pernicious financial system will cons
tinue to work out its legitimate results Of
suffering and bankruptcy.
The Independents can only fold their
arms and let events drift. The hand of
God may save us from that destruction to
which both the old political partie es seem
determined to consiga US.
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contest would lie close. The absolute
necessity of maintaining Republican con-
troll of the nation was insisted upon.
There was no dissenting opinions on
that point. The means of accomplishing
that object in any event and at all haz-
ards. was then discussed. The following
was then announced, and from source
that would seem to give it authority, as
the programme agreed upon at Wash>
ington:
Upon the presumption that the states
of South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana S,
could be made to turn the scale, it was
stated that those states, which were in
the hands of Hayes officials who had con-
troll ofthe necessary machinery, wonld
be so manipulated as to count Hayes in
if possible. If that could not be done,
then they were to be SO manipulated as
to prevent choice, and thus thrust the
conflict upon Congress at the comir e
session When once fairly launched in
the halls of Congress, the fight could be
prolonged ad libitum. Mr.. Blaine's
tactics could be repeoted. All the thunder
so effectually used during the canvass
could be again brought into play, and
the people again wrought up to the point
of sustaining any measures necessary to
accomplish the grand objective point
Old questions could be revived aud new
ones raised in any number and of any
character required. Violence could be
provoked, an emergency created, and
Grant declared to be the only man who
could meet it. He would thus hold
over under the pressure Of an apparent
overshadowing necessity.
Does not the news that reaches u:
from the South indicate that the pro-
gramme is being carried out? Whatever
the result, the above is plain statement
offacts. CITIZEN.
indianapolis, Nov. q. 1876.