The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-03-17
CORNUiLL.
Tho going Is supremely bad


Good sheep have been selling at
from Sl5 to S75 per head during the
present winter and spring, and the
trade has Frightening aspect.
Col II. II. Dean has recently sold
thirty acres of fine interval meadow land
on Lemon Fair river to Lyman Johnson,
of Bridport.
We learn that Edward S. Dana has
purchased the farm In New Haven
owned by his father-in law, Dea, Calvin
Squier, and Is about to remove TO that
place. Mr.. Dana's valuable farm In
Cornwall, one of the finest in Western
Vermont, is offered for sale, together
with very superior flock of about fifty
pure bred Spanish merino sheep, A
ram from this flock was sold at Philadcl-
phia last fall for $3.50.
Praise meetings have been kept up
on Sabbath evenings all winter in the
school house in Mr.. Rollin Foote'S dis
trict w. |. Twitchell, Middlebury
college senior, has conducted them,
and Freeman Sturteyant, the teacher of
the day school, has assisted upon the Or
gan and otherwise They have been
we'll attended, and with good results.
The last one of the season took place
last Sabbath, when Messrs. l.. ii. Stowe
and o. G. Barnes of Middlebury were
present and assisted greatly in the vocal
music.
| MEssRs. EDITORS 1t is strange with
what tenacity some persons will stick TO
a mis-statement of facts. Did l, as Mr..
Douglas states, shirk the responsible
ty of an error made by my assistant
upon an innocent man? In his article
of last week, he says that ''when Mr..
Lowell called called upon him to nsccr-
tain upon whom the blame rested under
the law, and after being told that il
rested upon the town clerk, Mr.. Lowell
said that laid the blame upon the min
lister, and says, 81 told the town clerk
| did not see any use In having any GER
tiilcale If that was so.' Did Mr.. Lowell
make this statement to Mr.. Douglas!
hereby certify that when the town clerk cam6
1, my house 10 see II had given my consent e
the marriage ofmy daughter, was not at home
and that had not seen him at any time after thu
certificate was given, when saw Mr.. Douglas
and did not say 10 Douglas that told the clerl
that IL that was SO III the minister was 10 blame
did not see any use In having certificate.
wllncsa, II. T. PECK.
Mr.. Douglas also states in his las
article that II wanted the father 10 az
right up and make Mr.. Magill settle It,
And further, that l told Mr.. Lowell wht
the grand jurors were. Is the abov,
statement true? | don't ask Mr.. Doug
las to take ''the unsupported word o
one man."
We, the undersigned, members Of John i.oWcll
family, were present when the town clerk came 4
see II tie parents had given consent TO the mai
rlage Of their daughter, aud we state that the cer
one, but did say that the certificate ought not
10 have been given that HE asslsant was 70 blanc
and that he regretted l. very muchi and we ais
, the father TO 20 right up and make Mr.. Magill Sc
tie H. nor did he mention who the town grand Jul
ors We're. Mrs. JOHN LOWELL.
pAsCIfAL LOWELL.
Mus. rAscHAL LOWELL.
Witness. II. 4, PECK,
Mr.. Douglas SAYS la his article tina
: I'VE have here direct contradiction a
a 10 facts, aud the case must turn upO
q the balance of testimony, and the cred
ibility of Witnesses" and that the famll
whose testimony Is given above are g
It family sustaining al excellent reputa
/. ton for integrity and honesty" Is MI
r Douglas to take the testimony of thes
e credible witnesses? II he does not will
Is draw the false statements he has mad,
:. il will be in perfect accord with his m
Il tecedents, and will satisfy not only ''tl
e better part, but all the citizens of Corr
e wall" and confirm all the off expresse
/, opinion OF his own brothers in relatio
N 20 his honesty and truthnulness.
TowN CLERK.