The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-04-11
'Leucr from nrapdon.

~ IA sermon from Rev. :. T.. Wilder,
the 30th ult., and a lecture by |
/. NJ. Bryant last Friday evening al
he Congregational church. Union
meetings have also been held Tuesday
evenings.
Some rather remarkable statements
we're made by Mr.. Wilder in his dis
lie said, among other things,
hat he never saw in ali his life so much
drunkenness and carousing on the
streets is he has Witnessed in Brandon.
and he had resided in many different
in New England and in the
Western States. People will not come
TO town and reside, under the present
condition of things. Men had come to
him and said if there was not a change
they would leave town, for they could
not stand it any longer. They would
not stay in n place where their children
were subject to such baneful influences,
and so many temptations. Gambling
and righteousness is in the ascendant,
and unless a check is put upon crime,
the once beautiful and prosperous town
of Brandon will have lost all sense OF
honor and morality, and rum and Its
attendant evils will have full control.
Mr.. Wilder is also responsible for the
statement that aman recently called for
his bill at Il liquor saloon, the proprle-
tor of which had sold ont, and was told
that il was one hundred and ten dollars.
lie paid fifty dollars down, and prom
iscd to pay the rest within q week.
The saloon-kecper told him if he did he
would remit the ten dollars, take All
even hundred and square up the ac-
count. ''That mans average" said
MIR. Wilder, "for liquor is ovcr two
dollars Il day"
Mr.. Bryant's lecture was not very
fully attended, and did not awaken
much enthusiasm. lie began by saying
that there was nothing new to be salt
upon the subject Of temperance. lt
rccountcd the evils and misery causct
by the intoxicating emp, and wished tt
arouse the people TO II realizing scnst
of their danger. stop the sale OF liquor
Enforce the p%rohibitory law, and shu'
up all the dramshops in town. W. have
the law at our command, and if ii wa'
properly administered, would bench
the community more than anything
else. MIR. Bryant is laboring under thu
auspices of the /. O.. of &. Il. OF Yer
mont, ana at inc close Oh MS anurvss Nv
solicited all Ola members anu All Wh.'
wished 10 ION the oruSr 10 syn nv
names TO thep pledge II DC lihtIa'eu II
nifty cents head, All inc past u'ics o
former members being RENTED. Som'
fifteen present embraced the opportu'
nifty, aud once more resolved not Il
drink any more just rs long as they cal
90 without II, OF uhlll sNcct cIucl
next appearcth."
1t Is undoubtedly uue that holhlnt
new can be said or written upon ten
pcrance. But there yet remains Il wa.
ior the advocates oil prohlDltloh 10 II.
to stop the sale OF liquor contrary u
law. 1hcre Is not Il Town III Nerhloh!
of any considerable size, where liquor
not sold openly, and, Ill the majority o
cases, with perfect lnpuilly. lie iea
son is obvious. Inc temperance PEG
pie do not want TO moieSt Il certain
class OF rum.seliers. IL Is ohiE 'ios
who run the business Oh a siha'l ''a'e
and the resorts where "pieDclhnS mos
do congrcgate,N that llcy aitacA' ie
them commence at INC heau' arrcs' TN
p~roprletors OF Tie h1Sl-toned " GIN
mills, fill out their subpoena plahks VIII
the names OF men VINO are KNOWN u
p%atronlzc them, and VINO could not "
hired 10 commit perjury aiiu cohNIc
ton is sure to follow. FOLLOW 1t ~
day after day, and how long would
take to make the business SO uhproiila
bic that 1t would not pay 10 engage IL
it! Cases have occurred III ihis town
l n Middlebury, III \erSehheS, anu IL
fact all over the state, where men with
out money or influence VINO nave ch
gagged III tie liquor lrauc, nave peei
pushed to the wall ana lielr CUISINES
broken up, whlle other are allowed t'
continue on without interference
what a now! OF lndlsllat'oi' Wouie a,is'
rom u CERTAIN ctasS oI pcoPic II IVY
should DC cohlpelleu 'e9.h9 !" " nv
uor sult. AND yet ms IS me very
class, men who take Their 'od"y every
day, who publicly advocate the enforce
ment OF the pr"hlDiIorY llqu"l law
"llypocrlsy, thou arr a.
A case growing out OF the temper
ance excitement occurred last fridal
morning. The stories are soilcwha
coiifllctlng, as they geheial'! are II
such matters, but VIII give the iact'
as | understand them. One Joih La
broad, a frenchman, seVchty-two year.
old, was standing on the street III IRON
of Fairs grocery store, talking viii
another man about trading horses
when a. ;. wton, a deputy cohsla
Bile, walked up and throwing his arm
around the Old man, SAID, y on af'
my prisoner. Lubroad ana not know
Newton aud oil course he resisted
The officer then called for assistance
and with the hello of another ma the,
dragged the old fellow along till the,
got in front of Boynton's drug store
| when Newton threw him down an,
piled Oh top of him. They finally sue
ceedcd in getting him to the lock up
where he was compelled to stay until /.
O'Clock the next day, when he wal
brought before PIP. Gibbs, justice, ioi
disclosure. III. NJ. Mott appeared for TIN
state and Hon. l.. j.. Ormsbee for The
prisoner. The hearing was adiournet
till two o'clock in the afternoon ut thu
request of MIR. Ormsbec. Labroad wal
allOved io 90 mon his w rccopniZ