The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-09-17
: The Kegistcr.
FROM THE CENTENNIAL CITY.
PHILADELPHIA, SeIt. 6. 1880.


PHILADELPHIA, SEPT. 6, 1880.
Although the summer solstice has
passed, and the dog days are already |
numbered, yet the blistcring rays of
''old SoP' still pelt the brick walls of
the city, and gIimmer over the fair ex-
panse of country. Even the lengthep-
ing nights seem not to sensibly dimin-
ish the heat of the previous day. AL
few days since, your correspondent
bied 10 Atlantic City on the JIG ,sey
coast, to get within the scope of old |
Neptune's salt-laden breeze; and was
amply repaid. Each succeeding and |
rolling surf, as 1t broke in grandeur
and beauty along the shore, furrowed
the glistenlng beach, and cooled the
Queen City that sits in loneliness on
the sea.
From the apex of the Absecon light
house, at The northern part of the city,
vast panoramic view is mapped out
before the eye. On the one hand is
spread out for miles the "salt mead
ows," and further on the plains of
South Jersey; on the other is seen the
broad Atlantic, hut on account of the
rotundity of the earth, the horizon
bounds the line of view at about 25
miles, even from this dizzy height,
nearly 10 feet above terra firma; the
crumbling white caps, the tumbling
surf, the coast line of shipping, and
the great sparkling immensely of wa
tiers, presents panoramic Wow bor-
dering on the perspective, and would
be worthy the brush of Sully or the
pencil of West.
The former residence of Robert Nor
ris, the famous financier of Revolution
airy times, is still standing in a fine
state of preservation OH Sermon Hill,
in paramount Park, near the city; and
IS occupied as hotel and restaurant.
1t appears that final adjudication of
his estate has but just taken place,
seventy-four years after his death. Mr.,
Morris issued his own notes for a mil.
lion and half dollars, when this in
FAINT nation needed friends, and retired
from Office rich man; owing, howey-
er, to series of land specuiations, he
died comparatively poor, with a num-
Der of debts. clinging to his estate. lie
died in 1906. Ills will, dated June IS.
1904, left what property he had to his
wife and issue; the widow died in 1928.
and all parties in interest agreed in
June, 1858, to convey the property in
trust for the Morris heirs, to Robert S.
Paschal, until his death in 1872. The
heirs then agreed on Henry Philips as
the trustee. Letters of administration
were granted him, and he proceeded to
settle the estate. Last month Mr.. Phil
Ups submitted his accounts to the Or
phans Court, same as Probate Court
in Misunderstanding that final di-
vision of the estate had been made
by him, the nice sum of S19,3SG
going to Mr.. Robert Morris as near.
est of kin, and tho Court approved the
report.
The "Forrest Mansion" on Broad street
where the late tragedian Edwin Forrest
spent most of his life and died, has nj
length been sold to the managers of the
School ofDesign for Women. The man
ayers are erecting an addition, extcn.
ding back on the Master street side one
hundred and fifty feet. When FINISHED
it will be an imposing structure.
There arc forty-two life saving sta.
tons on the Jersey coast, between San.
| dy Hook and Cape May, to succor as
far as possible shipwrccked and strand.
ed vessels. Gen'l Superintendent S
?. Kimball of the L. S. Lifc-saving
Service, has ordered the equipment OF
them one month earlier than usual
because of the prediction of unusually
heavy September gales. Two hundred
and fifty-two men, including a captain
to each station, compose the life-saving
patrol on the New jersey coast. When
a vessel in distress is near shore one
appliance used is line or cable will
a ball attached TO one end, fired from &
howitzer; and if possible is projected
over the vessel, the crew then seize il
and make it fast; a smaller line is thel
projected in the same manner, being at
tiched to car, or basket on shore
which being swung under the large
line, is then alternately drawn iron
shore to chip and from hip IN shore
By that means many lives are Offer
saved, which otherwise would be
lost.
The Pennsylvania State Fair is now
being in the Permanent Exhibition
building, and is on an extensive scale
Opening the 9th, it is to be held until
the 18th inst, when il is TO be snpple-
mented by an International Sheep Show
from the goth to the 9th. notice Mr..
Albert Chapman of Middlcbury is one
of the National Committee from YER
mont. ] had hoped to have seen some
of the fine blooded sheep from the
"Green Mountain State" but | have
lately noli ed that there is some misun.
Outstanding or dissatisfaction in refer
encc to the rules oy requirements of
the managers of the exhibition by the
Vermont organization, and that they
decline joining in the great show. /
hope the obstacle, or cause, whatever
it may be, will be removed; and that
some OF those fine blooded mcrinos
seen here in 1876 may again put in an
appearance this fall. u. w. G..