The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-11-19

evening. The result of their deliberi
| tions has not yet reached here.
| Several papers have made ii
statement that Gov. Stewart will nc
rebuild on the sight of the burne
block. We understand that IL is hi
Intention to rebuild next season,
Fl. A. Bond had two overcoai
stolen from in front of his store ia:
Monday evening. They were foun
the next day under the "dry bridge,
near Mr.. Tupper's place. The identit
of the thief is strongly suspected.
The arrangements for the musics
Icopvention, to begin November 80, arr
being carried forward by efficient CON
mittees, and no pains will be spared {
make it grand success. There will
undoubtedly be a large assemblage O
singers.
John Preston and wife, of Middle
town, Conn.,, and Henry Preston, wifi
and son, of Battle Creek, Mich, cam
to attend the funeral of their mother
Mrs. Benham Preston, last Friday
Henry and family returned Tuesday
John has been quite i'll with rheuma
tism since his arrival, and some alarm
has been felt about him.
"A. Chapman has secured a com
modious room in Cobb's block oveI
Alden's store and is fitting it up fol
an office for the Vermont Sheep Breed
ers Association. l.. d. Eldridge has
secured the other two rooms on the
same floor for an office. Gov. Stewart
and Chas. M. Wilds have rented rooms
in b. s. Beckwith's house above fuse
Kidder's shop.
1t is said that at the late fire one
of the special policeman, q young gent.
leman, was active in supplying hi,
friends with the contents of a bottle
which he carried in an inside coat
pocket over his police badge. 1t was
supposed to contain sweetened water
He is too respectable" to be investiga
ted, but it was pretty business for a
policeman to be engaged in. There
were evident signs of the presence of
liquor among the crowd in the after
noon.
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-Middlebury consistency and re-
spect for law were recently vindicated
by the shutting up of saloon which
had been but a short time opened by
two poor young men without influen-
tial friends to shield them, who evil
IDENTIFY thought they had as much right
to violate our prohibitory law as any
other man in Mlddlebury. They found
out their mistake and are now doubt
less envying the impunity with which
the hotels and the remaining saloons
can do the same thing for which they
were shut u2.
Martin Madigan, who chewed the
cheek of one of the Rutland fireman on
The day of the fire, disappeared, and
has since been engaged in the more
peaceful occupation of pulling feathers
out of poultry up in Ripton. He was
Interrupted the other day, as we are in
formed, by the appearance of Constable
Day, of East Middlebury, who wanted
his company to Middlebury. Martin
wanted togo up stairs to get his coat,
which wasEpermitted, and he gave Mr..
Day the slip, and got out of the house.
lie was pursued and shot fired at
him, but he got away.
We learn that committee of the
business men from the board of the
Vermont Baptist State Convention,
of Lawrence Barnes of Bur-
lington, Jacob Estey of Brattleboro
and Ira G. Allen of Fairhaven, visited
last week, in the interest
Of the Baptist church here. They fully
approved of the purpose to build up the
the church, and appropriated $500 to
help sustain preaching. They also ad-
vised that immediate steps be taken to
raise money for procuring a lot and
building house of worship. We I'M
derstand that preliminary steps to this
have already been taken.
The w. G. T. o., held its regular
for November last Wednesday
afternoon in the parlors of Rev. f. +.
Hooker. The meeting was opened by
reading The Goth Psalm. Eight ladies
offered prayer; various reports follow
ed. General business occupied the
time until tea. After this there was
upon temperance themes.
Six ladies who had attended the Ma
tional convention in Boston were
present. They spoke of the noble
women they had seen and of the in
spring things they had heard, and each
endeavored to repeat some portion of
addresses as they could remember.
Some of our young men, when in
vested with the powers of office, do not
seem to realize their duties in connec-
ton with the same. Good authority
states that on the occasion when Mar
tin Madigan made q partial meal OF a
Rutland fireman, and fractured the
peace of our noble commonwealth in
the process, special policeman, deco
rated with the appropriate badge ofof-
flee, took him in out of the crowd and
allowed him to escape by back door.
1t is not an agreeable thing to see Of
ficers of the law thus helping criminals
to escape, and we sincerely hope there
is some mistake about this part of the
matter. ~
//-This community has lost superi-
OR woman in Mrs. Benham Preston
who died at her house on the morning
of the 10th inst, as was briefly noticed
last week. She was naturally disposed
to be helpful. AT the age of twelve
she could be trusted with many of the
responsible cares of a woman. When
she was converted, her religious life
work took this special form, helpful
ness. Her christian life commenced al
st. Albans under the ministry of DR.
Smith. Her views were clear. Her
pastor was accustomed to send younl
people who were III need of clearer
light, to her, that she might relate t
them her experience. She desired ev
cry one to know the great good she hat
found. She became an inte,ligen
christian. The truth was clear ant
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