The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-09

age. Eight males and II Females had
attained the age of three score and ten,
and of the nine that passed eighty, six
were females and three males. The old
est man was Edwin II. Landon, who
died at the age of SO years, 8 months
and 10 days, The oldest woman was
Lois Morton, who died at the age of SS
years, 6 months and 10 days. Eight of
those dying were under the age of one
year. The marriages numbered 10,
against 26 in 1881 and "a in 1880. The
average age of the males in 1882 was
20 Ills years, and that of the females
was 20 Ills. The births numbered 50,
as against 30 In 1881, and so in 1880. OF
these fifty-tw0, 30 were males and 20
females. From the schedule of births
and deaths as a basis. there Is net loss
of three inhabitants of the town of Mid
dlebury during 1882.
The Troy Times of Saturday last had
the following regarding one we'll known
by our townspeople: AT meeting,
Friday evening, of the session of the First
Presbyterian church of Troy to consider
the Rev. DR.. Webber's resignation of the
pastorate the utmost harmony prevailed.
The meeting was informal, and was
chiefly for the purpose of persuading
DR.. Weber that his duty lay with the
church. The congregation will hardly
accept the resignation, and wish the
pastor to reconsider 1t. 1t is understood
that DIR. Weber has been determined
since October to resign, but only for the
purpose of engaging in literary pursuits,
which are more congenial to his inclina-
tions. The report that the resignation Is
for any other reason Is entirely unfound-
ed" On Monday night another meeting
of the society was held, when a commit
tee was chosen TO ask DIR. Weber to re-
consider his resignation. This commit
tee will report next Monday night. The
Times says: 1.-The congregation were of
one mind in desiring DR.. Weber to re-
main with them, and 1t Is hoped
although DR.. Weber has informed the
session that his resignation is final, that
the remarkable unanimity and affection
shown by the people to whom he has
| ministered for nine years may induce the
pastor to reconsider the matter"
A good deal has been said in the news
papers since the Newhall House fire, at
Milwaukee, about the criminal negligence
of the association owning the property.
Facts developed at the Inquest tend to
show that these charges are without
foundation. c. ID. Nash, we'll known to
Middlebury people, is the president of
che Newhall House Stock company. 1t
appears from his testimony, and from q
card published by him In the Milwaukee
Sentinel of January 20, that reasonable
provision had been made for the escape
of inmates In case of fire; that tire-plugs
had been put into each floor; that the
elevator we'll was constructed in the man.
ner usual in buildings of this character,
and that this hotel was not considered q
bad risk, Milwaukee companies offering
to insure 1t for per cent. Mr.. Nash
concludes his card as follows: ut Is my
firm belief that tho Newhall House was
far above the average Of hotels Of its
class In safety from fire. With the ap-
pliances at hand, the chance Of danger
from accidents was very small. Had not
some one, with absolutely fiendish inge-
nuity. fired it at the one spot in the whole
vast building whence fire would spread
most quickly, and at the one time In the
twenty-four hours when nearly everyone
had gone to bed and no one had yet got
up, it might have stood century"
We mentioned, last week, that Presi-
dent Hamlin was to speak on Thursday
evening, the 1st inst, at a meeting of
protectionists in Cooper Institute, New
York city. 1t was a largely attended gath
ering, three thousand persons being pres
ent. The venerable Peter Cooper pre-
sided, and speeches were made by Hon.
William M. Evarts and others. The Trib-
une abstracts DR.. Hamlin's remarks as
follows: II am not expected to appear
before you as q producer or as q capital
ist, not even as a mechanic. although
have been mechanic, nor yet as far
mer, although have been farmer, but
am to speak to you briefly as an inter-
ested observer In foreign lands of the
effect of English free trade on the native
industries of foreign countries. lived
the native industries of that empire be-
fore England came In with her frse-trade
principles, and the disasters which the
introduction of those principles produced.
was acquainted with many Turkish
manufacturers when the Manchester
goods entered ConstantlnOple. Manches-
ter sacrificed thousands and hundreds of
thousands Of dollar in placing her goods
in the bazars of that city, and she COM
pletely crushed the native manufacturers.
She copied the Turkish peculiarities and
sold the goods mt much lower prices than
the Turks could make them at. The i'm
ported goods had finer look, but were
less serviceable than those formerly sold
ia the bazars. And what was the result?
Etery loom was stopped, and squalor
and pauperism prevailed. / could men,
ton thirty industries which persisted
while l was free-trader, and so / began
to study the question more closely. Eng
lish free-trade made Turkey bankrupt,
and the commercial benevolence of Eng
land has also made Egypt bankrupt.
There is curious thing about English
free trade. 1t Is this: Not an English
speaking community outside Of Engla nd
believes in free trade. Every commun-
lily or colony that has sufficient brain to
learn the English language has too much
brain to accept free trade. England her
self owes her present prosperity to her
own protective system"
EAST MIDDLEBURY.