Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-17
County Uews.
BRlDPORT.
From our regular correspondent

son. N. L.
Many of our townsmen went on the
excursion Wednesday.
Miss Sarah Deane of Crown Point is
visiting friends in town.
a party of our young folks went to
Lake Dunmore last Friday.
Some of our townsmen attended the
rally at Vergennes last week.
1. S. Doty started for Texas, Tuesday,
with sheep belonging to Mr.. Burns.
No change in the butter market from
last week, lie being paid for the best.
Mrs. j. H. witherell is in No. Attle-
boro, Mass, on a visit to her sister, Mrs.
W. W. Sherman.
A. II. Rice has been confined to the
house for some time past, but is o able
to be about again.
Eddie Rice of New York, nephew of
j. r. Rice of this town, has recently
been visiting in this vicinity.
Mrs. Weeks of Boston, formerly Miss
Adella Russell of this town, is visiting
her cousin, Mrs. j. n. Spaulding.
Witherell d Davis Uncle Toms Cabin
Co. will exhibit under n near the
hotel on Thursday evening of this week.
The meeting of the progressive socie-
ty" has been postponed one week; they
will meet next Thursday evening at o. S.
Gibbs.
J. II. Fletcher and sister, Matte, went
to H~inesburgh. Tuesday, where they were
to join a camping party going to Shell
burn.
Rev. Mr.. Byington of Shoreham will
occupy the pulpit in the Congregational
church next Sunday, in the absence of
Mr.. klock, who will preach in Shoreham.
Miss Eula Fitch of this town and Geo.
Dunbar, a farmer of Stockholm, n. Y,
were married last week. The ceremony
vas performed by Rev. Mr.. Parker. The
married couple will oon go to the home
of the groom to live.
The Republican club of Bridport will
enter upon aggressive work at once.
At a meeting of the club held on
the 18th inst. it was decided to have a
political demonstration in town in the
secure a tirst-class speaker, arrange mat
tiers of detail, etc. Subscription papers
are already in circulation and the contri-
buttons made far exceed the expectations
of the projectors.
The following correspondence between
Prosper Elithorp, ESQ, a highly es-
teemed and elderly citizen of Bridport,
and the Hon. Levi z. Morton, was re-
Gently shown to your correspondent for
his perusal, and thinking it might be of
interest to the readers of the REGISTER,
permission was obtained to copy it for
publication. The photograph referred
to is al excellent likeness of the sender,
cabinet size, and bears his autograph sig
nature:
B%RIDPoRT, July "a, 1888.
Hon. LEVI p. MORTON, Rhinebeck, n. Y.
Dear Sir Il write you at this late day
to congratulate you on your nomination
for Vice President.of the United States,
and to rejoice with the whole Republican
party for the excellent full ticket and
solid platform of principles presented
by the Chicago convention. ! was led tC
the conclusion of addressing you,a word,
in plain farmer style, by a reflection OF
the past, brought wildly to mind by
stepping into our central store last ven
ing and observing the likeness of the
nominees for President and Vice Presi
dent, neatly framed and hanging in &
conspicuous place; the facial expression
of your likeness reminded me very mucl
of the familiar and genial face of you
honored father. as | remember him from
about % to 50 years ago. when he was
Congregational minister in the adjoining
town of Shoreham and | was a lad il
my teens. The fervid. glowing period.
and impressive delivery of two sermon
he preached. while | was a nearer, so i
delibly fastened on my youthful min,
that paragraphs of each are remembered
to this day. One was Il temperance ser
mon delivered in Bridport, | think il
lS2G or %, the first of the kind | eve
heard: the other, a funeral sermon
preached in the old school house OF
Cream Hill. Shoreham, u miles from III,
birth place in Bridport, to a more thal
full house on the occasion of the dealt
of samuel Wolcott, of whom it has bee
said and written: "He was one of tn
ripest scholars. had the best command o
language, and was intellectually one o
the brightest minds that ever graduate,
from Middlebury college. He was
cla>smate of the late Senator, Statesman
and governor, Hon. Silas Wright, an
} took the valedictory prize over him.
(Goodhue's History of Shoreham.) MI
Wolcott was a freshman in colleg
when your father was in the senior elias.
as was related by him at the funeral;
lawyer by profession, but took to stron
9 drink and when returning from the Doc
little distillery in the n~eighborhood on
rainy night, being intoxicated, fell into
ditch and was drowned; died, aged 3
years. Your father in the funeral seryIc
read one of Watts hymns, to be sun
alphabetically and impressively," on
= stanZa of which | always remembered