Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-05-23
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

DEATH OF PROFESSOR kNowLEs.-
On Sunday afternoon the Rev Mr.. Stow
preached peculiarly appropriate and af-
fecting discourse, on the death of PROBES
sor Knowles. The House was crowded
to the aisIes, and the fervid friendship, the
pure piety, the truthful sincerity, the I'M
selected simplicity with which the elo-
quent preacher spoke of his distinguished |
deceased brother, went to the hearts of
that large audience. Mr. S.. stated that
during eleven years of his ministry, this
was the first funeral discourse he had ever
pronounced We have rarely listened to
one better calculated to do justice to the
memory of good man, and to improve
the living by the example of his virtues,
MIR. Knowles had risen to a high intellec
tual rank as a scholar and a theologian
from an apprentice boy as printer. His
was life without reproach, and as few
errors as fall to the lot Of humanity. He
was seven years the pastor of the Church
in which Mr.. Stow preached this discourse
His health failing, he was obliged to re-
tire from the pulpit, and became profess
or in the theological School at Newton,
and Editor of the able Review issued
from that Seminary. His health had be-
come fully restored, and in unusually
cheerful spirits he returned last week, from
visit to New York. On Monday he
was seized with that terrible disease con-
fluent small pox, of the worst type, which
on Wednesday terminated his useful life,
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at the age of 80 He has left widow
and four children. Mr.. Stow introduced
q portion of letter from the former, de-
scribing his last moments, which was
deeply affecting, combining, in beautiful
association, the fortitude of the Christian
with the heart-stricken bereavement of the
wife. The last hour was indeed scene
tof trial. The children bad been sent
away to avoid contagion, even the physi-
clan was absent and she was left alone to
receive the last sigh of her expiring hus-
band, save one attendant, an Irish woman,
who had passed through the disease. His
. last moments were spent in repeating ap-
propriate passages of scripture. The fun
:. eral was another trying scene to bereaved
affection. The coffin was nailed up a
: midnight and the remains conveyed by
, the light of a lantern to the grave. The
terror of contagion seems to have been
! too great even for the fellowship of Chris
;. tianity. The Baptist denomination have
lost in Mr.. Knowles one of their puresl
:. lights Mr.. Stow truly said of HIM that
I the Church might hang the memory oil
his virtues about her neck, as one of her
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: May 9th, 1888.
t BANK OF WooDsTocK.-1n conse,
S quence of the delay incident to the colIec,
| tion of debts by law, the scarcity of for
e eign money in circulation and the gener-
: al embarrassment Of the money affairs oil
: the country, the Directors of said hank,
: have been unable to continue to redeem
the bills of this bank at Boston, at this
D time.
e We, the undersigned directors, have
: carefully examined the condition of the
: bank, with reference to the recent emer-
: debts due this bank, well and amp y secur-
ed, are nearly double the whole amount
of it's bills in circulation, and we have not
= the least hesitation in assuring the public
, of our entire confidence that the bills will
j, be all fully redeemed and paid This
;, shall be done with all that dispatch which
e an immediate and prudent collection of the
demands will permit We entertain the
= highest confidence also, that we shall
. within a reasonable period, render the
! bills fully current and bankable in Boston
hat hon l.
nents as early as the other country banks
> in New-EngIand. CHESTER BAXTER,
LYMAN Mower,
SIMON WARREN,
- SIMEON WILLARD,
:: JOB LYMAN.
- - From our personal acquaintance with
=, the above Signers, their character and re-
i sponsib;lity, we place entire dependence
on the above assurance, and we consider
J. them entitled to public confidence.
CHARLES MARSH,
: TITUs HUTCHINSON,
:, BENJAMIN SWAN,
y JACOB CoLLAMER.
TEMPERANCE IN THE ARMY.
p We have seldom been more pleased thar
with the move made by A. G. Blanchard
and J. I'll. Eaton, first and second lieuten
D. ants OF thethird regiment Of the U. S. To-
D. fantry, and L. A. BirdsaH, assistant sur
lie geon, to procure an extension of the ad
v vantages of temperance in the. army.
They have petitioned Congress that th,
Of substitution of coffee and sugar for the ra
Of ton of whiskey may be extended to tn
at soldiers on fatigue duty. They say that
IT contributes to keep alive habits of intern
Ill perance. the legitimate results of whicl