The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-24

Greenfield has 925 ounces, being more than FIVE
sixths OF ali that was returoed. Four other towns
returned but 1856 ounces, and tgentyone towns re-
turned none.
Franklin has many of her .owDs named after emf.
nept public men, Bernards on aud Shutesbnry were
named from two of the royal governors one of whom
was an enemy Of American freedom, but the name
was not changed after the establishment Of ndeoen
dence. Gill was named in honor of Lieutenant Gov
ernor Gill who in Office sixty years ago. Coleraine
was called, in l76l, after Lord Coeraine, an
Irish noblemsn. HIS lordship was so pleased with
the compliment thus paid him, that he sent to the
people the present of bell for their westinghouse.
The person, however, who had the bell ia charge
was knave, and disposed Of il for his own use 1t
is said that this bell, which is represented to be
very fine ole, is even hanging in one OF the bel
fries Of Boston, and that every Sabbath it calls the
pous to prayer and worship. suspect that it must
be hanging pretty near to State street. Conway 10
supposed to have been named after Henry Seymour
Conway tie friend Of Horace Walpole, aud one OF
those great English wings who stood up SO boldly
for the rights OF America; and Shelburne Is known
to have been named from another eminent whig,
Lord Shelburne, father Of the present Marquis OF
Lansdowne, and who was Prime Minister at the time
the treaty acknowledging our nationality was made
He was follower o. Chatham and the town was
named in his honor before the war commenced.
Hawley was called after Joseph Havley, the most
remarkable revolutionary leader OF western Mas
sachusetts, and Heath. from General Heath, an
officer considerable note in the war Of indepsn-
dence, ind q man OF some eccentricity. Monroe's
name was taken from the President in whose time
il was incorporated. have it stated that Sun
derland was thus styled from the Earl Of Sunderland
leading English statesman in the early part Of the
last century, and son Of that earl whose name and
title so intimately associated with the history Of
the miserable reign OF James III.
There have been some Todd fish" in the county Of
Franklin at different times. Among these was one
VIM. Dorrell, who founded . sect, once quite hume.
rous but now extinct, known as the "Dorrelites."
He was born in England, and was one of the sol
diers captured with Burgoyne. He married in Mas
sachusetts and finally settled in Leyden. in this
county. He believed that he had re .eived reveal.
lation from heaven, which was made to him while he
was in the act OF choppng wood-,not quite 80 dgni-
fled OIL affair as that which Lord Herbert, OF Cher
bury, mentions as having happened In his case. rhe
Dorrelite idea was, That the Sabbath was no better
than any other day, and that resistance was unlaw-
full. Dorrell was remarkable for tue fidelity with
which he always kept his word He had but one
weakness--he would drink He did not believe in
the Bible, He was alive few years since, at very
advanced age. Another Franklin celebrity was
Epbraim Pratt, who lived in Shutesbury half a cen
tury ago, and Of whom an acc ount is given
by DR. Dwight, who visited him at the close Of 1908.
Mr.. Pratt born at Sudbury, in Middesex county,
Nov. ID, 1857, year previous to the commencement
Of those proceedings which we specifically call
the Ems lih revolution. When Dr. Dwight saw him,
a month before he completed his 10th year, he did
not appear TO be more decayed tnan mary Others at
seventy. He had always been hard working man,
aud the grass OF one hundred aud one successive
until 1903 that he found himself unable to NOV,
business which he bad regularly done from his fiji
teenth year. 1t may be interesting to the Temperance
people to know that he drank very little ardent spirits
or cider. He was the Oldest person that ever lived
in Massachusetts; and he lived to see his greatgreat
great grand children, the whole number OF his de-
scendsnts, at the commencement OF this century,
being more than fifteen hundred. Born subject OF
the house Of Stuart, he lived for years after
the election of Mr. Jefferson to the American Presi-
dency. In his youth he must have heard of the
victories of Marlborough, and 10 his old age of those
OF Bonaparte, before he was Emperor OF Blenheim
and Marepgo. 1t is not often that the past and the
present have such a connecting link as was afforded
in the person of this old man. Dr. wight seems to
have been rather shocked because the venerable
patriarch was, as he says, without religion" A
different sort Of parsonage from either of those pre-
viously named was the Rev. PliDy Fishe, SO famous
as missionary, who was born at Shelburne, and
who died at Beyroot, some eight and twenty years
since, while attached to the American mission at
Palestine, engaged In carrying back Christianity to
the land from whence it sprung.
CHARLES LIE CHAUvE.