The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1856-04-03
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brand nc false 10 every par"cu'"''
insinua,ion by 'Villagsr,' that '"f
sams Of thi, place has been changed TO
Wyoming. Isay in'innat'0n because
I. does not come out fair and square
lik. q man, and say that there has been
such a change, but dates his letter
Wyoming Villags,'-brands as errors
nv statsnents of Dec. 25th, and goes
on with long rigmarole about the Pc
titiou for tho change Of the name Of the
'village and P. o. which might lead
some to suppose that such a change as
he seems SO desirous Of, has really been
made. He seems to labor under the
absurditiss that, because the name OF
the p. o, has been changed, that the
change Of the name of the village must
necessarily follow in its wake. And
had this been the only p. D. in the
county where its name was changed,
according to his logic, we should have
no longer lived in Washington County,
but Wyoming aud if it had been the
enly Office in the State, this oracle would
have infsrm,d US that We were no long
sr Rhode Islanders, but residents Of the
State Of Wyoming. So much for VII
layers iaaefut' name Of this place,
his absurd foundation for such claim
and the lofty deductions he makes there
from.
Again, he attempts to draw his Shiny
sophys stical veil over my intimaton that
every one here was taken by surprise
when the papers were received au hor-
izipg the change of the name of the p.
o., not excepting him who drew up,
signed and circulated the petition for
that cbsnge.--By the way, perhaps it
will be we'll, for the fair understanding
Of this subject, to have it understood
that public opinion here is that the anx-
ious petitioner above referred to is no
other than be who sigas himself Vii
lager, and who now and then very com
placsntly flourish Z. NJ, or NJ. ID.
rs a tail to his signature. He says the
Pm. of this village WAS written to on this
subject Of changing the name OF this ell
lage and P. U. TO Wyoming and that
said P. NJ. did expect from what was sx
pressed that change would be made,
&C. Did shpect ) du tell = But
Ohen did he have such expectations =
Why, when he received the letter iu '53,
and not in the fall of 1855, when the
change Was made, as he would have it
nndsrstsod (for he makes the statement
ia contradiction oil mine but is mig ghty
careful not to give dates, or else is not
capable Of writing undcrstandingly.-
But for the benefit Of The public, that
they may not be deceired by this saga
elous Villagsr, nor get wrong idea
Of his neral honesty, it may not be
amiss to here insert the substance of a
document signed by this same Z. NJ, as
we'll as some thirty or forty other per-
sons, in the sumuer of 1850, 1t is tv
the following efect!-
we, the undersigned citizens Of AL
ton and vicinity, having occasion to 10
oil Of our correspondence through the
p, 0 at that place, do hereby represent
to H f Waliug, and all others who
may fish up an interest therein, that we
are in favor OF the unconditional substi
tuition Of the name Alton in place Of the
long and awkward name Of b. |. Works,
which the place (on the map and p. 0.
BOW bear., according TO uote Of The Gil
izens of the vitlage, at meeting publicly
notified and held in the district School
House, in April, 1880
SO l pass what said P n did ex.
psct.' bearing in mind the close connec
ton between him and this 'Villager,'
with the remark that this p NJ. acqul.
csed in the change of the name of this
village to Alton, and lent his influence
to have the same inserted on the map of
Of the State, ia place Of b [. Works,
knowing that the next step to be tax n
was to petition for the change OF the
name of the z. 0, to Alton, that it
might be of the same name-of the vii
lsge.
Then be says figured with Mr.
Walling's agent to have the name Al
ton placed on the new State Map of X.
l. Now what does he mean by fig
ured 2 Evidently he means intrigued,
(although the word has no such mean
lug, y but his string Of words is no sentence
with any other Interpretation. So if
thus rightly slit out his real meaning,
truth aud conscience demand Of me to
brand it ~ another malicious falsehood.
When Mr.. Walliug's agent was in this
place in the spring Of 1895, obtaining
subscribers for the State Map, he WAS
informed by me, and undoubtedly by
others, that the name Of this village had
been changed to Alton, whereupon he
noted the fact upon the proof sheet then
with him, a. be did oil changes that had