Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-09-26
he C .aremont Ea Gle and No. d,

T,u EHio, ot III, Uroon Piaair:
In the Carcmont g. ll) Eagle Of the 18th
inst, under the head Of "Fircmen's Muster at
Kccuc, occurs the following photographic
"fhc ,nuouu 'ciucut ihat Ueluge M. 3, Of Chr
emuut, cane home with the first prize, must lie
matter Of pride To every one Ut cur citizens. When
at Bellows Falls ON the lth Of July, there was
some contention between Mizeppa, No. I, Co. Of
Brutlehoro. aud our Dcluge Co., in regard to the
httcr's playing for the prizes there which was adj
u~tcl, howe, err, without much unpc tsant feeling.
aud uur Dclugc brought home the second prize
soon after it was announced that there was to be
u Firencns Muster at keenc, Mzcppn sent Del
utr, by telegraph, ch ,enge to meet them ut
kecuc. Otcuursc our boys never "hhck down"
So they accepted it and notified Nazeppa Accord
inLly. After the arrangement for the meeting we
notified M,zcppt Go. that If they expected to beat
DcluLe they hui better calculate that it would he
no light "chorc," and prepare themselves ascord-
ingly. They met, and above we give the result Ms
de:ltrcl 10y the Judges. When Mrleppa wants to
beat our Dclugc agaiq-ovcr the lef-they will
please let US know
Now, Mr. Editor, we supposed that the decision
Of the indtes at Bellows Falls was matter that
WITS settled at the time, not to be brought up again
in this manner. 1t seems that the Editor of the
Elgie thinks otherwise. 1t may he that his bet
Ter opportunities for knowing why the judges gave
the prize to the Deuse Company of Cnrcmont,
while all disncrcstcd lockers gave it to the MAJ
zeppa Company of this village, entities him to
speak by authority. His ofiiciousness that oc-
cason was sufficiently obvious to satisfy most men
why his company came off victorious in the dccis-
ion, if not in the playing.
With regard to the challenge which he asserts
we sent to the Deluge Company, he iies-under an
cgregious mistake, if not wilfully. MaSeppa Com
pany never sent any challenge by telegraph nor by
any other means to the Deluge Company at Clare
mont neither before nor since the muster ut Bel
lows Falls. The telegraph operator says that 'no
person sent any such message to Deluge Company
from this place" The first intmation we ever had
in relation to any cha lengc whatever was in read
ing the paragraph quoted above. Truth serves
much better than fiction to point moral or adorn
paragraph pretending to state facts.
The Mnzeppa Company never sent or authorized
any person to send challenge to any other Com
pany Mt any time nor under any circumstances
whatever. We deem it of but little consequence
which company can throw water Il few feet the
highest. a resoute discharge of duty in the hour
Of trial is Il matter of much more praise. But had
we received the least utimation that challenge
was iNtcnded by the Dcluge Company we should
have turned out to II man, serious rs were the loss
of many of US by the late disastrous fire in this
village. With full ranks the result might hove
been different, even with the assistance they re
ceved from strungers.
resort to weak and silly flbrications for thu
purpose of coloring little selfgorifcation is no
the usual resort of wise or honest men.
MAzErrA No. 4.