Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-09-14
PATRIOTIC ENTERTAINMENTS IN JOHN
SON.


during the week just passed. with enter
tainmcnts of a patriotic character On
Monday evening, Sept 9th, the young la
dies of our village treated the community
to some interesting exercises, literary and
musical, the proceeds of which (about
500 60 to replenish the exchequer Of the
Ladies Soldiers Aid Society. The young
ladies aforesaid are certainly entitled to
great credit for the necessary pains, pa
thence and labor involved in such an en-
terprise. Their diligence has been second
only to their patriotism. Long may they
wave! 5t#a s4,m..r1. ~ ...r ..,lss
On Friday evening the people had the
pleasure of listening to decidedly able
and eloquent address on the war, by Rev
D. W. Dayton, of St Adams. Mr.. Day.
ton most conclusively showed that the on
ly way to an honorable peace was by the
forcible and utter subversion of the mill.
tary power of the rebellion. By an ire
sistable appeal to facts he indicated that
disuniou meant only perpetual internal
broils, dissensions, anarchy. An arms
tice would be possible only by surrender
ing to the rebels all that we have gained
by the sacrifices and struggles Of the
past three years while the hollow
hcartedness, hypocrisy. not to say perfdy
of the so-called peace-men, are to be seen
in the fact that but for the diversion. BY
them. made in favor of treason, the revolt
by these very means very considerably
strengthened, would ere this. have been
virtually at an end. and our distracted
country actually and honorably and per-
pctnally at peace. A united North, a
vigorous and hearty support of the mill
tary arm of the Republic would furnish
a'practible and speedy solution Of our diff
tics. ....,t.,r ..........s.
The address, which was nearly two
hours in length. was listened to with in
creasing interest to the close. Always
logical, oftentimes humorous, sometimes
eloquent, it well meritcd the undivided
attention it received, and the earnest vote
of thanks that greeted its peroration.
On cach of the occasions referred to
above, the johnson Band was present, and
by the patriotic airs discoursed, added
very considerably to the interest of the
exercises. ~ .-... q
Cd DR.. Campbell, the Representative
from Rockingham is likely to have sor-
ry time of it this fall at Montpelier, for
as far as heard from, his party in the
north part of the State have lost most of
the few representatives they had last year.
Mortified elected the Union candidate by
6 majority. Last year it went 100 the
other way. Fairfield and Hyde Park
have also wheeled into the Union line
Last year the other way.-B.j r. Times.
L. Eli s~e -rg
BURGLARY.-John Conan. Of this town,
lad of some IA summers, broke into the
house of Jonathan Draper, Esq. Of So.
SALISBURY. one night last week, and stole
a watch and seventy dollars in money.
He then went to Troy and fooled it away
came back. was arrested, and is now in
the Jail 10 this town.-Bennington Ban
, aer.
G&i SID S(!fl'5EEf
FATAL ACCIDENT We learn that Mr..
and Mrs. H.J. Mead of Cornwall. and
the wife of DR.. NJ. L. Mead of Albany.
N. u, were all thrown from q carriage in
Cornwall on Saturday last. Mrs M. L.
Mead was taken up insensible and SO re.
manned until her death which occurred on
Monday. Mr.. and Mrs. H. j. Mead were
somewhat, though not seriously, injured.
DR.. and Mrs. II. j. Mead are brothers
of the editor Of the Middlebury Register,
aud the Doctors wife was on visit to
her friends in Cornwall and Middlebury
at the time of the fatal occurrence. /
The CIvILs MILITARY. 1.-THE soldiers
from the Hospital, to the number of about
100, came out to vote on Tuesday. 1t was
sharp commentary on the Red6eld cop.
perheads. to see onclaimed aud one. legged
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