Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1866-10-26

annual meeting oct. 10th. lS66 have been
reported in cur columns. The proceeding
OF the business meeting were as follows:
OFFICERS ELECrED.
Pr,ad.ni, Rev Pliuy H. White, Coventry.
IIr. Presidents, I.v. ". II. Lord, Mont
& 90. John ". PHELPS, Bsauleblro.
Recording S..raary, G,1rs. T. Houghtln,
. s. Adams
CorreylEdng Sscramies. Albert d. H.
. Pr-ctor>yille, Henry Clark. Poultney
Treasurer. Heman u. Hoy kins, M1ntIc-
liz
CHaiors Hon. Hiland Hall. Bennington,
II ~. Dugald Stewart, Middlebury, Henry
Bail. Rutland. Rev John \. Hicks, d. D.,
Burlington, Luther L. butcher, st. Albans,
Il q. John Wilder. Weston, d. Gilbert
d D,xtcr, Wilmington.
The Librarian, Charles Reed Esq present
cd hi- annual Report from which we make
the following extracts:
In package fiom Judge Clelvelanj Of Brook
T ieli, hui sermon whose title page Is as fol-
ous:
"a Sermon. preached in Randolph, June 3rd
F ISL at the Ordination 0f the Rev. Mr.. Illton
. s.man. By John smith, A. N, Professor Of The
. Learned Languages at Dartmouth College. Print
Cd At Randolph (Vermont) by 5 Wright and }.
DEMO, MD.CCCI.
With this sermon is ball carl which reads
thus;
ORDINATION BALL
The company Of Miss Lydia Egerton is re-
uuss,ed at Mr.. J. Wsrrcn's Hall in Randolph
q Thursday the 14ih inst, at one Of the clock
Z. VI.
Randolph, June 3d, 1901
Il may be well for some Of our members TO in
vo-tigate this conjunction and report whether, as
ar Historical Fact, such unions were common in
those days, which are not tolerated in ours, and
how an Ordination and an Ordination Ball were
jointly conducted.
DONATIONS.
..The Doleful Tragedy Of the raising Of Jo.
Burnham,'' also presented by Judge Cleveland,
reminds us how the Anti Masonic Excitement
swert Vermont, disturbed the politics Of New
York and Pennsylvania, and had It's candidate
fer President of the United States.
Mr.. White has rendered this copy valuable by
writing for it an appendix, in which IS given
/ e narrative Of the affair, and also the names
Of he veritable persons in Woodstock and vicini-
Is. clricaturej and burles9ued as the DrGmatis
P sonGe Of the Play.
v
pl s.ented several hundred pamphlets and few
bound volumes relating to the Ecclesiastical
History and Benevolent Associations OF the State
and many periodicals Of historical value.
Hon. Richard Fletcher, Of Boston. mas pre-
sented a large collection Of pamphlets and ad-
dresses in regard to the political history Of the
country for the past twenty-five years
Matthew 4. Stickney, of Salem, Mass, has
presented, among many curiosities and docu-
ments, a powder-horn, which his grand father,
Jedediah Stickney brought home to Rowley Mass.
from the old French war. This was given him
BY his fellow soldier, Samuel Robinson, with his
name and the date on 1t, thus Samuel Robin
SOD, 1854" This old horn saw the bloody
fights on the banks Of Lake George, and its own
er must have belonged TO that corps that Ban
croft thus describes "there were six hundred
New England rangers, armed with frelock and
hatchet under their right arm powder
horn Robinson became captain and in
exchanging his ''frelock' for the sword natur-
ally gave his poEder-horn to his comrade. Rob-
inson was among the early settlers in Benning-
ton. and the founder Of the family that has
furnished to Vermont two Governors, two Chief
Justices and two United States Senator's. Nest
families have printed memorials Of the times,
Va hich preserved on our shelves, might furnish
sl.s form and pressure" for this generation to the
next, instead OF being sold into the Unsuitable
nav Of the paper-rag collector. Ii has come to
NJ knowleige that within few years, the last
cory known to exist Of the first newspaper
printed at Montpelier went, piecemeal, to
kaIle winters FIRE, and within two miles Of
IL. capitol. And have been told that the
large and probably more perfect collection Of
, V-rmont Official Documents than could be found
elsewhere, collected By late deceased gentleman
in Bennington County was sent by his legal re-
rresentatiyes to the paper mill. The pefpetra-
tors of such sacrilege ought to be punished as
for any other serious crime. Ignorance Of the
historical or pecuniary value Of such documents
is without excuse. Though the schoolmaster is
abroad in Vermont, he has not yet reached all
our citizens.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
This ofice is slpgularly defective in public
; documents, owing without doubt to its peri
pa,enc character previous to 1885 do not
imagine that there is much Of historical value
in the Office that is not contained in our pub
Lshed Laws and Journals. But whatever there
Is. there is no obvious way Of reaching Ii has
MT been considered the duty Of the Secretary oi
State to know anything about it If the con-
tfnts Of the Secreisry's Office could be properly
ea,alogued and printed, it would save many
truitless enquiries and searches for what is e1-
pected to be found in such place, aud generally
is not there