Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-05-14

$3.50 $50 - fffN 1870
Another source q tavern income was
military reviews; and whether these were
held on the Common, on the intervals Of
East Greek, or the meadow Of Henry Hay,
ward, Gonlds tavern was the headQuar-
tiers Of the oiiirers; those militia noodles,
mere nOlodies without their military
dresses and titles now huttercd in fuss
and feathers, 10 the emolUmcnt Of tailors
and tavcn-keepers, These review days
rescmblcd the oh election days at Mont.
pelier; noisy pedlars elamorcd and filled
up the streets, gamblers and other loose
characters thronged groceries, tents and
tayerns; gingerbread carts, new cider,
beer, rum, cent.pitehing, hoys with mo-
lasses candy, mountain maidcns with red
wooden gowns and calico aprons, big
snakes, bogus whale skins stuffed, sick
lions, discouraged elephants, fo,hless
enmels, gathering monkeys, wonderful
circus.rilcrs, clowns with conunlrumS as
old and Wit as stale as their SUCCESSORS,
the negro min.trels, pcrpetratc for the
thousandth time-all constituting Yam
kee carnival, as frolicsomc and as ridicu-
lous as A Italian carnival, poured into
the Golfers Of mine host the surplus spend
ing money Of half year,
Those venerable old humbugs, the ma.
sons, celebrating ST. Johns aud other high
days, with their public mummcrics and
private rovels, their baby aprons, girlish
tins,l, feminine forgery and street pro-
cessious their public addresses and din
ncrs aifording, a. Dickens SAYS of the
British militia, "a cheap and innocent
amusement for the boy population" with
their wicked bosh about masonry being
almost equal 10 Christianity. practically
fostering skeptioism with their ostenta-
tious funerals, disgusting to good taste /;
with their clannish charity; with their
political intrigues, 80 all-peryading that
no young othoe-seeker dared wag his head
against them-thcse men uniformly pat
ronized Gould's tavern.
Wendell Phillips is reported TO have
said that making gingerbread is among
the lost arts II lost, it has a pleasant
substitute The present generation of
Americans amuses Europeans with the
varied combinations and grote>que names
Of its spirituous drinks. The past-away
generation had one drink that is descrv-
edly among the abandoned ants, viz; flip
This is described as containing half pint
of spirit, and a sufficient quantity of
small beer and sugar to constitute mug,
which, heated with hot iron, sold for
twenty-five cents a ilip-iron was as con-
stantly in the fire as pork was in the bar
rel Gould's tavern had two bar-rooms
on the north side, the front one heated by
fireplace, the back one by .rick oven
Long benches invited the weary, the dry
and the soeiable to sit Rutland village
OF old had hard reputation as drink
ing place. There were not then so many
families as now that obtained their income
by selling liquors; nor of course any fam
lies that derived their principal income
from spying out and prosecuting liquor-
sellers. Judge Williams said intoxication
then was fully as disreputable as since
but the liquurs were pure; custom sane
toned its use rs il did slave-dealing, and
the village tavern was the most social of
institutions; the anecdotes, Jokes and cute
sayings, formerly circulating here as SOU
venirs of our predecessors, Were countless
Among the fun-makers, VIM. Baxter, Asa
Graves and Ozias Fuller were conspicu-
Gus But with the pleasant stories Of
past social festivities, there also miugles
the wall of friends over wrecked charac-
ter, ruined constitutions and bankrupt
estates.
Among the guests of the Gould tavern
were John c., Calhoun, the original teach
er Of secession, then Monroe's Secretary
of War, and Commodore McDonough,
with his tars, en- route from Boston to
Lake Champlain, previous 10 their bril-
liant victory
Henry Gould's first wife was Mary
Stearns, born in Concord, Mass, 81 March,
1864, died % May, 1903 His second
wife was a widow, Mrs Betsey Keyes,
He had four Nathaniel, John, Royal
H., and George. George died here early.
His daugher Lydia married Dr. Daniel
fomeroy Porter of Indiana, 1G February,
1919; another daughter married Ross
Henry Gould, "indisposed for some
time" II May, 1920, walked into his gar
den. An hour after he was found dead
age, 81 years.
The Gould tavern was kept from 1920
to 1923 by Royal H. Could from 1923 to
1888 most of the time by Nathaniel
Could; Oliver Allen and his brother-in-
law, Southland, keeping it part of the
time. Nathaniel Gould was owner of the
Henry Gould mortgage from 1877 to 1919;
Joel Beaman bought the place of Daniel
southwick, lie Grand Cannon and George
B. Warrcu, Of Troy, for Sa,15Q, the 18th
December, 1922, and six weeks later sold
it for $3.50 to Oliver Allen who sold it
LIST August, 1928, to Robert Temple, who
sold 10Th May, 1883 to Joel and George
Hudson Beaman for SG,i50.
Oliver Allen was.a specimen of class
we sometimes see, who are sharp in a
shilling trade but cannot manage for
tunes; he. was legatee of large estate
bought the Gould tavern and other real
estate; was engaged in the tanning bust
ness, had litigation and was soon poor
he fell dead in the Franklin.
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