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

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step then To avoid compulsory legal tax
alton for the support Of religion; in ISL
he applies TO the Legislature for tempo
rary relief from his debts, lie does no'
seem Ia have been successful aocumu
lator Of property, bat he was the prince
o. Boniiaces, What Napoleon was IN
killing his iellow-ereatures, what Talley
rand was in lying diplomacy, what Beat
Brummel was in ioppery, what Calel
Baldistone was in getting up a Scotch
breakfast without materials, Henry Gould
was in managing village tavern. lii
was so cordial. 20 obliging, ~ symla
thiliug. 50 ready and attentive, he seemed
eycrybody's especial friend. His horse
were 80 sleek, SO smart, they had few
equals. lie was ubiquitous; he never
sent the poor away empty. The scent OF
the eagle was scarcely keoner than his
deserial of an approaching traveller,
Pete, Pete (" he cried to his dwaricd
darkic. "step, step, like dancing mas
ter, and take the gentleman's horse" II
thoroughly did he ingratiate himself Will
the mcrcst,stranger that the stranger de-
parted next. morning believing he had
left his best, most congenial friend behind
him, lie might have sat US the proto-
type Of Caleb Baldistonc. His endless
spoken bill Of fare caused the hungry be-
lated trrselcrs' mouth To grow moist with
Anticipated gustatory delights; if the
guests favoritc dishes were found ON in
vestigation TO be deficient, the oSplana-
ton was so airoit he actually believed
the deficiency pnrc accident. The special
confidant of the successful smuggler,
the half-stolen goods had been perhaps
securely secreted scarcely an hour, when
another special oonfdant, the revenue Of
ficer arriving was etfettually bamboozled
with AN appearance of jealous CO.
operation. Entering the room occupied
by his clsrgymen guests he discoursed
fervidly upon the state Of religion pass
ing along to another part Of the house
where money was suspiciously piled on
the table, he whispered, "Quiet, boys
play low play low clergymcn close by"
Was a new York merchant obliged TO 90
that evening to Beaman's in Poultney TO
take the morning stage South, he was
handsomely bled for handsome team,
as if loaned piecemeai from his neigh
bors.
james X. Hyde and the Bardwell House
might rival, they could not excel Gould I;
even the Massasoit with its superb APP
pointments infinitely superior, has not
the New England reputation fer ready,
agreeable attendance and merry cheer,
which tradition assigns fifty and sixty
years ago to the Gould tavern located
midway between the Atlantic and the
st. Lawrence, a focus Of Northern travel.
From Boston to Montreal, from New
York to Montreal it had no rural peer.
From Boston 10 Montreal was four days
trip, the lodging places being Keene, Rut-
land and Burlington. The direct East
and West travel, through Woodstock and
Whitehall halted in Rutland. The stage
from Troy stopped the first night at BEN
nington, the second here; while another
stage line passed from Middlebury
through Castleton Corners to Poultney.
The Gould tavern was almost always
the stage house; and that of itself deter
mined a large amount Of the local and
travelling custom. 1saaohar Reed kept one
of the best of taverns, quiet, neat, orderly,
bountiful, its coffee didn't grow in Con-
necticut; the genuine berry was both
burned and ground the very morning its
aroma was inhaled and drank; but the
Reed tavern never could get the stage
custom but once, and then only for a
few months.
If the weather and travelling were fine,
the stages came and went in the night.
and the stage house was open all night.
II the stages left of pleasant early
morning and arrived in a social summer
eve, what important events were they in
village life How Juvenile ambition en-
We'd the lordly position of the celebrated
driver, as he woke the echoes with his long
tin horn, as he rang out a brilliant crack
of his long-lash whip-an exploit, the re-
suit of great natural gifts and much prae-
tice-as midst rolling dust, with feryid
wheels he whirled round the sign-post.
almost grazing never quite hitting the
platform steps. How the idle villagers
gathered around hoping to recognize a
friend among the travellers for the stage
perhaps was crowded with nine inside,
and as many more with the driver, on top
and rear amid the baggage.
Although the Cove house was the pct
tavern Of the court in 1892, that soon
ceased to be public house, and the
Gould tavern became an adjunct of the
county courts and of the L. S courts
But there was one court which Gould
could not get that was the old democrat
lie Supreme Court. Gould was a decided
Federalist Reed was stauneh Demo-
crat, and Royal Tyler Judge from 1901
to 1879 and Theopilas Harrington Judge
from 1908 to 1872, would no more have
patronized the Federalist Gould, to the
neglect Of Reed the Democrat, than a
Jew would cat pork.
In those days the courts were not the
one-horse, justice Of the peace, trundling
concerns, they are now. There were no
railroads, tclegraphs or daily newspapers
and very few mails; to notify parties and
attornies Of the progress of suits. there
was no assignment of causes for trial ON