National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1869-06-25
NATIONAL OPINION.
Friday, June %, 1869.
Local and State Matters.

DIED-At Wells River Jupe 10, Mrs.
Violet s., wife of Willis Palmer, of Bradford,
aged 80 years. htNft tt
On the 4th day Of June Mrs.
Palmer left her home in Bradford
accompanied by her husband, to
make short visit to her friends at
Wells River, and on the 9TH she
was suddenly Frustrated on a bed
of sickness flom which she could
not be removed. She fingered, suf-
fering the most circulating bodily
pain, until Thursday, the 10th, when
she passed from this life with a full
hope in a glorious immortality.
BY this dispensation of Divine
Providence a kind, affectionate and
'confding wife has been removed
from the bosom eff her family, lea~
ing a sCrrowing husband, who is
thus for the third time bereft af a
beloved companion, an only sen
and a step daughter. She was .
careful, anxious and afcctienate
mother, not only to her own son,
but equally SO to the daughter,
showing that anxiety for each
which the sudden prospect of death
Gould not ef1ace. She left a charge
% all her s9rrowing friends to pre-
Dare to meet her in heaven. Be
sides her husband and children, she
leaves widowed ~ other, two broth
nrs and two sisters to mourn her
loss.
The funeral services were attend
ed at the NJ L. Church in Bradford
On SATURDAY., the 18th. Rev. Mr.
Palmer of Wells River officiating.
Riverside Lodge, |. o. OF G T., of
which body the deceased was a
verify member, attended III body,
acting as escort to the procession.
The Mechanics Base Ball Club
of LyndonviIle, and the Bradford
Club willpiay friendly game ON
Saturday afternoon, at the Fair
Grounds in this village.
RANDoLpH.-The village of West
Randolph on the Central railroad,
is very pleasant and thriving vii
lage. Some twenty or more dwell
ing houses are being erected this
summer, large building for fur
niture mandatory, and several
additions to other manufactures
are going up. The village is located
on branch of White river that
headsin Granville and RoXbury, on
high bank with a few inches of
soil ON top. Water cannot be pro-
cured by digging and the citizens
have to depend upon the springs on
the surrounding heights, which are
held as bigh almost as a gold mine.
1t is evident from Indications that
the stream once ran Seventy-tiy or
4 hundred feet higher than it now
does. in the northeast part of the
village is circular mound about
twenty feet high and containing
seven acres of beautiful plOw land
on top, which las every appearance
of being left while the water washed
out the soil all around it almost as
level as could be doue by hand.
Some years since a high food wash.
ed out several acres of laad Just he.
low the villa re, leaving bank some
90 or 20 feet high, aud unearthing
legs that have laid thus deep since
,hei0re the "memory of man rnnnetl
back thereto"
The whole valley Of White River
.tuu lJS tributaries Dear unmlStaka
Die evidence of the streams, at some
past time, running high above where
they now do. The whole fiat is a
gravel formation with a few feet or
inches of soil on top, as the case
may be. The meadows OH this river
are very handsome to look at, but
YOU don't know where your farm Is
till after the food, the bed of the
stream often changing during a
frcshet, and leaving nothing but a
bed of cobblc stones where betor,
werc your beautiful meadows.
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