Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-07

elected for the ensuing yeat: Moderator,
Ira w. Clark; Prudential Committee, L.
D. Eldredge, John w. Stewart, Justus |
Cobb, III. A. Sheldon and Jason Daven-
port Clerk, James M. Slade, Jr.; Collector,
Jacob Dewey; Treasurer, James NJ Slade
Auditor, Rufus Wainwright. Taxes were
laid to support the schools for the ensu-
ing year. The meeting was harmonious
and augurs much good. As our schools |
are in high state of prosperity and USE
fulness, our citizens seem fully determined
to sustain them by every means in their
power.
The ice in Otter Creek from this
place several miles up, broke up April 1st,
and came down in splendid style, and in
passing over our falls was broken into
small pieces, filling the eddy below to al
perfect jam. 1t is splendid sight to
witness its descent and destruction with
out inficting the least injury upon the
property around the falls.
Death has visited our village in rapid
succession the past week. Friday morn
ing last the bodies of four persons lay
robed for the grave, Hon. d. Stewart, Mrs
Rider, mother of Darwin Rider, Esq,
Miss Lydia Wood, aged 81, and Mr..
Byron Rich, young man. Mrs. John A.
Hammond died on Saturday the End inst
Our community never felt the weight
of such crushing sorrow and sadness as
was experienced when the announcement
went forth that our fellow citizen, Hon.
Dugald Stewart, had paid the debt of ma
ture and passed away to the silence of the
grave. As the news of his decease flew
upon the wings of the wind to all parts of
our village and town, sorrow traced itself
upon every countenance, and eyes unused
to tears were filled and coursed their way
down many a cheek, while ordinations
of grief and deepest sorrow burst from
every lip. In rapid succession his many
virtues We're rehearsed by all. The poor
felt they had lost true friend, the bust
ness community safe and wise counsel
/ lor, and his bereaved family devoted
husband, and tender and loving father
while his brother, overwhelmed with
grief of the deepest poignancy reeled I'M
der the shock that came with such crush
ing weight, and entered with such terri
BILE force the Utmost recesses of his noble
soul. l never saw brothers love each
other with such perfect devotion and affec-
ton as Dugald and John W. Stewart.
Never did know land have known
these brothers from their infancy them
to have Earring word or an unkind, per-
sonal allusion toward each other. Each
was the impersonation of honor and love
for the other, and the severance of such Il
tie as bound their hearts together was
like sundering the heart strings of life
A case in parallel is that of David and
Jonathan in holy writ. None to my mind
more beautifully illustrates the power
that bound the hearts of these two broth.
ers together. What an example for
!, brothers to initiate. Would to heaven ii
might inspire the hearts of all similarly
} situated.
This community feel truly grateful to
Henry Clark, Esq, for the beautiful trib.
ute paid by him in the HERALD of the
31st, to the memory and virtue of oul
lamented friend. How remarkably are
the goings forth of death? How terrible
. the heart rendings, the deep anguish, the
) unutterable sorrow that follows in it,
train. 1t enters the abode of the noble
and good, the rich and the poor, the pal
r ace and the howell, alike, and tears from
l the loved ones the dearest objects of life
r and love.
} Mr.. Stewart has left behind him t.
l combat with the stern necessities of life
unaided by his presence and counsel, {
kind and loving wife, and three beautiful
boys. May God temper the wind te
these shorn lambs, and guide then
| through the ills and storms of life with
J his own gracious hand and unseen power
: filling their pathway with mercies and
blessings have known Dugald Stewart
as L have stated, from his boyhood, and
never saw anything in him but. what
? felt sprang from a nice sense of honor
and kind regard for the rights and feel
ings of others. He was emphatically the
friend of all, and do not believe he had
an enemy on earth. He was a man OF
great frmness, of deep conscientious
ness, great lover of justice and right
mingled ever with great kindness and
sympathy.
Strictly upright he abhorrod deception
in others. He loved the beautiful and
the good, and have often listened with
great delight to his vivid description OF
nature and the unfailing source of good
ness that guided and controlled all human
events. He loved his country, his State
his native town and was ever ready to
aid in every noble work to enhance the
glory of each, and the prosperity of all
But why should say more. He has pass
ed the view of death to the spirit land
, To say | loved him is but faint express
ion of my feelings in the hour of my sad
ness and sorrow. l always loved to meet
him, sure of the warm grasp of his hand,
the friendly smile, the cheerful greeting,
the result of life long acquaintance, the
winner of heart and soul, bound together
by the ties of friendship and affection. In
his official intercourse, he was the en-
bodiment of promptness, courtesy, genial
ity and kindness. Few will possess those
peculiar traits combined with such excell-
emit judgment in the solution of intricate
questions that came before him for adjudi-
cation as my departed friend. Patient in
detail, comprehensive in analysis, he
would never decide case, until he fully
understood every point, and with the
incest sense of honor and justice he would
make up his mind, that should govern
his action and result. No man ever more
Justly and fully enjoyed the confidence OF