Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-09-08
E MILLS, Moderator.
II. L GROSE, Clerk.
From the Schenectady Rehecter.l
Among the Hills of Vermont II


PoULTNEY, VT, August, 1870.
Here we up among tho hIifs of the
"old Green Mountain State" at one of the
most delightful summer resorts to be
! found in the country, and, although it is
! but comparatively a short distance from
the ancient city, is still almost unknown
to large majority of the citizens. \
at Ripley College, which needs no
recommendation except to inform our
readers that it is under the care of Rev.
| DR.. Newman, who was for many wears
| Professor Of Latin in Union College. DR..
| Newman Is President of Ripley Female
College, which has q deservedly high rep
utatiou as an institution of learning, as
well for its educational AID literary ad-
vautages and the beauty OF its location,
which is certainly unsurpassed by any i'll
the land. During the summer vacation,
the college is open Tor boarders.
The college building is finely located in
the middle Of ten acres Of lawn, grove
and play grounds, about 800 feet from the
street, affording an unobstruoted circula-
ton of pure air, while the extensive play
grounds beneath the shade of the stately
naples that are so plentifuily scattered
through the grounds gives protection from
the heat.
The celebrated Msddletown Healing
Springs are only eight miles distant. The
drive is delightful one, following the
valley through which the Poultney river
runs, winding among the hills, atfording
x view OF as fine landscape scenery as
one wishes to behold. A large hotel is in
process of erection at the Springs for the
accommodation of boarders. 1t will be
ha h,
charge of Coleman, of the Astor House,
New York. x We would, if we
had time and space, speak Of the drive to
Lakes St. Uatharine and Bomoseen, of the
extensive marble and slate quarries,
which are well worth journey OF hum
dred miles to see, and are all located
within a few miles of this delightful
summer retreat. But we have only time
to speak Of one.
The EAgle Slate Company's quarries are
about four miles from Poultney and one
from the village of Hydeville. They have
been worked about 20 years and are the
most extensive quarrIes in the State. By
the kindness of Dr., Newman we were one
of party from the college, who paid
visit to this mine yesterday, and though
III our younger days we have had consid-
cradle experience in stone quarries of va
rious kinds, we were astonished at the
extent of these works. The opening we
should judge, was some 600 or 700 feet
north and SOUTH by 100 feet deep, then
following the dip of the strata, which is
80 degrees east, they have excavated sew
eral caverns down into the bowels of the
earth, some of them are now worked at a
distance of 600 feet from the surface, and
from this low depth the finest and largest
blocks of slate are taken. This slate is
purple and green, and is worked into
roofing tile, blackboards, billiard tables,
mantles, &c.
THE BURLINGTON REPUBLICAN Nom
INEE.-The Republican nominee for Rep
resentative of the city of Burlington, as
we have before stated, is personally an
nuexceptionable man, but has neverthe-
less some very active and vigorous oppo
nents IN the Republican party. There
are good many there who are still in fa-
vor of carrying out the old bargain made
with Ballou, and unless they should act
different from what they talk, they will
vote for him at any rate. There is still q
larger and more influential class. how.
ever, that base their opposition to Doctor
Carpenter on entirely different and more
reasonable grounds. 1t is we'll known
fact to large number in the Republican
party that DR.. Carpenter was one of the
most active and effective opponents that
Senator Edmunds had that DIR. Carpen
ter opposed Mr.. Edmunds' appointment
with all the energy that is characteristic
of him when he sets about thing i
that he has been, and now is, his ac-
tive and bitter opponent; and if it had