Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-07-28
WINDSOR COUNTY,
WiddIebury.

"A fearful storm OF ram, accompanied
by thunder and lightning, passed over
our village and surrounding country last
Wednesday night. The rain was refresh
ing to the thirsty earth as well as to man
and beast. The thunder rolled fearfully
and the lightning flashed wildly. Dur
ing the storm, a barn filled with hay, and
owned by Henry Hammond, Esq, about
one mile east of our village, was struck
by lightning and entirely consumed. Loss
about 5000. No insurance.
Deacon Ira Allen, of our village,
planted small piece of corn in his gar
den on the 14th of June, and on the 18th
of July he had some Of the green corn
well boiled and of good size upon his ta-
bic to eat. Who beats this d? Oar excel
lent Deacon made frst-rate wagons, and
now he raises the earliest corn.
The old wooden factory owned by the
Middlebury Manufacturing Company has
been sold with the water power to COM
pany, which is to remove the old building
entirely and erect on the site paper mill
of good capacity. The water power is as
good as can be found anywhere, and with
the well known energy of the new pro-
prietors will be made to do splendid
business. This is just what we want. If
we cannot grow heavy crops of wheat and
corn, we can put up manufacturing estab-
lishments furnishing employment Ia hum
drods Of ~nrkmen with families, and
making "a market for not only the surplus
of our cereals etc but enable us Ia draw
what we may want for consumption
New England has ever taken the lead in
manufacturing, and we trust will never
surrender the prestige she enjoys from the
mighty element of industrial and political
power. Her statesmen have labored long
and hard to consummate what she now
enjoys, and with proper protection from
the Federal and State governments, re
shall go on with great strides until we
show Old England that tact and persever-
anGe, coupled with Yankee ingenuity,
surmounts all obstacles, be they never so
great, laying broad and deep the founda-
ton of national honor and greatness, and
presenting to the world the sublime spec
tacle OF nation, not only great in wealth
derived from industry and frugality, al
lied to supreme political power, the off
spring of the heavenly principles of liber-
ty, humanity and eqnality,-but also of
moral and religious greatness, unequaled
in the history of the world. All this to
be accomplished by freemen, not at the
bidding Of despotic power, but from i'm
pulses that grow and flourish under insti-
buttons the most benign and salutary that
can be found upon the face of the earth.
Vermont is yet to rank with other States,
if not in population, yet in manufactur-
ing for nowhere is there better water
power to be found. and with climate at
once pure and healthy, and added to this
the pleasure of religion and literary privi-
eges,-furnish every inducement to
skilled workmen and capitalists to
locate among our green hills, bring
ing with them those prerequisi ties
power and position with sister States in
our Republic. While other States proved
false to those elements of national greatness
based upon the inalienable rights of man,
Vermont has ever proved true, and in
the formation of her government under the
guidance of heaven inspired men, she en-
bodied these elements in her bill of rights
her constitution and statute laws, and
there they will remain for all coming
time, to guide our people in the ways of
industry, morality and true religion.
Here free speech has never been fettered
nor habits of industry put under the ban.
Here our common schools have ever been
supported with great cheerfulness, and
the higher institution of learning received
cordial support and sympathy from all
classes in society. OF late years more at
tention has been given TO our manufacture
ing facilities, and it requires only an
effort persistently pursued to present to
hohieo heh d Iair view Oh our hltnerto
neglected opportunities, to induce them
to invest their capital, with every reason
able expectation of receiving an early and
satisfactory remuneration. While other
States are making giant strides to take
high rank even higher than what they
now enjoy, let Vermonters not relax in
their efforts to make their own State,
rugged as it is, in its mountains and
scenery, greater in point of material
wealth and power than what che now is.
There is no reason why we should be