Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-17
February IA, 1870.

| AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF CHIT-
TENDEN CoUNTY.-The Society held it's
| adjourned meeting in the Court House,
Burlington, Saturday afternoon at 2
o'clock, the President, l.. s. Drew, in the
chair. The minutes of the last meeting
were read by the Secretary, FL. n. New
ell, Shelburn. The question of holding a
Fair during the coming fall was discussed
and, on motion, it was decided that the
annual exhibition be postponed for one
year, as it was not deemed expedient to
continue the same, while the State Fair
was held in that place.
1t was then moved and carried that the
present board of officers hold their posi-
tions during the ensuing year. The officers
are as follows:
Presidential. S. Drew, South Burling-
ton.
Vice Presidents D. Hatch, Burling-
ton A. j. Crane, Colchester.
1geaaurer-C. W. Woodhouse, Bur
lington.
aSecYetarY-H. n Newell, Shelburn.
Managers S. Spaulding d. G. Bar
Der, J. II. Thorp, S. H. Weston. Josiah
Tuttle, Sidney Ray, Geo. l.. Williams, G.
M. Spaulding, Ell Barnum, Henry Gillett,
E. S. Rowley, J. E. Smith, J. V. S. Isham,
A. o. Humphrey George Allen, George
Brownell.
The books of the Treasurer show the
financial affairs of the Society to be in a
good condition
On motion, the Society adjourned To the
lat Tuesday i'll February, 1871.
CHESTER EOitor' Rtalaad Herad:-
In the issue of the Daily HERALD of
Thursday last there appeared an article
copied from the Middle6ury Register con-
tributed by its correspondent in Chester,
upon the subject of Eight Lacing."
| The writer of that article is Homer j.
Parker, who halls from Canada, and has
only been residing temporarily in this
town--a young man who makes some pre-
tensions to responsibility. The allusion
to the young lady whose grave had been
so recently covered, and over it was bent
in sorrow II father and mother who were
thus made childless, is totally false, scan
dalous and infamous, having not the least
foundation in truth SO also is the refer
ence to the child mot out of Windsor
county, whose head has been fattened on
either side. The mother has laced her
child into that inhuman shape" This is
also false and has no foundation in TRUTH
and is also scandalous and vile. Homer
J. Parker in his communication also says
1--WE have heard of similar cases within a
short time Does he refer to the deaths
in this place which have SO recently ken
place, and in the immediate neigh borhood
of the young lady he refers to? He de-
serves the pity and contempt of all. We
had supposed it belonged to the hyena to
disturb the new made graves and rob them
of their sacred dust and give pain and
sorrow to the mourning friends. But in
i this case Homer j. Parker has taken upon
himself the office of defamer of the men,
DRY of the just and good, and to increase
the sorrow Of hundreds of mourning and
| sympathizing friends. .....
GEORGE L. FLETCHER.
February II, 1870.
| VERMONT IN WAsHINGToN-AW Wash
ington correspondent of the st. Adams
Transcript maks it out that Mrs. Cobb,
the notorious washington Woman" is
Vermonter. He says:
Not many weeks ago was introduced
to lady in the museum of the Agricul-
tural Department, named Livingstone.
She was of about the medium height,
rather slightly built, had rather hand
some face, fine back eyes, and conversed
well. But for the fact that her front
teeth widened towards their exterior
ends, and projected rather threateningly,
as though she could bite hard if she
chose, and might so choose, she would
have been handsome. She informed me
that Bridport, VT, was her native town,
though she had been absent from it for
many years. She admired the objects in
the Museum, spoke knowingly of public
affairs, though not freely of them, and
gave me the impression that for woman
| Of 30 wears she had good KNOWLEDGE of