Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-03-22
Correspondence.


Correspondence.
1t appears that the irrepressible
Train is now sojourning in the western
part Of the county from the following
communication
EiGntY-sEvEN MILEs FROM CWILHrAIoN,
whslh Is supposed to he the No. Branch Nalleyf
March eth, ls7l.N
Mr.. Editor, and eoerybody else -
France and Prussia have settled, and p.
gets more money than my Omaha lots
are worth; the Fenians aIe preparing for
another bloody onslaught on Pigon Hill ;
New York City remains unconyerted and
-geHi pidi rici,-we have met the enc.
my and they re-ours, next time! Yes
torday the electors of the Valley met "in
town meeting assembled" and such as
were neither lame or lazy and had sufic-
lent interest, east their ballots for their
respective candidates for Co. Com.
In the lower precint (Waterville) the
result is cheering. Boynion, (reg.
temp has 40, Atfood, (oppositiou) has
25. One year since and temperance had
a mcagre majority Of one, conservatism
stands in our way. Men of the "honest-
yeomanry-stamp of the rough and rugged
hills of the G, NJ. State, with SUqrotor
IN modo dignity sat around the hall and
when handed vote. would, with the great.
est Of 81 guess | know my biz crop.
ping out with their bland smiles, deliber
ately pick the little slip of paper Into bits,
and thus refused to accept the opportuni.
ty of chance to redeem our county from
the stigma of throwing preponderating
vote for rum yearly. They cared not tc
vote for whiskey, they dared not vote
against it.
Would that | had not promised to de.
fray the expenses of the Fenian Brother.
hood in their late coup de maine on de.
fenceless, Virginia scared pullct-hearted
Kanuckdom; for | would send by return
mail my check of such Dimensions, that
the selectmen of the precint might con-
struct town-hall, and thus obviate the
necessity of the electors meeting once OIL
twice year for the transaction of munic
| ipal matters in the dingy hall of a. tqverr
where equal par is of Canada struggled
rot-gut, nux vomica, ETC., are retailed t.
a demented humanity for ten cents pei
glass, and sweetencd at that!
For the upper precinct (Belvidere)
can hardly say as much, though | learr
that twelve men had the courage to SHOW
| by their votes that they appreciated tn,
raid "Light Horse Harry" made on "Eb
enezer" Reynolds, pronounced Rummel
by the>nativcs,) the chap who when hi
stock Of diluted Branch water is high ca'
compete with the various agencies aut
other "houses," and more too.-Twely
men protest against the invitation of mer
school-boys on their way to and from tn
''halls of learning to stop and take
smile Of forty drops, by those who carr
their bread by vending the Dominion bey
erage.. Twelve men indicate b. their vote
their dislike to see a public highwa,
strown for miles (onc-and-half, more o
Iless) with the Debris of two two-hors
teams, loaded caused by simply stopping
i To-!
One more quid for the Conservatives
a year since man was nominated for &c
Coma temperance man; not q Repub
lican, not Democrat, but man. Wits
i key, ever on the alert, nominated "Re
publican" The men in the county VIII
are slaves to their party, as also to thei
prejudices, craven-like stood aby the col
ors, and whiskey triumphed. Yet tn
Republicans" in dividing the spols
awarded one democrat an "agency
and labored hard for, the space Of 4
hours to award another with ore Consry
alive timidity on the one hand whiske
unscrupulousncs on the other; both al
rayed against temperance
AT this date we have not learned VIII
has carried the county, but are console
! with the hopo that "Atwood's Bitters
} will be at discount after May lst.
In haste,
Gro. Francis TRAIN.