Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-10-19
CaStleton.

day morning last, at the age of "a years,
He had bean ill about ten days. Mr..
Wilkins, in early life, was 8 prominent
business man at Wiscasset, Maine, and
after series of business misfortunes re-
moved to Vermont nearly Is years
ago. He was for many years resident
Of Poultney, where he gained the reputa-
ton Of an honorable and intelligent citi.
zen. He was eminently an industrious
man in his business, that of jeweler,
and in this regard was an exemplsr for
the men of the present time. Ha was for
more than sixty years engaged in trade.
He was evidently, in bis active yeaTs,
man Of more than ordinary energy and
business capacity. Few men that passed
through so many waters of affection have
kept a more genial heart and placid tenn
permanent than Mr.. Wilkins. The Last
few years of his life have been spent In
Castleton. He has buried three wives,
son and daughter. Two daughters sur
vive him, Mrs. Merrill, wife of Charles
Merrill, cashier of the National Bank of
Maiden, Mass, and Mrs, Buel, wife Of
Gustavus Buel of CAstleton. Many who
read this brief sketch will kindly remam-
Der the cheerful manner and many excel
lent traits Of character of one who was go
largely known in the vicinity of his resi-
dence.
One of the most valuable, useful and
instructive lectures ever delivered in Cas-
tleton in our day, was by that venerable
and eminent divine Rev. DR.. Chiekering,
corresponding secretary Of the Massachu-
setts Temperance society and agent Of the
American Temerance society at Washing
ton, where be spends the winters, labor
ing for the cause, not with the expecta-
ton of reforming Congress wholly, but
for doing good to the community gener-
ally in that city and vicinity. This lee
ture was prepared almost expressly for
college students and for pupils ii the
other higher institutions Of learning, but
it is we'll adapted to the Young and old of
all classes and conditions, in all commu-
mites and chimes under the sun. DR. O..
is man of large experience in the min
istry and moral enterprises of the times
in which he has passed a life of three
score years and ten. He labored forty
years in the ministry, and was pastor Of
one church thirty years in the city Of
Portland, Nc, therefore he knows whCr'-
of he speaks. His first introduction to
Vermont was forty eight years ago as "a
college student, at Middlehury. He is a
noble representative of that worthy IL
stituti0n.
Many of our citizens have read the
article from your correspondent &c. D.
s" last Wednesday, morning, relative to
stage drivers and old staging times with
considerable interest, as we were present
in those day. Other worthy names might
be mentioned in connection with those al
luded to in his communication, who
handled the ribbons over four and ak
horses, gracefully and skilIfnlly from the
drivers seat on Hyde & Co, and Cook,
Field & Co =, stages, among whom ware
Charlie Church, W bo died here some TWEEN
tY or twenty. five years ago, Judge Earle,
who left here for Wallingford twenty
years or more since, Henry Nortbrop.
then and now in Castleton, Loyal Jordan
and he who was known as Dunk in those
days, after ward freight conductor on the
railroad, and Dan Avery, of whose his
tory we have known nothing since about
1916, Uncle Sam is remembered IS one
who was associated with the drivers in
every capacity, save that of Guiding the
coach and four or six on their way to
Troy, Rutland, Whitehall, and Mid Ile-
bury.
We have been looking through novel,
ty in the bo,k world, namely The Uni
vers Il Spelling and Recdipg Book" pub.
lished in London, in the year Of our Lord
1856 1t contains an address tn the Right
Honorable Slingsbury Bethel, Ed, Lord
Mayor of the city OF London, and one of
their representatives in Parliament, and
preface to such as have care of schools in
Europe and Americ4, and of the best
methods of teaching. It also contains a
short and easy epitome OF English Grammcr
aud has collection of nearly five thous-
and words of two, three and four syllables.
and has many useful things in prose and
verse from Tillizton, DR.. Smith, Addison
and Pope, ard relates a number Of re-
markable occurrences from the creation
to the time of it's publication.
We have al,o purused the Boston Gu
zstte, containing the freshest ado;cDs. for,
e'gn and domestic, dated March 70 h.
ITO. Mr.. Hu!ett, grandfather of J. B
Bromley, Ed, who lived to see rinety
years, and died forty years ago in Pawlet,
learned to read and spell from the book,
and was a reader and subscriber to the
paper.
The conversation of our people, by the
way, in their places Of business, and at
their homes, through the last week, was
confined almost exclusively to the doomed
city of Chicago.-one of the finest il the
great West. Rev Mr.. Francis addressed
his people on the subject last Sunday
morning. in words ftly spoken, moving
almost the whole congregation to tears,
giving pathetic description such as we
have seldom listened to from the lips of
any man, in aid of any cause, making the
heart of every nearer throb in sympathy
with his own. At the conclusion of the
discourse he proposed that contribution
be taken in aid of the sufferers by
the great conflgration, AMI the sug-
custom was cheerfully and literally re-
sponded to by the people.
On Sunday morning. R,v. Mr.. Francis
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