Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-07-20

ing and entertained tne Pafty Win ohe VI
his witty, pungent and timely poems on
the travels of the excursion, which was
greeted with loud applause and laughter.
and it's unexpected hits threw conster.
nation into the ranks. We publish so
much of the poem as we have yet been
able to find in print.
THE EDITORIAL JOINT HIGH COMMISSION.
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and the Bay
State together,
Took the chance of this beautiful, clear July
weather,
To settle old scores, and assumed the position
Of solt of an Editors Joint High Commission.
And following precedent, which we have found,
Recommends arbitration on some neutral
ground,
They at once were unanimous in the opinion,
To take up the case in the great new Dominion.
So they notified all who had claims to enforce
To present them in full, to be settled in course,
And if they'd be sure of the cases to try,
They should all be on hand by the 10th of July.
What commotion this notice did make, to be sure,
Tue claimants than sands of the sea were not
fewer;
They poured in accounts by scores and by dozens
And some bI ought their wives and some brought
their cousins.
The editors, publishers, printers of journals
Swarmed out profusely as once brevet-col-
ones;
You'd have thought the proprietors as large a
tribe as
Though they had brought their whole list of sub
scri5ers.
Were people who read, as ali will confess,
And can boast with just pride of our numerous
press;
Aud it isn't much strange that it causes dizzi-
ness
To sec such a rush to the newspaper business.
Why one man asked tickets, and thought it was
civil,
Because he'd a son who was serving as "deyil;"
Another claimed passes and things at our hands
Because as Town Clerk he publishes banns.
A third when refused, complained we were
churls;
His claim was that often he'd 'set up with girls,
And baker-man had the impotence to try
On theground that he sometimes distributed
pie.
But haven't the time in this limited verse
All their manifold tricks aud pretence to rehearse,
The committee were careful and cut them all of
Who certainly merited such rebuff,
And so kept the members of this High Com
mission
Within bounds Of a reasonable four-part edition
Although twas so large-of course you all know
The man at Mount Mansfield had no place tc
Stowe it.
Ard we fat folks all think that distances, too
Lend enchantment to even Vermont mount
aims view.
Here follows several lines relating Il
the personnel of the Massachusetts, party.
Well, we came right a'ong over the finest ofroadi
Taking here ard there one we passed theil
abodes.
Until Lowell, and Concord and Northern al
passed,
We arrived safe to dine at the Junction at last
Thanking all of our stars for the fortunate lot
That gave so much food in so Barron a spot,
We rene mber with good will our little hall
Where they gare us full, but took only hal
Then on, up Witt River to Roxbury hight,
Where scme one remarked, if recollcct right,
That the water flowed one way to Long lslanC
Sound,
And the other way outlet in Lake ChampIail
found,
Which was perfectly true of the arater no doubt
But from Sno,r aud from hN0r l think foun'
out
That the small beer and fluids like old Bourbon
whisky
An ran down the way of the river winooski.
AS we passed down by Mansfield 10y actua
count
heard just three hundred Sermons on til
Mount
They were not all original some were mere plat
itule
! And the position they took was not boattudt
Unless obiurgation and such like exprr ssing
| CONTEMPT and disgust might be called a Scotc
blessing.
Twas pleasanter far to look over Champlain
And see the mist on Aairondack's blue chain.
The view was 50 grand that it raised quite
funny
And a cheer was begun by some victims of Mul
ray.
At last we arrived at our halt for the night,
Amidst. Albans greeted US, wild with delight,
Little knowing Wha' sort of folks were we indeed
And Judging, no doubt, by the Messenger breed
Or fear she would hardly have felt it wort
while
TO put IN for us such a bland, chiid-'ike smile.
But she treated US just though we were tn
That the world could produce. Ard the inanit
With which we all greeted the Weldon Hous
fare
! Was proof of the way we appreciate care
Not only the landlord but every guest
Was anxious to have US served with the best,
And the latter, God bless them, turned out c
their beds
TO give us pace where we might lay our heads
IT'S as lovely a town as ever was painted,
And Alb ans if any place, ought to be sainted
The cream of New England up there has its ris
And ',is churned into butter deserving prize.
This churning's the way that the folks get the
cash -
don't know Il town that can show 30 much daSl
give YOU to st-the Weldon House, grand
In all ITS appointmens-for comfort well plar
ned
Its beds and its linen, its rooms and its proven
der,
It's whole hospitality fl grant with Lavender.
No house that is neater, cleaner or quieter-
LET US drink to the health of T. L. the proprieto
LIE. us add to the toast all the people there to
Who too much for our comfort could not seem
do;
Who furnished us all of the house we could use
And showed us the country from off their Bell
views
The elegant mansion of Governor Smith
So eleg mt it seems almost a myth
With its ample proportions, its setting of gree
Its rich decorations, a la Louis XIV.
But all things must end and so did our visit
To St A}baus town, with its kindness exquisite
2 And we left it with hearts OVERLOOKING with gri
, Though the good people there must have felt
reief)
I need not recount all the trip here reveals
{ The salute of torpedoes uuder our wheels,
r Though wish we might better respond to
lutes,
Than to blow with FISK horn, musical toots.
The halt at the spring at Highgate you know
THE high gate, 1 think, to the realms down b
: low,
I Where all drink by clasping with fingers tbs
nose,
And are dressed, if at all, in the thinnest
v clothes.
q The feelings we felt as we crossed Ger the line
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