Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-09-07
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| Fancy my feelings at and after read
ing last Wednesday morning, bright and
early. that long winded and strong mind
ed essay on seccentricity,' from the pro-
ductive pen and brain of your spread-eagle
correspondent Excelsior Firstly, he
lectured us on Stiffness as applied to
newspaper correspondents of score and
two years experience as such; secondly,
he addressed us on cheap notoriety,'
gained by writing for the HERALD, sup
pose thirdly, he essayed US on 'ecoen-
tricity,' the point of which we failed to
see. In his presentation of these three
interesting subjects to the public, he has
demonstrated, beyond the shadow of a
doubt, that he is a critic, a genius, a
gentleman and scholar, besides confer
ring a number of high flown compliments
on us and our community. In conclusion,
permit me to bid Excelsior an affection
ate good bye, hoping, at no distant day, we
shall see and know each other face to face,
and not at distance, as we now do.
Last Wednesday night the little
colored folks from Washington sung be-
fore fair audience, considering the dark,
wet state of the weather. The entertain
ment consisted of more talking than sing
ing. The people would have been better
pleased to have heard more music and
less speech making. However, the exhi-
bition indicated clearly that colored folks
could do something as well as the poor
white trash that travel through the
country, singing and making up faces at
their audiences to create a laugh and a
giggls. Mr.. Sykes, who accompanies
them, was fifteen years ago a student in
the Seminary, and nfterward teacher of
the village school here. A few years past
he has been employed as teacher among the
colored population in Washington. The
exercises concluded with taking up a con-
tribution, amounting to $40.
Thursday morning the Seminary bell,
after a silence of eight weeks, rang out
it's clear, cheerful tones again, and in re-
Spouse to its ringing, goodly number of
home pupils, and those from abroad,
gathered at the chapels of the Normal
school and Seminary, and at this writing
still they come.
Two hundred appreciative admirers
of elocution and music assembled at the
Liberal church, last Thursday evening, to
witness the high toned and chaste exhi-
bition of the two arts above mentioned,
embracing a variety of finely rendered
poems, Rotations, and other literary pro-
ductions from eminent authors by Prof.
Charles Roberts, of New York city. The
music consisted of solos on the piano and
organ by Prof. E. II. Higley; sougs by
Mr.. Roberts and Miss Emma Higley
quartette by Mrs. E. II. Higley; ard
duet by the two Miss Higleys. The
musical gem of the evening was the skill
full execution of an organ solo by Mr..
Higley. The general impression and ex-
preston is, that it was one of the most
marked entertainments ever offered an
audience in Castleton. They were honored
with auditors from the States designated
below New York, Massachusetts,, Con-
neoticut, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota, Pennsylvania,
Iowa, together with an array Of eight
lady and gentlemen representatives of the
Hydes from Hydeville, Vermont
We read one day last week in the
HERALD that there were twenty seven
couples that had each lived together as
man and wife more than fifty years in
New Hampshire. am able to report
Ave couples in this village, of ten or twelve
hundred Inhabitants, that have dwelt to-
gether more than fifty years each, and in
one house three persons reside, consisting
of a husband, wife and sister, whose
united ages are two hundred and sixty
years. Their ages respectively are 50, rs,
and 7G years How is that for longevity?
in one house. And still more,in school dis
trict No. 3, composed of the village and
it's immediate vicinity, can be counted SO
widows, some of them rich, some of them
poor, some of them young, isomo of them
old. In one house there is a pet cat that has
been an inmate of it more than 26 years.
She is as likely cat as you generally see,
and is wondrously intelligent. Most
folks take off their hat rs they approach
her, on account of her old age.
B.w .B.