Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-03-13


our line where Instructions from snow would
occur it anywhere on the route and when
! 1t Is remembered that the distractions on
/ the Union Pacific havs been virtually con-
4 fined TO a section Of ISu miles, every part OF
which is at least 1000 feet higher than the
/ highest summit on the Northern roE- c, and
most of which is $500 to 3OOD feet higher
than the mountain section OF equal length
on the Northern Pacific line, 1t becomes
perfectly safe to predict tor the latter as
complete exemption from winter blockade
as is eniDyed by railroads in New York AMI
/ New England. =
The funds raised in Montpelier for the
relief o. Chicago sufferers by the FIRE, were
+ forwarded - the care of Mrs. \. Keith and
Mrs. Grandey After relieving such cases as
the appropriations of the funds contemplated,
the balance was turned over - the Nursery
and Half Orphan Asylum, and the following
/ letter Is the Presidents acknowledgment Of
+ the same
i Mas. a KkIrH-DEAR MADAM In behalf
Of the Nursery and Hall Orphan Asylum, l
beg to acknowledge through you. the receipt
Of check for $342, sent by generous friends
in Montpelier, 70 aid in sustaining our work
Of charity. We are greatly cheered by such
tokens Of sympathy, and desire to express
our grateful appreciation Of this liberal and
timely git.
There has never before existed 80 urgent
need for institutions like ours, which give
the shelter and training Of a home 10 the
child, while the parent Is left free 70 earn
support, and as the Spring advances and the
opportunities Of getting employment in
crease. our work will constantly enlarge,
taxing to the utmost the means Of meeting
expenses
By vote OF our Board OF Managers, the
amount or Iue cneck VIII De app7 1prIauei TO
the purchase Of furniture. Of which We are
in great need
At the time of the fire, the rented building
which we had occupied for several years was
burned. and after day and night of wander
ing and terror, our mstron succeeded in
bringing safely the seventy five children under
her charge u the new asylum, then IN
finished. a shower and favorable change of
wind having checked the flames, after reach
my within two streets Of the block in which
it Is sltuat. j. The house was then scarcely
habita5!e. but has since been finished and
comfortably heated, giving ample accomm0-
dationS for family Of two hundred. a
monthly allowance from the Relief and Ala
Society, and an appropriation from the
Stewart Fund, with donations from St Loais
aud other towns, have enabled Us 70 meet
current expenses. but We have experienced
great Inconvenience from want of dining
room and other furniture want which
can now be supplied Again thanking our
Montpelier friends io- their opPortune assist
ance, | remain very gratefully yours,
NJ. F. HoUGHTELING.
President Nursery & Il. O. Asylum
Chicago, March 6 1872.
EDIrol or THE FREEMAN-Dsar Sir-In
a recent issue Of your paper the following
statement occurs
. The town of PawleJ claims but three OF
four OF the seventeen first class drunkards
that town is entitled to as its proportion OF
the four thousand in the State reported by
Rev Mr.. Stone
hardly know how TO interpret this re-
mark Does the writer of it mean that
Pawlet is content with 50 few. and that in
the torn there are but three OF four, or Is it
an insinuation that the number for the State
IS incorrectly given, and that other towns
may also claim reduction from seventeen
to three or tour?
In my report named no particular town,
but made the estimate on a well defined
basis, and remarked that some towns would
exceed and some fall below the estimate. but
the aggregate in the State would be over
four thousand Pawlet is good town. but
unfortur ately has its proportion of dralnkards
and drinkers.
I lived in the parsonage five and half
years, and within radius of half mile
can give the names of seven or eight, and by
going less than mile in one direction and
little over mile in another, can add tr o
more names. This in the east part of the
town, while at the west IN the depot neigh
borhood they will be able to add to the num-
Der, though how many do not know Now,
Mr.. Editor, | have personal acquaintance
with all those men, and can truly say that
they are naturally kind, noble, and per
haps quite in advance of some who are
not loeak and unfortunately sinful in their
sense.
You, editors and many others, will be sur
prised as the fruits of the ring shall be more
fully known. Respectfully,