Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-03-25

will come off next Wednesday evening,
however, if the weather be fine. Remem-
Der that this lecture is gratuitously Civ
en- bv the General for the benefit of the
Sabbath Schools of this village, for which
there will be an admittance fee of %
cents for adults children half price.
In preparing this lecture the General
has spent good deal of time and study,
and it cannot fail to be both interesting
and instructive. His PRESERVATION of the
Scotch is said to be so perfect that by
strangers who have heard him he was
supposed to be a genuine Scotchman. In
speaking of this lecture at Newport the
Express says:
Gen. CIRCUITS lecture on Robert Burns
was a fitting close to course in which all
have been excellent. The characters
tics of Burns, his excellencies and de-
fects were set forth in an able manner
and with good effect. The secret of
DuIHS ldlHO WdS Ills uuludHiUJ. lIS
whose heart was so tender that his plough
share could not overturn a mountain
daisy or a mouse's nest in the furrow
without pang, could not but have
heart that beat in sympathy with all
mankind. Born in 1859 on the bank
of the Ayr, the son of poor peasant,
his early manhood, and indeed the whole
of his too short life-he died at 81
was spent on the farm. Uncongenlal as
this pursuit was to his poetic nature,
his circumstances obliged him to follow
it; and possibly it is better for his fame
that 1t was So for some of his most beau
tiful strains were suggested by the daily
scenes of his farm life He was entire
ly unconscious of his power as a poet,
and some of his productions that were
the results of snatches of leisure, sort
of diversion, will last as long as time.
The lecturer regarded him as the great
est of Scotch poets, excelling even Wal
ter Scott, the Wizard of the North and
he rendered some of his poems with fine
effect, bringing out the Scotch peculiar
tiles most felicitously. Was there not
some mother tongue about it? The Cen
eral has fine voice and an easy, grace
full and an altogether unexceptional de-
livery, batting a little profuseness of
gesture now and then.
TIN WEDDING No. 2.-Thanks to Mr..
Brown for inaugurating in our village
the '1in Wedding idea," and thus af-
fording those who like good time once
in while an opportunity to go some
where, and also giving to the community
a better tinge of sociability and good ac-
quaintance, for it seems likely to be fol-
lowed up to some extent. Since the
wedding of week before last, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jewell happened to think they had
been married just ten years, and it was
decided by their friends to give them a
tin wedding also. They met at Mr..
JEWELS last Friday evening, to the num-
ber-we should think-of between fifty
and sixty persons, carrying with them,
of course, all manner of tin ware. The
fore part of the evening was spent
in sort of social "how-do-you-do,"
chatting, Misunderstanding. &C., with some
lively music on the violin and organ by
the Blake brothers-experienced musi-
cians-who played together so nicely that
to any one who had the slightest taste
for music, it could not fail to please
Then came refreshments-cak &C., on
tin plates and water from tin fountain
in tin tumblers. Next came the tin GER
emony. In the absence of a regular or
dained minister of the gospel, Mr. Chas.
II. Dwinell was appointed parson pro
tenn He couldn't see it, at first, and
objected on the ground that he had left
his glasses at home" but pair Of
golden bowed specks were at once bro't
forward and placed in position; white
handkerchief put around his neck and a
black silk hat upon his head, giving him
altogether such reverential look thai
he proceeded at once into the other room
where he found the bride not only witt
light sparkling in her eye, but upon hel
head a bran new tin sun bonnet (rea
old stylc) with brightly burning wa,
, taper upon its jib-boom. By her sid,
stood the bridegroom with tall til
i, stovepipe hat, fully two feet high. Tn,
brakeman and bridemaid (Mr. & Mrs
Brown were also found to be in thei
right place, AIR. Brown on the right Will
that monstrous tin watch. ponderou
chain and that dreadful key; Mrs. Brow
upon the left in her full regalia of til
, ornaments. Parson Dwinell then an
nounced that if the audience would pleas
to- be quiet for a few moments, and i
! no one had any objections to make h
''would commence to proceed to pronounc
the sentence and JOIN the pair IN the he
ly bonds of wedtock" After asking
few comical and unusual questions, ant
: just as he was on the point of pronounc
, ing them IMAM and wife," there was
voice from the crowd II object to lh
ceremony proceeding any furthe,." Thi
brought deep blush to the face of tn
bride; the bridegroom looked down an
the parson put on very long face. Al
ter scratching his head for a moment an
collecting his thoughts, the parson sal
that he hoped that unless the objection
i were of very great Importance the
, would be Immediately removed, and re