Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-03-14

your OWL VOICE, HOUs out uclC VIC
are III the business center of Pompen,
and in bakers shop with its arched
oven, with its fireplace and fues ready
for baking to-day, if the hot sun pouring
upon us would not complete the job
There are mills for grinding with con-
vex and concave stones, and III neigh
boring shop are the charges for labor
accomplished, chalked ON the wall An
account, perhaps, not so true as that
summed up whence these task-masters
have gone. There are numberless pub
lie houses here in the business center, and
many of them | am forbidden to speak,
as modestv commands silence, while of
not few decency says, forget and lisp
not of them" Here an oil store with
its variagated marble watts, and there a
private house known as tSiricus." His
name is written over the door, and the
threshold reads, ''Salve Lucrum. The
interior is of great interest. The words
on the threshold indicate welcome! And
let us step in while the family are out.
Here is an extensive garden, trellised
and decorated in a manner suggestive of
my own wife's handiwork. The doors,
YOU observe, are etched and the apart
ments covered with traceries of flowers
it was that, when unearthed, they found
skeletons of little dog, of tortoises, and
two goats The family who have stepped
out love pets, you perceive. It's one of
the few indications that they loved at
all. Not dreading lest the family of
Siricus return and find us intruders, let
us wander up the street and enter this
rude house where stands a Ire watch
man at the door, guarding the petritied
remains of a woman stricken down in
childbirth. Oh! what a plteOus sight
is this. Here a mother that qo0S, stone
that is, and near her (probably daugh-
teri hiding her face in the palm of her
hand as if agonized with greatest fear.
What beautiful tiny hand that must
have been, and see Oh! lsee! 4 jeao-
elZed ring upon her stony finger. Is not
your heart saddened? Methinks [ see
tear of sympathy playing runaway from
its kindred, who might follow were it
not childish for you to let them come.
What ? Hoe? Why? Those unan-
swered interrogatiyes, which ever and
anon meet you along life's pathway,
how come they now? F0rci6ty response
less. 1--WE ask and Thou art silent. yet
we gaze and our charmed hearts forget
their drear complaining. Thou Lamb
that hast been slain, we rest in thee, )"
and where vast these Pompeians rested :?
Their God was the appetite, doubt it
you cannot as you follow to the bagniOs.
Truly, "GOd gave them up unto vile
affections. j. II. d.
HUBBARDToN.-Two young men from
Hubbardton went to Hydeville to attend
that moral horse trot that did not come
off as advertised, two weeks ago last
Saturday, and while there got on ben
der, from the too free use of bad rum.
On their way home they insulted every
team they met, with their whip, and
every person with their tongues. On
arriving at the hotel in HubbardtOn,
known as the Webster House, they made
their crooked way into the Office and
/ called for cider hcproprietOr refused
to let them have any, and then began
the rum stampede. They emptied the
office of its contents, ransaCkcd the
house generally, showing fight and
| threatening Mr.. Webster with rough and
profane language. After spending an
/ hour in the house, committing these dep
relations, they took their leave, The
next Saturday the young Americans
were arraigned before Justice June, OF
Brandon, in the same house, to answer
for their unlawful conduct, and were
each placed under three hundred dollar
bonds foI their appearance at the next
county court
On the following Saturday, Nj Web
ster was brought before Judge June tc
answer to charge Of the unlawful sell
ing of intoxicating drinks, and six VIC.
lations being proved or admitted, Mr..
w, was fined sixty dollars and costs -
States Attorney Ormsbee appeared in
behalf of the State in both causes.
Henry Barber, Esq, has sold hi
farm and part of his stock to a man il
Fairhavcn for $1,000. Mr., B. received
real estate in Fairhayen in part pay
ment for the farm B.
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