Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1873-09-04
Woodstock,

PROT. PHker or Dartmouth Col
lege is expected to preach next Sun
day and the Sunday after at the Con-
gregational Church in this village,
both forenoon and afternoon, at the
usual hours of service, the pastor, Rev.
Mr.. Dascomb being absent on his
annual vacation.
DR.. Walling advertises his house
for sale in another column. 1t is a
nice house and in desirable location.
Miss Charlotte E. Hayden has by
consent of the committee given up her
engagement to teach the Intern ediate
school in this village and has accepted
an offer to 90 to Utah to teach a
Grammar school under the supervision
of Bishop Tnttle.
With at the most, a half dozen
exceptions, the people Of Woodstock
and the Quechee valley are unanimous
ly in favor of our Railroad, and will do
anything reasonable to secure its com
pletion. We have made the attempt,
and find we are powerless to build 1t,
unless we have aid from other sources
We have sought for assistance outside
the State and have been defeated. -
Under these circumstances IS it wise
to provoke the hostility of any one,
when we so much need the friendship
of all The managers Of the Vermont
Division of the Portland and Ogdens-
burg Road did not so think, for while
they were building u road apparently
antagonistic to the interest OF the Yer
mont Central, they still, to the outside
world, at least, maintained friendly
relations with the Central Managers,
and arc now soliciting, and will doubt
less receive substantial aid from the
Central Vermont in the completion
of the Vermont Division.
AS we said last week, all this hostili-
ty to the Vermont Central Road
springs from powerful Railroad Cor
porations in the State of Massa-
chusett, which will spare no expense
in their efforts to embarrass and if
possible break up the through con-
nection of our Central line, in order to
defeat it as rival competitor for
through business. They could hardly
have expected to have found coadjutors
in such a cause in our own State
Nor ought they to have done so.-
Recently one Of our village papers
contained no less than three articles in
single issue, aH copied from Massa
cAuseAs papers-all de"ou"ci"g the
Central Those papers have an object
to accomplish if they can effect it, and
that is, the destruction of the Vermont
system of Railroads, in order to bene-
fit their Roads at home. But is it
wise for us here to lend helping
hand to project so suicidal to the
Railroad interest of our State?
What we at this time greatly need,
is assistance in the completion of our
Road. We have hitherto had as
surances that in due time, the Yer
mont Central would afford us that as
sistance. 1t is certain that at the
present time we can count upon it
from no other source and it is at
least sound policy to hold out to that
Corporation, and the men who control
it, the Olive Branch of peace rather
than harsh words and denunciatory
newspaper articles whether original or
copied from foreign sources. But we
drop the matter for the present, and
leave it to the calm consideration OF
our citizens.
The Post man pitches in right
and left lately and the pools of in
iquity he thinks he discovers, ought to
make the hair stand on saw-horse.
People who know Rob 5 peculiarities
and idiosyncrasles, pity him. He finds,
however, that he has made mistake
in attacking the managers of the
Central Vermont Road, and elbows"
everybody who says anything to him
about it-even the Age has to take a
click" He can't prove the charges
he makes against Gov. Smith and
others, so easily as he can make
them. As Josh Billings says -"How
natral it IL for a man, when he makes
a mistake, to konekt it by kussing
somebody else for it.
Our editorial article on Railroad
matters in last weeks Age, started the
scurf on our sleepy neighbor, the
Standard, and one of the numerous edi-
tors of that "great moral engine, the
one noted for the preponderance of his
bump Of secretiveness, came out as a
UcOrresnondent" and stoned himself