Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1873-07-11
Rockingham Temperance Union.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN /:

In It's pretentlons, mercliess IN It's de-
mands and death to its victims, that fills
the land with widows orphans, criminals
and paupers, destroys the peace of whole
communities and obliterates all the finer
susceptibilities of the human heart-the
demon, Rum. Too long we have submit
ted to its slavery and yielded to its impu-
dent demands. To vain by the enactments
of righteous laws and their enforcement
we have tried to disarm and crush this
assassin power.
Unprincipled men in defiance of law
and the just demands of the people,
surreptitiously secure and stealthily dis
pense the intoxicating drink. Not on
ly have they thus violated their plighted
faith and deceived the people, but en-
boldened by our silence they now re-
sort to other means in order that they
may be continued in their wicked and
murderous traffic, by threats of insult,
fire and assassination the endeavor to de-
ter temperance men and patriotic eiti-
zens from the enforcement of approved
constitutional and prohibitory laws, in
view of which we deem it our duty to
take firm and decided stand.
Resotved, Therefore, that we, the I'm
ion Temperance Society Of Rockingham.
see in these acts the outcroppings of that
spirit that has by brute force held SUI
premacy over the rights and liberties of
man in all the years of the past, and
that it is our imperative duty as freemen
of this enlightened age and country to
crush this evil working power, 'peacably
if we can, .torcibty If ace mus"
/ Resolued, That those engaged in the
sale of Intoxicating drink have lost all
claim to our sympathy or respect for
their shameful disregard for truth and
honor in their continued violations of
law and their utter disregard to the just
claims of the people.
RESOLVED, That we hold those who are
engaged in this illegal traffic in this town,
personally response BILE for all acts of vic,
lence on the property or person of tenn
perance men and especially those who
have been authorized to enforce the law
Resolved, That we again demand that
all who are now secretly engaged in the
infamous business of drunkard making
do at once desist, and that we urge all
temperance men in this town, county
r and state not to relax their efforts unit
the most defiant be brought to justice.
: Resolved, That the executive commit
tee be authorized to have these resolu
tions published in the BELLOWS FALL!
TINES
LIFE INsURANCE.-Th Vermont Lift
e Insurance Co. located at Burlington, o
1 which Messrs. johnson IL Babbitt hav
1 recently become agents, is in prosper
n Gus condition and by the last annual re
e port showed a very gratifying lacreas
r Of business. Their capital remains un
: impaired and they have a surplus owe
p liability. The assets of the compan
o amounted to s139,208,38, on the frs
, day of January last, over ST., 900 NOR
J, than last year, while their assets on tb
d first of last month were $155,000, show
e ing steady gain 1t. Gov. Taft is pres
/ dent of the company and many leadin
e citizens of the State take lively intel
II est in it as among the best institution
r for life insurance.
IMPROVEMENT IN GAs.-An improv'
:, ment in the manufacture of gas has r,
Gently been on trial in Brattlebor'
which, it is said. promises to be highl
successful. A light coal gas is first mad
= by the ordinary process, and this is in
"a proved by mixture of air charged wit
the vapor of naphtha, in the proportio
e of three parts of coal gas to two of nap
or tina gas. The light it produces is wol
= derfully soft and diffusive, and in it a
as delicate shades of color are as easily di
lie tinguished as by sunlight. Its ligbtir
as power is extraordinary.
ce
le SPRINGFIELD.-A correspondent r
u ferring to an item recently publishe
ne that two young men of Springfie
= caught at one fishing excursion
70 Weathersfeld, 200 trout, says: 81
an not think that all of our boys have
1t go out of town to get a meal of fis
Daniel Glynn, young farmer here b
~ caught at FIVE different times this seas,
4. 521 trout ranging from 81 to lat at
Ie- time, and did not go over two miles fro
in, home. On several other times he h
1T caught over so at time" G..
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l." CAvENDIsH.-C Capture Of a gum Il
ne only celebration of the Fourth at Cave
~ dish was the firing of the old cannon.
~ long a custom in that village. For sol
~. few days before the Fourth it had be
missing, and rumors were rife as to
it whereabouts. On the morning of {
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