The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-05-01
CORRESPONDENTS
FAeraHr FolyT VI.
April - 1873.

Manchester ana aEtQtH IHlut To-
tam compliments % Baruumyille, aud
say, they ATE grateful for the friendly
and commercial relations existing with
that city. The exchange" spoken Of
by your correspondent ia his article Of
the 22d instant, being equal, value Tor
equal value, therefore we see no reason
FOR complaint on this score Then
why. says your correspondent, do
YOU send us bands Of drunken mani.
aes TO break the peace! etc" We
were not aware that we did. We know
that we have none Of that class. either
In Manchester or Factory Point village,
bat possibly we may have occasionally
csiram from Bamumgille, and we arc
inclined TO think SO, If your correspon-
dent Is 20 be believed, for be says in
his article, "a baud Of six went from
Barnumyillc, with a months earnings
ia their pockets. and yet this seems
mysterious, aud we are led TO ask, Of
whom was this band composed BY
what firm were they employed, and
Why they deemed the era Of months
pay Of so much importance as TO cele.
hrate III Your correspondent does not
inform us, but be does inform ms that
they returned to the place from whence
they came, about 4 o'clock, and after
a brisk fight under the shed and about
the Office Of McNaughton & Lawrence,
they proceeded up the mountain, in the
best possible condition 10 destroy pro-
perty, insult, etc. " This discloscs a
bad state Of mind, but we can see rea
sons why they should be angry and out
Of patience with each other, and per-
haps others, after calling for a months
earnings. Your correspondent docs
not intimate that they were not in the
same condition when they first left
Baruumsile for Factory Point, and
we submit that the inference is fair that
they we're hut your correspondent
does intimate that they got liquor
somewhere, and that ''the people Of
Factory Point DO know the den where
these same six filled their heads and
bottles with fighting whiskey." But,
IN this intimati0n your correspondent
is grossly in error the people do not
know, nor DO they believe that any
such den exists in Manchester or Fac
tory Point, aud if your correspondent
is possessed of reliable evidence that
such place exists within the town Of
Manchester he ought TO have moral
courage enough, to make aproper com
plant to the authorities, aud have the
nuisance abatod and the keeper there.
al punished and not do wrong that
good may come, by slandering the
society Of said villages. But your cor.
respondent does not stop here, be
seems 90 he possessed with the spirit
of the same six. lie says 1T is alb
sured tot the two Grand Jurors Of
Manchester to deay that they know
where the law is grossly violated, aud
who are the yiulators Now we Know
both Of said Graud Jurors, one the
County Commissioner aud the other
equally honorable, aud have the utmost
confidence Ia their fidelity to duty and
ia their integrity, aud il they DO de
ny that they know where the law is 80
grossly violated etc." we believe
them, yonr correspondent to the con.
uAry notwithstanding. aud we can
sssute him that If he win furnish either
said officers with reliable evidence that
lch, "dcns" 10 exist within the limits
81 said town, the yiolators will meet
the punishment which the law provides
Your correspondent further says that
Manchester i fast becoming the Ban.
ner whiskcy town Of the County II not
h the State" We 90 not believe your
correspondent i reliable Ia this state
meat We think there are but few
towns in our good old State where
there i 50 little drunkenness. and so
little liquor sold as 10 Manchester
lie says Manchester can boast Of fair
number q murders already, II is true
that within the las, fifty years, We have
had two murders, enc somewhat con.
uected with whiskey, which was not
obtained 10 Manchester. aud the other
bet And your correspondent says.
ane ~ two Atlingtan tragedies will
give Il a uatoriety that will cause the
heAlth-seekiBg stranger 30 shun its
drunken society, etc But we DO not
tear any tragedies 81 that kind except
from Barunmfilla estrays, nor that the
healtb-seekag stranger viii cease to
court oar good society. healthful at.
noFpheFe and de.ightfal scenery, no
loug a. we have two a. faithful Grand
Jurors a. We DOW have TO sec that the
iAwr ofoar State are properly enforced
notwithstanding some q tie advocates