Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-04-24

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injuries caused by defective highway.
Terms imposed by the Court, by reason
of said continuance, that the plaintiff be
allowed his actual expenses during said
term.
MIDDLEBURY.
AT a special town meeting in our
town on the 10Th ult., to fill vacancy
in the office of constable, caused by the
declination of Mr. Jacob Dewey, who
was elected at our annual March meet
ing, Mr.. o. p. Mead was elected on the
first ballot, by over rs majority. Mr.
Dewey has been our constable for four
teen years, and has been one of the best
collectors of taxes the town ever had
A vote of thanks was unanimously
passed for his faithful services to the
town. Happy the town that has as
good collector as Mr. Dewey has been.
Rev. A. F. Bailey preached his fare
well sermon to a large congregation on
the Goth inst. Mr. Bailey has been with
us for the three past years, and now
under the economy of the Methodist
church leaves for new field of labor.
lie carries with him the prayers of the
church for his future success in calling
Christians to holiness in life, and sinners
to repentance. He is one of the ablest
ministers in the Troy Conference, and |
hope may be sent where his success may
be as marked as his high toned piety and
marked ability demand, and | trust will
secure. He is live man upon the great
moral questions of the day, that agitate
the church and world. Bold and fear
less in his denunciation of wrong, he is
equally so in his advocacy of the right
and true. | have heard him in some of
his purely eXtempOraneOus efforts, when
thought them unsurpassed by any one
ever heard, in deep thought, full of
secular originality and power, and de-
livered with all that fervid style of elo-'
quence and pathOs that marks the true
oratat and preacher of the Gospel. May
a kind and overriding Providence long
preserve. him to bless the church and the
world. .. CANDoR
Middlebury, April 81, 1873.
WELLS.
A very pleasant and decidedly un-
usual incident occurred here last Friday
evening which, for the amount of fun
created has not been equalled in long
time, the affair creating quite a sensa-
ton in our quiet little hamlet and fur
nishing one of the principle topics of
conversation for the usual ''Seyen DAYS"
The immediate cause of all this cOmmO-
ton was the marriage of Mr.. Lyman
Grover. Since the death of his wife
last year he has lived entirely alone,
having no children, making the lOneli-
ness of his situation all the more irksome.
Several months since he announced his
intention of taking unto himself another
helpmate. Being himself past the al
lotted age of man he reasoned that he
needed one younger than himself, and
as the sequel proves, chose one over
.fJty years his junior. The neighbOrs
thinking the affair demanded more than
a passing notice, sent word they were
coming and proceeded to give them a
rousing serenade Mastering under
der the lead of Captain Carney, Ca local
pseudOnym) TO the number of about
fifty, they marched to his residence
early iii the evening, and forming their
files detailed one of their number as
orator of the occasion, who gave short,
pointed speech, Astounding in happy hits
and illusions, and closed by rendering
the newly welded pair all the wishes
and compliments usual on such occasions.
After partaking of the refreshments pro-
vided, the company gave their captain
three cheers for his services and dispers-
ed as quietly as they had gathered
The few snow banks left disappear
very slowly. Cool, cloudy weather is
the rule for the last month, not more
than one day of sunshine in a week
Very little maple sugar has been made,
and the sugar season is universally pro-
nounced a failure.
Mr.. A. p. Azott has reopened the
blacksmithng business in the shop for
merly occupied by n. w. Crandall.
April 81, 1873.
P0ULTNEY.
The farmers in different parts of
the town have commenced ploughing in |
earnest. Several gardens have been
ploughed in the village, and spring work
is coming rapidly on.
Mr. Rollin o. Dye left town with
his family, Monday, for Steel county. I
Minnesota. He has been a good citizen
regret to loose him. Several of our
prominent citizens have left town this
sping. among whom are j. Jaw Joslin,
gone to Denver, Colorado; Rev. ].
Goadby, to Vergennes G. A. Ram, to
Troy, n. Y. Many more have come
than left, but we regret to lose from our
midst those who have gone.
The Ripley College property is leas-
ed for the summer, but it is now conf
expected that a school will
commence in that institution in Septem-
Der next, under the auspices of the Troy
Conference, The Conference has its
session in few days, when the result
will be known in regard to the re-pur-
chase OF that property. We are inform
ed that the purchase price is nearly
raised, and that the probability that It
will be quite before the sitting of the
Conference.
The slate business is very active
his sping, and the Indications now are
hat the product IN this town will be
nearly double Of what it was last year.
OBSERVER.
CASTLETON.