The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-09-25

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thing She Helped build Il 10 have 4
shorter better road. especially iu winter,
over The mountain, where she o1aid sell
us "heau" shingles with The bark op
and t-foot wood cot by the yard. And
East Dorset favored the road and helped
build it for the chances Of beating her
even At that. We own no mills or
houses, or lands, or marble quarries, or
gold mines 10 Peru: and have had no
business past, present or prospective,
over that road. Thirdly, It is asserted
that Peru asks Dorset "to build The short
distance from J. II Martins 10 Browns
mill. Guess not-guess the two old la
dies, Dorset aud Peru, have had no cou-
ference on that subject, and not even a
single son OF the latter has put his sigma
ture TO a petition praying for the laying
Of said road. If Mr.. Browns enlogist
will show rs one, we will show him a
white blackbird
The third sentence contains an attempt
to belittle the motives Of the selecimeu
of Dorset, by asserting that they We're
governed in their action by personal in
tercst. They did not locate Mr. Browns
road, says his truthful friend, mot being
interested themselves" The figure heads
Of simplicity and absurdity are SO plain
and projecting on the face of this whop-
per that we leave il without further
comment And it is added that they
found "some opposition by a few II
they found only "some opposition by a
iew,R how did it happen, in the absence
Of any agitation, that, at their second
meeting for the same purpose few weeks
after, as Mr. Browns eulogist himself in
forms us in his first sentence, there was
considerable excitement among "a
usually very quiet people?' The fact is
the remonstrance of Reuben Eggeston
and thirty-four others was put into their
hands. The remonstranoe did not con-
tain the name Of William Brown; lie
would not sign remonstrance against a
road to Sarah Browns mill. And it did
not contain the names of men of no BUSH
ness aud of men too poor 10 keep COW
or pig, but who nevertheless manage, by
untiring industry and rigid economy, to
keep dog. And it did not contain the
na f.F ant Of - al a
shanks' mare and snow shoes across lots !;
and then put their mark to petition
praying the selectmen of Dorset to lay
out road, one hundred and forty-six
rods long, by Browns mill 50 that every
time they go to East Dorset and back
they can travel just forty rods further
than they now do TO make the same trip.
1t did not contain the name of one prom
inent business man Of this place who
chose to stand neutral. But il contained
the names of Ira Cochran, p. ID. Ames
and j NJ. Griffith, etc, and, had it been
presented for signature, might have con-
tanned the names Of almost every man,
woman aud child, in or near the village
Of East Dorset, who could write his
name or make his mark. The remou-
strants set forth among other things that
there never had been a day or any part or
hour of day, spring, summer, autumn
or winter, sunshine OF storm, since
Browns mill was erected, in which atwo
horse team of average weight and work
could not have hauled at least ton Of
freight from the railway station to said
mill and back; aud that eighty rods of
the one hundred aud forty-six, for which
the petitioners prayed, "must be blasted
out of the solid rock, aud picked and
pryed out OF lodges at great expense
This was the "some opposition by few"
which the seleclmen found. And they
also found the latter statement of the re-
monstrants too true, and that every rod
of the eighty would be "dug-way" on a
curve, aud to prevent accident high and
strong guards must be put up and kept
up the entire distance. They also found
by measuring that Mr.. Brown was trav-
cling in his business only Just twenty
nine rods across his own lot over land al
most as Level and smooth as a house floor,
and SO hard that locomotive could al
most run on it without rails to get to a
good, safe highway, over which heavy
business had been done for many years,
without accident or complaint. These
things being 50 they concluded not to put
their hands into our pockets and TAX c out
the sum Of about two thousand dollars
and make permanent investment of it,
aud make MS liable for losses and assess
ments "as long as wood grows and water
runs" Not rod Of old road could be
thrown up if they built new. On that
there were eight dwelling houses, III
every one Of which there was offspring,
and some of them were brimfull. On the
projected new route, dwelt single,
childless pair. At their second meeting,
which Mr.. Browns friend says with no
better result" the selectmcn laid Mr..
Brown road twenty-nine rods long
right on top of the one lac was using, thus
paying bis judgment handsome compli-
ment. North Dorset and East Dorset
and South Dorset and West Dorset and
Dorset Hollow and Kirby HolIow--Dor-
set individually and Dorset collectively,
says well done. Does Mr.. Browns lit
erary friend and eulogist now understand
"what this means?'
We now come TO sentence the sixth,
which contains the only intimation there
Is ~ the article that anybody in East
Dorset is quite as smart as William
Brown In one instance the writer seems
10 think Ira Cochran beat him bV getting