Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-09-27
Correspondence Independent Gazette
East Of the Mountains,

Perhaps few detached impressions
Of II visit to the east Of the mountains
may not be without interest to the
readers of the GAZETTE. Passing
down the Grand Trunk to Bethel Me,
we notice at Gorilam tie conspicuous
absence Of the Alpine House, u large
multitude upon the platform being
without the apparent home formerly
furnished by the burned hotel. May
it be rebuilt.
Bethel is one Of the most beautifully
located villages around the mountains.
From it we make the ascent Of Mount
Abram, five or six miles distant, in
company with Maj. True, Orvile
CIough, Esq, ana three lady excur-
sionst's. A five miles drive brings us
to a pleasant farm house. Here the
horses are disposed of in a stable.
Then up the great lodges we 90,
TO the westward Ne see five or six
ranges of mountains ris ing one behind
another, the last being the White
Mountains with Washington towering
above the rest. In the foreground is
Sougo Lake, the Indian name of which
is said to tell rs tina "no game" was
found there. To the east we look up
on beautiful cham of lakes which 90
by the name Of Bryant's Pond. The
people of the town would do well to
pay some one $500 to christen the
lakes and village anew. They would
have new interest to the traveller If
they only were named in such u way
as to do justice to their natural attract
iveness. Upon our return home tie
good people refresh us with draughts
of milk followed by excellent home
raised apples. The stars a,e shining
when we again enter Bethel.
Visiting Norway we find that great
deal of enterprise and public spirit
has been manifested by building q
large shoe factory. This was done at
a cost of about $4,000, by taxation.
The occupants have the building fol
ten years flee Of rent and taxa ion
They expect to furnish employment
for about Our hundred workmen and
work-women. An engine Of sixty
no Sc power has been put in with the
expectation that second building
will go up by private enterprise. The
people OF Norway are not, however
burdened with taxation, as are the
people of Lancaster, their rate being
still between one and two per cent.
Messels. Whitcoiub and Oxnard
employ about two hundred women il
carrying on their clothing business
some Of whom are in the shop but the
greater part being found in houses
scattered through the town. They
make from forty to fifty thousand gar.
ments annually for the Boston market
Mr.. ONWARD thinks that if the women
Of Lancaster were as much inclined to-
and as sklllful in the Use Of the sew.
ing machine as the women of Norway
this business might here be largely liz
creased under the lead Of the clothing
merchants.
We notice that Maine has effected
one reform which still lags in Ne
Hampshire. The state has followed
Mass, in repeating its usury laws, and
now money has a free market, to the
manifest advantage ofall. Our Dung
friend Murray took us 10 see Pen
nessewassee Lake. Lest the reader
shout fail to pronounce this poetica!.
y we divide the syllables, Pen-nes.
se-was-see. Murray is full of Indian
lore. He tells us a great deal, and
knowsmuch more than he tells Among
the rest we learn that the name o
this beautiful sheet Of restless water
means "sloping shore" in alluSion tc
the formation of the bank ; that Bea.
nett,s point is so called because &
certain man of that name, being
chased by an Indian swan five mile,
to this place. The duSky swimmer
that was pursuing was seen opposite
Sabattis point after which he, as it i;
supposed, went down and has not