Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-04-18
Marlboro.

I notice on allow space In your paper
tor all who ARE disposed to discuss the advan-
tages and disadvantages which one town or
the people of town may imagine thoy pos
sess over their neighbors. Possibly you may
like TO hear from Marlboro, which, by the
way is ono of the oldest towns in the coun-
ty, and we claim to possess over our neigh
boring towns in judgment and ability in
the same ratio that the man OF fifty does
over the boy of twenty. We have about
eight hundred inhabitants. Our principal
articles of trade are lumber, hemlock bark,
wood, maple sugar-and whiskey and, If
1 was betting man, would wager bar
rel of old Bourbon that We make more ma
pie sugar and sell more whiskey than any
other town in the county, taking into con-
sideration the number OF inhabitants. Now
here Is where our superior judgment shows
itself. We have one store-or rather an
apology for one-one meeting house-and
a good one, too--but no minister; and per-
baps we don't require one, as we are so far
Christianized that we can maintain three
rum shops, all within the space of one and
half miles, without any apparent burden
to any one except those who drink the
whiskey. They appear sometimes to be
laboring under enormous burdens of some
thing, judging by the careful manner they
place their feet and the unnatural crock of
the knees. Two of these rum shops are
hotels OF II respectable sort for country
| town the other is not a hotel, neither is it
| a farm house, but u stranger might mis-
| take it for the sex;ons house, it being in
| close proximity to the burying-ground. l
may be mistaken, and probably am but
think it very necessary for the prosperity
and well being of the town that these diff
ferent places be supported according to
their merits, especially the latter. might
not think so but for the calm, candid and
impartial judgment of many of our first
men who approve and support it. 1 be-
lieve in them and their arguments, too.
They say the hotels sell too much water in
their whiskey, and it is an abuse Of good
nature to allow them to sell whiskev, hall
water, for ten cents per glass. They even
go further and say that good sound, COM
mon sense man, who takes only from three
to six glasses a day, cannot be found who
will not agree substantially with them in this
matter. agree with them; am for free
rum and for my rights and If DIR. Jewett
or Cough. could see, as 1 have seen, the
sorrowful, detected and injured look and
appearance of these first men when narrat
ing their troubles and abuses in being
obliged to take such enormous draughts o
water for the little whiskey they get, they
never would again enter the field as lectur
ers, except TO the end that whiskey be solo
pure-no adulteration by water. 1 dom
know as it would affect DR.. Jewett oil
Cough; they have seen so much of this
kind of abuse and injury they may have
become hardened but for myself-there,
can't say it; can only say my wife is one
of these hard hearted and unforgiving tenn
perance women, and don't appreciate theii
delicate feelings as do, and has refused
emphatically, to furnish me with handker
chiefs to dry my tears. There are more
and stronger reasons set forth by these
first men, why this third man should bt
supported in his laudable undertaking
They say he sells the pure article-the cleal
aud unadulterated nectar. No water il
Jed's rum, but an article man can drink
as long as he can carry it, and il won
make him feel like fool. He will get up il
the morning and his mouth won't taste as
if his wife had made soap in it the day be
fore. Another reason given is that it will
keep the man who sells it off the town
This last and all powerful argument is,
suppose, the result Of the calm, candid an(
deliberate judgment of these first men.
would, if free rum was not my motto, ask
these gentlemen If they thought thei
course taken in this matter would ever re
suit in making paupers of many others
while they were striving so hard to say,
this one man from the disgrace, and tn,
tow.i from the burden. NJ.