Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-09-04
out of Town Notes.
SOUTH WALLINGFORD.

! SOUTH WALLINGFORD.
The pulpit in Union Church has
been supplied for three Sabbaths, the
past month, by the Rev Mr. Wood, of
| Poultney, and one by Mr.. Wright, of
Dandy ......-....
&C. o. Stafford is now giving his
house a thorough repairing. .-....
20. NJ. Eddy and family have gone to
! Boston to spend a few weeks with some
friends there.
-Thos. Mitchell has been promoted to
the position Of foreman in w. w. KEEL
logg's marble mill. 49,. ........ ........ .
Ira p Fuller has gone to Winona,
Minnesota, to spend the autumn and
winter.
The loading of potatoes for market
has commenced here at the station by
Mr.. c. Munson. The price is Coo. per
bushel. .....
CAsTLEToN. -....
1T has been my good fortune to be
able to attend three of the most import
ant conventions held on this continent in
the last quarter Of century, the first
was the Worlds Temperance Conven-
ton, held at Metropolitan Hall in New
York, in the summer of 1850, presided
over by Hon. Neal Dow of Maine.
Delegates were present from nearly
every state in the Union, and from Eng
land, Ireland, Scotland, Nova Scotia,
New Foundland, District of Columbia
and the Canadas; the leading spirits of
the convention were such men as DR..
Marsh, Horace Greeley, Z. G. Deleyau,
Of New York; Judge HOar, Wendell
TDbf1lf,,-. Of TaCuo H. I ~
LOndon DR.. OBrien, of Dublin, with
other representative men from this
country and Europe. The convention
continued in session one week, and its
leading feature was the advocacy of the
prohibitory policy that had then just
been successfully inaugurated in Am
erica. ....-..
The second was the National Temper
ance Convention, held at Saratoga in
August. 1865, over which Gov Buck
ingham of Connecticut presided large
delegations were in attendance from the
Eastern. Middle and Western states the
most active members of this three day
meeting were Hon. Garrett Smith, Rev.
T. L. Cuyler, E. G. Deleyan, Rev. John
Pierpoint, together with several Judges,
governors and ex-governors from differ
ent states, whose names can not bring to
mind at this writing, but suffice it to say
that they were among the ablest men
of this nation at that day.
The third was the National CONVEX
ton at Saratoga last week, in which
twenty-one different states were repre-
scented, their deliberations were presided
over by Judge X. G.. Pitman of Massa-
chusetts The most prominent men in
this convention We're Hon. William +.
Dodge of New Ork Rev. T. l.. Cuyler
of Brooklyn Rev DR.. Patton of New
Haven; Prof G. B. Joslyn, President
of Albion College, Michigan; Rev. G.
w. Denison Washington, d c.; ex-Gov.
CIahin Massachusetts,. Public addresses
at the mass meeting were delivered by
Rev. T. L. Cuyler; he would appeal for
the truest education of the people, his
chief interest of reform would be the
parent and the pulpit, every delegate
should go home determined to make it
necessary under the prohibitOry law to
pray for the salvation and reformation of
the inebriate, and vote only for the true
reformers of the age. President Hopkins
was the next speaker, his theme was
the "The relation of educational institu-
tiOns to temperance" Rev. A A.
Miner, D. D., of Boston, spoke briefly
and pointedly on the history of licence,
against prohibition, in closing, he said,
the whole nation should rise up
to the responsibility of the work.
as men we should grapple with
intemperance at all possible points. Hon.
w. e. Dodge, of New York, spoke on
the Drinking Usages of Society" Rev.
G. B. JosIyn on ''Woman's Relation to
Drunkenness; Hon. James Black, of
Pennsylvania, on ''The Progress of the
Temperance Movements" These
speeches were delivered Wednesday and
Thursday evenings, and the people were
out en- nlGSse to hear them. Vermont
was pledged seven or eight hundred dol
lars in aid of the National Temperance
Publication Society of New York. Del
egates to the convention from Rutland
county were L. Sheldon, NJ. D., of West
Rutland, Rev. L. II. Stone and B. w.
Burt, of CastletOn, and II. Campbell, of
Poultney. We are under obligations to
the officers and members of the MethO-
dist Sabbath school, of Poultney, for a
cheap and pleasant excursion to Sara
toga. The company comprised some
three or four hundred persons, most of
them from POultney. A better cOnduc-
tor, better dressed, better behaved, bet
ter looking excursion we never fell in
with in all our travels. Among them
were Rev. DR.. Newman, Rev. Mr.. Noe,
Rev. w. II. Poor, Hon. Ralph Richards,
E. Ross, ESQ.,, DR.. George Bliss, and so
ON, though nearly all of POultney.
Crowds upon crowds and, | might say,
acres and acres of people were at Sara
toga these days, and they gathered to-
gether by thousands from three to four
o'clock D. M, to be RECALLED with music
bv the bands from New York and Bos-
ton in the balconies of the several pal
ace hotels of the place. Thus endeth
my temperance trip to Saratoga for
1878.
The number of arrivals at the Bono
seen House, in the two weeks ending
Aug. Both, were 260.
The Sanford House is well filled
with city people; one family of twelve
from New York, one of six from st.
Louis.
Rev. E. P. Hooker occupied the
pulpit of the Brick Church, Rev. DIR.
and Rev. L. III. Stone, of Castleton, the
Advent, last Sabbath.
Rev. Dr. Chickering delivered an
address at the twenty second meeting of
the Good Samaritans last Sunday night.
The academic year for 1878 and
1874 of the Seminary and State Normal
School commences Thursday of the pres
ent week.
General repairs on the Congrega-
tional church began Monday, Sept. LIST.
OF such is Castleton just now.
B. W. B.
MIDDLEBURY.
On Tuesday, the Goth inst, the
steam whistle of the paper mill, at III