Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-08-07
CASTIETON.

Last week Sunday night the Samari-
tans held good meeting at the Metho-
dist church. The interesting feature of
the proceedings was the remarks offered
by Rev Mr.. Smith, a returned mission
airy from Turkey, on the drinking habits
and customs of the people in that land.
No such practice of treating friends eX-
lists there as in this country; if they
treat person, it is to coffee or some
other harmless beverage; they have the
pure Juice of the grape, not poison as in
this country, for wine. He had wit
messed only two cases of drunkenness in
Marsovan, a city of several thousand in
habitants, during his ten years residence
there. lie made other interesting state
ments in regard TO the drinking customs
in Turkey.
Mr.. J. n. Buel was in town three or
four days recently. He is an expert
fisherman and, to our knowledge, can
relate fiIst-cla fish story. He spent
most of bis time here angling for trout
in our brooks and trolling for bass and
pickerel in Lake Bomosecn. Mr. B.
t first introduced Oswego bass and pickcrel
! into this lake from Lake Champlain
some twenty-five years ago, having at
that time deposited almost two hundred
specimens, all told. into those waters;
now the lake swdrms with them. He
went from this town TO Whitehall III
1929 less than a dozen persons live in
! this village that resided In it when he
took leave. of it forty-tive years ago
Among the number are Mrs. Rice, Mrs.
! Ainsworth William Moulton, F. Par
ker, B. F. Adams, g. Buel, ii. O. .Hig-
/ lev and A Loyelaud. 1t was a year or
! two before your correspondent came to
town. ~ ..- .---~
Mr.. Harvey Castle has been in the
employ of the Sherman family since the
! summer of 1888; he has been successive
| Iy employed by the marble firms OF
| Sherman & Woodward, Sherman II
! Jackman. Sherman Brothers G&SOn, Jack
| man q Sherman, Sherman u Hyatt, and
! for the last eight years he has worked
| for r. NJ. Sherman, and will doubtless
! remain with him until the close of his
! life; he assisted the late Smith Sherman
| in the construction of the first marble
! mill built in this county; his vocation
has been mostly that of, driving a team
! he has handled marble and sand sufficient
! to make a pile nearly as large as Bird
mountain if it was all landed In one
| place s,,... .ss .-....... ...-.
AT the regular Thursday evening
conference meeting, last week. in the
chapel, seven Congregational ministers
! were present, four of them were resi-
dents here, one of them from Wisconsin,,
| and two of them returned missionaries,
| whose wives are members of this church,
and were members previous to their de-
parture for foreign lands years ago. Only
! four laynen were IN attendance, and one
of them was Massachusetts man. 'r-
The arrivals in town last week of
former residents of Castleton, included
the names of Rev Henry Higley, of
Beloit, Wis, George Ellery, of the Sig
nal Service Corps at Burlington, John
TIorr, A. B., principal of thehigh school
1 at Broolzline, Mass, a position he has
held fifteen years at q high salary. Mr..
/ II. prepared for college at Castleton
Seminary and graduated with honors at
Harvard twenty years ago. He is ranked
as one of the best educators in the old
Bay State. c.. r. Ballard, A B., for
merly connected with the seminary as a
teacher, and now an instructor in an in
/ .stitution at Easton, Mass, is also here.
Mr.. B., it will be. conceded, has an en-
/ yiable reputation as teacher and poet,
such as Vermont may properly be proud
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