The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-12

llt Auclpii SoClcly Ill tilc .Iducu ScHDoi
gave an entertainment in Academy Hall on
Friday evening last They were honored
with full house. The dramas were per-
formed in very creditable manner. The
addresses were well received and the sing
ing by Miss Ella Nichols was greatly en-
ioycd, as was manifested by the audience
Two young fellows week ago last Sat
urday night attempted to enter Mrs. La
Flowers house, and were refused admis-
son. The inmates raised the neighbor-
hood by their cries and screams. The
neighbors went to the rescue, and the fell
lows fed. They were arrested one day
last week and brought before Justice
Knapp. They were fined so that costs
and fines amounted to over $40. The fines
were paid, and they went back to work at
Bcldcns Falls. If they are not better they
will be wiser men.
This is the time of year for change in
Middlebury. | don't mean money, but all
those that intend to change their residences
do it about these days, as the almanac says.
1t is generally rainy and muddy, and al
most always attended Iby squalls. What is
more tiresome than to tear down what you
have put up, and put up what you have
torn down? How dreamy and repulsve
house seems to be that has been left ten
antless few days. AS an old Irishwoman
said when the house was shaken by an
earthquake, - 1t makes me think of dHh ~
LETTHARGY IN TEMPERANCE.
Our Mddlebury temperance society
was awakened out of Il sound sleep on Sun
day evening by the Rev. Mr.. Granger,
state agent of the temperance society
| The body of the town society is trans
| ported from the Methodist to the Con-
| gregational church and back again once
month and some body is ap-
pointed to shake and kick the lifeless
and snoring body to bring 1t to con
seriousness. 1t generally partially arouses
to sense of its situation, rubs Its eyes,
and asks what's the matter WHAT'S broke
out anew? He is told that intemperancc is
on the increase, land strong drink is
raging In his half wake condition be
scratches his head, and with his accus-
toned energy says, ''let it rage - and
falls back to sleep another month.
Those who sell liquor, like such a tenn
perance CULVER as that? They like So
cety that will sleep so sound that they can
entangle it with their tlimsy net work OF
security and make him sleep on regardless
of danger that is on every side.
The next month the executive commit
tee attempt to wake up the sleeping So
ciety gives him tremendous shake and
say, awake up" "We have secured Rev
Mr.. So and So TO give us n Lecture upor
the evils of intcmperance. lie is roarer =
This lifeess body rubs its eyes and fall
back again regardless of all DANCE. and hi
last words is ''let him roar II neve
drink =? ! don't see the use of this cuss
1t won't do TO go too fast-moral suasiol
in homeopathic doses is the great lever t.
break up this gigantic evil" Moral sua
sion is good thing, no doubt, but this so
ciety has been running about two year
and it is not known that one drunkard ha
been reformed by it, or made better by it
even thaving an existence. 1t has on 1t
list 10 or 80 names-men, women and chill
dren and that is all Is it a wonder the
that drunkenness is on the increase /
Mddlcbury2 Think of this we professe
temperance men? Let temperance me
7 learn that organizing a society and talkin
good things and thinking good thing
about temperance will never accomplis
9 the work. Neither will spasmodic elfol
do it. II ever drunkenness is done ava
with 1t will be by united steady effort o
the part of the people. A.