The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-03-17
Historical.

vi tHc iuCt tuut Il NOlilhH Was uuIHtu az
the stake in about the year 1850 in Charles
town, Mass, ''on the northerly side of
Cambridge road, about quarter of mile
above the peninsula? The woman was
colored servant of Captain John Goldman,
an ancestor of Rev. DIR. Goldman of Dor
chester. She was burned at the stake for
poisoning her master.
The Maine historical society held its an.
nual meeting at Portland on Thursday,
among those present being Prof Packard
of Bowdoin college, George Il. Davis and
ex-Gov. Washburne This society was in
corporated in 1922, two years after Maine
became state and of its original fifty
members only one is now living, ex-Chief-
Justice Ethan Shipley of Portland.
There is house in Scotland over the
door of which is the date 117S, and the
same family has lived in it for thrty-eight
generations.
Mr. Whcelock of the "Bee Hive" at
Hartford has an English sun-glass l55
years old, which his great grandfather
brought from London IN 1880.
The Hartford Courant publishes an item
that appeared in that journal in March,
1915, stating that the ladies of the Fairha-
ven parish, having assembled and had a
drink of tea, all round, unanimously re-
solved that they would "drink no more of
the pernicious weed, till the late oppres-
sive acts of the British parliament are re-
pealed.
The original copy of the Declaration of
Independence, which has been In the patent
office at Washington for years, has faded
so that the signatures are scarcely visible,
and a skilled penman is to go over the doc
ument with the aid of strong microscope
and retrace all the signatures so as to make
them distinct and legibe.
A terrapin was recently found in field
in Robertson county, KY, with the follow
ing names inscribed on its she'll ''E. Ash
craft. 1922 n. A. Bratton, 1856 William
Wood, 1853, and II. A. Wood, 1864"
John L. Porter of Greensboro has copy
of paper dated at Huntington, VT, Oct.
18th, 1914 1t is strong in its opposition
W TIC Wal Will CICit DIltdiu, dutt W utul-
ocrats in general. Printed with pen. Its
motto is "Peacc and commerce. No war
for conquest"
The ordinary pronunciation of the word
"Hoosac" started with the old name for
the Berkshire locality, which was spelled
''Hoosuc.' In land grant given in 1773,
to settlers, northern Berkshire is called the
'IIoosuc" district. The original papers
are now in the possession of f. Ketchum,
one of Clarksburg's assessors. The spell
ing of the word was long ago changed'from
"lioosuc" to "Hoosac."
THE MISUTE-MEN or CONCORD.
The bronze statute of the minute-man
now completed at the Ames works in
Chicopeec and destined to mark forever the
spot
Where once tn embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world,
will be readily accepted as a worthy exam
pie of American sculpture, and might even
stand for the ideal embodiment of the &C.
MUS of the revolution. Mr.. French, one of
the youngest land freshest of our sculptors
and whose first ambitious work this statute
! is, ought to be at home to see ii unveiled
before his townsmen and the inherltors.. of
the minute-mans great legacy for on that
occasion he could not fail to gam what he
merits-thc peoples honest praise and re-
| cognition as genius.
The statute is of course of heroic meas
ure somewhat more than seven feet in
hight, generously proportioucd, and is to
be elevated upon Il fine pedestal of gran
lite. 1t represents young man turning at
the hurrying call of the messenger from
his labors ia the field, and instantly ready
| for duty. His left hand rests moment
on a handle of his abandoned pillow, across
whose upper brace his coat is flung his
right hand grasps the old ilint-lock musket,
he rests on his left foot, while his right is
Just leaving the ground behind-the whole
attitude indicating moments pause, as il
to listen. The figure is attired in the ira
ditional continental costume, and will pre-
serve its details for future ages. The long
waistcoat, caught by one button, the shirt,
hitched up lnnsely at the waist with toll,
and with sleeves rolled carelcssly above the
elbow, the breechcs and the buttoned gal
| ligaskins, the steut cowhide boots, the pow
der-horn, with its pine stopple, hung by a
strap over the shoulder, like a scarf OF dec
Grafton, the soft hat, cooked at one side
all add to the curlously vivid way in which
this statute brings one in neighborhood with
the day and the spirit it crystalizes In Its
enduring bronze.
For this minutc-man OF Concord is in
stinct with life and principle. 1t is no ideal
face, no countenance of form that would
be at home in other countries, but thor
ough Yankee, that Mr.. French has given
to Immortality. The features are strongly
marked and bear the energy, the self-com-
mand, the ready shrewdness, the immedi-
ate decision, and, above all, the air OF free
dom that belongs ia the New England face.