The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1875-01-28
NEW PILGRIN's PROGRESS
MtIEsToNrs rs nIs JOURNEY FROM 1920 rc
THE PRESENT NEw YEAR.

up lbA ulluNtttt
Keeps ThanksgiyIng-in no dan
ger Of over-eating.
1622. Builds a meeting house.
5-Proclaims a fast day.
l628.-Culs down May pole at Merry
Mount, as a rebuke to vain recreatious,
l655.--ls crowded for accommodations,
aud stakes out q new farm at Connect
cut
G37,--Makcs war on the Antinomians,
and the Pequot Indians, and whips
both.
1898. Starts a college.
l6I0.--Sets up printing press,
1913, toes into Il Confederacy The
first Colonial Congress.
lGiS.--Lays down the Cambridge plat
form. Hangs a witch.
16i9. Sets his face against the unchris-
tian custom Of wearing long hair, q
thing uncivil aud uncomely.
l6jl.-ls rebuksd for intolerabe excess
and bravery ofapparel, aud is forbid
den by law to wear gold aud silver lace
or other such gewgaws.
lGj2.-Coins Pine Tree ShiIings-and
makes the business profitable.
1908, Prints q Bible for the Indians.
iG80.-Bnys hang up clock, and occa-
sionaly carries silver watch that helps
him guess the time of day. About this
period learns to use forks at tabe-a
new fashion.
1892 lis scared by witches again at Sa-
lem, but gets the better of them.
1902 Pounds another college, which at
last settles down at New Haven.
170l.-Prints his first newspaper IN Bos.
ton.
1905. Tastes coffee, as a luxury, and at
his own table,
/ l7OS.--Constructs another platform, this
time at Saybrook.
/ 17l0.-BegiGs to sip tea, very sparingly
/ III Puts letter in his first post office.
l720.-Eats u potato, and takes one home
to plant in his garden as a curiosity.
/ rails innocuatcd for the small pox--
/ not without grave remonstrance from
/ his conservative neighbors. Begins to
/ sing by note on Sundays, thereby en-
countering much opposition and open
ing ten years quarrel.
/ 1740, Manufacturers timed ware, aud
starts the first tin peddler on his trav-
els.
1742.-Sees Faueuill Hall huilt. The
cradle Of Liberty is ready to be rocked,
| 1745.-Builds au organ, but does not
/ permit it to be played In the meeting
house.
1850. Buys a bushel of potatoes for win
ter's use, all his friends wondering
what he will do with SO many.
! H5j.-PHts up Franklin stove in the
best room, aud tries one Of the newly
invented lightning rods.
( l760.-About this time begins 10 wear
collar to his shirt. When he can afford
It, takes bis wife to meeting in chaiso
instead of on piIlion, as heretofore.
/ l76j. Shows his dislike to stamped paper
aud joins the Sons of Liberty.
. 1868. fries his hand at type founding
Lnot yet successfully in Connecticut.
l770. Buys a homemade wooden cloak
l773.--W Waters his tea in Boston harbor,
Phuts liberty trees wherever he finds
good soil.
l77f.-Lights Boston streets with oil
lamps--a novelty, though New Lights
have been plenty for some years.
l716.-- Brother Jonathan, as he begins to
be called in the family, declares himself
free aud Independent.
! 1850. Buys an Umbrillo, for Sundays
and whenever he shows II Is laughed at
for his clemiuacy.
l7gi--starts a cotton spinning factory.
/ 1872 Has been raising elk worms in
Connecticut, and now gives his minis.
ter mot his wife) a homemade silk
gown. Buys a carpet for the middle
Of the parIor floor.
l793-Invcuis the cotton gin, and there
by rebles the value Of Southern plan.
tations,
l1gjls00. .- Wears paUtaIoous occasional.
lg. but not when m fnr dress. Begin.
10 use plates on the breakfast and tea
table.
ls02 -lias tho boys and girls vaccinaicd
iaJG.-Tric. 80 barn "a piece Of hard Goa
from Philadeiptia. a failure.
p 1907 Secs bost go Dy steam on th'
Hudson
1915. Holds d little conversation q
Hartford, bat doesn't propose TO dl.
. solve rhe Union Buys one Of TER,
% pstetd shelf clocks for $50, aud resu
lales bi. watch by IT,
. lsII--sels mp stove 10 the meetn.
D house sud builds Gre 10 II Tor Sunday
b aa innovation which &. stontiy resiste,
bY many.
% 1915 Begin. 10 1aH = steamboat on Lonl
Island souud, aud siter making hi
will, takss pas-sge on it to New York
@ lslC.-Grown b8l1er be crosses The ~
aatie u q steamship.
lssz Lights gas in Boston. At last b
b learns bgw 70 make hard coal burn
and sets CRATE 10 bic parior Bay
q rcel pen Zone of Giloifs soId for s.