Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-01-27
F r the Freeman.
l. ptter from st, Albans.

the ate-one with whom Montpelier
rarely condesctnds to shake hands suit
your readers? Every letter needs an in
troduction. This one is no exception.
shall not write about politics, because I'm
u woman and know nothing about them
When have occasion to use the first per
son, shall say | instead of we. because
there isn't but one Of us. Again may
GOSSIP, because, rs said before, I'm :,
woman, and men say that women are
given to that. | presume most of Your
re ,ders have an ide;. of St Albans. They
learned at school that it is "an important
t t'wn situated on Lake Champlain." and
conclude that it is Il fishing settlement and
at the women wash their clothes children
and dishes in the convenient ocean at their
blck-door that residents all sport their
boat and lre-house at the expense Of any
other kind Of Il house-in fact that ii iSn t
much. IN no way equal to the Capital Sad
mistake It's certainly equal in a wicked
way. We are two miles and and Il half
from The Lake by the latest measurements
and the town at the Bay is Il separate affair
and takes care of itself, or did before the
fire. If st. Albans proper conldn't show
respect enough for the incoming year to
get up a bonfire TO receive il. the Bay would
show it how appropriate it was to usher it
i'll with ceremony. 1t overdid the matter,
Il little. imagine it felt rather flat over
the celebration when the sun rose on New
Years morning over the smoking ruins
Of it, two churches and its one hotel, be
sides two tenement houses. No good bOlv
mourned over the destruct on of the hotel
1t was rather rejoicing, for man who
knows says. more lqnor WAS sold there
thln any other place in St. Albans.' But
the people cant understand why the
churches must needs be taken from their
weak societies. 1t is said but one will be
rebuilt and that one likely to be Meth
odist
If Il stranger visiting s.. Albums in the
summer time does not declare it the prct-
tie~t village in Vermont, shall say he i
very unimpres,ibe. 1t is very nice and
prc1tv-on the outside The location i,
of the finest; quite level, but rising to
the east. thus giving to the residents of
that part of the town very beautiful view.
The streets are, in general. well laid out
and cared for; the houses numb, red to
give ii city smell, suppose. Appear
ance> are deccitful here, rs well as else
where, and I'll show you the other side of
the story gradually. You would say l
wa> not telling the truth if were to give
it to You in a lump. Nothing like homeo-
pathic doses t"r tough story.
s.. Alban> has no lecture course. The
Academy Hall is up four flights of stairs
and people get 50 tired going to hear the
negro min>trcls three times Il week, that
when Dr. Chaplin lectures on Building and
Being. thev are unequal to the task OF
4 climbing the stains, or fear he will be
. "duH." To have it 90 forth that st Al
s bans could not sustain a Lecture Course
ha, touched som"bodys pride, and th Y
have started one on their own responsible
itv. 1t is chri>ttnrd the Stlr Lecture
& Course and Mr>. Ann Eliza Young, nine.
s te hth wife of Briyh I'm Young of Sal
Like CITY. Utah. is t. deliver the. fist one
MT Thursday evening, at Academy Hall
Reserved seats. fifty ,nt-. Being Il WO
m.,n, st. Abans will probably favor LEI
with it, criticisms.
suppose You We had all the Chris mas
rel orts You could we'll attend to. Mer
chnntS testify that this year withstand
inc the hard times, was buster than cvcr
and certainly the ha>tening to and fro e.
CHEEKY face Santa Clauses on Main street
Laden with mysterious parcels. for the fcv
day preceding Christmas. and above I'll
the loaded trees at the Methodist and Bap
tist churches on Christmas Eve. At th
Ep.>cupll church. there We're decorations
and i sermon. On the Monday followin!
Z Chri>tm;S, At the congregational church
8 there was festival and presents for thos
who otherwise would have been negecte
by he King of ChristmlS. SO the Christ
masses come and 20; each one Just 30 flu
Of joyous eXpcctatiuns-so delightful to til
little ones. who sometimes innoctnlly wi>
that Christmas came every week" Al
we'll we that are Older knnw i;tt Chris
mas holds nothing very ma velous-tl;
Slnta Claus. even, cannot take away tn
sorrows AMI leave the swce of life; th
til >e days are only mile stones in our rap
id journey.
The B,ptists dedicated their new IN
braut ful church, free from debt, on tn
8 25I of December. 1t seemed impos>ibl
tn 1t they could raise ten thousand dollar
s. in that con -regation these hard times, bll
81 was done; and He who prompted til
81 hearts Of the people to do it, will prospt
them in paying it.
Iou have heard Of the fire scrmO
# preached 10y Rev. Wayland Hoyt, Of 30
8 ton. 50 | could tell you nothing new ibol
ii. y temperance me- ting was held hel
week a4o last Sunday night. and II
COW l.I h,u>. showed tInt st. Alba,
p"rple wee not wholly Indifferent to /
evil i'll their midst Women wer. anon
- the Spelkcr>. and certain it ~ that the pov
er OF iitenp"r.uncr in this place wuu
have been broken ere tli~. had not on
Z who should have been 4 Iead.r. thrown
. Stumbling block in the way of those W
M men who would have in"ugu;atrd
WON ms crusade
Oar Musical Convention occurred
81 Us ,,l this winter. | am not = music
q critic. :, AL that | can >ly is, that III,
all sung and played very nicely: thtt Nj
q Carter sung rem trkablv we'll, AMI thong
r~elt rcntrhablv pret Y; hat Don Nun
q was very fine; that everybody seemed
81 enjoy ihcm>rlvr~. AM 30 on.
81 Everybplv knows that the times a
g hard. and st Albans realizes the fact