Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-06-25
Letter from Ludlow.

Your correspondent spent the last Saba h
in Ludlow and presumes q brief article about
the place will not be without interest TO your
readers. Ludlow is one Of the most beauti-
full of Vermont villages, on the Black River,
about twenty miles from Rutlald and twice
as far from Bellows Falls. The Rutland
and Burlington railroad passes on tho south
of the village, aud so high hat the whole
village can be seen, forming, with the hills
rising in the background, one of the prettiest
landscapes ON this road tho scenery the
whole length of the road is most picturesque,
the road most Of the way running high above
the stream and allowing Of a fne view from
the car windows. Indeed, l do not know of
a more enjoyable railroad ride, to the lover
Of ine scenery, than that from Bellows Falls
to Rutland. The p. & o. Road from st.
Johnsbury TO Johnson | should think per.
haps might equal it.
But to %contine myself to Ludlow. The
wooden factory employing some $50 to l75
hands is the largest concern in the village.
but carriage shops, machine shops, Touring
mills, and various other industries are -four
ishing here, and among the workmen here
has been found material for a strong council
Of Sovereigns Of Industry, which numbers
some IS members and is doing a good thing
in the way Of trade keeping some goods on
hand but buying mostly from local dealers
at special and very satisfactory rates. There
is also a grange and lodges of Good Templars,
Masons, Knights Of Pythias, &c. There
are about 1900 people in the village limits,
and, with the exception of st. Johnsbury, l
think it would be diff cult to find a NOR 9
quiet, peaceful, la~w-abiding village. The
lines are not drawn quite as tightly over the
rum.sellers as in the latter place. which l
think is sufficient to account for the differ
ence which leads me to place St. Johnsbury
ahead.
There are four church societies aud three
church buildings, and a Methodist church is
now building. The Baptists Bumber about
$50, the Congregationalists and Methodists
some IS each, and the Universalists l Judge
to be smaller in numbers, as they have no
regular services, though they have a lourishine
Sabbath school. The Roman Catholics will
either build a church this summer or buy
that ofthe Congregationalists, who think OF
building new.
The religious interest which has been
50 strong for a few months in st. Johnsbury
has been equally 50 here, and it was truly
cheering, in attending the earnest Christian
services in the several churches during the
day, to hear prayer after prayer sent up for
"the brethren ofSt. Johnsbury." Christians
of st. JOhnsbury, you have a greater respon,
sibility perhaps than you are aware Of. MOI
only at home but in distant towns you are
remembered in the prayers of Christians
and a good report from you confidently ex
pected.
A remarkable harmony prevails amonJ
the several churches, and each seems tC
work disintorestedly for the prosperity of all
Seven persons-six Of them ladies-Wer
baptized by the Baptist pastor Sunday.
Besides the other institutions | have men
toned, that well-known professor of rhetoric
etymology, and grammar, ID. q. Hackett
publishes a religious paper, the Black Rio
er Gazette, which is the pride of Ludlow
Seriously, though, / believe She course h
has taken has been productive Of goo
in the churcbes-it has caused them to draw
closer together, and closer to God, in com
batting a common enemy, and in consequence
their zeal and strength have been more abur
dant. ZoLLIKOFFER.