Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-05-03

ness and much Of the living Portions Of
the city was consumed The engines
were Of no avail against the rapid spread
Of the flames. and several times had to
be abandoned.
BARTON.
We have been to Barton the past
week. and consequently have succeeded
in amasslng large amount Of comfort
for ourselves, besides imparting a great
deal Of pleasure to our bosom friends up
there We had not been in the place
since July last and were not prepared to
see the great and wonderful changes
that have taken place since then There
has been long stride forward in the
way Of building and busiuess-more
than We had ever hoped to see there. es-
peeially In so brief period as nine
mouths But we have seen 1t. A mag
ni6cent hotel that viii cost not less than
twenty thousand dollars when finished.
is well nigh completed. and Is one Of the
handsomest in Vermont The county
building question has no doubt stimu-
lated the building Of the hotel some
what. The judges rooms are all fixed
especially for them, and everything else
in shape srhs7s the court house and Jail
take the trail made by the Irasburgh
Bank We fear that hotel will prove as
poor an investment to the heirs TO whom
1t belongs as certain printing Office in
ST. JOhnsbury once did to US. When
the county buildings are removed from
Irasburgh they ought to 90 to Barton.
but they srIH go to Newport. This is
oar opinion A foundry and two ma
chine shops have been or are being
erected new and elegant parsonage
built by the MethOdists, and other rare
and radical improvements not necessary
to mention But the greatest improve
ment Of all has been in the erection and
completion Of a church by the Congre-
gational society, and costing some s13,-
0O0- There are plenty Of larger. more
costly and more pretentious edifees of
worship In Vermont than this one at
Barton, but for real elegance, without
gaudiness) beauty and general air of
neatness. comfort and utility, We do not
believe the State has one that can equal
certainly none that viii exceI-it. It
has been built with care; no money
seems 20 have been squandered foolish
ly the right men we're selected to su-
perintend the work from the first /: all
the timbers came together without jar
or confusion, and the result is "a thing
Of beauty" which We hope may prove
a JOY forever" We may be permitted
to add, too, that this way of doing bust
ness IS characteristic Of Bartonians.-
When they really uriSh to do anything
they always do it. and it takes but a
few hours to accomplish 1t either. In
many respects it IS the finest village we
ever saw, and IN one it IS the finest
There IS not now, nor has there been
within our remembrance, Looter IN It.
Every one has some business. some visi-
Die means Of support, and follows it
The tongue OF SANDER may fatten and
thrive for day OF two, but it falls upon
unweleome ears at the end Of that time,
and IS silent. 1t Is not because her peo.
pie are so much likelier by nature than
other folks. but for the reason that thew
have something more important to at
tend to than to be heralding the short
comlngs Of their neighbors to the world.
We have seen places nj ere there was
much more sOciabalaty than In Barton,
but none where there was more respect
abt6ty, and when they get ready to
throw OF some Of that cold business-Iike
reserve that still hangs to them and mix
up, and get together. as We do here in
MOrrisVille, the place will be improved
by fifty per cent But We do think she
acted meanly IN the matter of the Iras.
burgh Bank-nOt in the attempt to Sc.
eure, but IN smashing it--lHorrisvi1e
C5tizea.