Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-09-28
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MoNrrzhIERs Sept. 90 %. III +:
Taking the White Mountain Express
at Burlington, went to Wells River
without change of cars, and let me add,
the Wells River road put on as good:
cars as you will find in New England.
To Montpelier the ride is through beau
tiful but familiar country, noted for the
prominent position OF its dairy products,
as the Richmond: butter and cheese mar
ket is next to. that of st. Adams in i'm
portance. At st. Johnsbury, the objec-
tive point OF my travels, the County
Fair was being held, and though the
equinoctial came in such abundance as
to make up for the drought, the people
| turned out ia large numbers to see the
Fair and hear Henry Ward Beecher
Tuesday AFTERNOON. These Caledonia
people have way of making their Fairs
successful irrespectiveof the weather or
the attendance of distinguished strang-
ers. The attendance and interest in
Beecher's address showed. thafthese peo-
| pie have not lost faith !mgths man.
| His speech was eminentlY practical
dealing mostly with the financial guess
| ton, and bis method of statement aud
| the. way of illustrating it, probaSIs
| gave more sound and clear knowledge
| to nine-tenths of the farmers present
| than they had received from all other
sources in year. His occasional hu-
| mprous thrusts at the foibles of the day
and sallies of wit kept the audience in
| good hImor, so that he had their entire
/ attention TO the close. Seldom has the
value to public speaker of little we'll
used humor been more clearly proved.
! His bearing at the st. Johnsbury House
I was as quiet as though he was unknown
! to fame.
| The only public institution in 81.
! Johnsbury which / visited was Inc Atm
aneum, and of that building, the reading
| room, library and art gallery too much
| cannot be said. 1t is really the finest
| thing | have seen in the State, and is
/ both, credit TO MIR. Fairbanks,
| the donor, and the town which enjoys
/ its benefits. 1t not only denotes but be.
| gets culture, and thus becomes one of the
! best educators a community can possess
| Perhaps if Rutland gets the Howe Scale
works her citizens in time may have an
athenaeum, though they ought not to
wait for that This is one of the things
which Rutland needs far more than any
| industrial enterprise. ...:.
On nay return the obliging engineer,
who knows the HERALD of old, gave me
seat Id his cab, over the mountain, and
no scenery this side of the Adrondacks
can surpass that which met the eye at
every stage of the journey, and l did
| not wonder that the travel had been
| large during the season just closed. For
miles through what was, till the track
was laid, dense and unbroken wilder
| ness, though now the enterprising
Yankee has lumber mills in operation at
every available point. Far up the noun
tain sides are passed ponds OF water
which wait for the skill and pen of
some Murray to make their attractions
known. 1s..- .-..-. -.
At Montpelier the State House
is being put into order for the
Legislatures use. A new carpet has
| been put into the Representatives. Hail,
| but the old faded curtains of some MT
| teen years since remain. The most i'm
| portant change is the new method OF
| ventilation, introducing fresh air, by
| means of steam fan, up through
| hollow cast iron standard under each
seat. MS m6l1Ou SECURES AL dUuuudHt
supply, evenly distributed through all
parts of the Hall, while the foul air pas
sesoff through new openings in the cell
| ing overhead. No painting of any amount
| has been done, though is everything Is
| thoroughly cleaned. The covering on the
tops of the writing desks in the Execu-
tive Chamber is quite badly soiled and
should be replaced, as should the cheap
49, @E k~r~ -ssw
S elu in footns by solid silver or bur-
nished brass which would not tarnish if
protected by one or two coats of white
varnish: painted tin door plates for our
State House is too cheap even for the
economical notions OF rural Legislators,
and / don't think they would object to q
suitable expenditure in this matter. Mr..
FaEes, of the Bishop House, is getting
filled up with members who sre pleas
ed with his low rates The Amer
lean and Pavilion take those who
think less of the cost.
CoPELY SCePT.