Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-03-11
Lunenburg.

w Lindsey, S Hendrick, VIM c Wash
burn, G w Moore.
Lunenburg.
Tuesday, our town meeting day, was
hot and sloppy, Notwithstanding, there
was good attendance of voters. Levi
Silsby was chosen Moderator; Henry
Howe, Clerk; Z. N. Wright, Da liel Pow
ers and Martin Burt Selectman; j. w.
HartShorn, overscer of the poor; William
Hastings, Constable; l.. A. Nichols; J. b.
Mcfarland and Joseph Powers, Listers.
At this point the article for general bust
ness was taken up, and on motion offs. d.
Carleton, which was that the Selectman
be instructed to issue the bonds to the
Essex County Railroad Co., provided
that said Company would pay the exp:n-
scs of, and cancel the suit they have
brought against the town, and date the
bands on the 1St day of March A. ID. Is &C.
The subject was again briefly discussed,
and on demand of. w. Harlshorn the yeas
and nays were added, and the result was
to issue 70, not issue 50, many not voting,
after which the meeting adjourned until
Saturday at one O'Clock p. NJ to complete
the business Of the meeting.
Cuttings Hall was well filed last week
on Wednesday evening, for the purpose
of completing temperance organiza-
ton which should be alive aud effective.
The following officers were elected F.:
Presidend-Mrs. H. A. Cuttings Vice
observation-disclosures Thomas, Judson c..
Webster, c. w. King; Secrtares-Mrs.
Webster and Mrs. j. NJ. Dodge; and n
working committee of three. The exer-
cises consisted of short addresses, sing
ing, declarations, and one by young
Stevens was extremely funny and well de-
livered. The meetings are to be holden
on the first Tuesday of every month.
RAILROAD STUMP SPEECH BY WENDALL
PHILLIPS STEVENS. Friends and fellow
citizens Of this confiictuous community,
I've risen to give you warning, and make
you speech and tell you what I'm going
to talk about and allude to- Now, in the
first place, I'd like to have particular at
tention. say crisis has arrived, the
wheels of the Portland & Ogdensburg
must be stopped; the brakes must be let
off; and the boilers busted, or we're
afoat, and the river rising. Our glorious
Town, that like squirrel running around
fran hac full y mild oh tha
current of time, has had its harmony dis
turbed and is now drifting with fearful
rapidity toward the shoals and quick
sa ads of bankruptcy, threatening to bust
everything into flinders, and pick itself
up in the end a gone gosling Hearken no
longer, We denizens of Mobile, Dogholler,
the Corner and adjacent regions, to the
siren voices that whisper in your car the
too delusve sound of "Bond the Town,
"Bond the Town." for Bonds has sloped
and flowed to other lands or down to the
depths of the mighty deep, or in the pa
thetic language of Horace Greeley, "gone
Pickering through the frogs of other
climes, to aid the miser watcher in his
dimes" My dear sir, it has been the be-
lief of som" of our worthy citizens, that
this great annihilator Of our Common.
wealth darsen't make good its claim to
our cash, but in one short hour their
hopes were dispelIed like thistles before
the winters blast. Feler-citiZens and
girls, confusion and arnicy run riot in all
our stores and loafng places. Rise up
then, sound the tOcsin, blow the drum,
and boat the tin horn, till the startled
echoes reverberate from Baptist Hill to
Benton's Mountain. To your posts and
from the top-most peak Of Mt. Washing.
ton bid defiance to the whole earth by
hollern', f&Who's afraid They darsen't
sue in such laundering tones that quak.
ing with fear, you'll forget what danger
is. Don your rusty regimentals, wipS
out the aints of your guns, beat up your
scythfs and make swords of them, put OF
your bnnting shirts, mount your horses
and save the Town or bust. Times crit
ieal, Bnd every man, woman or child will
fight, bleed and die to save the Town
NQw's the time when You need men in of