Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-10-10

ENTHUSIASTICALLY CLUE. This,
the best and largest established of New
England concerts clubs, will give con-
cert in Village Hall, Montpelier, next
Tuesday evening, Oct 10Th, beginning at
eight o'clock. The McndeIssohn this wear
have in their organization Thomas Ryan
and Heindl of the old favorites. s. E..
Jacobsohn, violin, is from the Theodore
Thomas orchestra where he has been lead
ing violin and Gustav Dannreuther, violin,
from London with good reputation. The
other members are Thomas Ryan, Edward
and Alexander lleindl and Rudolph Hen
mig. The vocalist accompanying the
troupe is Miss Ella G. Lewis who was
with them last year. Tickets are fifty cents
and can be obtained at Phinney's.
The convention of the New England
Temperance Reform Club on the 4th and
of the Grand Temperance Reform Club of
Vermont on the 9th of October, was at
tended at Montpelier by twenty or more
persons-mostly special advocates of some
note in the cause, and representing orga-
nizations and progress of the work in
other states, besides fair local audiences
Among others were John w. Drew of
Concord, president, and Add. D. WEIGH
OF Providence, secretary of the New Eng
land Club, Col. +. G. Allen, Judge Z. NJ.
Jinks and Mrs. i. i. Partington of Rhode
Island, and Geo. G. Coburn and S. B
Page of New Hampshire. A business
meeting of the New England Club was
held Thursday morning, at which their
organization, begun at Rocky Point, r. l.,
last summer, was further perfected. The
officers arc to consist of president,
twelve vice-presdents, two from each
state, secretary, treasurer, chaplain and
marshall, all TO be members. ANY one
may become n member by signing the
constitution and paying one dollar. Six
meetings are 10 be held every year, and
at each, the place of the next one is to be
determined upon. The officers will be
elected annually in August, or the the first
meeting thereafter. Justice IIinkley was
appointed n committee of one to make ar
engagements for mass meeting in the
evening and see that adequate notice was
given.
A moderate sized, Montpelier audience,
attended Il public meeting at Village Hall
in the afternoon but not such an one as
the geographical extent of territory pur-
posed TO be represented would lead one to
expect. The programme formed a SORT
ofreyival in which every one spoke: Mrs
MoIloy was present but said only II few
words. Similar meetings were held in
the evening and throughout the next day
President Drew expressed the thanks Of
himself and associates for the very agree
able manner in which they had been enter
tanned while here; and, as President
Durant of tie Vermont Club informed
them that almost the only reason for call.
ing the latter was to meet and Join hands
with their greater brother, they consented
to remain till Friday night.
On Friday evening an excellent speech
was delivered by EX-Lieutenant Gov. Geo
N. Dale. lie thinks majorities have the
light TO suppress the use of Intoxicating
liquors for precisely similar and more
potent reason than the one which justifes
the suppression, under the name of nui.
sance, of an obnoxious industry even
though the industry be IL most beneficial
one to humanity, absolutely necessary tC
develop the resources of the locality anG
carried on entirely within the limits of the
propretor's own soil. The law makes M
unfounded discrimination in being so ten
der of mans right to drink what he
pleascs and thus render himself dangerous
u result brought about by himself
while it summarily invades his most
sacred rights upon discovering that he has
though unwitingly, contracted an infectious
disease. The meetings were not, on the
whole, so well attended us the promoters
of the undertaking had reason to hope
but the remarks, at times, were very per-
tinent and delivered with II sincerity he
speaking depth of conviction. Nearly
all the speakers were young men who haC
passed through the lowest stages Of deg
radiation and misery; in fact the whoIC
movement is reform Of drinking men
among themselves. But there is one lhine
about such meetings, generally, which, il
it could be avoided, would enable many
who take Il moderate interest in the sub
iect, to attend them with far create
pleasure and much warmer sympathy
and that is the tendency to speak Of per
sonal experiences, ut times, growing into
egotistical laudations, The happy mcthot
has not yet been devised by which speak
er may bring his good works so accept
ably before AN audience, as to let then
find it out from some other source, whicl
they will certainly do if there be anything
deserving it.
Mrs. Darlington delivered lecture oil
Sunday evening to very full house, man,
being unable to obtain seats. She has ;
very good voice and many expressed
themselves well pleased.
BRADFoRD.-Th Atlas case in which
j. D. Wilton was the defendant was re