Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-03-29

are all the go, and some Of them we
learn are run with violin.
+. Bell and Bowker & Son are cars
ring potatoes every week thirty cent
last fall, forty in the winter, and now
farmers haul through the null or
twenty-five cents. Don't grumble /:
how was II last year:-ju5- restoring
the equilibrium. -Gdzeile.
Lunenburg, March 81, 1873.
Mr.. Elitoc-I would like to say
just one word in regard To he haran-
que by Jones in your last print ON the
criticisms OF Sorrel Top.
jones speaks very dIsparaginglv of
Lunenhurg and lis people, and seems
To doubt the yegacily of SUrrcl Tops
criticisms. We are almost incline to
believe that Jones is gassing us when
he says that he attended the lecture,
or, paradventure, he is non cOn,poS
meniiS. Now / attended that lecture
and when the writer oS the last article
says Lha; there was not ''rtI,le, in
sulling, or unamiah.c" utterance dug
ing the whole lecture, we think that
friend Jones l!es--yes We think he lies
under Il mistake. Now let Us got at
the facts of the case If possible. First
let us look ut Mr.. Baiiey's unproyoked
attack upon thu, little glrl, (ths one
mentioned III Sorrc,'s elldsiOn,) who,
for some reason (hest known to her.
self got up and lr.C the la | during
the lecture; we unhes tl5.ngy pro-
nJmc4 NJ. b's attack upon her as
crude, insulting and uuamiahle."
You say nothing was said that
cou.d possibly displc Use any one who
was not already in an irritable state of
IN nd perhaps you imagine the people
Ill thus town are all Idiots with one
exception, yourself of course. Again,
that certain Of oar citizens have been
thrown into II high auIge0n, and have
made a ridiculous cutlery. Don't link
Bro. Jones that you have Il better right
to gag the people than tLey, Tie
pulpit and platform" You mcekly
inquire, why this outcry? Well, /
hardly see why so much fuss, and no.
tice be taken Of such All absurd, chur-
lish pic Of insanity as that lecture
was. In regard to this "Goslng
Theatre" and its stockholders. We
think, had the boys and girls been
reasoned with, and kindly askel TO
dcsist from their nciarious employ
ment, doubt not, they would have
complied; but bu1!-dnz.ng, they Wil
resist 10 the bitter end, If need be.
lou say we had no right 10 demand
our ministers to endorse and Uphold
what in tleir estimation was urtful
and morally wrong. Certainly not,
quire, why this sudden change in
Their theatrical views? We are quite
positive that one OF oar pastors has
allowed his family to attend these
"Gosling Theatres previous to this
last. In 50 doing, didn't he endorse
and 'uphoId' them? certainly he did.
Both OF our pastors have count,nanced
plays and larces when in CONNECTION
with our temperance meetings, or at
least have seemed to do 50. Our
fri nd Jones seems terribly at variance
with Lunenburg, and is pleased to call
it ''bcnighted community" and tells
us we had better close our churches
at once, and depend entirely upon Il
grand theatre, (which lie advises It's
to rrccO lor our moral and religious
culture. Now that's good advice,
amt it? But what could We expect!
We think it advisable for Il man
vino feels So ba lily about our demoral.
ized condition as TO hurl such bitter
invectives against, we think it would
be sceL for hun to em.grate at once.
lest he too become demoralzcd.
A CITIZEN.