Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-12-31

How Town WAS NAMED. Barre
was chartered in 1880, under the name of
Wildersburgh, but with the early settlers
there the name was unsatisfactory and
unpopular, and the feeling in favor of a
change in time became strong. Among
the citizens were two prominent men who
came, one of them from Barre, Mass, and
the other from Holden, and as time went
on, each became more and more in favor
of calling the new settlement by the same
name as the town bore which he had come
from in the Bay State; and the people,
very generally, at length came to array
themselves with one or the other Of these
men in their preferences. In 1893, as the
story goes, public meeting was held Ia
decide the question and place it forever at
rest. The contest between the rival par
ties grew spirited, ard the breach between
them grew wider. just how to get the
matter before the meeting in form, the
Jealous partisans did not know. Finally,
it was proposed and agreed that the two
leaders might settle the question by II trial
of strength and endurance in bout or
trial at boxing; and so it was decided,
and all the conditions of the singular pro-
ceeding were arranged and understood.
and the chiefs pitched into it, while the
boisterous crowd looked interestedIy on.
Holden went down aud Barre came tri
umphantly to the top with the eXclama-
ton: There! the name is Barre, 10y -
and Barre it was and is to this dav. But
worthy and esteemed citizen of that
honored town, with conmendable pride in
its good name, comes to the front with
another story, which he verities by proofs
from the record. The record, sin brief il
this: Voted, that the man who will give
the most towards building II meeting house
in said town shall name the town, and the
town will petition the general assembly
for that name" The privilege of namiu o
the town was thereupon sold at auction
and "struck off to Ezekiel ID. Wheeler,
who bid sXty-two pounds lawful money "
for the high honor DcmiHg, in Boston
Journal.
GARCELoN AND THE SUPREME CoURr. -
Governor Garcelon, of Maine, has con-
sented to the plan proposed by Hon. Lot
NJ. Morrill,, to submit certain questions
involved in the Maine middle to the
supreme court. The governor concludes
his letter as follows
You intimate that ii is in my power 10
restore peace. tranquility and good feeling
to the state and all its inhabitants by
asking the opinion of the supreme Judges
on each law point involved in the varia
tons of the court from the returns. Moth
ing would give me greater pleasure than
an authoritative opinion upon the points
involved in the present condition of affairs.
and also upon such as might be likely to
arise. Please to indicate The points that
occur to you which have not already been
adiudicated upon, and doubt not that
we may be able to secure satisfactory
solution of the doubtful complications, or.
if not satisfactory, at least such as may be
deemed authoritative. The fact to which
you allude, that so large number of
republican members elect fail to receive
certificates, is due to the fact that SO MANY
officers failed to comply with
The constitutional requirements. which.
BY judicial decisions. the governor and
council have no authority TO overlook.
This condition of affairs is no fault of the
governor and council,