Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-05-12

returns 10 GnlS cndrge, mucn TO the sat-
isfaction of his friends within and with
out the church.
EAST CHARLESTON.
Rev. l. D. Quint of the Baptist church
at the west village, breaches here one
half of the time and is much liked.
Mrs. William Morse left this place
about month since for Wisconsin; she
reached her brothers there on Friday in
the week, was taken violently sick on
Monday, and died the following Thurs
day. Mr.. Morse was telegraphed at
once, but did not reach there until after
his wife's death.
Joseph Socier has bought about 10O,-
900 feet of lumber, in the log, of 10.
Gray of Morgan, and will run the same
from the Beach to the outlet of Seymour
lake, and then down the stream one half
mile, into Echo pond and across the
pond to the mill he hires at the outlet
of VIM. P. Dodge of Barton. 1t is es-
timated that it will not cost Socier over
$50 to run the timber the whole dis
lance. 1t will be sawed and drawn to
Island Pond.
VEST CHARLESTON.
See Miss Anna Webster's advertise.
ment about hair work. She knows just
how to do all kinds of hair work.
GLOVER.
A new sidewalk at West Glover shows
the public spirit and enterprise of the
place.
There were Is candidates for license
to teach, at the public examination of
teachers.
Miss Lulu Davis and Miss Martha
Jenness, both Normal School graduates,
are to have charge of the village school
for the summer term.
Thomas Parker, father of Joseph Par
ker who lately died from injuries received
at Barton, took poison this morning and
died this forenoon, He got up early,
and it is supposed took the poison about
four o'clock; he was found at seven
o'clock in his barn.
A large company of the friends Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Loomis Stanton, met at
their residence last Monday eve, to as.
sist in celebrating the tenth anniversary
of their marriage. A silver cake basket
and pickle dish were left as presents. II
was very pleasant interview for all
present.
Miles Norton writes us second let
ter from Wisconsin, and speaks very
highly of that country. He says that
on his farm of 200 acres he tills &C
acres. Keeps $50 sheep, 6 horses, 4
COWS, 26 hogs. He plants 20 acres o.
corn, and sows 40 acres of wheat anc
oats. His sheep are grade merino, ant
last year sheared 5 pounds of washed
wool each, which sold at 80 cents pc
pounds. He is happy that oranges have
been established in Vermont, and wishes
he might meet his friends of long ago
He invited any of his friends from Yer
mont who visit Wisconsin, to call anC
see him at Deanville.
Mazeni Severance, formerly of thi
town, has distinguished himself by pub
fishing pamphlet. in which he demol
ishes the whole system of Christian re
ligion, and makes clear, at least in hi
own conceits, the sublime mysteries il
regard to the soul, Immortality, heaven
hell, the deity and other kindred sub
jects. His work is being sent int
town. and we are privileged to examin
it. This is the way he has accomplishe
the stupendous undertaking: During hi
7 laborious and profitable study of tn
works of atheists, he has sort of borrowe
r and appropriated to his use their Ian
guage and their thoughts, so that his re
. markable printed production is as thick
r ly spotted with quotation marks as
E stable door with fly specks. True, b
did not borrow the entire book; o
reading it. one will discover, now an
then, barren sentence that seems
to have emenated from his brain; fC
, such he should receive due credit. H
. spreads his quotations over some fit
pages, using several pages in provin
that the soul is not immortal. In den
+ enstrating the fact that man does NJ
possess soul, Severance might hay
. made out a very strong case, by citin
s his own treatment of his invalid wi
doubtless he forgot to make the point
q Mr.. S. mourns over the ignorance of Il
present age, and the almost univers
" want of common sense that prevails. T
e has discovered that the bible has bee
the cause of the greatest human woe
and that Christianity is a curse and
! folly. Having demolished all model
theology and annihilated the differe1
IS systems of beliefs, he goes back on h
mother for entertaining opinions contr
a ry to those advocated by the remarkab
=, prodigy she brought into the benight,
, world. Mr.. Severance has learned, amor
other things, that Christians "doub
oil damn" any one who utters new though
X and seems to be apprehensive that sor
" sort of calamity may befall him for t
new thoughts he has promulgated in /
be book. We earnestly beg him to be col
~ posed, and to rest assured that he W
- be adiudged mot guilty." of havi