Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-05-23

to the subject of roads at this time,
hoping that every surveyor will show
by his management that he knows much
more about the matter than we do.
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Especial Correspondence of the Monitor.
NEW YORK, May 16, 1881.
sometime ago mentioned an EXODUS
of prominent Brooklyn clergymen to va
rious faraway fields. DR.. Jeffrey, for
many years pastor of one of the largest
Baptist churches, went to Colorado for
the benefit Of his wife's health, the part
ing with his charge here being as pain
full to his congregation as to himself. DR..
Paddock, of St. Peters ?. E. Church, af-
ter spending his youth and strength and
the energies of his devoted wife, in un-
selfish devotion to the parish, was eonse-
Grated Bishop of Washington Territory
mainly, it is surmised. because of his be-
coming aware of and feeling certain jeal-
ousies which | need not enter into details
about, resulting in a scarcely disguised
case of squeezing an orange and throwing
the rind away, and proceeded to his by
perborean charge. His wife. who during
her life here established Child's Hos
pital and Refuge. was president of nu-
merous societies, an indefatigable work.
er and good woman, who amid all her
official tolls found time to govern large
family and bring them up worthily to
follow in the footsteps of their parents,
set right to work the day she struck the
field of her future labors on the Pacific
slope. She caught cold coming from a
meeting at Portland, Oregon. where she
started the organization for new hospi-
tai, to which schools were to be added,
and in two days was dead. A memorial
service was held on Thursday and a
mournful and immense congregation as
sembled. Old Pensioners who had been
too feeble to come to church for years,
dragged themselves from their retirement
business men of the congregation left
their business to take care of itself in or.
der to attend, and people came hundreds
, Of miles on flying trip, in spite of per-
sonal inconvenience. to do honor to the
memory of this noble lady whose pre-em
inent virtues shine all the brighter now
, that her old friends can no more view
her face to face on earth. Thirteen cler
| gymen assisted in the ceremonies which
, were conducted by Bishop Littlejohn
' whose brief speech, in which he alluded
to Mrs. Paddock as on the same plan
f with Agatha and Priscilla and othe
o women mentioned in the Scripture, wa
r marked by the eloquence of a divine VIII
4 had attained great honors in Europe a
g well as here, and by the pathos of
e complete and unmistakable breakdow
g on the part Of a prelate who has preach
d ed before kings and queens and the kee
It critics of foreign universities with UT
r ruffled selfpossession. 1t was very so
re emn scene, and the Holy Commune
Ie was administered at the end. The whol
II neighborhood was in mourning, and tn
blinds of the houses occupied by men
Is bers of Bishop Paddock's old parish b.
IL ing kept down as if death had occurre
e, in each house. By a singular coinc
r. dence, the same evening the news can
ly of the death of Mrs. Jeffrey.
t. The old army veterans are lively th
to year, and the residue don't seem to
Il. dropping off as fast as for some yea
d, back. Rough and tough are the timbe
IN who remain. and rugged line will
&C. formed on the next recurring Decorate
ng Day, that beautiful holiday which b
~ now become national with us, and viii
it. buries bitter memories in fragra
re wreaths of flowers, symbolical of GO