News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-08-16
flh0l "o va, IN CAMP.
WARM WELCOME IN THE FAR WEST.
Receives n Town Lot for Being the First of
Her sex to Arrive-The FlOweTy speech
Made by the Colonel.

June 80 was a day of Notification a
Carbonate, Col, being the advent OF the
first wagon, the first woman, and the
first board from the mill It woillC
have been interesting to the reader tC
witness the electrifying effect on the
men in the camp when word was passed
| along the line that a woman was coming
| Long before she was within a mile Of
| the camp, knots of men were gathered
| here and there watching, looking in the
direction from whence the wagon was tC
come. As she hove in sight, each one
gathered around his camp, as when IN
alarm had been sounded in a prairie-dog
town. When within few yards of the
outside habitatiOn the woman alighted,
and accompanied by her husband, pro-
ceeded to the County Clerks office. III
had been advertised that the donation OF
town lot would be given the first
woman who came in.) Curious eyes
were watching her every step as she APP.
preached the Clerks quarters. But the
crowd which had gathered around the
office for mail receded respectfully each
side of the entrance. As She passed in,
Colonel Ferguson serenely doomed up,
and, sailing out among the boys, agita-
ted reception.
Seized by the inspiration, hundred
hats were removed from heads of noble
structure and design-siluriated some
what, perhaps-and a hundred horny
palms passed over the unkempt locks to
smooth them down vests were pulled
down, and a hundred pair of eyes ran
down the respective owners digging
Clothes" proudly inspecting the ilevi-
table "ball stitch" which rejOined the
dismembered seam, or held III place the
patch of conspicuous dimensions. By a
look of common consent the COlSnel
was the man selected to make the recep-
ton speech. Uneasily pluming his
moustache with carbonate-stained fin
gers, the Colonel approached her, and
followed by the uncovered heads, he in
advertently yanked a frog from his
throat and began:
RESPECTED madam, and a hundred
heads nodded assent. Appealing again
to his moustache for the needed inspira-
ton, the Colonel resumed again: ere
spected madam-the illuminating spec
ire of this most fascinating OCCASION"
And a hundred heads bobbed serenely
again in assent. Pluming again the
source of inspiration, the halting Colo
mel staggered on: Footprints of thine,
which have first fallen Oh our carbOuifer-
Gus soil, we welcome thee. Mercury in
her aerial flight trails through the starry
architraves of heaven, to trail over the
silurian OutcrOps of Garfield country,
which has become sacred to us from toll,
vicissitudes, and privations. 1t is ours
by right of discovery, and you are vel
come. We lave been victimized. We
have learned to love aud cherish in
memory the tiny fingers which were
rubbed over our biscuits in other days,
and we languish for the same. The
delicacy of sewing on buttons (thimble-
less) is ours, and our toil-stained robes
bear the traces Of the silurian OutcrOp
for months we have been here surround
ed by the beautiful crystalline pearls of
heaven, and have banked about and
around us, and our only solace has been
the chirp OF the camp bird and the weird
wailings Of the metamOrphic blasts. We
have long anticipated the daisy, strug-
Cling through the snowy depths to COM
fort us, as the day drew near when we
laid by our snOwshoes on the limestone
edges, but this occasion is most sublime,
of, and unprecedented i'll the
history of our new country. Thou hast
come upon us like a perfume freighted
breath of the gentle springtime, and
thou art the shrine to which we bow and
bring tribute, and III behalf of these,
my partners in the struggle, who stand
before you with uncovered heads, some
Of them glistening like a FURNISHED disc
IN the siIurian sunlight, heads which
nave been robbed Of capillary traces
rom inevitable contact. J a~ain say.
Welcome. '-DCHUer NejCS.