The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-04-11
CHITTENDEN COUNTY LETTER.

Secession aud DIscord In BurIinrte
! Churches- County Court Matters - Go
or ra: underwood's Famous suit-Pers
Il The .Assaitant held In 0SOO-Burlln
toms New City Government.
lFrom our Special Corresponeent.J
BURLINGTON VI, April 10.
There Is trouble In the churches here. Viii
all should be serene as the joyous Eastcr-tit
approaches, rumors are afoat OF dssension |
Ipfee OF our societies. Some thirty members
lle Baptist church, with their families, have 81
coded from Rev +. J. Perry's mnistrations, an
II ne remains pastor will eithernot go to churc
ut al, form separate society, or attend tn
services of some body where immersion an
close communion arr not dogmas. The princi
pal cause of this is a stubborn unwilingnes
to be satisfied with any pastor who should sue
ceed the beloved Rev Mr. Wilcox, who left til
society few years ago after service OF owe
IL years. His successor, Mr. Perry, is vigor
Gus young man and quite an orator. but M
Wilcox's friends have not taken kindly to him
After series of fault findings, Rev Mr. Bres
ton OF the Winooski Avenue Congregations
church has sent in his resignation, and will
soon leave for more lucrative position at tn
west. No successor has yet been chosen.
| But the greatest turmoil is III st Paul's Epis
copal church. Some two years ago Rev Il. r
Atyill, for IA years rector, feeling that his use
inllness hers Yss gone "a morbid feeling blythe
by, and thinking that Trinity Parish at Tol
edo, Ohio, needed him to settle its differences
lett Lee and went thither. The parish vestry
then secured Rev w. c. Dawson, the mission.
| airy at Hanover, N. II. At first the impression
which he created was very favorable, and
though everybody missed Mr. Atwill, it lay in
Mr. Dawsons way to win the hearts OF all his
people. But he soon showed an uncomproms.
ing spirit and want of tact which made rupt-
ure between them. He developed an exccs-
sively high-church tendency which was dis
asteful to the low-church spirit which has
always been characteristic of the people OF st
Paul. He occupied the ground that he WIS
priest and the laity should obey hin, (which their
strongly protested ideas would not tolerate.
dimensions were introduced and continued, so
that many left the church and the Sunday
school was reduced one-half. A supplied boy
choir of poor quality took the place of an ex-
celient quartette, and ultra high-church doc
trines were taught in both church and school.
The breach has been growing wider, and the
relations between priest and people more I'M
presentation of a petition from sixty or more of
the Pensioners to the vestry to request of Mr.
Dawson his resignation. This will be present
ed to MIN before the meeting on Easter Mon.
day. What the result will be no one knows
He may rely on his priestly power, and, backed
by some supporters, may refuse to leave. This
Will likely result in the formation of another
parish, unless the Bishop can bring about har-
mOny According to the rules of the church
minister can only be gotten rid of for herasy or
immortality, not for peculiarities of character or
disposition.
County court is still in session, but the ju nv
will probably be discharged this week. In'the
case of Bixby Holbrook, under the Civil
Damage act, verdict of $379.42 was given the
plaintiff, rather small value given to hus-
bands life. 1t was compromise verdict three
naming ST. and one $1,000. Governor Under
wood has entered his famous Sl,5OO,OOO suit
against his prosecutors. They plead in abat-
ment his adjudication as a lunatic; he replies
that such adjudication was the result of cor
ruption and collision; they rejoin traversng
the supllcation. The case is passed for the
present, Judge Taft being one of the defendants
At the anniversary meeting of the Y. M G.
A., last Tuesday evening, the reports were
read and the general management and work of
the association for the past year laid before the
public. They show that great deal of good
work has been done.
new BlShopS house Is to be erected this
year just west of the Cathedral, 66x4S and a
wing 36x26 feet, The Bishop has also in con-
temptation the building of boarding school
on the corner Of. Pearl street and Winooski
avenue. In the city Catholic schools there are
about eleven hundred pupils.
A set of ruffians and hoodlums have lately
been prosecuting the Jews of their city, which
eliminated last Friday in one of the Jews being
seriously stabbed in the face. The assailant,
Aleck Seymour, was bound over in $500
bonds.
The enrolment of scholars in our public
schools for the past winter term was 1900 be-
sides the Catholic as mentioned above.
Our new city government was organized last
Monday. Mayor Morse delivered his annual
message, recommending various improvements,
mainly of a sanitary character. E. B. Taft was |
elected p.,4iient of the board of aldermen, and |
appointed the various committees. The council |
Elected the various city officers and left their |
alaries all the same, except reducing that of |
'yerseer of the poor from $500 to $500. The |
I'D incumbents were reelected, except Lowell |
:. Grant takes the place of Alexander Crosby |
S chief engineer of the fire department Ia re-
ult Of the fire fight, and Frank H. Parker |
ucceeds as superintendent of water works |
larry A. Storrs who leaves town. Two changes |
mong the assistant engineers were also made. |
Alderman Drew was dropped from the chair
lanship of the fire committee, and then tndig- |
antly refused to serve on the committee at all.
RAY.