The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-09

THE lumber business is quite brisk in this
section this winter. There is plenty of
snow on the mountain, which Is requisite to
successful numbering. - The dramatic
entertainment at the hall and chicken-pie
supper at the vestry were well patronized.
The proceeds are to be used in repairing the
church. There Is to be another entertain
ment at the hall in about two weeks. 60
Meeker q Tubbs lost one of their work.
horses quite suddenly last week. 60
Charles Beede is soon to move to Barre to
avoid, he says, paying such heavy taxes. III
we could find place where taxes were light
and where all were willing to pay their
share the emigration from this town would
be large. - w. b. Carpenter has been
in Boston the past week.
Tunbridge.
THE Woman's Relief Corps and the Grand
Army boys elect officers next Saturday
evening. - Some young rascals put red
pepper upon the stove in the town hall, last
week, while a religious meeting was being
held there. - The telephones on the
STAFFORD line have been turned in to the
Bell Telephone Company and Morse tele-
graph instruments are used in their place.
- The trees did not lose their load of
snow until last Thursday evening. -
Mr.. G. b. May was badly wounded in the
head by a lever last week. 80 David w.
Ramsdell started for the West last Monday.
He goes to Tracy, MINI. - The meet
ings at the town hall have been continued
through the week. - Mrs Il. o. Giles
teaches the school in district No 10. =
Mr.. A. j. Wills is somewhat better. -
Myrtle Farnham has gone to Manchester,
dent, now of Lowell, Mass, is visiting here.
West Fairlee.
REV. Mr.. HAMILTON attended the preach
ing of Mr.. Moody at Hanover, last week,
and on Sunday gave his congregation here
an abstract Of what he heard, which was
very interesting indeed. The sermons were
very practical, appealing strongly to each and
every one personally. This has been called
Mr. Moody's strong point and accounts for
his wonderful power over his hearers.
Williamstown.
WE have just had the pleasure of reading
a long and interesting letter from our old
townsman, j. ID. White, written from his
home in Gadsden. Alabama, where he is
farming Though he has been absent from
here many years and seems now to be
thoroughly identified with the South, he
yet cherishes very kindly feelings for his
old friends of this place. He writes that
roses were plentiful in his yard the last of
November and that about this time he
hoped to be sowing his wheat. For his
butter he never gets less than twenty-five
cents per pound, and from that to thirty
five cents The land there can be worked
about ten months of the year. The lowest
temperature last winter was in February,
when the mercury was twelve degrees above
zero, The highest was in August, when it
stood at ninety-seven. He thinks there is a
fine opening for any amount of energetic
northern people there. Land is low in
price. Mr.. White keeps horses, cows,
young stock, sheep, hogs and poultry, and
raises corn, wheat, sorghum, Irish and
sweet potatoes, etc, etc. He ends his
pleasant letter with bill of fare of q
Thanksgiving in Alabama, which is sug-
gestive of the old days of big brick ovens,
large families and merry times here in New
England. In behalf of "auld acquaintance, )"
we send cordial greeting to Mr.. White,
Gus other New England ideas " finding a
welcome in his southern home. This item
will likely be read by his old friends far
away, who will be glad to know that Mr..
White is again married and has a little
family of children growing up, and that
of the rebellion, in which he lost almost
everything but his life. - Recently and
not far from the time when the mercury
here was nesting about the tenth degree
below Zero there came to their friends here
abouts pleasant reminder of our old towns
folk, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hatch, now of
Indian Springs, Nevada county, California,
in the way of figs and raisins from their own
vines and tig-trees. Mr.. Hatch cultivates a
vineyard of twenty-five acres in California,
where he has been very prosperous. But
how many of us would suppose that gen.
uine maple sugar and butternuts not long
ago sent from this the old home, could give
this family as great pleasure in the eating
| in their California home as ever the fruit
of their vines and tig-trees could give friends
| here? Yet such seems to have been the
| case. And how many, too, would suppose
that our old friends in that wonderful land
could be so gladdened by the sight of the
common dandelion and jack-in-the-pulpit as
| to make it an object to send them seeds and
bulbs from here for their introduction
there? But doesn't it all emphasize, even
| though in a very simple way, the old lesson
that States" like individuals, are all
" members of one body" and no one OF
them can say of another, " have no need
of thee?' - The approaching term o.
our Orange county court recalls timely
editorial in the WATCHMAN, some weeks ago
on the subject of litigatiOns-an editoria
suggested, as we recall it, by the last meet
ing of the American Bar Association Ger
| tain crying evils were dwelt upon tina
ought not to be dropped with one or tw,
| editorials in every paper OF the land. o.
these evils were the needless delays and thu
putting over and over again of cases in oul
courts, on one pretext or another, but re
sulting in unnecessary COSTS vexations, anC
oftentimes the defeat of Justice, till to " tn,
common mind a /" court of justice comes
to suggest "court of injustice," rather
Anu Can diyJHluS luOIc harmful ant
more to be dreaded than such a state 0
things? A declaration of this American Ba
Association, we believe, fixed the blame fo
all this on the lawyers themselves, and jus
where the public-at-large, we think, had be
fore placed it. 1t may not be easy to cor
rect this fearful evil, but, like other evils
can it long stand up in the face of al
aroused, indignant public opinion, mani
tested in all proper ways and at suit
able times? The remedy is in the hand
supposes, and if it will sit still an,
serve to remain on its own head! -
If the jewellers in cities and warmer lati
tudes imagine that the glories of Vermont
in the way of scenery, are limited to sum
mer and autumn, they do greatly err. w
have been treated here of late to sights a
beautiful in their way, it seems to us, a
ever are to be seen in mellower days. Tn
trees have been so coated with frost as T.
look like masses of coral bestudded wit
innumerable diamonds, and ride throug
our Gulf would seem possibly even NOR
memorable than in summer. Surely Vel
mont must be greatly loved by Dam
Nature, else why such constant displays G
her richest handiwork therein - LIE
no one here forget the educational meeting
to be held next Monday and Tuesday d
the town hall. - Our highly-respecte
townsman Mr.. Oliver S. Walker, has bee
great sufferer from rheumatism for som
time and is at present confined at home b
it. - There was large and pleasan
gathering of friends at the home of Mr.. an
Mrs. Henry j. Martin, Tuesday evening
last week on the occasion of the tenth ann