News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-06-25

scription for the support of the minis
ter, Brother Cobleigh was the one who
must circulate the paper. Did the
Methodist class lack leader, Brother
Cobleigh was called to that position.
In fact, we recall few if any of the
religious or church labors in our
village, since it has been our good for
tune to reside here, to which Mr..
Cobleigh has not lent a cheerful and
strong helping hand.
Mr.. Cobleigh was built with his an
gularities. He was a square man, and
he couldn't be made to fit a round hole.
He had his views with reference TO all
public matters, and he was not slow
in expressing them. He was especially
outspoken in his views upon temper
ance, and those views were somewhat
radical. These things being so, he Of
course had his enemies. But since he
has passed away we believe there are
but few of our better citizens who do
not Glove him for the enemies he has
made" and we opine that those of us
who are left behind, as we glance
along the ranks of our older citizens
that have been so fast thinning out
during the past decade, will find few
whose loss we shall more deeply APP
preciate than that of Alonzo Cobleigh.
As a neigh Dor, as a Christian, as Il
temperance worker, as friend, and as
townsman, we shall miss him.
Mr.. Cobleigh was born upon the
DIST day of March in the year 1919,
and was one Of a large family of chill
dren, nearly all of whom married and
settled in this vicinity. Four brothers,
Ira and John of this town; James of
Elmore and Simon, in the West, and
three sisters, Mrs. Edmund TOwle,
Mrs. Asa HolbrOok and Mrs. Alfred
rHolbrook, survive him. He was first
married to Miss Eliza Wilson, who
died in this village in 1876. He again
married Mrs. Julina Hyde, by whom
he leaves his only surviving child,
bright boy of four years.
The funeral, Rev. E. J. Ward Off
ciating, was held at Union church
Tuesday morning, and was attended
by large circle of friends, who thus
bore testimony to the high regard ana
respect in which he was held.
CAMPBELL RE-UNIoN.-In the reign of
King Benjamin the people said one to
another, let us make unto our brother
Robert feast. Accordingly on the 18th
day of the 9Th month they arose, they
and their children and children'S child
rem to the number of seventy or more,
and went down to the land of their
brother, taking with them goOdly things
of the fat of their land, Wherewith to
make their brother glad. And when
their brother saw his people coming, he
and his household ran out to meet them,
saving, why hast thou come hither? The
king answered and said, to celebrate the
remembrance of our fathers, the Camp
bellites. And he said, make thyselves at
home whilst thou harvest with me.
And Flora, the daughter of Calvin, the
sixth son, took with her an organ, on
which the young damseIs didst make
much music. The clergyman they also
took with them, who spoke many words
of comfort and advice. When the time
for exercises arrived, the king arose and
said. peace, be still. When quietude
with May the eldest daughter of David,
the scribe presiding at the organ, didst
rend the air with melody, (which they
did many times during the eXercises).
Then the high priest, upon the Bonded
knee, didst invoke divine blessing upon
the occasion after which the editor and
editreSS, Leo and Abbie, the son and
daughter of Della, whose surname is
Gates, didst read the Campbell journal,
a paper printed by the society semi-occa-
siOnally, in which there We're many
things wise and otherwise. Then the
king spoke at length of the father of his
tribe, pOrtraying his life while he inhab-
tied the land in which the tribe now
soiourn. AT the close of which, the
matrons announced that the feast was
ready, and the king said to his tribe,
the Campbellites, we will now repair to
the tables spread with the goodly things
brought from the land of our homes and
partake thereof to strengthen the inner
man while we return to the land of our
fathers. Accordingly they proceeded to
the feast with their brother and his
spouse at the head, followed by the king |
and queen ADD under officers and invited |
guests in their proper places. AS the
body'as well as the soul had been sup |
piled with food, the king said, we now
bid our brother Robert and his house
hold good bye, and return to the land |
from whence we came.
D. r. SHERWIN, Scribe.