The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-15


The following article is taken from copy |
of the Roscoe Dakota) Magnet, handed to us
by Mr.. l.. M. Hutchinson, who has just |
come home to look after his farming inter-
ests here: "It is surprising what a few
sturdy Vermonters can do in a short time.
The Vermont colony landed in Edmunds
county on the 30th of May, with nothing
but a few shelter tents to cover them from
the storms, and unfortunately for them, but !
not for the territory, it was cold, wet and
disagreeable weather. Most of them, being
old soldiers, could bear grief with smile
They looked upon the bright side of every
thing, and went to work with will, as all
true Vermonters do, in preparing for them
selves suitable homes. Some ten or twelve
houses have been put up on different
claims. Near the center of the town there
are two stores, one hotel, one livery stable,
two offices and one dwelling-house. These
are all completed; some two or three more
are under completion. The colony has es-
tablished meetings here. Services every
Sunday afternoon at two o'clock by the
Rev. Mr. Udall. Arrangements will soon
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services will also be held. The members
of the colony are well pleased with the
country and the selection made by the To-
eating committee, as they have expressed
themselves in the following vote of thanks
We, the members of the Vermont colony,
are desirous of expressing our thanks to the
locating committee for the desirable loca-
ton, and for the interest manifested
towards us during our journey to Dakota;
also to B. f. Bowman, the committee on
transportation, for his untiring efforts in
our behalf The above resolutions were
signed by nearly every member of the col
ony. Most of the colonists have few acres
broken and put into vegetables, which are
up and looking finely. After suitable
dwellings have been erected, then they will
commence turning up the prairie soil"
In the course OF the three years during
which THE WATCHMAN has been under the
present management, we have often been
compelled TO differ with some of our con-
temporaries, and with none more frequently
or more sharply than with our neghbor, the
Argus and Patriot. The public is well
aware of the fact that on such occasions the
merits of the questions under consideration
have sometimes been lost sight of and a
personal warfare of great apparent bitter
ness has been INDUCED in to such an extent
that some good people have perhaps men
tally applied that old familiar couplet,
Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
1t is their nature to-"
As the time draws near, however, for us to
close up our newspaper work in the state,
we desire to say to our readers that much of
what has been printed in these journalistic
wrangles should be taken with several
grains of salt. Some of our friends may
have pictured us as going about the streets
armed to the teeth, ready to exterminate at
sight either Hiram Atkins, or his editorial
writer, Henry Oviatt, and some things said
in the heat of warfare on ground which
comes dangerously near being forbidden by
a due regard for the amenities of journal
ism may have furnished some foundation
| for this view of the case. But the facts are
to the contrary, nevertheless We have
often crossed swords with Mr. Atkins, but
| it has never interfered with our interchange
ofpersonal courtesies. We have found in Mr.
Oviatt vigorous opponent-an editor whose
pen sometimes dips in the gall in the ink
BOTTLE to be sure, but withal bright writer
Whatever THE WATCHMAN may have said
which might be regarded as rejecting upon
the character of either of these gentlemen
may be set down as to be understood in a
Pickwickian sense. All this we say because
we harbor no bitterness toward any, and
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proper light in our relations to our brethren
or the press before laying aside the editorial
quill.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, late minister tC
England, was appointed originally to the
Spanish mission. At the British court he
has won distinguished honor for America
and Americans. Toward himself personally
the English in all classes have exhibited tn,
highest regard and affection. Their good
byes could have been only less grateful t.
the heart of the minister and the man thar
the welcome home, after eight years of alb
sence. The poet, Whittier, thus greeted hi
brother poet:
Take our hands. dear Russell Lowell,
Our hearts are all thy own
To-day we bid thee welcome,
Not for ourselves alone.
In the long years of thy absence
Some of us have grown old,
And some have passed the portals
of the Mystery untold.
- For the hands that cannot clasp thee,
For the voices that are dumb,
For each and all bid thee
Agrateful welcome home!
" For Cedarcrofts sweet singer
To the nine-fold muses. dear;
For the Seer the winding Cone0r
Paused by his door to hear;
For him who to the music
of the hemock and the pine,
Set the old and tender story
OF the lorn Evangeline;
"And for him the three-hilled city
Shall hold In memory long
Whose name is the hint and token
OF the pleasant Fields of Song!
For the old friends unforgotten,
For the young thou hast not known,
speak their heart-warm greeting;
Come back aud take thy own
From England's royal farewells,
; And honors fitly paid,
Come back dear Russell Lowell,
To Emwood's waiting shaded
Come home with all the garlands
That crown of right thy head.
, speak for comrades living,
speak for comrades dead"