News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-05-27

pher was lost recently between tn
place and WoIcott. The owne
would like to know where it is.
The Burlington Free Press in il
war "reminiscences recently gave
lengthy ard meritorious sketch of tn
the part taken by our townsmen Dot
in ''John Brown" times and later.
There will be a special meeting c
j. M. Warner Post on Friday ever
ing, May %, for work, and complet
ing arrangements for Decoration Day
Let all the comrades be present.
| Refreshing and much needed raj
came on Monday night, continuin
through Tuesday. Very little raj
has fallen for several weeks, and veg
citation was beginning to droop. Ma
ture smileth again, however.
The Moravia On. Y Journal says
Rev. George H. Bailey of this plac
has been informed by one of the pro
fessors of Middlebury College tina
his son Henry, who is about to grad
uate from that institution, is the onl,
student who ever passed a perfect ex
animation in Trigonometry during hi
professorship of over 20 years.
Owing to the change in time o
running the mail train, all correspon
dents are urged to send locals from
the west at least day earlier. SenC
Monday, if possible, and anything o
special Importance may be sent Tues
day, but Wednesday will be too late
as the mail does not reach this place
until noon.
There will be union memorial ser,
vice at the Town Hall next Sunday,
at 2 P, NJ. Rev. w. H. Hyde will de,
liver the memorial sermon. A cor,
dial invitation is extended to all. The
members of J. NJ. Warner Post are
requested to meet at their hall at l
P. NJ, dressed in uniform or dark
clothes, with their badges on.
Members of Co. E., Sd Vt. regi-
ment are to have a reunion and bas-
ket picnic on the fair ground, June
"a. Members of the company are
earnestly requested to be present.
The officers are: James L. Holmes,
President; Charles Jaynes, Montpel-
Ter; A. P. Cutler, Montpelier; E.
Brown, Cambridge; L. L. Camp,
Elmore ; R. D. Whittemore, Belvi-
dere.
Those of the A class in the prima-
~ department at the Academy who
missed no words in spelling during the
Spring term were Josie Slayton, Mae
Fisk, Josie Herrick, Alice Glasheen,
George Story. The number of words
Belle Hawse, 1, Charlie Shell
don 3, Leon Marvin 3. Those having
no absences, Edwin Barrows, Guy
Cutler, Edna Rublee, Susie Barrows,
George jackson, Mae Fisk, Josie
Her:ick, Josie Slayton, Charlie Shell
don. Those of not over a days alb
sence, Charlie Boynton, Roy Grout,
George Champeau, Mamie Jackson,
Henry Cutting, Nellie Darling, Gail
Mower, Alice Glasheen, Belle Hawse
and Harry Darling.
The painters are all busy these
days. Every body seems to be brush
ing up, or about to do so. Mrs.
Tinker has been painting Cher resi-
dence, we mean, of course,) the
Hendee & Fisk building has been pol
ished, and we will add that the boys
did good job and Doty ought to pay
the cigars. We shall, if he don't.
That fixes it on us, of course, so come
around boys. E. H. Stones resi-
dence has taken on a brighter hue,
and the Hiram Dodge house shines in
white again. p. X. Gleed has added
he second coat to his residence,
which sets out the artistic finish in fine
shape. Judge Powers will soon start
Tue paint brush on his side. G. NJ.
Peck is about to paint, also j. c.
Noyes, and we presume others. Moth
ing gives a more thrifty and attrac-
tive appearance to village than a
liebral use of paint.
DECORATION DAY.
Headquarters J. NJ. Warner Post No.
4 G. A. R., Department of Yer
mont-General order No. l.
Decoration Day is consecrated to
tender and sacred memories. Back
over the sweep of the seasons and the
stretch of the years our thoughts turn
to those knightly gentlemen, and gal
liant soldiers who marched away to
battle long ago, IN their lusty vigor
and youthful beauty, and who died
that this Union might live. To recol-
lect the dead is always a hallowed
duty, but to recall those who nobly
died in a holy cause, zealously laying
down their lives as an offering for
their country on the red al.ars Of war,
this is best of all. And so, on Deco
ration Day, all over this land, the
surviving veterans and strong men,
gentle women and wondering little
children will gather in the cemeteries.
There they will strew memorial bios,
SONS on those passionless mounds
where the heroic army of the Unior
dead, with their banners set and bat.
tie harness on, by ranks and regi
ments by hundreds and by thousands
soldier and officers are holding theil
last, long, solemn bivouac, watched
only by the silent sentinel stars. The
proposition to which the soldiers o.
the Union devoted their lives was ;
great and yet simple one. 1t was
that the United States was nation
and not a crumbling confederacy, tina
could be dissolved at the pleasure o
any one Of its parts. Long had The
tranquility of our people been dis
turbed at intervals by the theory tina
each State was a sovereign in itself
that it could nullify the laws of th'
general government, and that if tn
attempt were made to enforce then
by arms il could secede. Through a
our history this doctrine had been
menace against our nations peac
and greatness, and when in 1906
it was asserted in warlike acts by tn
South, the soldiers Of the Uniol
sprang to arms. We believed tina
the rights of the States were ampl
secured TO them under the constiLu
ton. We thought that the interest
of all parts of the country were mt
tual and independent. We consic
cred that the territory of the Unio
had been purchased by the commo