The Press., 1888-04-12
BURLINGTON.
[coRREs PoNDENCE,

The welcome voices of the robins blue birds, &c. We can't help speaking of it., if it is trite subject.
 There is good deal of complaint, all around, it seems, over missent letters. For instance, 8 letter post-marked Stafford Springs, March 21, reached it's destination here April 9th. One from Meriden, di- rected hither March 22d, arrived April g. The address in each case was very plain.
 James Taylor has bought the 'oTom- my" Hughes place. Tommy has been an inmate of the almshouse for some time.
 -"Grandpa" William Shafer's 89th birthday was celebrated by the family, children, grandchildren and great grand. children last Saturday.
 The next Baptist ladies' sewing socie. ty will be held on the afternoon and even. ing of Thursday, 26th.
 Rev. E. Colton has resigned his charge in Shanin, Ill.
 MT. and Mrs. Joseph Eldridge's 10th wedding anniversary was recently held in Rockville.
 -Auctioreer Macfarlane will sell quan- tity of household furniture, farming tools. etc. at auction on Saturday, April 24th, beginning at 12.3O, at the residence of Harry Denman, South Wilmington.
 Il. W. Holt fell through the floor of his saw mill and fractured rib or two.
 William Ruby knows how to have an auction. At the one conducted by Auc- tloneer F. W. Preston last week bounti ful lunch was provided for the crowd, His fine grade of stock went quickly and at good prices. Mir. Ruby remains on the farm for the present.
 -DeWolf has moved from Sharp's mills to the farm lately vacated by John A. Brown.
 Samuel Rockwell bought the Harvey Bidwell place at the auction last week.
 Mrs. Jas. Hull has moved to South Wilmington. The Lyon family have like wise moved from the Hollow thither.
 The schools in districts and g begin Monday, the 18th. ..-.
 Mrs. Martha J. Marcy took deed of the Severy place, near Daleville, last week. Her father, Augustus Miller, and her brother are to carry on the farm.
 -Confessedly there is a great decadence from the days of our New England fathers in regard to church attendance and religious interests generally. Various are the causes which wise and good men assign for this moral and religious lapse. It cannot be denied that our more rural communities are getting to be more shiftless and lawless as to these matters, including Sabbath ob- than the larger centers. Now. in this connection, the writer begs leave to make this query What has become of the religious newspaper in localities like this ? He can remember when it was a rare thing for church member not to take his denominational paper: when A big bundle of Religious Heralds came to the Congreeationalists in town, and a goodly number of copies of the Christian Secretary to the Baptists. Now not one copy of that excellent organ of the Con- body in Connecticut comes to this post-of6ce, and but few copies of the latter paper, the able state journal of the Baptists. When 8 religious community is in culpable ignorance of the great christian benevolences and devotion that stir mems hearts and unloosen their purse strings in other (and not always in large villages and cities) localities, is it strange that 1t stares in open-eyed wonder upon @ zealous, gospel preaching minister, should, perchance, such a one come upon the scene, as he brings with him the atmos. phere of the wide-awake, benevolent, de- voted outside religious world? The Reli- gioHs Herald and Christian Secretary, each published at Hartford, g per year, furnish both secular and religious news, are good enough tor any Congregationalist, or Bap- list in the land.