St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-10-17

ritory, preached four or five davs,
and then baptized 16S people. DIR.
Parker reports that 1857 have been
baptized in his district. We ought
to sustain these missionaries by our
sinews of war-men and money
Mrs. Parker, who went to school
at your Academy, came there with
the purpose of becoming mission
airy. Mr.. Parker found her in that
school, learned her purpose to go in
to the foreign field and they went to-
gether to India. In her school at
Moradabad are 100 young ladies.
Her work has lifted up all these la
dies and when they graduate they
are as intelligent as your high school
graduates. Her school is growing
and she wants more help. If you
cannot enter Gods field then give
literally and pray earnestly for the
work.
The collections of the evening ses-
sions brought $50 into the treasury,
and by vote of the branch Mrs A. B.
Mathewson and Mrs. A l.. Bailey,
both of this place, were made life
members of the society Mrs. Dr.
Selee. ef Melrose, Mass, presented a
tribute of thanks to the st. Johns
bury ladies for their hospitality, and
on Friday morning resolutions were
passed thanking the railroads for re-
duced rates.
The meetings closed on Friday
morning with conservation service
led by Miss c. A. Richardson Of Nal
| ri foil to1
conducted by Rev G. M. Curl of st.
.Johnsbury All were full of inter
est and attended by over $50 dele
gates from all over New England and
Eastern New York.
ST. JOHNSBURY'S TAX RATE.
The total tax for residents of this
village this year is $1S on a $1,000
valuation. This is made up as fol-
lows: Town tax 100 cents, village
80, school 35 and highway IS
While this is a high rate of taxation,
it is so mainly by reason of the debt
which the town and village carries
the former caused by bonding for the
P. & O. railroad and the latter in
Cured by building the village water
works. The town pays $4,000 on
its railroad debt this year and the
village $4,000 towards liquidat ting
| the water debt Were the town and
be very small-at least until some
big scheme incurred another debt
| Let us hope that time will be a long
way in the future.
| CHURCH 4NNIVERSA AT NEW
| TON.
| The 225th anniversary of the First
Congregational church in Newton,
more than local interest. 1t is of
| value to our readers also because the
| families of Messrs. George May and
Bertrand E. Taylor, both former St.
| Johnsbury residents, live in the same
| town, and Rev. Calvin Cutler, who
gave an address on the occasion,
was formerly principal of St. Johns
| bury Academy. The entire exercises
were of the greatest interest and were
taken part in by Mr.. Cutler, as
above, Rev. Dr. D. L. Furber, who
was the pastor for 80 years, Rev Dr.
S. F. Smith, author of MY country,
it's of thee" Ex-Gov. Claflin, Rev
| Dr. Alex Mckenzie and other noted
| citizens and divineS. In the entire
history of the church there have been
but nine pastors, whose pastorates
ranged from four to 81 years each.
| GROTON PEOPLE IN THE WEST.
Hon and Mrs. J. R. Darling of
Groton have been spending a month
at the Democrat Farm, Davenport,
Iowa, the welcome guests of children
and other near relatives there The
| Judge visited the Sioux City corn
palace and the democratic state con-
vention as a elegate-at-large, and
was duly astonished at the size and
respectability of both He visited
Minnesota and Wisconsin relatives,
expecting to find Uncle Daniel among
the rest, but the veteran of three and
ninety years, who spent the largest
half of his useful life in Caledonia
county, had but a week or two ago
passed over to the majority. Daniel
Darling was one of the sturdy found
ers of Groton-helped subdue its for
ests, build its stone walls, and
catch its fish. Having raised large
family, ever voting the whig ticket
and swearing by Henry Clay, Daniel
Webster and the New York Tribune,
he finally moved West along with his
son Ammon in 1854 and became a
resident of Wisconsin, spending his
waning years in useful employrnents
and the pleasures of the boat, the
rod and line. Once or twice since
leaving the old red house on the
Groton-Peacham road has Uncle
Daniel spent some months among
the scenes of his earlier years, among
the MorrisOns the Taiseys and the
Vances, many of whom became his
neighbors in the Mississippi valley
and with whom it has been his wont
for many years to divide, to some
extent, his time. He was in all re-
spects typical, clear cut, patriotic
Vermont Yankee, who, though for
decades absent from his native hills,
forgot them never, nor the grand old
mountain peaks and boisterous
brooks. Sober, industrious, patriot
ic, decided in his ways and simple in
his tastes, he was a noble type OF
1776 and 1S12-his life a pregnant
poem, the lines of which lie close to
nature and to right Among their