News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-12-11
past and Present,


vouch for themselves =
THE LATE JUDGE wETHERBY.
There were few men that possessed
the vitality and push of the late Far
we'll Wetherby; for all of sixty years
he was one of the moving, reliable
spirits of the community in which he
lived, be it in building cart wheels,
arch bridges or attending to the va
rious duties about the farm, he al
ways did his work honestly and well
and it would be well for the young
men of Cambridge and vicinity to
ask themselves if they can ever fill
the place so faithfully filled by the
old stock. Judge Wetherby was
about the last of the old school and
he leaves only kind remembrances.
THE LATE JUDGE VERNON WATERMAN.
Does the reader of the News AND
CITIZEN ever look backward, if he is a |
| Democrat, and ask himself who is to |
take the place of such men as "GOv.
Smiley and Bank Reform" of Cam
bridge, of Geo. W Hill of Johnson, of
Geo. L. Waterman of Hyde Park,
Phin S. Benjamin of Wolcott, and |
Vernon P. Waterman of Morristown? |
To be sure Gov" Bingham and |
Waldo Brigham are left; but soon
they will be walking the golden |
streets and who will take their places |
on this cold, cold earth? | simply |
ask the question for the hopeful |
young Democracy of "Spunky La !
noble" to answer. In this connec- !
ton it can truly be said that while |
Vernon 2. Waterman may not have |
been the most sanity of saints, he |
friend or foe; a pretty good religion, |
| far better than some white neck-tie |
men support.
ANOTHER OF THE OLD SCHOOL.
Some time since | read a verypleas- |
ant letter from eX-Judge Richard Car |
penter, now in southern California.
| Richard or Dick was a native of |
Belvid2re and his father was a chris
tian man, on Sunday, and honorable |
week days, yet often took his gun
while he walked through the woods, |
to Montgomery, there to preach the |
gospel. On his return home of course |
he generally had a good supply of |
game for young Richard and the rest |
of the family. The old gentleman
preached the cold water hard shell
baptist creed; in his alterations and
supplications he portrayed hades in
vivid form. At last a convention
was called to chastise him for fireing
his shot gun on Sabbath eve, and he
was nearly convicted when he asked
to be allowed a word in self defence
which was granted. Although af-
fiicted with an impeachment in speech,
he secured his acquittal thus: " /
walk through the valley of the I
shadow of death every Sunday to
preach YOU the gospel and | take ,
with me my trusty gun to show the ;
/ white tats, the black tats and the
| tatamounts that there is bod in His d.
rial" He kept his gun and preached !
until the end.
GOV. HENDEE's GREAT LOSS.
Nearly thirty years ago the "Ma- !
sonic Block" at Norrisville was +
burned At that time three ambi- =
tious attorneys at law" had an of
fee in the building. | remember Hen r
dee's room WE'LL the furniture was !
antique: that of H. Henry Powers .
more so for there was a show of law .
books; whether many of them were
" dummies | am not at liberty to r
say, but it is history that out west q
many an elaborate looking law lib T
airy is composed of a paper box with h
sheep skin binding duly labeled to -
correspond with standard works, but n
| don't think at that time either -
Powers or Gleed knowingly and I'M /
Willingly would assume to cheat. =
wrong or defraud But us to the
fire; it came; the Masonic block ie
was soon in ashes, some of the effects +.
were saved but untold valuable docu- :,
ments, like wills, the entailing of es- II
tates and the unpublished history of i
Lamoille county, if not the earth, be- /
ing in the office of Powers and Gleed h
were destroyed. =,
At early dawn coincidence from ev- o,
cry school district was being sent out
and handed in to the incoming and
ngoing NJ. C." when, at last, Powers
almost overcome by the lavish of ..
generous sympathy said: $50 and /?
wake up George and console him, he Il
has lost two-thirds of his library, e.
both volumes of his Blackstone are II
burned, utstill he may pull through,
he carries Aken's forms in his peck n
ct" This must have been ere either n
gentleman had read of Washington, =
Judgeships or Governors. Truly Z
time brings changes.
vERMoNT's ABANDONED FARMS. 8
When the reader of the News AND r
CITIZEN goes west, it must make him n
tired and want to repeat some old +
g Outlawed gag If you will allow me 9
the expression-to read about recon-
structing Vermont farms Let me
say that the Vermont farmer, would
he work as his father and mother :,
he would own a good farm ,
to-day and the valuable water power u
8 this side and that side of the noun
tain would be utilized to its actual d
value. The writer can well remember t
when his father and mother gathered
together, with some neighbOr, their d
summer clip of wool, the fall picking o.
OF apples and one or two good tubs ell
OF " billed cider apple sass" and posi- &C
bly, fore quarter of beef cut up into ii
sirloin and tenderloins and started CO
off for the, then city, of WaterviIle, ca
and exchange the same with the ven I'll
7rable John Herren, the father of
Robert, each proprietors of extensive 70
WOODEN mills to exchange for honest B
yoolen cloths The wool was hon al
st, hence was the cloth, and the APP tic
)les, the beef, garden sass, and the So
lash was home made and reliable. 81
Thus it was in Waterville that such til
nen as Luke p. Poland, Thomas Ell
Heed, Geo. W. Hendee, and Philip the OIL
younger, obtained their first physical eli
development. So, while Vermont ne
nay be n farming state, and some at
hink for farming only it has untold
mineral wealth and untold undevel- n.
,ped power to bring the same to the /:
surface for actual use. The Vershire M
mines are no doubt producing dull th
Upper, just now, but it will take m
more than average Swede intelligence hf
o convert the ruins of Col. Eli G. off
nto pasture when roses bloom in M
february. You can raise copper, fin
marble, granite, great men and na
women in Vermont when there is hi
rOst on the ground sa
OPENING COURT. aft
The late Martin Armstrong, of di
ambrldge, was one of the first sher- ST.
lis of Lamoille county He was not
N orator and could not "open Fl