Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-03-15
NEWS In TOWNS ABOUT
silver Lake, Barnard.

barn swallows. The six weeks from GROUND
hog day are about out, yet not WOOD
chuck to be seen. Adm Allen, the gresl
fox hunter on snowshoes, is still in thu
business and brought in five last week
making as bis year. Pelts and bounty
bring MIN about s. each. This is good
paying sport, besides being RELIEF to tur'
Key raisers.
-Four years ago Elisha Flowers sold q
Brsdlaugh pacing lilly to d gentleman 10
Boston for a good price and since then
this mare, called Sister b, has been driven
on the road in that city where II took a
2.i0 horse to beat her down the boulevard
Mr.. Flowers always regretted parting
with the colt and was inouced to do 90
only by the handsome price paid, aud has
now succeeded in buying her back with
the intention of breeding. She is brig ht
bay, 1872 or 8, with black name and tail,
fiBe head and ears, carrying both IN eIe-
giant style, and is as sound as dollar. She
must make one of the best brood mares in
Vermont. Coming up from the cars last
week, after reaching Barnard village, she
looked toward the Flower farm, put her
ears to the front and was as impatient as
a child TO get home.
Notwithstanding the great storm there
was fair attendance at town meeting, all
parts of the town being represented, but a
majority present we're uneasy, wanting TO
get nome before the roads we're complete
ly blocked, so after some consultation II
was unanimously decided to adjourn one
week The weather at March meeting is
quite uncertain in Barnard and some
years roads are impossible. About 1880
or 81 1t was dry wheeling town meeting
day, the first Tuesday in March, but II
was an exception that would occur not
more than once in a lifetime. Barnard
pays more for work on winter than sum-
mer roads, and some of the time they are
dangerous to travel especially when meet
ing teams. A very sensible article appears
IN the Vermont Standard from the pen Of
DR.. o. W. Sherwin, which road commits /
siOners and their agents should read. The /
doctor says only one road out OF Wood I
stock comes up to the requirements in
having places 70 turn out IN meeting
teams, but Barnard is without that one.
Flowing two tracks three 20 four feet deep
and leaving the snow az the sides nigh as
{ he horses backs make II impossible for
teams to pass one another without tie
drivers getting out Of their sleighs ana
tramping up to their middles IN the soft
snow, risking life and property TO acei-
dent. By making places at the right
points, this trouble can be avoided.
A BIG MAN EVERY WAY. +
Brotgn's Portrait Gallery, published in
1876 at Hartford, Conn, has life size por-
traits OF many distinguished American
citizens with biographical sketches and
fac SMILES OF original letters. The por-
traits exhibit all the peculiarities OF face
and person, dress, attitude and manner, so
il is peculiarly interesting TO see how
these celebrated men looked when they
we're in the exciting scenes OF their useful
lives.
One Of the most prominent OF the mum.
Der is Hon. Dixon II. Lewis, the heaviest
Democrat who ever lived among public {
men. He was for 10 years member of {
The House OF Representatives In the Ma |
ional Congress aud the Oldest in Consecu- I
live service in his time. He was in Con-
gress when Andrew Jackson was presi
dent and one OF Jacksou's hrm support 4
FRS, mentally equal and bodily superior to 4
my other man in Washington. His
,voirdupois weight was 42S POUNDS. !
W hen he came to Congress a capacious
'halr was constructed TO order for the /
eating OF this mammoth Democrat. His
Ipeeches carried great weight and his in
iuence was heavier than any other mans
70 the nations capital.
He was the chosen friend and compan- n
on Of partisans of the most opposite po- !,
itical faith, was the observed OF all OBJ '
ervers, the greatest among the great. No n
me attracted more universal curiosity =
han the weighty, frank. hearted mem Der
To show the extremely unseltish char.
cter OF the man, here is a tale OF ship
wreck Mr.. Lewis had taken passage on
steamboat from Wilmington to Charles :,
on, and at midnight they were run into
y another boat. A general rush to the r,
main deck disclosed the fact that they /
sere rapidly sinking. The long boat was
Don in possession of the crew. Nothing j.
emained for the passengers out the stern
oat, in which the panic. stricken erJwa 3
ook refuge, The frightful circumstances
D which they found themselves made 1,
ach one alive to his own danger. "
After the boat put of from the wreck i,
'Rs discovered that Mr.. Lewis, who had {
lainly contributed by his self. possession
nd exertions to their present security, In
ad been left alone on the wreck, and at
be earnest solicitation OF friends they -,
owed back to the rescue. He saw from
be crowded condition of the boat that his
rodigious weight added would endanger oil
be- general safety and explained to them
be great danger Of yielding 10 their de- at
res and magnanimOusly resolved to die
lone rather than ieopardize so many 9th :,
~. He urged them to use all possible is
Deed in saving themselves. They parted
J the thick darkness of that dreadful Z,
ight and the boat with load was lost to r.
lew. u
The deck of the steamer was now under -
alter and Mr.. Lewis climbed to the wheel
ouse. He now stood alone in the broad {
sean upon this frail foundation which
threatened to engulf him in
s descent. Death seemed to hold this
reat man IN its grasp. Just as Mr.. Lewis
rs about TO plunge from the sinking
'reck To escape the dreadful suction her
pace would cause, he caught the sounds
splashing oars and the shouts OF his 4
returning to the rescue. MIR. .
evils himself, whenever talking of this q
lriliing incident, with his accustomed
iodesty refrained from assuming the c
iast credit for conduct which his fellow =
assengers can never sufficiently extol.
Dixon II. Lewis was a highly intelligent
lanter and familiar with all the improve |
rents bearing upon agriculture.
His great chair is still a curiosity to 4
Washington tourists. Il will probably -
ever be so well filed again, unless from 4
be second district OF Vermont.
barnard. ,