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George Alfred Merrill-May he continue to rub the Aladdin's lamp of railroads until all the miracles they have wrought shall be forgotten among the greater miracles which they shall hereafter work.
Sixth toast : The Poetess of the Day ;
" And long as poetry shall charm mankind, Her flowing numbers will admirers fiud."
Responded to with music by the Wales Cor- net Band.
Seventh toast: The Elderly Citizens of Rutland.
Responded to briefly and humorously by Jessie L. Billings.
Eighth toast ; The Adopted Sons of Rut- land .- We recognize their worth and the ad- vantages of tlieir accession, and gladly ex- tend to them equal rights and privileges with those " to the manor born."
To which Hon. Walter C. Dunton respond- ed as follows :
It was not my fault that I was not born in Rutland, although I dearly love the little town so closely nestled under the Green Mountains, in an adjoining county, where I was born, yet, if I had had anything to say as to the location of my birth place, I am quite sure that I should have been born in Rutland. However, I did the next best thing that I could, I married a Rutland girl "to the manor born " for my wife, and our only child was born here; and if no unfor- seen event changes my purpose, I shall spend the remainder of my life in Rutland, and, al- though an adopted son, will endeavor to be true and faithful to the town, which, when commencing the practice of my profession, extended so cordial a welcome to me, not only to me, but to all of her adopted children.
It was my fortune to spend a few years in the West, and become somewhat acquainted with Western men, their enterprise, activity and treatment of strangers ; and I have often remarked that I could content myself to live in no other Eastern town than Rutland, which more closely resembles, in the charac- ter and enterprise of her inhabitants, the thriving and prosperous towns of the West than any other town in all New England. And in no respect is this resemblance greater than in the cordial welcome extended by her inhabitants to all worthy persons coming here to reside. Rutland most emphatically, in the language of the sentiment to which you have called me to respond, "extends to her adopted sons equal rights and privileges with those accorded to her oldest inhabitants."
The people of Rutland have ever been ready to bestow honors upon those to whom honors are due, alike upon all, irrespective of the place of their birth or former residence, as the honorable positions assigned by them to many of her adopted sons will attest, of whom time on this occasion forbids me par- ticularly to speak.
Allow me, native citizens of Rutland, at this time in behalf of the other residents of the town, who form no inconsiderable part of your inhabitants, to thank you for your generous treatment of us. Be assured that it is duly appreciated and will never be for- gotten by us, and that it will continue to be in the future, as it has been in the past, our utmost endeavor and greatest pleasure to co- operate with you in promoting the future prosperity of the town, and in making Rut- land what her location and great natural resources have designed her to be-one of the most prosperous, thrifty and enterprising in- land towns in New England. We will ex- tend the same cordial welcome to others who shall hereafter come here to reside, which you so kindly extended to us; and we are happy to unite with you to-day in welcoming to our homes and our firesides, the former residents of the town, many of whom went forth to mould and form the institutions of the new states of the great West, and there occupy positions of honor and trust, and of whom you have just cause to be proud. Let us, fellow citizens, not only continue to de- velop the resources of our town, and increase its prosperity, but also continue to " build school houses and raise men," so that those
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whom we shall hereafter send forth will honor both themselves and the town by their intelligence, and be as highly esteemed and useful citizens as those whom we are to-day so happy to welcome.
As it is getting late, allow me, Mr. Presi- dent, to close by offering the following senti- ment :
The Native Citizens of Rutland-Generous, hospitable and enterprising; the town is alike indebted to them for her prosperity, and her adopted sons for their success.
Ninth toast: The Centenarian-The con- necting link between the past and the future. To which A. A. Nicholson. Esq., responded: [Concluding paragraph to a speech by Mr. J. Grafton Briggs, if there had been time.]
Mr. President : Do the spirits of departed ones ever visit earth ? Do they sometimes come to view the scenes of their sojourn while here ? Then, I doubt not, but the souls of Timothy Boardman, James Mead, Zebulon Mead, Wait Chatterton, Maj. Cheney and their associates are hovering within the folds of this pavilion. All honor to their sacred memory ! They caused the wilderness to bud and blossom as the rose! They plowed the first furrows in this soil. They sowed in those furrows the seed of that prosperity which we reap to-day.
THE PROMENADE CONCERT. From the Herald.
The Promenade Concert held in the mam- moth pavilion, was a fitting "finale." Whatever may be said of Vermont bands, the music furnished was of a high order. The pavilion was handsomely decorated and tastily lighted. When we entered the pavil- ion, there must have been over a thousand present, still, all had plenty of room, and but for the number of different faces one would meet in a promenade, we would say that there were few present.
Dancing commenced at 10 o'clock, and was entered into with a zest that was refreshing. Everybody danced, old and young, rich and poor, high and low. Dancing was indeed the order of the night ! We saw many that had not tried the " mazy measures " before in many a long year.
Quite a number figured in the costume of "ye olden time."
THE ANTIQUARIAN MUSEUM,
House Block, was open every day during the celebration.
Our attention was first called to the gun, now the property of Dr. C. L. Allen, which was formerly owned by Gen. Ethan Allen, the leader of the Green Mountain Boys. The gun was owned and used by Ethan Allen about 1760. Ethan Allen and Robert Tor- rence were intimate friends when they were young men, and exchanged guns for keep- sakes. Robert Torrence gave the gun to his grandson, Orleans P. Torrence, from whom it was obtained by its present owner. Beside this gun, is one taken from Long John, an Indian, at the Battle of Bennington, by Cap- tain William Jenkins, whom many of our citizens remember as one of the wealthiest men and largest land owners in this section. The Indian afterwards resided here, and is undoubtedly remembered by our oldest citi- zens. It is the contribution of Miss Isabella M. Brown, which lady made many valuable contributions to the display.
Next, came a gun, the barrel of which was carried by Lieutenant Zebulon Mead in the French and Indian war-was used on Lake Champlain, when Old Put was taken, and was taken into Ticonderoga on the 10th of May, 1775, when Ethan Allen was there, and was carried in the Revolution by Henry Mead,-the contribution of their descendant, Joel M. Mead.
Besides these guns, were a Continental $4 bill ; a musket flint-lock, old Continental, by C. Carpenter ; the same by several others; a Continental sword by S. Hinckley ; the same by L. Long; a sword found on the farm of William Lincoln, in Shrewsbury, about 1800, supposed to have belonged to some one of Burgoyne's officers, it being found where it is supposed his army crossed the mountain, by Parkhurst ; a sword captured from the Hess- ians by Gen. Stark, at the Battle of Benning- ton, and now owned by his sister's daughter, also, a captain's hat, 80 years old, used by Captain Bachot, by J. C. Dunn ; a sword cap- tured from the Hessians, at the Battle of Ben- nington, by Jonathan Warren; a powder- horn, used by Captain Jenkins in the war of 1812; a pair of horse pistols, which belonged to Captain Jenkins, 100 years old or more; a Hessian coat and hat, by H. R. Dyer ; an Indian frock, captured from the Indians at the time of the inassacre in Iowa, Peverly ; a pocket-book and papers, 101 years old; a bible 109 years old, used by Mrs. H. H. Al- bee's great grandfather ; vols. 10, 11 and 12 of Spooner's Vermont Journal, printed in Windsor in 1792-3-4, presented by M. Cook; copies of the Rutland Herald of ISO8, 1820, and 1827, and Burlington Centinel of 1>12, by Horace Kingsley ; a shinplaster issued by Vermont Glass Factory, of Salisbury, of the denomination of $1.75, dated 1814, by Wil- liam Y. Ripley ; a copy of Spooner's Vermont Journal, of 1799, by G. C. Hathaway, and a Vermont Gazette, of 1799, by the same; a Psalm book, 105 years old, by Dr. J. D.
In the building adjoining the Bardwell | Green; a book entitled "Christ, the King
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Witness of Truth," dated 1744, by H. H. | dians at the burning of Royalton, a double Paine; a singing book of 1708, by the same ; treatises, of 1750, by H. W. Porter; Five Books of Moses, 1737, and a cream-pitcher 130 years old, by Miss Pierpont ; a work of John Knox's Writings, owned by James Ferguson, of Barnet-the owner being now past 99 years of age, and the book over 300 years old, presented by J. C. Dunn, of Rut- land; a mirror, known to be over 215 years old, in the hands of the 9th generation, a chair 107 years old, and table, chair and trunk that was his great grandmother's, by the same; a pitcher 113 years old, owned by Addison Buck ; a gravy dish, over 100 years old, by Mrs. Buckham; a turtle-shell imita- tion crockery plate, by Mrs. G. A. R. Bissell, which was her father's grandfather's, and is now over 200 years old ; a tea-cup, 140 years old, by Dr. Cyrus Porter ; a slop-bowl and plate, by Mrs. Sarah T. French, which her grandmother had at the time of her marriage, 108 years ago ; a China tea-cup and saucer, 150 years old-came from Holland, and a punch tumbler, very handsome and old, by Miss Mary Baxter ; a pewter porringer, 110 years old, by Mrs. Cyrus Porter ; an ink- stand, 108 years old, by A. B. Jones; a tin- der-box used by Capt. Ebenezer Markham, going through the woods from Maine to Nova Scotia in 1796, a pair of silk stockings worn by Capt. Markham, Feb. 7, 1775, on the oc- casion of his marriage, a vest worn by him two years earlier, a frisk worn by Mrs. Markham before her marriage, a waist worn by the same lady, and a set of coin balances used by Capt. Markham in the West Indies in 1768,-all presented by J. B. Spaulding, who likewise shows a baby's shirt worn by the late Hon. Isaac Kellogg, in 1776; a wooden sugar-bowl, 125 years old, by Mrs. H. Glynn : a cocoa-nut tunnel. 97 years old, by D. Hall; three spectacles and cases, 100, 107 and 115 years old ; a cane by S. Hinck- ley, which was the property of the great grandfather of Gilbert Breed, and now known to be over 200 years old; a mirror, which was brought over in the Mayflower, by D. K. Hall; a birch bark basket, made by an In- dian named " Long John," and an 18-inch pewter platter, belonging to Miss I. M. Brown's father's great aunt, very old; a pod- auger, 105 years old, by Oliver Tinney ; a pewter plate and tea-salver, over 100 years old, by R. E. Pattison ; a pewter plate, one of a set buried at the time of Burgoyne's sur- render, remaining buried 52 years on the farm in Addison, Vt., known as the late Hon. John Story's farm, by J. B. Spaulding; a pewter mug, 95 years old, by Miner Hilliard; a wooden skimmer, 105 years old, by F. Weeks; a foot-stove, 100 years or more old, by J. Haskell ; a brass kettle, 137 years old, by T. L. Fisk; an earthern arm-flask, 97 years old, by A. Reed ; a wooden salt-mortar, 150 years old, by Mrs. Caswell; an ax used by the great grandfather of John C. Thomp- son, which has passed down three generations, A Commission to Lieut. William Dver an iron pot, 99 years old, taken by the In- in the Vermont Militia, in 1812, signed by
linen-wheel, 127 years old, and several stone arrow-heads, by A. H. Post; a stone arrow- head, picked up by James Buckham 60 years ago, the eye and tongue of the old court-house bell, taken from the ruins, by C. Carpenter ; two chairs, of a set used in the first State House in the State of Vermont, located in Rutland, on West street, in the dwelling more recently known as the Jenkins farm- house, it being 86 years since it was used for the sittings of the Legislature; a large arm- chair, 110 years old, by Joseph Tower; a small round dining table, used by Captain Jenkins, 90 years old ; an iron pot, 90 years old, taken by the Indians at the burning of Royalton ; an arm-chair, 100 years old, by James Holden ; a wheel-head, over 100 years old, by Mrs. B. Parker; a pair of wooden shoes, by B. Tilley; a warming-pan, 150 years old, by Mrs. Carswell; a pair of shoe- buckles and two worsted combs. 100 years old, a warming-pan, 125 years old, by D. S. Squires ; two worsted combs, over 100 years old, two loom-reeds, 92 years old, a tape- loom, 160 years old, a hetchell, 100 years old, James Mc Connell ; a pair of cards, 80 years old, Mrs. Sarah Tower ; one hand-fan, 100 years old, D. H. Squires ; a wooden plow, made by Stephen Holt, of Pittsfield, the first settler of that town, and one wooden plow, 100 years old ; a wooden box, made by the Indians, and found in an old building at Comstock's Landing 25 years ago, Mc Duie; part of a wedding - dress of Mrs. Noah Thompson, formerly of Bridgewater, made with her own hands from flax, in the year 1766, by Stillman Atwood; one christening blanket for children, 175 years old,-it was . once lined with pink silk and bound with braid; one blanket, 115 years old, brought from Holland by Miss Brown's great grand- mother, a tray made in England 150 years ago, by Miss I. M. Brown ; one coverlid, sup- posed to be 125 years old, and was the prop- erty of Mrs. J. C. Thompson's great grand- mother, J. C. Thompson ; a genuine autograph of Sir John Franklin, by A. A. Nicholson ; a frame containing a New-Hampshire $4.00, 1780; and also a striped worsted vest, made by Jennette Riche, in Scotland, in 1740. for her intended husband, Andrew Lackey. She also made a wedding-dress at the same time, and her husband's vest was patched with her dress. It was brought from Glasgow to this country in the year 1783, by James Ferguson, and his wife and three children, in the ship Laura Campden, Capt. Gildrist in command. They were bound for Phila- delphia, 300 Irish and 40 Scotch aboard the vessel, and were nine weeks crossing the ocean, and the vessel run aground near New- castle, Delaware; the 40 Scotch landed, and walked 40 miles to Philadelphia. It is now owned by James Ferguson, of Barnet, Vt., the grandson of Andrew Lackey and Jennette Riche.
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Jonas Galusha, Governor ; also a portrait of Samuel Dyer, a soldier of the Revolution, painted in 1845. and his account book, com- menced at Cranston, R. I., in 1784, and closed at Chester, in this State, in 1814, exhibited by James H. Dyer, grandson of William, and great-grandson of Samuel Dyer. A twenty dollar bill on the bank of Plattsburgh, con- tributed by Rodney Pierce, of Brandon, who has had it in his possession 50 years ; he re- ceived it at par just before the bank failed. A Bible, owned by James Mead, first settler of the town, contributed by R. R. Mead, printed in 1791 ; a copy of Virgil, printed in 1515, edited by Sebastian Brant, and con- taining 204 very curious wood-cuts, and an English version of Homer's Iliad, by George Chapman, printed in 1610-both contributed by Judah Dana; " The History of the Low Countrey Warres," printed in 1650; Travel in Germany and Elsewhere, printed in 1454; a letter written by Nichols Goddard, of this place, in 1797; a bottle, presented at the battle of Bennington to Jonathan Haynes, grandfather of B. H. Haynes, by a Hessian ; a picture of Gen. Israel Putnam, very old and dingy ; a picture of Mrs. Rebekah Free- man of this town, who died in 1862, aged 97, taken when she was 91 years old; a chair formerly owned by John Adams, of Killing- by, Ct., great-grandfather of Amasa Pooler, by whom presented ; the wedding apron of Abigail Leonard, wife of Rev. Warbam Wil- liams, married in 1723, and 5 silver table- spoons, a part of her marriage portion.
( Rev. Warham Williams was son of Rev. John Williams, taken captive at Deerfield, Mass., 1704, and brother of Eunice Williams, grandmother of Rev. Eleazer Williams, cele- brated as the Dauphin or " Lost Prince," and supposed by many to be really the son of the unfortunate Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette of France.)
Also table and tea-spoons belonging to Rev. Samuel Williams and his wife, Jane Kilborn Williams, married in 1768. All these articles were brought to Rutland in 1792, by Rev. Samuel Williams, and now owned and contributed by Mrs. John Strong of this town. ( Rev. Samuel Williams was the historian of Vermont, and founder and first editor of the Herald.)
Here also was a "letter written by our blessed Saviour, Jesus Christ, found under a great stone, 65 years after His crucifixion," and reprinted in London in 1791 ; a smoking tongs, brought from England before the Revo- lutionary war, by Rev. Mr. Carpenter, owned by J. B. Kilburn; a powder-horn, 112 years old, by H. Bateman; a dentist's turnkey, 1720; a tobacco-box, 1760, containing knee- buckles, sleeve-buckles, and an ancient coin once worn about the neck of an ancestor, placed there by a "seventh son" as a charm against " Kings' evil," by Dr. Cochran, West Rutland; a blanket, 125 years old, owned by Mrs. J. C. Thompson ; a plate brought from China 150 years ago, and used by the great grandfather of Mrs. J. N. Baxter ; a batter's
cooling-iron-the one with which Anthony killed Green in a hat shop on Main street, Rutland, 1814, owned by Dr. Orel Cook : 3 pan brought to this country by Roger Wil- liams ; a clock made in 1580, presented by Dr. Abell, the astronomer, to Ben K. Chase, Rutland; Gen. Stark's dram-cup, presented to him by Hannah Dalton; a pair of knee- buckles, worn by Prince Robinson, of Wash- ington's Black Regiment; knee-buckles worn by Major Post 105 years ago ; a slipper wora by Sally Cluff, a sun-glass, a pair of spoons, all 100 years old, the property of Mary Young ; spoons made by Lord & Goddard of Rutland, its first jewelers; a spoon presented by Gen. Israel Putnam to his oldest daughter on her marriage, about 106 years old; but- tons worn in 1759 by Mehitable Sperry ; sleeve- buttons worn 68 years, by A. Chase, and 109 years old; a shirt-brooch made in 1773; shell cased watch worn by John Han- cock, made in 1676; a gold Macedonian coin-a double drachma, whose value when coined was $ 3.33. It is 2,200 years old, and as Lysimachus, tutor of Alexander and one of his great generals, caused gold coin to be stricken with the portrait of his great master on them, and from the near resemblance of the head on this coin to the bust of Alexan- der found at Tivoli, the ancient Tiber. in the year 1779, it may, with certainty, be re- garded as a genuine portrait of Alexander the Great, and hence possesses a valne to the lover of antiquity impossible to compute. A solid silver flagon, 102 years old, the property of Mrs. Jane Kilborn Williams; a table- spoon, 146 years old, owned by Mrs. Leonard; a sugar-tongs, a pin, ear-rings and sleeve- buttons, all 102 years old, a plate belonging to Mrs. Sikes, great aunt to Queen Emma of the Sandwich Islands, 120 years old, two pairs of shoe-buckles, 125 years old, cos- tributed by Mrs. Gov. Williams ; a pair ci ear-rings worn by Phineas Pratt of New Ipswich, N. H., about 1780, contributed by Mary E. Ripley ; a shirt and sleeve-buttons worn by Surgeon Hodges when on Washing- ton's staff, contributed by Hugh H. Baxter ; a bull's eye watch, made in 1720; a belt- plate, worn by Gen. Elias Buell of Albany, in 1779 ; an hour-glass 100 years old, an arm- chair 120 years old, the contributions of Eli Farmer ; the Ulster Co. Gazette of January 4, 1800; the Northern Spectator, printed in Poultney in 1826; a pair of vases, known :o be 1000 years old-history lost,-presentei by a Mandarin (Chinaman) to W. Y. Ripley some years since ; a pistol carried by dies. Washington as late as 1776, a piece of gun and balls found after the battle of White Plains, and a looking-glass owned by Muy Chilson, the first white woman in Ame !! '3 north of the old Mason and Dixon line, cos- tributed by Ezra Edson, of Manchester; & worsted comb, used by the grandmother of O. H. Rounds in Seituate, R. I., 125 years az). The contribution of John Cain, made :: his son, Captain Avery B. Cain of the C. S. Army, who for years has been in army lite
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on the frontier, was noticeable, and attracted more handling by visitors than it would were it ours. It consisted of a pipe of peace, pre- sented by Red Cloud, two arrows captured from the Cheyennes in battle, needle-cases made by Sioux squaws, pantaloon stripes worn by a Sioux chief, match-safe, tobacco- box, pouch and beads, by the same tribe, a blanket and ear-rings presented Capt. Cain by the Navajoes. A quilt, 125 years old, furnished by O. H. Rounds; a breastplate picked up by Christopher Rice of this town on a Rebel battle field, and worn by him, after the derision of his comrades, at the battle of Locust Grove, where it was struck by a ball, which would undoubtedly have penetrated the wearer's vitals but for it. The ball flattened is shown with the plate. An oil painting of Major Eaton, and his wife, made 85 years ago; an oil painting of Na- thaniel Gove, and Jesse Gove and his wife ; an embroidered picture male by Mrs. J. C. R. Dorr's grandmother in France, over 100 years ago; a bunch of arrows, with their quiver, taken from a Sioux chief in battle by Capt. Wm. J. Cain, another son of our neighi- bor of the Courier, and by him presented to Master Hugh Baxter; a copy of the New- England Courant, published Feb. 11, 1723; copies of the first volumes of the Rutland Herald, by a gentleman from Saratoga; a charter signed by Cadwallader Colden, Lieut .- Governor of New York, to Nathan Stone and others, of a township of land in lieu of Rut- land, which had been granted to them by the Governor of New Hampshire, and afterward chartered by the Government of New York to other parties, dated July 15, 1774, belong- ing to Chauncy K. Williams; etc., etc.
The Pavilion, or tent in which the dinner was served, and in which was held the Promenade Concert, was situate on the lot purchased by the town, on which to erect a town hall, on the south side, and at the foot of Washington street. It was 210 by 66 feet, and fully capable of seating 3,000 persons. The walls were 9 feet high, and the roof some 25 feet high at the ridge, the whole supported by 6 stout masts. From the ridge of the roof to the top of the wall on the sides, were hung streamers of alternate red and white bunting, at close intervals, while on the ends were numerous streamers, emblematic of the national ensign, carried out from the centre at the top down to either corner. Around the tent. at the top of the wall, were interwoven stripes of red and white bunting. About the middle of the tent, and in front of the stage, from the roof depended the stars and stripes, on either side of which, and extending to both ends, were hung numerous flags and banners of various nations. The platform was in the center, on
the west side, in full view and easy hearing of all parts of the house. To the gas works were attached 138 burners, some of which were arranged in the form of stars.
One of the most beautifully decorated buildings in the place was the Opera House, whose inner appearance, with flags, streamers, mottoes, coats of arms, shields, evergreens, flowers and other ornaments decking the walls, ceilings, stage, galleries, and every available place, made it resplendent with beauty. Externally, also, flags and banners were displayed from every window and hung on the walls and over the door. Extending across the street from the Opera House was a line of flags, in the center of which was a tab- let in the shape of a shield, with the inscrip- tion on the side, "Washington promulgated our principles, Warren died in their defence- we intend to perpetuate them." On the re- verse of the tablet was, " The Memories of the Fathers are the Inspiration of her Sons," the whole bordered with the stars and stripes.
In the tent was a painting of a globe rest- ing on a shield, surmonnted by the American eagle, " E Pluribus Unum" in his beak, the whole surrounded by wreaths of the olive, and on the opposite side of the hall an alle- gorical painting of " America-as it was and is," on each of the six masts, pictures of some of our elderly and deceased prominent citizens, trophies of flags, and the coat of arms of one of the six New-England states. At the Central House a line of flags extended across to Kingsley & Sprague's block, in the center of which was a banner bearing on one side the motto, "Our Fathers left us the glo- rious legacy of Liberty-may we transmit it to posterity-have virtue to merit and courage to preserve it," and on the other side, " Stain not the glory of your worthy ances- tors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright." Other street decorations were made at the foot of Center street, where there was a line extended from the top of Morse's block to the Bates House, on which was a banner girded with evergreens and inscribed, "Welcome to Rutland," and on either side of it an American flag. Outside of the flag, on the left, was another of blue and white blocks arranged diagonally, under- neath which were the figures " 1770," and on the right one of red and white blocks, ar- ranged in the same way, with the figures underneath of " 1870."
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