Died in Brooklyn, N.Y., the Rev. Benjamin Ball Newton, assistant rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity. "A man of many gifts, bright and versatile in all."
Thursday, March 4, 1875
Died Charlottte Mooers Moore, daughter of gen. Benj. Mooers and widow of Col. Amasa C. Moore.
Thursday, June 3, 1875
At his home, four miles from the village of Plattsburgh on the old turnpike leading to Malone, died Elder Chester Balch, for more that 30 years a ruling elder of the First Presbyterian church--a man of the old puritanical stamp. He was a son of Timothy Balch of Hartford, Conn., who had located about 1802 on a farm a short distance from that of his brother Ebenezer.
Tuesday, July 6, 1875
At 12.20 am, the steamer Champlain, on her passage from Ticonderoga to Rouses Point, ran ashore on the mountains about three miles north of Westport and became a total wreck. There was no loss of life, baggage or freight. The same day in Burlington the Fletcher Free Library was first opened to the public with 9,000 volumes all catalogued.
TICONDEROGA
These ragged, crumbling walls,
O'er which the sunset falls-
How strange and far away they seem:
Landmarks from history's page,
Ghosts of a bygone age,
Phantoms of half forgotten dream.
Here stood that daring band-
Brave sons of freedom's land-
In great Jehovah's name and might.
Here Allen, stern as fate,
Towered by the postern-gate,
His unsheathed sword-blade gleaming bright.
Buckham
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