Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1886 — A Sleepy Old Village. [ARTICLE]

A Sleepy Old Village.

An odd account is given by the Western Morning News,ot Yealmpton, an English village within seven miles of Plymouth, with a population of nearly a thousand: Newspapers are not delivered till thirty-four hours after they are printed, and the delivery of letters is of a very meager kind. This obliges the inhabitants to resort to all sorts of shifts to obtain “a bit of news.” Interesting items are scribbled on pieces of paper by those who travel from Plymouth to Yealmpton, and these are pushed under the doors of leading inhabitants, who commuicate the contents to their neighbors. The vicar, who receives £4BO pounds a year, has long been practically past active work, and was not particularly active when he had health and strength. Services are conducted in a fashion on Sunday mornings and afternoons, yet they are of such u kind that few beyond the vicar’s household attend. The vicar knows so little of his parishoners that quite recently he directed that some clothing should be sent from a local charity to a man whom he had buried four years ago.