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what in the dark.
When all were collected, there was a sol
emn silence, broken at last by Mr.. ll--y,
of Burlington, who stepped forward and
said he had been requested to call the
meeting to order, which he did, and
having read the call, with change of the
hour from 10 o'clock A. NJ.
to o'clock r. NJ, he requested some
one to nominate a chairman. Mr.. HI,
of Sheburne, nominated Mr.. W-r,o of Col
chester. Mr.. ll--n, put the vote and
declared Mr.. VT, elected, in spite Of
Mr.. Wis protest that he could not
accept it, The protest however was re
newed and Mr.. W IF, was excused. Mr..
oh, of Winooski, was then nominated
and also elected. lie also said he could
not accept, having no experience in such
things. After some urging however, Mr..
! D--n, waived his incxperiencc and took
the chair. The next thing was to get "A
Secretary. Mr.. lily, Of Burlington was
nominated and elected But Mr.. lily,
could not accept the Office, "lor reasons
which he preferred not to disclose and
so he was excused.
! Geo. B---w, of Burlington was nomina-
ted and elected. Geo. B--w said "No,
| he was not voter, and had come up merely
as a spectator, and the convention also cx-
cused him.
Mr.. G. C--n, of Winooski was nomi-
mated and elected Mr.. C--n, said the
convention must excuse him, and the CON
! yention did SO.
Matters began to look dubious. There
was an awful pause, broken only by
renewed attempts to get Mr.. lily, or
Mr.. B--w, to serve. Mr.. C-n, of Bur
| lington, was nominated, but said at once
it was no use voting for him, and then they
waited again, in hopes that something
might turn up" but nothing did, until in
desperation some one seconded the last
nomination and Mr.. C--n, was declared
elected and requested to take a chair by
the table. Mr.. C---n declined to move,
saying he had chair already and would
stay where he was, but as he did not re-
fuse the Office entirely the Convention con-
sidered itself organized.
The first business in order appeared to be to
wait a little whle-but nothing came Of it,
| and so they waited little while longer. At
last after long pondering some one moved
that n conmittnp of thrnn from pucb tnwp
be appointed to make nominations for tine
convention The motion was put and
carried VIGOROUSLY, Ayes |. Noes 0. With
some difficulty a com. WAS obtained, three
from Burlington, three from Colchester one
fromMilton, one from Shelburne and one from
Essex Some of the committee stepped out of
the room to make the nomi nations, and some
Of them remained behind to keep the Conven
ton alive while the rest were gone. When
they returned they handed Il paper to the
Chairman who looked at it and informed
the convention that it contained list of
nominations which he read as follows
Far S'HatorS--MaItin Wires Of Under
hill, Francis Wilson Of llnesburgh, VIM
In Of Shclburuc.
Asst. JHSticoS.-Stcphcn Saylcs Of Hun
tington, ID. II. Onion OF Milton
Jtdgc IF Pr0Jafc.-W. ii. French,
St0t.S ey-Eiwinll---y.
ShpV.- Noble b. Flanagan Of lines
burgh.
high BmhG.--C, W, Reynolds, Bur
lngton.
Mr.. LILY expressed his gratitude to
the Convention for his nomination, but as
he was not going to make this county his
residence but for few months longer, he
must ask to be excused. lie was excused ac-
cordingly, and moved that Mr.. Weston OF
Burlington be nominated in his
Place. The motion was carried, and
Mr.. Weston declared to be nominated.
1t was then suggested that the report OF
the COMMITTEES had not yet been accepted and
adopt ed.
On motion 1t was accepted and adopted.
And then, seemingly by habit by this
time, the Convention waited while.
Mr., VT moved that the Convention
adjourn without dav.
Mr.. lI--y said that some action ought
to be taken to have the nominations printed
and votes provided at the various polls
And then the Convention waited awhil c
longer, as il to gather strength to do sJne.
thing,
Mr.. LILY suggested that County
Committee be appointed to be called - The
Honest Committee" to provide votes, q :.
The Chairman asked what the Convention
would do with Mr.. II --y's suggestion.
The Convention was too much exhausted
by its labors to do anything but wait
awhile, and this they did
Mr. W. renewed his motion to
adjourn without day, Mr.. Il-y moved
as an amendment that they ADJOURN to meet
at their various polls on next Tuesday morn
ing. The Convention summoned up all its
energies, and carried the motion as amended
and dispersed unanimously.
We regret that We have been able to do
so little " justice to the subject III our
report, but it requires some skill either to
make or to record clearly microscopic
observations.
lnE REPUBLICAN Caucus, Monday evening,
was well attended, considering that there
wac no strife IN town to secure Il nomination
for this or that man. Several names had
been barely suggested, the mention Of lion.
t. T. Marshs name was welcomed by the
meeting. No better man could have been
selected
RcpuhiICan Caucus.
The Republicans Of Burlington, pursuant
to public notice, assembled ut the Town
Hall Monday evening Aug. 9th at + -
O'Clock =. NJ
The meeting was called to order by
James A. shedd, Chairman Of tho Rcpub-
lican Town Committee.
John X Gray was elected Chairman
and William G, Shaw, Secretary.