Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-06-25


tweniy'cight in class Of iorty.throc.
--Rev. Lewis 0. Brastow, Of st. Johnsbury,
has declined the nattering call extended him
by the White street Congregational church Of
Burlington.
Gilman Stevens, a well known locomotive
engineer, has taken lease Of the fremont
House, St. Albans and is to change its name
to the Stevens House.
Hon G. W. Willard will deliver the adj
dress at the commencement exercises of Cas-
Teton Seminary and State Normal School,
which take place tomorrow.
--paymaster Albert s. Kenney, U. S. N, is
at tho Hoffman House, New York, having just
returned from the Mediterranean squadron,
where he has been on duty for over year past.
The many frieudsof Col Charles II joyce
in this community and throughout the state
will regret 10 hear Of his present low condi-
ton Of health The disease from which he
now suffers is dyspepsia.
Rev. Moses S. Royce died at Nashville,
Tenn, June 9th, Of cholera. lie was son Of
the late Hon. r. G. Royce, an eminent mem.
Der Of the Rutland county bar and was gradu-
atcd from the University Of Vermont in 1874.
Professor Hathaway has been obliged. on
account Of his failing health, to leave the Nor.
risyille Academy in the bands Of other teach
ers. lie is now lying very low at the home Of
his father in lIardwick, and his recovery is cx-
tremely doubtful
The late Horace r Clark, Of New York,
was a member Of the Thirty-fith and Thirty
sixth Congresses, and since his retirement from
politics has been identified with railroad pro
ects, and actively associated with Commodore
Vanderblt's enterprises
Maj. Gardner S. Blodgett, our Vermont
Commissioner to the Vienna Exposition, ar
rived home Thursday. lie has been in fine
health, and comes home, as Bayard Taylor
torsely expressed it in one Of his TribuH,
letters, to wash hi. hands Of the Vienna
scandal
Rev George q. Wells, pastor Of the Cen
tenary NJ E. church. Minneapolis, Minnesota
Conference, died in that city May 3lst, Of by.
pcrtrophy of the heart. He was formerly a
member Of Troy Conference and was a resident
Of st. Adams, as Presiding Elder Of st. Adams
district, from April 1858 to April ls6l
we regret to learn Of the retirement o
Mr. S d. Taylor from the firm Of Clarke 4
Taylor, publishers of the ST. Adams Messenger
III health is tie occasion Of MIR. Taylor's re-
trement, Tie paper will be conducted in fu-
ture with Col. Clarke as editor, assisted BY
Mr.. D. W Dixon.
Hon. X. W Clarke. Postmaster at Brat
teboro, has been designated by the Postmas
ter General, under the civil service rules, t
examine the several applicants for the appoint
ment Of deputy postmaster at Bellows Falls
VI, vice \. n. Swain, Esq, resigned, and re
port upon their qualifications to the post ofic
department at Washington.
The members r the Massachusetts, Press A.
ISOLATION, with their wives and daughters, abou
$50 strong, arrived in Burlington from LAX
George, Thursday. a social reunion was bel,
at the American Hotel in The evening, at which
speeches were made By several gentlemen, an,
llolmberg's orchestra played some popular mu
sic A portion Of the excursioniss went +
Saratoga ard New York, and the remainde
direct to their homes
Hon. Henry Z Stoughton, late Of BELOW
Fails, died at the residence Of his son, Col
! Charles b. Stoughton, in New York city, o
Thursday evening last Mr. Stoughton ha
long been one Of the leading members Of tn
bar, in this State, and was amember Of the Sen
ate in lsGl-62, For two or three years past h
has resided in New York city, and has been en-
gagged in the practice Of his profession wit
his son Charles, and brother, Edwin Il. Slough
e ton.
I Vermont boys took three out of the 81
, prizes awarded to the Seniors aud Juniors q
d Dartmouth, on Tuesday Of last week. Tn
t first prize was in English composition, an
y given to Alfred S. Hall, of West Westminster
4 for an essay on the Penal Element in Law
t the second prize to Emory II Jones, of Vino
e ham, for an essay on the Historical Value
e Dante OF the lockwood prizes given I
5 members, one was awarded to John b. Ricl
P ardson, Of Yershire. writing on Sell-relianc
r as on Element Of Success.
c -R. 0. sturieyant, Of Swaaton, and c /
Is Baker, Of St. Adams, were at the last annui
} session Of the Grand Lodge Of Good Templal
' Of Vermont, chosen delegates to the right wo
thy grand lodge Of the world, which meets
y London July 22l, and with delegates fro
other states and the dominion of Canada the
will sail from New York to-day, on the steam'
IS unsylyania, Of the State Line. Col.
B Mead, Of Randolph, and Capt. \. G. Wa
son, of Burlington, we're the original delegate
r but were compelled to stay at home by Il
pressure Of other business.
=. Julius F. Higgins, Esq, Of Brandon, di,
d, in that village Friday afternoon. The dea
h of 50 active, genial and public spirited cit
?. zen Of Vermont will not only be deeply r
~ GREETED at his own home, where he was
much respected, but throughout the who
IA State lie was one Of the foremost laymen
70 the Protestant Episcopal church in Vernon
70 Since his retirement from the Office Of Pos
m master Of Brandon, a position he filed to t
> great satisfaction Of the public, he has be-
"a largely interested in the lime company al
~ mineral paint works at Leicester. His disea
he was typhoid pneumonia
IN REUSED TO BoND.-The town Of Albany
4. its last town meeting, on the 2lst, refused
bond in aid of the Montpelier, Ilardwick Al
Black River Railroad, by vote Of LOG to II
The rneeting WAS adjourned one week VIII