Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-12-24
WafrLnan G gunrnaL
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER "a, 1879.
Current Mention.

THERE will be n special meeting OF Brooks Post
on Tuesday evening of next week
A MINK boa belonging to Mrs Charles H. Ship
man has been lost between the Judge Keith place
and Bethany church
THERE will be sheriff sale OF sleghs Mt the
head Of State street. on Saturday, the 9th day Of
December, 1879, at two O'Clock =. NJ.
TnE county court has been occupied since Fri
day noon in the trial of the Carr murder case To-
night it will adjourn over Christmas
Ar the st, Adams market, Tuesday, winter
made butter sold at from fifteen to twenty cents
and fall ends at thirty cents per pound.
A REGULAR communication of Aurora Lodge,
No. 90, Free and Accepted Masons will be held
at Masonic hall on Monday evening" December
18th, at seven o. clock
TEN thousand more cars passed over the Cen
trail Division of the Central Vermont road during
eleven months ending December LIST, 1879 than
for the corresponding time of last year.
A FEW days ago Mrs Kinney lost her wallet in
front of o. D. Scribners store, she thinks, al
though it may have been at some other place.
The finder will be rewarded II he will leave it at
this office.
THE Ladies' Aid Society OF the Congregational
church in Pain6eld are to have public enter
tainment at the church on Wednesday evening
before New Years, consisting of literary exer-
cises, music and refreshments.
BROOKS PosT, No IL, is out OF debt and has
money in the treasury. The hall has been Sc
cured for another year. On the evening OF the
first Tuesday in January, at half-past seven
O'Clock, public installation of officers will take
place 1t is hoped all comrades will attend
COLONEL J. b. MEAD, superintendent of agri-
culture and Professor Atwater will speak Tues
day afternoon and evening, December Both, at
West Berlin at the meeting of Central Vermont
Pomona Grange. The public are invited to attend.
THE first number Of the Musical Herald, a new
monthly publication, is about to be issued in Bos-
ton. The enterprise is backed by both capital
and brains, its corps of editors and contributors
including some of the best writers on musical
topics to be found in this country and abroad.
SENATOR MORRILL, of this state offered reso
luton in the senate last Thursday nstructing tn,
committee on the library TO inquire into the ad
visibility Of extending aid to the association fo
the erection of monument on the Revolutionar,
battle field at Bennington, Vermont. 1t wa
referred.
Mr. C. +. EASTMAN, manager OF Eastman
orchestra of Concord, New Hampshire, writes II,
asking correction of our account of the militar,
ball When we wrote Blaisdell's orchestra W,
meant Eastman's, formerly Blaisdelps, and tina
orchestra is entitled to all the credit for the in
music upon that occasion.
Al the close OF the year there are many change
to be made IN our subscription list and subscriber
should look at their labels and see that they are
correct The label should show at all times tn
time to which the subscription IL paid, and II ]
Is NV 0n"nsVu "''.''io "e vi '"o "oeNs "i'er pay
'''e"' ms LUG" ''''e "e'"o"'u w az 'n0e
HE stores In town are thronged with purchas
ers OF holiday goods, in anticipation OF which on
merchants have stocked up with the largest an
best assortment OF goods we remember to hav
seen since the " hard times hrst struck US. The
are selected with great care, and are sold at rate
lar below the dnte'oeam prlces-so that every
one can afford present for the children.
MIR. d. T. AvERIIL will read a paper at tn
agricultural meeting at Mortified on Friday mex
on :" Hints regarding the development of tn
manuriai resources at the farmers command.
Realizing that Brevity is the soul oil wit, MI
Averill intends that his paper shall have tina
merit; but we predict that he will give his hear
ers good deal oil sound common sense and prac
teal wisdom.
THE second meeting of the Central Vernon
Poultry Association was held at the Pavilion o
Saturday Of last week, when constitution wa
adopted and several new members elected.
was decided to hold the first annual exhibition a
village hall on the 9th, 18th and Goth of January
The prospects for good exhibition are lattering
and with the hearty cooperation of the exhibitor
and OF the business men OF the place the success
OF the affair is assured.
GRANITE LODGE No. 35, Free and Accepte
Masons of Bare. celebrates its twenty-ffth ann
versary by a reunion on St. John the Evangelist
day, Saturday, December 27th, by public in
stallation OF officers, address by NJ. W. Lavan
NJ Read, grand master OF Vermont, and refresl
ments at the town hall The occasion will b
snlivened by the music OF Houses band, an
toasts and responses at the banquet. cordia
invitation is extended by the lodge to all, whethe
members OF the fraternity or not
In the death of their only child Mabel. Mr. an
Mrs A. j. Sibley of the Pavilion will have tn
entire sympathy of our community. She was
beautiful and winsome child. the idol of her ns
rents, and a great favorite among the guests an
frequenters of the Pavilion She died, after
sickness of week, of acute membranous GROUP
at Saratoga Springs, where her mother had gon
for her health. She was buried from her Crane
mothers home in East Montpelier last Sabbath
" OF such is the Kingdom OF heaven"
The sixteenth annual reunion of Vermont off
GERS will be held at Brandon, Thursday. Januar
sth. Members of the society, and all Vernon
officers and non. commissioned officers Of the arm
and navy are cordially invited to attend Tn
regular business meeting will be held at the tow
hall, at four o'clock r. NJ. The Grafton will b
delivered in the evening, in the town hall, b
Colonel John X, Lewis, United States Army
Banquet at ten o'clock p NJ. Colonel A. s. Trac
is president, and James S. Peck is secretary
The police court presided over nv .Justice uns
has done lively business during the mast weel
On Wednesday. Daniel Mccarthy of Berlin va
arrested for drunkenness and fined 81 and c,st,
which he maid and WAS DISCHARGED n I Ueu
lit of Berlin was arrested on Thursday. also fc
drunkenness; fined SIS and costs. which he n,if
On Friday David C. Smith of Stowe was arreste
and fined the same amount for the same misd
meanor In default of the payment of the fin
he goes to the house OF correction at Rutland.
ONE who processes to know says: Every hous
keeper should have high seat like an Off,