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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-16
The Tramp Question.

While Vermont, with several of the New
England states, have to large extent found
a satisfactory solution of the tramp question
in the enactment of stringent laws, bill of
similar character, passed by the late legisla-
ture of New York, was vetoed by the gov
ernor. As things now look this veto of
Governor Robinson is not likely to win him
much favor, unless it be with the tramps.
A correspondent has been visiting tramp
rendezvous near the city of Newburgh, on
the Hudson, where he found about one hun
bred and fifty collected. They had been
there three weeks or more, but though the
number had been kept up, the inhabitants
of the colony had not been the same during
this time, but they had been constantly
coming and going, so that the whole num-
Der who have occupied the camp at Bum
mer's Hill must amount to several hun
dreds. They were, of course, dirty, vicious,
insolent and lazy. One of them, sort of
leader known among his fellows as the
Boss" when told that he could get work
in the harvest field at $3.50 a day, answered
"wurruck was made for niggers, Pm white
man. born free"
Then the "white man took draught
from the alcohol bottle, and, being in a com.
municative mood, said:
"Not days wurruck has this kid done these
sixteen years. What's the use Of a cove working
| for 81. 80 when yer can get lots Of grub with.
outen it. Yer couldn't get no such wictuals as
them" said the " Boss as he pointed with his
| foot to the remnants of a spring chicken scat
tered near the dying embers Of one Of the CAM
fires. "Coves that wurrucks pays taxes, DR.
EN-" lie stopped to fill his pipe and inquire il
Brooklyn Jim, Chicago Bill and Slimey had go
back to camp yet. Being answered in the aifrma
tive, he condescended to further say that "thi.
country owed him living, and he was going Il
get it"
These amiable persons plundered the gar
dens and orchards of the farmers as openl,
and fearlessly as if they were gathering tn
produce of their own lands and when tn
owner demonstrated they coolly told hin
that it was of no use to make fuss, the
should help themselves and were not afrai
of the country constables.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-16
Buzzell's Execution.

On Thursday of last week, at Concord,
New Hampshire, Joseph B. Buzzel was hung
for the murder Of Susan A. Hanson. The
case has been peculiar one from the be-
ginning. In November, 1874, the young
lady who was the victim sat with her family
side of the home in Brookfeld AS they sat
quietly chatting there came violent report
and charge of buckshot crashed through
the window, and without struggle the
young lady fell corpse at her mothers feet.
Public sentiment was aroused TO the highest
pitch of excitement and every means en-
ployed to bring the fiend to justice. After
a while the cowardly crime was laid to Buz-
zell, an intelligent stone-cutter. The motive
was found in the fact that Miss Hanson had
brought suit against him for breach of
promise, as he had broken his engagement
with her and married another woman. He
was arrested, tried and acquitted.
Subsequently young fellow by the name
of Cook, who was under arr, st for arson,
made a revelation duplicating Buzzell in the
murder and he was re-arrested. The question
at once arose whether he could be tried a
second time for the crime of which he was
acquitted, but the courts decided that he had
been acquitted as principal in felony and
could lawfully be held as an accessory in the
same felony. He was again tried, and this
time was convicted and sentenced. The testi.
mony relied upon was largely that which
Cook gave, but not long after Cook makes
affidavit that his testimony was all false.
Then, too the detectives who worked up the
case, Cohen and Conway, were found un-
savory characters, and it began to look as
Buzzels counsel demanded new trial.
The supreme court of the state with six
Judges on the bench reviewed the case and
decided that new trial should not be
granted. There remained another hope
the hope of pardon or Communication Of sen.
tence from the governor and council. They
were besieged on all sides by petitions and
personal appeals, but after due deliberatior
decided to let the law take its course. The
legislature which is now in session was ther
invoked, but that, too, refused to interfere
| To add still further to the excitement of the
case, it became the duty of an officer whC
was an old schoolmate of Buzzell to inflc
the extreme penalty of the law. The hang
ing took place upon the same gallows which
served in the execution of Evans, Major ant
La Page.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-16

WORK FOR LAwyERs.-Two suits of a
novel character have just been brought in
the courts of New York. One is by mar
ried woman against an unmarried one,
charging her with having seduced her hus-
bands affections, and laying the damages at
100000 and the other, with like damages,
is brought by an unmarried woman against
married man for injury to her peace and
prospects by having paid her attention and
gained promise of marriage, when he was
in fact himself married. Both suits are new
in New York cases, and against both the
demurrer was raised that no action could lie
but in both cases the judges decided that {
fair cause for damages was alleged, and thu
value of husbands affection to his wifi
and the loss woman sustains through thu
addresses of man who cannot marry he
are in fair way to be appraised by thu
i courts.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-16
Vermont Editors and Publishers.

The association met at Rutland on Tues
day evening, July Sth, for their annual
meeting. The attendance was good, and
quite large number Of new members were
admitted. The officers elected were as fol-
lows President Hon. f. ?. Walton vice
presidents, G. G. Benedict, A. II. futile
and l.. o. Greene recording secretary, ID.
w. Dixon; corresponding secretary, ID. Nj.
Camp; treasurer, G. M. Stone; executive
committee, Albert Clarke II. G. futile and
A. N. Swain.
After the election Of officers, an address
was delivered by Hiram A. Huse, Esq, Of
Montpelier, which was in some respects
unique and in many admirable. Mr.. Huse
is man of ideas OF his own-a profound
thinker-and his address, though delivered
without any pretensions to oratory, was lis
tened to with pleasure by a large audience.
The address was followed by poem, ad-
mirably written and delivered by f. IL.
Phelps, Esq. Of Fairhaveu, on the Pilgrims
of Plymouth Rock, and the Yankees OF all
succeeding times. Both the address and
poem received the hearty thanks Of the
audience.
Wednesday morning was devoted to an
examination of the new work-house at Rut-
land, with results entirely satisfactory, and
also of the large and admirably arranged
shops of the Howe Scale Company. At two
| p. NJ. was commenced the most memorable
excursion the association has ever made
by way of North Bennington to Troy, with
grand supper at the Troy House, rendered
| by its host, Vermonter-thence by the
steamer Saratoga, reaching New York city
on Thursday to partake of magnificent
breakfast at the st. Nicholas hotel, the pro.
prietor and steward of which are both Yer
monters-and thence by the elevated rail
road, steamer, and another railroad to Man
haitian Beach, which is the eighth wonder of
the world. The association was grandly en-
tertained at the Brighton Beach hotel, the
sole business of which is to entertain people
as it does, many thousand every day-at
a reasonable rate.
Following the dinner was the admission
of Elan r. Jewett, Esq, Of Buffalo, N. Y.
who could not conceal his love for Vermont
and his delight at being thus honored by
the Vermont Press Association. Mr.. Jewett
was born in New Haven, Vermont, learned
the printers trade at Middlebury, and
started his first paper, the STATE JOURNAL
at Montpelier, with the Hon. Chauncey
L. Knapp, now Of Lowell, Massachusetts,
His paper was ultimately sold to the late
General Ezekiel p. Walton, and its titlt
was incorporated with that of the VERNON
WATcHMAN, and combined they now form
the title of this newspaper. A few senti
ments were proposed, and were happily re
sponded to by Colonel Powell, our stat
auditor, and also by Mr.. Jewett, when tn,
party broke up and each Of its members re
turned to his home at such time as PLEASED
him.
On the whole this anniversary and excur
sion have been better than any preceding
one, for which thanks are due to the execu
tive committee, and especially to A. Ii. Tut
tie of the Rutland Herald.
The next annual meeting is to be held a
st. Adams.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-16

The VOLUNTEER ARMY.-The whole num-
Der of volunteers furnished the Union army
from April 10, 1861, to the close of the rebel.
lion was 2,67S, 1857, divided as follows; Maine,
27,114; New Hampshire, 5000 Vermont,
35,262 Massachusetts,, l52,0iS; Rhode Is
land, 23,699; Connecticut, $3.50; New
York, 467,047; New Jersey, Sl,0l0 Penn
sylvania, 366,l07; Delaware, 1850; Mary
land, 5O,3l6; West Virginia, 32,06S Dis
trict of Columbia, 1852; Ohio, 3l9,659
Indiana, 1914 Illinois, 259,l47 Michi
gan, S9,372 Wisconsin, 96,42i; Minnesota
25,052 Iowa, 76.3O9 Missouri, lO9,l1l
Kentucky, 79,025; Kansas, 20,l5l; Tennes
see, 81 ,O92; Arkansas, $3.50; North Carolina
3,l56 California, 1928; Nevada, 1850; Ore
gon, 1910; Washington territory, 96i; Ne
braska, 3,l57 Colorado, 1908 Dakota, 206
New Mexico, 1851 Alabama, 2,576; Florida
1900; Louisiana, 1924; Mississippi, $40
Texas, 1865 and the Indian nations, 80,
$50. The troops furnished by the Southern
states were with the exception of Louisiana
nearly all white. Florida furnished two
regiments of cavalry. Alabama one whit
regiment Mississippi one battalion, AM
North Carolina two regiments of cavalry.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-16

WISE SUGGEsTIoss.--The medical com
mittee, which recently made an examina-
ton of the health of the school children in
Providence, hold that pupils are taken too
young that the vitiated air of the school
room causes consumption; that epidemic
diseases are caught there; that the prema-
ture development of the brain causes ner.
yous diseases; that the young minds are
cramped with unintelligible studies, and
that the method is too artificial. The com
mittee hold that children should not be ad-
mitted to school under the age of seven, and
that the hours OF confinement and menta
effort should be shortened. Children il
primary schools should not be confined t.
their seats more than twenty minutes at a
time, at the end of which they should EMO,
an equal period Of recreation out of doors @
| in doors.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-16
The Polar Expedition.

Mr.. Benefits steam yacht Jeanette,
which was bought and carefully fitted up
for the new Arctic exploration, has at last
left San Francisco and is now steaming up
the North Pacific on her daring and event
full voyage. The Jeanette, formerly the
Pandora, is a barque-rigged steam yacht OF
four hundred and twenty tons, carries an
engine of two hundred horse power, and is
amply supplied with canvass MIR. Bennett
changed the name of the craft and gave it
that of his sister. She carries several kinds
of boats, is supplied with extra sails and pro-
pellers and one hundred and thirty-fve tons
of coal. The stores of provisions are ample
for three years cruise. The schooner
Fannie A. Hyde accompanies her to Bebring
Straits, carrying additional stores and coal.
The expedition is in command of Lieu
tenant George w. De Long of the United
States navy, who made the voyage of the
Tigress which was sent in search of the
Polaris. His assistants have had experience
in northern seas. The crew are all picked
men, selected on the ground of superior
ability to endure hardships, out of scores
and hundreds who offered for the voyage.
Including seamen, machinists, firemen and
coal.passers the crew numbers twenty men
OF the officers of the ship, including the
scientific party, who occupy the cabin, there
are seven Americans and one Irishman.
The plan marked out for the Jeanette il
to push on as far as possible after the ic,
breaks up through the foes north OF Poin
Barrow. The success of the expedition o
course will largely depend upon how far tn
vessel advances before it is frozen in. From
that point the journey will be continues
with dogs and sleds, the Jeanette still be
ing used as a base of supplies. According
to Lieutenant De Long, no vessel has pene
trated further north through Behring Strait
than latitude seventy-one. Beyond tina
point the region is unknown. The highes
latitude reached by the Vega by the othe
route was 77-40, and the northernmost poin
yet gained by an explorer is 1926 Fror
that spot to the objective point OF all thes
explorations-the north pole-is eight hur
dred miles. Great hopes are entertained c
the Jeanette, and it should be remembers
that if she gets but slightly further tina
any other vessel has gone by this route an
reveals what lies beyond, it will be gre'
achievement. But there is promise that 81
will advance a considerable distance beyon
the spot marked by any other vessel Thu
has sailed through Behring Straits. An
should she succeed in getting round fro
Behring Strait to Bafiin's Bay, it would il
deed be most brilliant exploit.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-16

1t is announced that radical change is
large cotton manufactures of New England.
Hitherto, as is well known, they have been
built up story after story, poor, weak, flimsy
structures, many of them, very liable to take
fire and perfect human traps when they do
so. Those working in the upper stories, who
are generally women and children, are almost
certain to lose their lives in such cases.
Nobody can forget the terrible story of the
destruction of the Pemberton mill, and there
have been other cases where the country
has been thrilled with horror at the whole
sale slaughter of the innocents." The
manufacturers now contemplate the erection
of one-story buildings instead of those of
five or six, as at present. Besides the
greater safety of the operatives, experiment
has shown that higher speed of machinery
can be attained at less cost, and all the
labor can be done more conveniently. At
tention has been attracted to the matter
lately by report of gingham factory
WHICH uStu ldsJ WlHltT IL out-SJoiy DuiulIS
of brick, covering one acre of ground, and
costing $4,000 The saving in gas alone
for the winter was sufficient to pay the in
terest on the cost of the mill. 1t is cause
of rejoicing that mill owners find this ar
rangement a pecuniary benefit, for though
the safety of the operative should be thu
strongest motive for making such change
when that comes in direct opposition t.
money-gain the latter often carries the day
With mills thus constructed, there will be
little danger of fires that swallow up score
of victims. Any accident to the machiner.
will not bury crowd of operatives unde
the debris of several stories of wood, bricl
aud mortar. They may work with little fea
of accident, or expectation of sudden ant
violent death.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-16

GENERAL WALKER, superintendent OF the
census, has hit upon new plan by which
the vital statistics will be made much more
reliable and valuable than any heretofore
taken. The plan is to send to each of the
seventy thousand physicians in the United
States a blank, with the request to write
the names, dates Of death and birth, occu'
patton, habits, cause or causes of death
Of each fatal case which may occur in
their practice for the year ending May 81
1880. This record is not intended to super
sede similar work of the ordinary census
taker, but only as supplemental to and cor
rectiye of it.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-16

w,sr 70, ,no,pu-W .ra Glad IN ace such a
crowirs in,eres, in our church and sundav.scbooIs
% IA he;ng man;fested a, the present time ON
Iure ood pev p Smith bantized seventeen
nor,ons and an Iu,v 9Th he hantized fourteen
r,oro. a,.o on Irlv e,b Pev s Goodau han
it'd ,,,o ,or,ons and thrae ware received into
tho pan,,s, cb,rch and still there ara more tn
en- NJ ~. IT, ,,,o a,,,lo, 81 Roth &,
po,;n.on ,,hua a. ,ror,, n, crcpIar sa,x one dav
,.,, ,.,ao,, 90 ;n;,,.oa ono 81 b;s f,,ors tho, am
,,.,t.. y, a. a., i,;,, 900 ,aoassory A,
;n,aros,,nr ,a,,,,oranoo r,eo,ing was Mold AT the
pa,,,i., -, -, ,,o,,5o, ,,arnoo, 81 ,as, vaaL
o,,an1oa ~, ,,on, 81 tho ers, ladies in the nlace
a,a ,ars,ss,a,,a ;ntoros, vas nonifes,ed on the
,ar1,,,ora,oo ,nos,,or Mrs Y s,ur,evant ~
,,,,,,., r aa,.n, 90. ,ho ,,oa,;no assis,aa
ha NJ y 60, 81 3, Ah.n. woman,s
n, '.as, -, 80, o.,,an,rad ,,,h NJ Wi
~, , c' - NJ p n,p,,. 90 Woo
.a.u 10Y % p, w 49, and NJ
p : 49, ,-aas,n. nit ,noa,in,, was hold
T., ,ho C,,r;s,,a, ohrroh ,os,ry in tho evaning
w. a.o haas,,,, ,,,ad 80 400 tIo Iadies and %.
Ill. - >, ,ha h;,ho, o,r,Ios Interesting
poN,y US =, ,o,o,,a,.nos.
,,d mo-, Goa snoed ,hem in ,bis grand and noble
.a ~ a; 49,. s,,osass o.,,rr ,ho;r oyery affor,
whva Urn ,Iadlv herald these new helpers in
,ba aa,d ~ ,omn.rance we wish To saw IN the
,,or,har. ~ Acadia Iodoa of Good Temnlars do
No, noa,oc, a si,g,a line If vour dotv Al the
Con',ra,,a,ionaI snndav.scboo, concert hsld on
tho svening Of Inly ,otb ,hs folo,ving facts were
I'd Lno,sn ro,,ard;n,, ono lass In the school-
,ho ono in oh roc Of Mis- Hannah Wood teacher.
MI. We'd has heen tho ,encher NJ This class for
a,ah,een vears cons,antlv Daring all that time
sho hag hoar ahsor, tr,m hor class hint dftsen
Sahha,hs ,,r.o ,in,es datainad he sickness once
hr a snov s,or,, eleven times nv beinr ont of
te,,n or. hnndrsd and eigbt different scholars
hara hoon oo,neo,ed with the class ak Of whom
ha,o s;aa Iaa,,n,, one hundred and two of them
no,g I,v,na /, "a I'm, inst 10 cav il was not by
,no das;re 81 Niss wood that this record of her
tai,htnIness ,vas stated bnt in gathering some of
| ,ha his,o,v Of tho school they we're learned The
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-16

wLLIAMsrowS.-Fred Woodwork proved to
be the rascal who burned the school-house in
District No. 7, on the night OF July sth, and who
followed up his exploit by taking horse, buggy
and harness from william Hanson on the night
of the 10th. lie was captured in Fast Barre the
next day while batting his horse by the roadside.
lie was brought before Justice Lynde on the
charge OF arson and committed to Jail. He has
already served short term at Windsor The
uniyersalist Sabbath-sehool will give concert
next Sunday evening. The family OF J. NJ.
Bass are together again for the first time in
twelve years. James recently arrived from Texas,
and Iora arrived from Illinois last Saturday
evening. Farmers complain Of a scarcity OF
men to secure the hay crop William Hanson
has field of corn that is hard to beat. lie says
he don't know why the frost didn't nip IT, unless
because 1t lay between him and good old Meth
odist minister.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-16

NOVEL INsURASoE.-A system of insur
ance for girls has existed for several gener-
atoms among the Danish nobility of Copen'
hagen. A nobleman, upon the birth of a
daughter, enrolls her name with the insur-
ance society, paying at the time fee, and
subsequently an annual sum, until she
reaches twenty-one. She then becomes en-
titled to fixed income from the society
and to apartments in the large building OF
the association, which is surrounded by
large gardens and park. Should her father
die in her childhood, she may Immediately
occupy the apartments II she so desires
Should she die or marry, the income and
the right TO home both lapse. The plan
is very advantageous for women leading .
single life.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-16

THERE are limitations that the cabinet
will soon consider the Darien canal question.
One cabinet officer says that the sentiment
Of all public men who have approached the
administration on the subject is opposed to
allowing European governments to have the
canal under their patronage The repre-
sentativss Of the Pacific railroad are using
their influence to prevent the construction
of the canal.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-16

CINcISNATI Commercial; Sand now the
several states almost disappear in the solid
South, and that consolidated section, ce,
mented with blood and animated by a fer.
vent heat of admiration for itself, has q
Northern party whose pretense is that, as
the South is solid, there can be no true
nationality not based upon the South. The
question is, whether the Northern states art
the provinces of this rampant Southern
nationality. We are in favor of the su
premacy Of our own section"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-16

CAPTAIN HENRY OTTO of Baltimore is reported
to have entered into a wager OF 5000 with a
New York sea captain that he will cross the At
lantc in small open boat, He is about fifty
years old, quite stout but as 1.-THE and active as
much younger man. His companion will be a
large Newfoundland dog, The boat, which is
now being built is constructed OF white cedar and
oak. Her dimensions are length, eighteen feet;
breadth of beam, six feet, and depth OF hold,
twenty-five inches.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-16

REPORTS from several localities in Maine
indicate that the Republicans who voted
with the grsenbackers last year already see
that they have only helped the democracy,
and will return to their old party allegiance
| this fall
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-16

A RsMARKABLK railway bridge is in course OF
erection in Scotland The centre pier, that ON
Inch CARVE, small island in the center OF the
Forth, is five hundred and thirty feet high, about
one hundred feet higher than the loftiest chin
ney and nearly equal to the combined heights OF
the Loadoa monument and 81. Pauis Cathedral
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-16


X Is now authoritatively stated that General
Grant has decided to prolong his tour abroad un-
Ill the early part of June next up to about the
time when the next Republican National Con-
vention meets. 1t is given out that this change
has been made because of his aversion to the ex-
elements of the threatened public reception which
was to be rendered him. and to escape the oiicious
intentions OF ofice-seekers and political bummes.
He intends to go to Australia and points along the
coast Of South America.
Dr. Jed, II. Baxter and wife leave next week
for a three weeks vacation in Vermont. Tbs
Doctor is named as the probable successor OF DR.
Barnes, surgeon-General of the Army, who is
soon TO be retired on account OF age DIR. Baxter
will ill the post and Is pretty sure To get ii.
Secretary Sherman leaves next Monday for
three weeks vacation lie is expected to make
campaign speech in Portland Maine, on the 23C
instant, and will also speak in Ohio before hi
return.
Hon ID. c. Humphreys, one OF the judges OF thu
Supreme Court OF the District OF Columbia, dieC
| this morning. SOL
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-16

was continued president and Henry L. Saw
yer OF the same place secretary for the en-
suing year, with large list of vice-presi
dents. The institute publishes each year I
volume of proceedings to which each mem
Der is entitled.
Many of the large numbers at the institute
availed themselves of the reduction of rail
road fare for excursions in different direc
tons. A party of sixty-fve started Frida.
noon on an excursion via Central Vernon
to Niagara, under direction of DIR. Lyon AM
Professor Morey of Providence.