Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-21
Current Mention.

is spending his vacation in Rutland.
NoTIcE change OF time on Montpelier & Wells
River railroad at head OF this column.
READ the advertisement of the collector Of
taxes, and govern yourself accordingly.
S. b. WHITNEY, formerly of this village, is one
OF the editors of the Musical Herald, Boston.
THE Christ church sociable will he held at the
residence OF Rev. Howard F. Hill on Thursday
evening
REV. J. EDWARD WRIGHT OF this village will
exchange with Rev. NJ Farnsworth OF st. Adams
next Sabbath.
BARRE has paid her railroad debt, and tax OF
fifty cents on the dollar will be sufficient next
year, 1t is said.
WE are sorry to learn that Mr. F.. C. Skinner,
our genial schoo-house janitor, is seriously sick
with pneumonia
THE MONTPELIER ASSOCIATION will meet in the
chapel OF Bethany church on Tuesday, January
27th, at ten o'clock a. NJ.
THE next reunion OF the Society Of the Army OF
the Potomac will be held in Burlington in June
next. 1t will be a notable gathering.
IT is announced from Washington that Colonel
F. g. Butterfied of Bellows Falls will be ap-
pointed supervisor of census for Vermont
Mr.. c. T. DUDLEY will hold his next singing
school in the vestry of the Baptist church in this
village, next Friday evening, commencing Mt seven
o'clock.
In the year 1879 there were in this state sixty
three failures Tor about per cent Of the total
number engaged in business) with liabilities of
s359,736.
AT the St. Adams butter market, Tuesday,
winter-made butter sold at from eighteen to TWEEN
ty-three cents per pound. A higher price was
paid for fancy lots.
A REGULAR communication of Aurora Lodge,
No %, Free and Accepted Masons, will be held
at Masonic Hall, on Monday evening, January
Goth, at seven o'clock.
WILLIAM BUGGY of Troy, one Of the victims of
the jackson, Michigan disaster is now very much
improved, and his wife has started for Michigan
to accompany him home.
THE East Montpelier annual" always n
felicitous occasion to the participants, will be held
at the Pavilion at an early date, which has not
yet been definitely fixed.
John A. RIDER who has been connected with
the Montpelier band and waterman's orchestra,
has gone to Burlington, where he will join the
Sherman Dand and orchestra.
WILLIAM WEDGE n brakeman on the Montpe-
lier & Wells River railroad, slipped and broke his
arm on the sidewalk near Erastus Hubbards, Sat
urday night, the 18th instant.
THE Orange county agricultural association held
its annual meeting at Bradford last Wednesday.
j. c. Stearns was reelected president; A. S. Car.
liss, secretary; W H. Gilmore, treasurer
LAST week the Sons of Vermont at Chicago
Worcester Washington, San Francisco, and Grand
Rapids, all celebrated the one hundred and third
anniversary Of our independence as a state.
ALL who are DESTROYS OF purchasing a first
class farm should not fail to read the advertise
ment Of farm for sale,' in this weeks issue o.
the WATcHMAN. 1t is a rare chance for some one
A GooDLy number Of our young people, mar
ried and single, had a ride to Worcester on Thurs
day evening, accompanied with supper ant
dance. Report says all went pleasantly ant
merrily
In response to the advertisement Wanted" il
our last issue, sixty applications by letter and il
person were made. 1t is quite needless to say tn,
position IL filled, and the advertiser cries: ho'd
enough"
THE annual term Of the Vermont suprem,
court for Franklin county commenced Thursday
at St. Adams, Chief Justice Pierpoint and Judge,
Redfield, Ross and Veazcy on the bench Their,
are forty-one cases on the docket.
ATthe Brandon reunion private walked eight
cen miles to see his old colonel once more He
exhibited an autograph, which the officer gave
him, with as much pride as II it had been gold
and went home seemingly happy.
Coon vegetables and beautiful flowers cannot b,
grown from inferior seeds II our readers would
procure the best, they should purchase thos,
grown and put up by D. NJ. Ferry Co., who's
advertisement appears in this weeks issue.
ONE is often shocked at the thoughtess, silly
and sometimes wicked devices which are EN-
ployed in fashionable socity for the avowed pur
pose OF "killing time;' as II "you could xii
time without injuring eternity says Thoreau,
THE death is announced of Dr. James Davis
eldest son OF Hon. Bliss N. Davis of Danville
DIR. Davis went south many years since, served IL
the confederate army during the war, and sine
its close had practced medicine In New Orleans.
THE business transacted at the Burlington post
office last year was larger than ever known before
the receipts falling only trine short of twen
thousand dollars. 1t is expected that the free-de
livery system will be inaugurated there next year
The reform school at Vergennes has one hun
dred and twenty-five boys and twenty girls an
IL In prosperous condition. The necessity O
additional improvements, eularging the boys
sleeping apartments and hospital extension
immediate.
THE celebrated Hayden murder trial, afte
dragging iis slow length through two or thre