Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-06-23
Current Mention.

Current Mention.
CALVIN ROBINSON has sold his house in Mont
peer and removed up the branch
Two desirable tenements for small families may
be found by inquiring at this office.
Miss ABBY WHITNEY will lecture at the town
hall in Moretown on Sunday, June 9th.
DRAG RAKEs with adjustable handles at Fuller
& Sons for sixty cents, and rifles for ten cents.
REV. GEORGE S. GUERNSEY will preach in
Fletcher Union church next Sunday, June 9th.
THE rush of farmers to Fullers last Saturday
shows that they know where haying tools are sold
cheap.
DIR J. WARD PARDo of Marshfeld announces
that he is obliged to postpone his lecture engage
ments till after July 4th.
AN experienced workman wanted in a door,
sash and blind shop. Apply at A. W. Tewksbury
& Sons, West Randolph.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES I. G. DEWEY, who recently
graduated at Annapolis, is now at home and ex-
poets to remain until ordered to sea-
ANY one wishing to purchase farm in the
vicinity of Montpelier will find a rare chance by
inquiring of S. s. Kelton of this village
THE long period of dry weather was broken on
Sunday by delightful showers, both cooling the
air and reviving the crops wonderfully.
MR. J B. JOHNSON, II Montgomery boy, who is
now a tutor in Norwich University, has been
offered a professorship in California college
THE Central Vermont transported an excursion
of thirteen carloads of French people from Bos.
ton and Lowell and vicinity into Montreal, Friday
OUT of sixty-one scholars in grade No. OF
Union school, all but twenty-five are sick with
the measles child Of Henry Canning has died
of the epidemic.
Hon WM. X. SHEDD of Newbury declines the
nomination of assistant judge of Orange county
court, and the nomination now rests with the
county committee.
THE ladies of East Calais will hold strawberry
at Goodels hall, Saturday evening, July Sd.
There is to be prize cake, music, etc
THE potato bugs will only "laugh and grow
fat" on adulterated Paris green and you will
lose your time and money. Go at once to Fuller
& Sons and buy the pure article at bottom prices.
ii. c, HOPKINS received the painful intelligence
by telegraph on Monday evening that his daugh-
ter, Mrs. w. L. Warren, wife OF the editor of the
Springfield Republican, was dangerously ill, and
not expected to survive.
THE new census shows the population of Mid
dlesex to be one thousand and eighty nine, de-
crease Of eightytwo from that Of 1870. The GEN.
sus was very thoroughly taken by Mr.. c. c.,
Eaton, and is believed to be correct.
MIR. HERBERT M SULLIVAN, late clerk of the
American House, has gone to the Fabyan House,
White Mountains, to spend the summer. lie was
an exceptionally good hotel clerk here, and we
predict that he will be found efficient in any
sphere of duty.
A GARFIELD AND ARTHUR club should be Or
ganzed this season to be of any service in this
campaign. The rank and file are impatient for
the order to fall in and we trust formal call for
meeting, to organize for active duty will be
made Immediately.
The same courteses extended by the Western
Union Telegraph Company at the time Of the Chi
cago convention will be repeated for the Cincinnati
convention, and the dispatches received will be
promptly bulletined at the WAToHMAN office for
the benefit of the public.
In Hon. Clark Kings garden the corn stands
two and half feet high and tasseled out last Sat
urday, the 10Th; the peas well filled and large
enough for use, and the potatoes are in blossom.
This Is not the result of hot house growth, but all
were planted in the open garden.
New and dangerous counterfeit IS notes on the
Montpelier National Bank and counterfeit treasury
notes OF the same denomination series of 1875
letter ID, are in circulation. A counterfeit S1OC
note has also appeared within the past few days
on the Pittsburgh National Bank OF Commerce.
nesday evening the 10th inst. They seem u
have enjoyed their two days drill in Camp Sedg-
wick and speak in high terms of their new com
mander, Captain Ely Goddard, who, they are per.
suaded, will make one of the best officers in the
regiment.
In response to an invitation circulated upon our
streets last Monday, some forty or fifty peo-
pie gathered at the engine room OF Capitol to
discuss the subject of celebration upon the
Fourth Of July. There being few or none present
who were able to furnish the sinews Of war, the
project was abandoned.
SOME Montpelier roughs who seem to have had
grudge against Aaron somerville, an employ,
OF the Lane Manufacturing Company, encountered
him alone Saturday evening and undertook u
punish him. The timely arrival OF friends put
different complexion on affairs and a lively Skin
mish ensued but the combatants were separated
before any casualties resulted from the fray.
CHILDREs's day at waitsfeld was observed Al
the Methodist Episcopal church by an appropriate
sermon by the pastor to the children from Mat
thew xviii; TO- The church was tastefully decor
ated with plants, flowers, and appropriate notices
concert was held In the afternoon, nterspersed
with singing, responsive reading, addresses, dec