Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-01-07
Current Mention.

GOVERNOR PROCTOR was In town Tuesday OF
official business
II you want new crackers, call for Crosses
and get the best.
ANOTHER band concert at eight o'clock next
Saturday evening
REGULAR meeting Of Capital this twednes
day. evening, at seven o'clock.
FEBRUARY ought to be very good month, az
five of Its twenty days will be Sundays.
The next Pavilion assembly will be held on
Wednesday evening of next week, January 18th.
THERE is now plenty Of snow in the country,
and wood and lumber operations are progressing
on a large scale.
SHERIFF FUTILE took four prisoners-va
Deusen, Blay, Houghton and Emerson-to Rut.
land this morning.
SEVERAL members of the Lodge OF Perfection
have gone to st. Johnsbury to-day to confer the
degrees of the order
WE are much indebted to Mr. c. D. +. Bancroft
for the vital statistics and record OF fires in GU,
town for the past year.
CAPTAIN A. ]. Robbins has leased the new
Mortified House, and will probably take posses
sion about February 1st.
MEssRs. TENNEy & YOUNG, tailors in the post.
office building have removed their business to
Claremont, New Hampshire.
A rwo-BLApED pocket-knife was picked up on
the street one day last week. The owner can
have the same by calling at this office.
Mr.. f S. WHTcoMB is fitting up the rooms in
Bruce's block lately occupied by AFRO e. Stone,
and will soon remove his business there
THE Congregational, Methodist and Baptist
churches of Montpelier observing the week OF
prayer, each in its own place of worship.
THE guests OF the popular American House can
now get shaved without going out of DOORS com
petent barber having set up his chair there.
MIR. L. A. BlsNErr has sold his residence
on Summer street to Mr.. George Trombley, who
takes possession April 1st Price paid $1,000
MINK boa belonging to Mrs J. X Lynde of
Williamstown has been lost between Harris Gore
and East Montpelier reward will be paid II
left at this office.
The annual meeting OF the Vermont Sheep
Breeders Association will be held at the court
room in Middebury, on Wednesday, the 14th
inst at eleven o'clock A. NJ
Brooks POST of the Grand Army OF the Re-
public installed its officers last evening The oc-
casion was enlivened by speeches, anecdotes, etc
by General Thomas and others.
MIR. A. C, DEWEY, in attempting to cross State
street, last Friday evening, was knocked down
and run over by passing team, receiving quite
severe, though not serious injuries
MIR. JOHN P. HOWARD the builder of the Bur-
Iinptnp Lat IL, H.
taken with paralysis while travelling from London
to Paris but is now said to be improving.
CAPTAIN r. j. CoFFEy, of the Capital Guards,
has resigned. Lieutenant Spadng having re-
signed the week previous, the company is now in
command of Second Lieutenant j. b. Morse
THE Burlington express last Friday arrived
here six and half hours late. the delay being
caused by the loss of "A tire from the drive wheel
of the engine Painfeld, James Boutwell, engineer
JOHN SAVAGE, an empoye of the Montpelier &
Wells River Railroad Company, had his right
hand quite severely iammed, last Monday morn.
ing, while Stacking cars at Woodsville New
Hampshire.
BETHANY CHURCH. Montpelier has adopted
for its Sabbath-school for the current year two
OF the lesson books OF the international series
prepared under the superintendent of Rev. Dr.
j. H. Vincent
BRACKET C. CoRsER, route agent between
Newport and Springfield, Vermont, has been sus-
pended for writing an insulting letter to Hon.
George II. Bgelow, special agent OF the post
office department
E. V. WILSON from Illinois, the veteran lee
turer and seer will lecture and give tests of spirit
power and presence in this village on Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday evenings, January
18th, 14th and 10Th,
Mr. NJ. MAGIFF general train dispatcher on the
Central Vermont has been appointed superntend-
ent of telegraph for the road, and will have charge
OF all telegraph lines belonging to the railroad
or connected with it.
A SPECIAL assembly Of Montpelier Council No.
4, Royal and Select Masons for the installation OF
officers will be held at Masonic hall tomorrow
Thursday evening, at seven o'clock A full at
tendance is desired.
WE learn from the St Adams Messenger that
Mr.. d. Webster Dixon, formerly associate edit r
of that paper, has accepted the position OF private
secretary to Hon Bradley Barlow, and leaves
next week for Washington.
The winter meeting OF the Dairymen's Assoca-
ton occurs at Brandon on Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday, the 2lst, odd and 23d insts. The
usual half fare on the railroads will be extended
to those attending the meeting
THERE will be cotillion parties the present sea-
son at the hall OF j. b. Wells, North Montpelier,
commencing Wednesday evening" January 18th
Music by kittredges full band, FIVE pieces. Ad-
mission to hall until four clock A. NJ, fifty cents
The Baptist Sabbath-schoo at wrightsyile
held a festival in the school-house on Christmas
Eve REGULATIONS, dialogues, singing, and tree
full OF presents we're the order for the evening
The children were happy and their elders were
well pleased
LAST Monday afternoon Mrs. Edward Taplin,
while going from James Bowers to her own
house, slipped on the icy sidewalk and broke her
hip. As she is well advanced in years, it is a
very serious accident, and she has the hearty
sympathy OF all.
THE VERMONT BIBLE SOCIETY has canyassed
ninety-nine towns in the state and visited % 39i
families; 1923 were without the Bible and 524
OF them were American families. The cost OF the
canvass thus far is s26i6 or, by adding the cost
OF the books given, S3277.
THREE boys, named Nee, Lamery and Cayhue,
have been carrying on thriving business in steal
ing knives and other small articles from f.
SINNERS store. They have been detected and
their future welfare will probably depend very
much upon their future conduct
OUR popular young townsman, Ed. W. Thomp-
son, has gone abroad, and when last heard from
was having pleasant run through Scotland A
al hus, La A.