Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-02-23
Current Mention.

bury next Sabbath
p. W. CuRRIER of Berlin Corner advertises in
another column cows for sale.
The military ball by Capitol Guard at the Pa
viion last evening was largely attended.
c. +. DuDLEy's next singing-school at Barre is
to be this week Thursday evening in the town hall.
THERE will be a sociable at the Good Tempars
hall Friday evening, February 18th. All are cor
daily invited
BOARD with pleasant rooms for limited num-
Der of persons may be had on Baldwin street In
quire at this office.
GODDARD SEMINARY, one OF the standard edu-
cational institutions in the state, publishes its
spring calendar in another column.
THE ladies of St. Augustine's church will this
evening have IN oyster supper at Capital Hall.
Admission fifty cents; children twenty-five cents.
OUR Barre correspondence arrived too late for
insertion last week. Correspondents should re-
member that we go to press early Wednesday
morning, and all communications must reach us
early Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. CHARLES A. REED, having resigned the po-
sition of cashier of the Montpelier National Bank,
to take effect on the 2Sth of this month"; would
thank those having special deposits to make ex-
animation thereof before that date, and report II
correct or otherwise.
j. D STILES from Boston, Massachusetts, will
give lecture under spirit influence and give tests
of spirit presence at the town hail. Berlin street,
on Sunday February 9th, at two o'clock z. NJ.
All are invited to come and hear one Of the most
wonderful men of the age
GEORGE W. HUroHiNs OF Waterbury offers for
sale some exceptionally valuable and desirable
farm and timber lands in and near Waterbury
village. individuals desiring to invest in that
class OF property are advised to read his adver-
tisement in another column.
The ladies OF Trinity (Methodist Episcopal)
church will give an entertainment in the vestry
Wednesday evening. Supper will be served from
six TO eight in the style of our grandmothers, and
the young ladies will have in charge more
modern table. Supper twenty cents; admission
ten cents.
AT a meeting Of the bailiffs Monday evening a
reorganization of the police force was made. c.
Edward Demertt was appointed in the place of
John Lawrence, and Z. A. Ordway was continued
as night policeman. Mr.. George W. Parmenter
OF the board of hailiffs was placed in charge Of
police affairs.
FRANK RICHARDSON, an employee in the ma
chine shop at the carriage works, suffered the loss
of part of the left hand just above the knuckles
on Tuesday afternoon. He was in the wood shop
and his hand was caught in small planer and
drawn in till his fingers and portion Of the palm
were cut away.
GEORGE W. SCorT, ESQ, has been elected to the
vacancy in the dictatorship OF the Montpelier Ma
tonal Bank occasioned by the resignation oil
Colonel Z. p. Jewett. Mr.. Scott is one of our
most worthy and prudent citizens and possesses the
qualities demanded by the position for which he
has been chosen.
THE annual contribution from Montpelier for
the Home for Destitute Children at Burlington
will be forwarded within two or three weeks
Parties who will contribute anything needed
among nearly one hundred destitute orphan chill
dren will please leave the same, as soon as con.
venient, at the furniture store of Mr.. f. n. Scovie
MIR. A. j. HOWE has rented and will soon oc.
cupy the store in Union block lately vacated by
Stone the jeweler, This is a long step in advance
for Mr.. Howe, and is a good guaranty that W,
are to have another dry goods store of the very
first class added to the business attractions o.
the place business venture of that hi-i Ill
not fail to be appreciated by our people.
THE attention of towns at their town meeting;
on Tuesday next is called to No. 1872 OF the acts OF
the legislature of $780, relating to subscription tc
Miss Hemenways Vermont Historical Gazetteer
Each town in the state will have an opportunity
to procure one set of this work at one-third the
cost. The history is a valuable one and every
town should avail itself of this chance to obtair
the work
MIR. f. d. BLACKWELL has been elected to sue
coed Charles A. Reed Esq as cashier of Mont
peler National Bank Mr.. Blackwell was FOL
many years teller in the First National Bank o
Montpelier, resigning his position in that insttu
ton to accept the cashership of Barre Nationa
Bank in June, 1877. Mr.. Blackwell has many
warm friends in this community who will wei
come him back to Montpelier with congratula
tons over his promotion.
Mr. C. C. MEADER has exhibited TO us a speci
men of the currency of the Fathers, executed OIL
a scrap of paper nearly as coarse as brown wrap
ping, about two and a half by three inches il
size, as follows; 1850. Continental currency
No. 60S41 This bill entities the bearer to re
ceve fifty Spanish milled dollars, or the vau,
thereof in gold or silver according to a resolution
passed by congress at Philadelphia, September
26th 1878. (Signed) Lui Levi Budd."
EVERY family that desires to provide for it
young people wholesome and instructive readinI
matter should send for specimen copies OF tn
Youths Companion. Its columns give more thai
than two hundred stories yearly by the mos
noted authors, besides one thousand articles OIL
topics Of interest anecdotes, sketches Of travel
poems, puzzles, incidents humorous and pathetic
10 ha,. nd
and is emphatically paper for the whole family
J. c. GRIGGs, the enterprsing young boot an
shoe dealer at Waterbury announces a gran
opening OF spring stock in his new store il
Knights building, His former quarters had be
come too small for his increasing trade. His ne,
store is spacious, centrally situated, convenient
and admirably adapted to the requirements of hi
business His customers as well as himself wi
find the new quarters vast improvement owe
the old. Mr. Griggs will continue to sell boot.
shoes and rubbers of best quality at lowest price,
See his advertisement.
DIR. BARNES says the negative, heartless, faith
less man, without his God, or hope in his RENT
dial power, Providence in mercy has still pre-
vided for in the medicinal properties OF shrut
and plants. The chemical laboratories of tn
our ingenious mind. By angry pain God drive
him forth with anguish 10 seek soothing rem
edy for violated law. Remember that DR.. Barnt
can be consulted upon all diseases every Wedne
day at the Barre House, every Friday at Avery
Mortified, Mondays at the Waterbury Hotel an
the balance of the week at the Bishop Hous,
Montpelier.
Mr. GEORGE G. KELLOGG, for nearly ten year
teller in the Montpelier National Bank, has r,
signed his position In that institution MI
Kellogg entered the bank while a lad, but by h
native aptness for business affairs and fathfl
application to his duties he acquired a high d,
gree of proficiency in banking matters. lie wa
implicitly trusted with the routine affairs of tn
bank by his superiors, "a confidence which h
honesty, his accuracy and general efficiency full
justified and which he never betrayed, His quie
unassuming demeanor and genuine worth hay
won for George Kellogg many friends in Mon
peiier who entertain for him high respect and
warm regard.
THE freshman class in Dartmouth College eel
brated their class supper at the Pavilion Monds
evening. The literary exercises embraced a ella
song by Joseph A. DeBoer. class poem by Lon
Bell, Grafton by j. II. Quincy, nterspersed vii
pertinent toasts, N A. Mentally toast maste
Though mot the quality Of meat, but cheerfr
ness Of the guests +" may make the feast, an
spection Of the menu shows that the latter W