Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-09-21

woo,soS Rporppp. desra IN increase theirt
present force nv engaging tventv class coat-i
fmakers for tho fall and vintor season They will
may an advance of from ten to twenty per cent on
4 last seasons prices All good coat makers would
1do well, by applying for "steady job" Mt thisE
well-known establishment IA long as this noticeE
Us in print. Apply to wooson Brothers, Mont J
3peller, Vermont. Send for revised price list
Tur officers made n descent last Saturday upont
tthe saloon Of Il. s. whitcomb and seized twenty-E
1.-TWO half barrels. four quarter barrels and eight
cases Of lager beer, one cask Of whiskey, several
small bottles and casks Of other liquors Thew
: aso seized from Timothy Murphy sixteen bottle.
Of lager beer two bottles of whiskey, four bottles
Of mort wine. one bottle Of gin. one bottle and one
mint flask of cherry rum. and three mint TASKS of
rum. Wbitcomb. nj the hearing on Tuesday. an
peared as claimant for the lager seized from him, .
land pending the examination the goods remain in !
athe storehouse where first put 1t Is truly al
matter Of rejoicing that a movement has beenk
Inaugurated against the illegal and shameless h
sale of intoxicating liquors in our village When
more than fifty arrests for ntoxication upon our
streets have been made during the last three
{months-and these by no means including all that
1were liable to arrest for a like canse-it would
seem that some efectual steps ought to be takenp
/ TO check the increasing tide. We are assured
= that the work will not stop here.
WE would remind the inhabitants of Washing
ton county that now is the time to secure copies
of Miss uemenway's Historical Gazetteer of Yer
mont or of such portions AS contain the history of
the several towns in this county,. Numbers ope1
and two of volume four are already issued. con
tanning the following sketches: Washington
4County, by DIR. G. N brigham; Barre by Colonel
1Carlos Carpenter assisted by several others; Ber
Min. by S. +. Nye. ESQ, and others; Cabot, by
John NJ Fisher, Esq, and others; Calais by J. X /
robey Esq, and others; Fayston, by Laura Brig
ham Boyce, and others; Marshiied, by Hannah
&c. Ptkin, begun in number two, to be completed,
together with Middlesex and Montpelier in num-
Der three. These sketches are prepared with
: great care and possess local interest of excep-
tonal value. The several towns will be canvassed|
AZ fast as their sketches are issued, and it isl
3hoped that the citizens will generally purcha,e mott
8merely the number in which their own Immediate
y locality may be sketched, but of the wholel
county. Terms, fifty cents number, or 80 forI
volume four.
ACCORDING to the latest information not far
4from twenty. five hundred families have lost their
4homes and their all by the recent forest fires in|
Michigan. A large committee il now on the|
ground making Investigations and administering
&charity The greatest wants of the people are
for lumber, oxen horses, farming implements audi
wheat that they may get in their fall crop a. soop
Has possible. This fire Is totally unlike the great
fires of Chicago and Boston. Ia those the rich
were burned out-in Michigan the poor. In those
8the heaviest loss fell upon property-in Michigan
<it falls with appalling weight upon human beings
The loss is complete it is annhating-it invites
pity, help relief. Robert Collyer in an appeal to-
y New York city for aid SAYS: at is not $4,000
1--we must send, but 800, 900. and not that but as
Hmuch more as is needed to save this people from
3despar. Everything is gone-homes, farmsteads.
2even the little shoes of the baby that is dead" IL
|1is to be hoped that our people will promptly and
!. generously respond to the call now being made
Nippon them through solicitors appointed ON Mon
= day evening, as recorded elsewhere.
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81 Concert hail. Nortb6eld. last SATURDAY. evening
Nome of her listeners ON this occasion writes Of her
"a Miss Averill is a young lady of superior
dramatic power MANY are at this time entering
1.-The public rostrum IA dramatic readers. but AZ In
other professions. comparatively few will become
|7eminent. but among those few Miss Averill is
qualified to stand and il Is apparent to all that n
most brilliant career il before her She IL eouallv
lat home in tragedy and comedy. In her rendering
of the letter scene from Macbeth she showed a
grasp and conception of the difficult and strong
character of LADY Macbeth together with a
power and truth in rendering. most surprising
y She is entirely free from all mannerisms Her
gestures and dramatic attitudes are very graceful
and so true to and expressive of the spirit of what
she is reading that no one can fail to perceive
that she Is thoroughly possessed by the idea she
is attempting to express Her voice is one of the
Is best we have ever listened to. possessing great
L. force, sweetness, music and sympathy. She COM
bines great force with decacy. It Is charming to
see one 30 natural and free from all extrayapances
of style She does nothing for effect. but is ever
n true to the pure laws of art never STOPPING from
N truly elevated style, vet entertaining and
h impressing with the charm of her manner the re-
r fined and the uneducated as we'll"
N Nrr p,ryovss, w,no,y p,,norr q, con,.o, har
5i Thursday .von;r, was Tho siano1 srooaso ~ ,ho
n season. All the available seating and standing
Xcapacity of the hall was early sold out and mapy
were turned away for want of room. For nearly
Three hours the hearty and continuous laughter
and applause of the large audience greeted Mr..
Burgess inimitable deneations of the humors
and foibles of the eccentric widow The merri-
ment over her spurts of volubity, her poetic
efforts second verse;" her Partingtonian misuse
Of words, her mal-adroit scheming for a second
e" consort" was intense There was a ouieter
kind of enjoyment among the older and closer
observers of MANY a quaint way or expression
which told how faithfully the actor had studied
and reproduced the minutest detail of this repre-.
sentative of female eccentricities. The widow s
occasional exhibition Of stalwart qualities. her
exceeding candor and bluntness of speech on occa.
sion, the startling incidents and situations in the
play elected rounds of hearty applause Mr.. Bur.
CESS does not act widow Bedott-he is the character
itself Mr. Stoddard's Elder Sniifles WAS capital,
and Mrs. Stoddard was bright and pleasing AZ
Melissa Bedott In the essential support they
give Mr. Burgess the entertainment has one of its
most important elements of success. The other
parts are all well played,-there is no weak point
in the company. We hope to see Mr.. Burgess
again and with him Shady NV Shad."
A MEETING in the in,eres, NJ temnerance ,arae
and wall sustained was hold in tho yos,rv 81 No
Rantist cburcb n, civ o,clocL n At srrdov ~,
annoin,mant ~ tho God Tomnlars Tyidan,,',
the tide IL rising NJ, Clonab was I'm tho oha;r
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