Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-01-11

huuition t5 teitCuOn ny nlrh. hhInein anu sehu
ing to Queen victoria" settles all questions re
gardng It's fidelity and faithiulness to the late
president. In short, II stands unrivaled, and Is
portrait that will live and prove a companion to
the celebrated pictures OF Washington" and
Lincoln"
FOLLOWING are the officers Of Mad River Val
ley Agricultural Society for the next year Presi.
dent, J. Holden Of watsfeld; vice-president, Al
fred Josyn OF waitsfield; secretary A. d. Bragg
OF Fayston; treasurer, f. A. Fisk Of Waitsfeld
auditor, W. A. Jones Of waitsfeld; directors, -
Waitsfield, J. G. Lewis, 7. Mccarthy, George
olmstead; Duxbury, j D. Andrews, Samuel Som
merville, Horace Morse; Fayston, John Maxwell,
Seth Boyce, George O. Boyce; Moretown, A. M.
Pierce A. L. Lovejoy, Norman Thomas; Middle
sex, J. b. Hills, W. Chaplin, J. II. Holden; North
field Henry Jones, James Morse, DIR. Davis; War
rem, N. N. Robinson, G. W. Bragg, A. L. Hanks
Waterbury, G. f. Moody, o. M. May, Noah Rob
inson. It was voted to hold fair the coming
fall at such time as the directors may designate.
directors meeting will be held at ten o'clock A.
NJ, January 21st.
THE thirty-third annual meeting Of the National
Life Insurance Company was held at their Office
on Monday, January 3D. The former board Of
directors and officers was unanimously reelected,
as follows: Directors--Paul Dillingham;, Timothy
p. Redfeld, Charles Dewey, W. II. II. Bingham,
George W, Reed, Dudley c. Denison, Frederick
Billings, Edward Dewey, James c. Houghton,
Fred. f. Smith, Perley p Pitkin, Charles t. Sabin
and James T. Phelps. 0fficers--Charles Dewey,
president Edward Dewey, vice-presdent; George
W. Reed, secretary; John b. Thurston, sctuary
pr ha
result Of the years business shows an issue OF
eight hundred sixty five policies, insuring 81 42s,
$50; whole amount OF insurance in force, S9513,-
OGo; an increase for the year OF 1851, 46s. The
income for the year was S419, 906 4O the expendi-
lures for losses. matured endowments and all
expenses, S256,71756 90. The assets have gained
S163 1888 so for the year, amounting now, at par,
10 50, $50, 305 96.
THE annual concert OF Bethany Sunday school
was held Sunday evening, January 8th. Super
utendent Hiram Carleton, in his report, made
feeling allusion to the loss by death Of seven
members Of the school during the past year. No
death has occurred In the school for several
years prior to 1881 The report Of the treasurer,
Mr. D. S. wheatley, showed the receipts of the
school during the past year to be $1,000, and the
1925 10. The following officers have been elected
for the year ensuing: Hiram Carleton, superin-
tendent; G. II. Shipman, assistant superinten-
dent; d. S. Wheatley, secretary and treasurer
c. II. Shipman, librarian; d. S. Wheatley, first
assistant; George B. Shepard, second assistant
Rev. ]. II. Hincks, Hiram Carleton, Gertie c.
Emery, Mary Drew and Mary Macomber com.
mittee on the library; A. J. Howe, Mrs. A. L.
Carleton Mrs. Mary Dewey, Lizzie Simpson and
Jennie Whitcomb, financial committee; J. c.
Emery, @. II. Shipman, Mrs. J. v. Babcock and
Mary Drew, advisory committee.
THERE are few yet living in Vermont who will
keenly appreciate the following from the pen Of
Hon. C. L. Knapp of the Lowell Citizen who was
among the anti-slavery pioneers Of the state
ave have pleasant epistle full of "reminiscences
OF the anti-savery conflict, from an esteemed
friend, o. S. Murray, once the editor Of the Yer.
! mont Telegrdph-an able journal published II
Brandon, Vermont,-but now cutivatlng hi
broad acres in Warren county, Ohio, not far from
Cincinnati Two years more will fill out fifty
years since fifty-nine men, Of whom o. S. Muir
ray was one, met in Philadelphia and put thei
names to what is known in history as the anti
| slavery Declaration Of 1881 Our friend Ii
able to recall the names Of only two besides him
self among the survivors of the fifty-nine. Thes'
| are Elizur Wright, then OF Ohio but now Of Bos
| ton, and John G. Whittier. Very likely ther'
| may be others who still live Mr. Murray was
while in Vermont, somewhat intimately &C
| quainted with Rev. William Arthur, the father o
our president, who was, it may be said, one o
the advance guard IN the battle OF freedom"
In the course OF his admirable address, gvel
before the seventeenth reunion Of the Vernon
officers last week ut White River Junction, Col
| onel Albert Clarke related tho following reminis
cence as connected with the extra session OF tn
legislature in April, 1Se' " Near the close Of tn
first morning session Of the house of representa-
| tives it was proposed that all unite In singing tn
"Star Spangled Banner" One gentleman afte
another, OF known musical attachments, wa
asked to lead, but the notifying fact was sool
revealed that not one among the two hundre'
and forty remembered the tune. This OF cours
would never do There was futter In Mont
pelier that afternoon and at the evening sessio
of the house, just after the passage OF the act +
raise troops, Colonel H. d. Hopkins and seleC
choir of two hundred ladies and gentlemen poure
forth from the gallery the grand old nations
anthem, and during the refrain every one exem
plfied the fact that the Star Spangled Banne
did wave
Ger the land OF the free and the home Of the brave.
1t was scene never to be forgotten by those VIII
witnessed it, and was probably one Of man
similar revivals Of the educational spirit Of pr
triotism that were then Transporting throughor
the north"