Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-08-16
Current Mention.

Current Mention.
LET every voter be sure that his name is on the
check list
LAMomLE county fair is to be held September
26, q and 2S
FRANKLIN county fair will be held at Sheldon,
September g, and g.
THE annual parade OF the Burlington fire de-
partment takes place September It'll
THE democratic convention for Orange county
will be held at Chelsea next week Wednesday
Mr.. WRIGHT is to preach in the Morse school,
house, East Montpelier, next Sunday afternoon
THE industrial exhibition OF the Dominion Of
Canada will be held at Montreal September 1923
REV. GEORGE S. GUERNSEY will preach in
Fletcher next Sunday, August 20, forenoon and
afternoon.
SMELT are dying in Lake Champain in such
large numbers that in spots the surface is covered
with them
REPUBLICAN, boilers of Addison county have
called convention to meet in Middlebury, We'd
nesday, August 90.
THE annual camp-meeting at Spring Grove,
New Haven, opens on Tuesday, August 90, and
continues for ten days.
LAKE CHAMrLAIN Spiritualist camp-meeting
will be held at Queen City park, beginning August
2l and ending September IL.
THE Richford Gazette understands that Judge
Taft is preparing dissenting opinion in the Lang
don railway case, and that it will soon be pub
lished.
IT appears from the census report OF 1880 that
the cost of building and repairing fences in Yer
mont during 1879 was S6O7 9G2, or 81 SO for each
person.
THE democratic convention for Lamoile county
will be held at Hydepark to-day, The Chitten-
den county convention will be held at Essex,
August H.
THE apple crop of Grand Isle county and the
Champain Valley will be poor, notwithstanding
the profuse blossomng, owing to cold winds and
wet weather.
AT st, Johnsbury last Saturday Barnum's ticket
agent was obliged to suspend the sale of tickets,
as the capacity of the tent was exhausted long be-
fore applications ceased.
j. II. TAYLOR of Baskerville, N. H., the cham
pion lightweight wrestler of the United States,
has accepted the challenge OF W. II, Montgomery,
the Vermont wrestler, for another contest
In the personal item in regard to Professor j.
b. Southworth in last weeks paper, we should
have said over ten hundred cases instead of t,Do
hundred, the precise number being ten hundred
and nineteen,
The state equalizng board OF listers met and
organized at the senate chamber yesterday morn
ing. Owing to the absence of a member the
board adjourned till afternoon. report of its
doings will be given next week.
TEACHERS and parents meeting will be held
in the school-house at Montpelier Center, Friday,
August 18TH at one o'clock p. NJ Subject "H.w
can we improve our district schoos?" Parents,
teachers and superintendent are cordially invited
FISE set of farm buildings belonging to A.
5. and Ralph Wiley in Middesex was burned
about one O'Clock Tuesday morning They were
insured for $1,000 in the Vermont Mutual In
surance company. 1t is not known how the fire
caught
DANGEROUS counterfeit greenbacks of the fol-
lowing denominations and issues are said to be
aiioat; Five on the national bank OF Williams
burg, N. Y, letter c, issue of 1865; twos on the
North Ward National bank OF Newark, N. j., let
ter D, issue Of 1864.
IT appears that young cyclone struck the
neighborhood Of Mr.. Ezekiel Holt In Middlesex
last week Tuesday afternoon Mr. Hollis corn
barn was blown down and several trees Frustrated
on his own and his neghbors' premises Mr.
Hollis loss is about fifty dollars
THE Bomoseen House, Casteton, is an agree
able place OF entertainment and its proprietor,
Horace Is. Ellis, an obliging and courteous land
lord. The house is well filled with city guests,
and pleasure parties from Rutland make it the
objective point of delightful excursions
The trustees Of Barre Academy have been 80
fortunate RS to secure John p Slocum, A. NJ, as
principal Mr. Slocum comes rich in experience
and with the very highest recommendations as a
Christian gentleman and thorough and success
full teacher. The school year will open August 81
CHANGE of time was made on the Barre
branch railway last Monday morning, az follows;
Leave Montpelier at AZ p, NJ, Barre Junction at
457, and arrive at Barre, DIG p. NJ. returning
leave Barre at G +. NJ, Barre Junction, @ 30 p. NJ,
arriving at Montpelier at 6 SOL NJ There is no
change In the leaving time of other trains.
Tux republicans of Lamoille county have NOM
mated the following ticket: Senator, J. Byron
Page of Cambridge; assistant judges, Horace
Waite OF Eden, X A. Savage of Stowe; states at
torney P. X. Geed OF Morristown; sheriff, II. c.
Lanpher OF IIydepark; high bailiff, c. C. Dodge
OF Morristowni judge Of probate, X. S. Page Of
Hydepark.
THIRTEEN persons attended the democratic con.
yention for Essex county at Guildhall The fol-
lowing ticket was put in nomination; Senator, T.
G. Beattle OF Brunswick; assistant judges, +. c.
Robinson OF Brighton and G. l. Higgins Of Con-
cord states ATTORNEY. n " Iund nf lanaan.