Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-09-13
Current Mention.

THE annual meeting of the Vermont & Canada
railway company will be held at Bellows Falls,
October 49,
THE September term OF Windsor county court
opened yesterday at Woodstock. The session
will be short one.
GENERAL term of the supreme court is or
dered to be held at Montpelier, the fourth
Tuesday of October next.
THE Central Vermont railway will give an ex-
cursion from Burlington to New York and return,
on Monday of next week.
OUR thanks are due to our friends in this and
adjoining counties for prompt responses to our
requests for election returns
In several towns representatives were elected by
majorities ranging from one to eight. In coDse-
quence there will be contests before the COM
mttee on elections.
THE sixteenth annual convention of the Young
Mems Christian Associations and Evangelical
churches of Vermont will be held in Burlington,
October 10, II and II
THE annual excursion of the Champlain Trans
portation Company to New York and return takes
place on Tuesday next Fare five dollars for
round trip from Burlington
CAPTAIN II. II. BROWN will lecture at South
Duxbury next Sunday, at ten A NJ. and two p. NJ
Subject 1.-THE coming religion" The lectures
are free and all are invited.
THE Vermont Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will hold its eighth annual meeting at
North Bennington, September 81 and % Each
auxiliary union is entitled to five delegates.
THOSE of our subscribers who persist in remain
inc far in ARREARS m not hlama ns II thew @
obliged to pay costs of collection, as we have
given ample notice of our intention in this respect
THE superintendent of education will hold an
educational meeting at Sheldon, September 49,
and at Georgia, September u Professor Charles
Northend of Connecticut will be present and
assist
AN Essex farmer has the following warning
posted conspicuously ON his premises :" II any
man or woman's cows oxen gifts in this here oats
his tail or her tail will be cut off, as the case
may be-
Miss KATE BAILEY is now the only person in
town who has the dphtheria and she has SO far
recovered az to be able to sit up There do not
seem to be any indications of further spreading
Of the disease.
THE fall term of Mddlebury College will begin
Thursday, September IA 1t is expected that the
incoming freshman class will be considerably
larger than the average of recent years The two
new professors, Eaton and Foster, have already
arrived
THE Jollities " had good house last Friday
evening. The play was substantially the same as
the Electrical DOLL" which they have before
played here, The acting was good, very good
but the play was one which will hardly bear
repetition.
The low price Of tickets to Saratoga bids fair
to attract others than those desiring to attend
the coming National Unitarian conference. Tick.
cts from Montpelier, for the round trip, good fol-
ten days from September 10th, will be only So 60
less than half the regular rates
The new five-dolar bank notes have begun to
appear in circulation. A fine engraved head Of
President Garfield appears on the left side of the
notes face and the seal of the United States takes
the place of the ordinary engraving on the right
side. On the back il the number Of the bank In
lathe work in large letters, and the color of the
whole is brown.
The annual meeting Of the Passumpsic railroad
was held in Newport, September 9th. The ole
board of directors was elected with the exception
son, deceased. lie is ineligible, as will appea
from the following extract from No 1Ol of the act
of the legislature Of 1873 " No Judge of the su
preme court of this state shall hold any office il
any railroad corporation in this state
The Boston Juvenile Opera company will Civ,
"Cinderella" in Capital Hall Friday evening
Saturday afternoon Pinafore will be given at I
grand matinee for the special accommodation o
the children and the ladies, and it will ais
be repeated in the evening The new f0dn
opera seats will be in position Friday evenn
and will add much to the comfort and pleasure o
listening to a most unique and attractive enter
tainment. Give the little folks hearty welcome
Tickets for sale at Phinney's.
THE Vermont State Spiritualist Association
will hold their annual convention at Montpelier
in Capital Hall, September 22d, 23d and oath
1882 Fare one way over the railroads. Capta
II. II. Brown of New York and many other em
nent speakers will be present and address tn
convention. Mrs. Howard Of East Walingford
and Edgar W. Emery of Manchester, N. H., tw
OF the best test mediums in New England, wi
give tests from the platform Good accommoda
tons at the Bishop Hotel and at the America
House at one dollar per day. Housekeeping
seventy-five cents day.
The wisdom and yiitue' of the state wi
convene three weeks from to-day for purposes
legislation, and already the sound of the axe an
the hammer is heard in the h otels and boarding
houses, preparatory to the expected influx
strangers and pilgrims" Requests for room
and board are already frequently received. On
member-elect from an important town asked Il
accommodations for two months, thereby intima
ing long session. Two years ago it WAS though
that thereafter the sessions would be brief but
all IL accomplished this fall that has been mappe
out, the session will be long and tedious
Too much publicity, says an exchange, cam,
be given to the recent decision by Judge Lowe
Of the United States circuit court in Msssachl
sets concerning the filling Of holes in puncht
silver coins with base metal and attempting
pass punched coin with the holes thus filled. III