Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-07-19
Current Mention.

CANADIAN farm laborers in Vermont are now
getting 81. 30 per day.
A BOOK compositor wanted at this office i'm
mediately, to work by the thousand.
REV. GEORGE S. GUERNSEY will preach in
Fletcher next Sunday, July sd, forenoon and
afternoon.
THE Rutland County Historical Society will
hold basket picnic at Mason Point, Lake Bono
seen, in Casteton, Thursday, July 20.
THE directors of the Chittenden county agri-
cultural society have decided to hold a fair at the
Essex junction grounds next September.
The eighth annual picnic of the Foster family
will be held at the old homestead in Calais, We'd
nesday July Goth. general and cordial invita-
ton is extended to all.
THE Grand Isle county republican convention
will be held at the court house in North Hero,
Saturday, at eleven o'clock A NJ. 1t will be COM
posed of twenty nine delegates.
THE st. Adams Messenger says In Montpe-
lier, State street has been made more attractive
by several front fences being removed" Itmight
be made still more attractive by taking them all
away
WE are under obligations to Mrs. D. p Blanch-
ard OF Woodbury. for a basket of large and de-
lcious strawberries of her own raising. They are
OF the New York Pine variety She evil be ready
to sell the plants in August
c. W. CooKsoN, the boat builder at South
Hero, has begun work upon new side wheel
steamer at Keeler's Bay. The keel will be l3j
feet long, the beam - feet, and AZ feet over ALL
with nine feet depth of hold
CuANova ~ tina ocnurred On tha Cantral Yer
mont railway, Monday, all of them slight except
in that OF Halls train going north. The time
table published on the third page is the correct
one, not the one on the first page.
THE first number OF the Woman at Work &"
has appeared. 1t is devoted to those topics which
concern womankind in their highest phases. 1t
is now published monthly at Brattleboro, to which
place 1t was removed from Louisville, Kentucky
AN UNUSUALLY large number of fatal &C.
cidents from the use Of toy pistols are reported.
Some way should be devised to prevent their sale
They are rascally things, far more dangerous
in the hands of boy than a regular revolver Of
some good make would be.
BRArrLEBoRo Phonia: "A floating rumor
which is not entirely without foundation, init
mates that the proposed congressional appropria
ton OF $4,000 for public building at Montpelier
may be so divided as to give Bratteboro the ben
eft of $4,000 OF the money"
AN item is going the rounds TO the effect tina
John Drscoll of Waterbury, Vt, has been held ii
$1,000 for an attempt to shoot H. c. Plat and hi
son at Milford, n H. No such man now lives il
Waterbury, Vt, nor has he ever lived there, t.
our knowledge, Perhaps Waterbury, Conn, /
meant.
WHILE Mr.. M. Lewis Sumner was at work las
Friday shingling the house where he lives oil
Seminary Hill, the staging gave way and he fel
to the ground. His wrist was broken and he wa
otherwise seriously injured His daughter Mary
who is teaching school at North Duxbury, wa
sent for and came home
MIR. ANDREW CUMMINGS, who lived all his Ion
life in Berlin, about mile from this village, die
OF apoplexy at his home last Sunday, at the az
of seventy.six years. He was substantia
farmer, who had secured a competency by in
dustry and economy, and was regarded as an hor
orable and upright citizen.
THE greenbackers of Washington county wi
hold their county convention for the purpose c
nominating county ticket, and transacting an
other business that may come before the CONVEX
ton, at the village hall at Waterbury, Vt, on tn
10Th day Of August 1882 at II o'clock, A. n
All purchasing tickets over the Central Vernon
railroad will receive return checks,
OUR townsman and old-time merchant, N.
Brooks, had a shock Of paralysis last Monda
afternoon. lie was walking up South Main stre'
and when nearly in front of Buffers store on HI
way to his place Of business, fell upon the sd'
walk after several Intellectual attempts to saw
himself. lie was carried to his home and med
cal aid summoned. He was improving yeste
day, and his recovery is confidently expected
MIR. S. f. BAIRD OF Bellows Falls claims to hay
discovered a bug which deyours the slugs of IL
potato beetle He says it is square shaped, wit
black back red head and red underneath Il
wings and body, about one-haf inch in lengt
very lively and extremely shy. lie has seen tn
bug destroy all the grubs upon potato vine in
few minutes This Ia important II true. WI
our farmers inform us II they discover anythir
Of the kind2
THoMAsJ, EMERY, secretary, Boston, announc
In circular that the fourth reunion of the Eme
family will take place at the Merrimack Ilous
NewbuIyport, Mass, on Wednesday, Septemb
g. This year all who intend to be present shou
notify Dr. s. L. Emery Of Newburyport, Mas
not later than the first day Of September al
also state whether they wish dinner proyid
for them. 1t is desirable that all who can do
should go on the early morning trains.
WINDSOR county democrats have made the 4
lowing nominations: Senator's Sanford IL. r
ter OF Hartford, Don C. Pollard OF Cayendii