Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-09-27
Current Mention.

THE next meeting of the st. Adams district
(Methodist) will be held October o.
THE camp-meeting at Silver Lake. near Bran
don, begins to-day and will close October 9th
THE excess OF native vermonters in the coun-
try over those now living in the state is 1874.
THE approach of autumn is indicated by the
rapid changing of the color of the leaves of forest
trees.
LIGHT crop Of potatoes is reported in North
ern New York. There will be fair crop in
Vermont.
THE semi-annual meeting of the Rutland county
historical society will be held at Rutland in the
second week in January.
In consequence of a strike by the consumers of
milk in Brattleboro, the dealers have been COM
PEELED to lower their prices.
THE students of Middebury College last week
INDUCED in cane rush and awoke that sleepy
village into the sembance of life.
COUNTERFEIT half dollar made of Babbitt
metal and glass is in circulation. 1t has good
ring and is an excellent imitation
THE annual convention of the United States
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers will be held
at Louisville, Kentucky, October 18th.
THERE are now no prisoners in st. Adams Jail.
The ST. Adams papers say the Jail is so unattrac-
tive that tramps and criminals will not board
there.
THE sixteenth annual convention OF the Young
Mems Christian Associations and Evangelical
churches Of Vermont will be held in Burlington
October 1912.
OUR enterprsing contemporary, the Rutland
Herald and Globe, has purchased one OF the larg-
est and finest newspaper presses ever brought
into the state
THE Citizens Corps OF Troy, New York, has
during the past week been visiting several Yer
mont towns. 1t was accompanied by Doring'
band, one of the finest in the country
WE stated last week that George W. Durham
was declared elected representative from wor-
cester by one majority We learn from reliable
authority that his declared majority was four.
ADIsrArcH from sweetsburgh P. O., says that
William Richards has been convicted of the
murder OF Joseph Jackson, whose mutilated re-
mains were found in the woods at Sutton, last
summer.
THE Central Vermont railway company, having
regard to the safety Of passengers In case OF fire
or other accident, are equipping the passenger
and baggage cars with racks containing an axe
saw, pail and sledge,
MONTPELIER and Barre will now have speak
ing acquaintance. A. C. Brown. the manager Of
the Montpelier telephone exchange, has run q
wire to Barre There liz no doubt the exchange
will eventually be connected with other towns in
this vicinity.
REFERENCE to our news columns will show
that the thunder storm OF last week Tuesday was
disastrous in the extreme in all parts Of the state
In this place no damage was done, but for long
time the heavens were illuminated almost inces
sanity by sheet lightning.
THE railway stations at Hyde Park Wolcoti
and Hardwick were entered by burglars Saturday
and Sunday nights and the contents robbed
They looked sharply for everything of value but
the net result was hardly commensurate to the
labor The same gang have been operating fol
some time in that vicinity.
A VALUABLE flock Of full blooded Merino sheer
passed through vergennes last week Monday fol
shipment on the cars to Ohio. Mr., s. Daniels OF
Connaught, Ashtabula county, was the purchaser
They were from the locks OF William French ant
Andrew Mason, New Haven, and were fine spec
linens OF the valuable Merinos of Vermont
1--WE hear that a boarding house keeper a
Montpelier has been all through northern Yer
mont for the past two or three weeks, picking III
refuse beef shanks, preparatory to the assembling
Of the wisdom The ordinary legislator dote
on good living" Thus does Samson Kinsley sla,
the Montpelier Philistnes with the jaw bone o
an ass.
THE Montreal papers speak in highly compli
mentary terms of the appearance Of the Barloy
Grays OF st. Adams during the review in tina
city. This Is very gratifying. 1t would be wei
II all our militia companies would remember tina
their conduct when upon duty reflects credit o
dishonor upon our state as well as upon the mem
bers themselves,
LOVERS Of good music will be pleased to hea
that the Fanny Kellogg Brlgnoli concert compan
are TO appear In Capital Hall Friday evening, o.