The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-20
Personal.


H. A. wINsHIp Of Bradford has gone on
trip to California.
LUc1Us BIGELow, the editor OF the Rutland
Herald, is again on duty.
Hon. DANIEL ROBERTS and his son, Robert,
are taking a trip through the West.
f NJ HUNTER has closed his connection with
the Rutland ReUtelC and gone to new field Of
labor.
SPEAKER MARTIN will deliver the Fourth of
July address at the Enosburgh Falls cele-
bration.
GEORGE W. LEBARRoN of Wolcott has been
granted pension of S4 a month, with 1850
arrears
]. G. EDDY, ESQ, of Brattleboro Is rapidly
recovering from the severe illness mentioned
last week.
w. NJ. KENDALL, formerly of the Argus
staff, has started new weekly paper at Man
chester, N. H.
College has nearly recovered from his recent
serious accident
REV. J. D. EMERSON of Underhill preached
the annual sermon before the normal school at
Castleton last Sunday.
JOHN NJ. CoMsTocK OF Chelsea has been re-
engaged as principal of the school at Spring
field for another year.
PROFESSOR C. C. COVE of Beeman Academy,
| New Haven, is one of the examiners Of the
| Randolph normal school.
AMONG the examiners at Dartmouth college
this year are Rev. C. B. Hubert of Lyndon
vile and Rev. S. S. Martin OF Peacham.
PROFESSOR S. G. BROWN OF Dartmouth Col
lege will repeat his address on the Hon. George
P. Marsh at Burlington commencement week
LAWRENCE BARNES, Esq, with Colonel Full
Ter of Bratteboro, has given S75 for prize
reading at the Vermont Academy at Saxton' s
River.
| SENATOR JUSTIN S. MORRILL, is erecting q
substantial structure in Strafford which he in.
tends to present to his native town for library
building when completed,
JOSEPH X. EGERToN of Mortified was Sc,
versly, but not dangerously, injured the 10th
instant, by fall, breaking one rib and receiy'
ing some bruises. He is rapidly recovering.
Hon. EDWARD SEYMOUR of Vergennes died
Friday, after a long and painful illness. Mr.
Seymour had long been prominent in state and
local affairs, and his death will be widely and
deeply lamented
Hon. CHAUNCEY L. KNAPP of Lowell, Mass.
who was a former resident of Montpelier and
learned the printers trade in THE WATCHMAN
Office under General Walton, is visiting old
friends in this section. Mr. Knapp is a native
of Berlin.
Mr. GEORGE LEONARD of Hlnesburgh ha;
in his possession the trowel used by Genera
Lafayette in laying the corner stone of the
University of Vermont. Mr.. Van Rensselaer,
Coon, grandfather of Mr.. Leonard, owned
the implement at the time.
Mr. GEORGE w. BENTLEY has rendered hii
resigna tion OF the general superintendency o
the New London Northern railroad. Mr. Bent
ley has been connected with this road since
June, 1874. and is one of the most widely
known superintendents in this country.
THE venerable Nahum Peck of Hinesburgh
who died on Saturday, June 9th, was at thu
time of his death the oldest practicing lawyer
with one excepton) in Vermont. He wa,
born in Royalton, Mass, October o. 1885, ant
was admitted TO the bar at Montpelier in Sep
tember, 1928. Immediately thereafter settling
in Hinesburgh, which was ever afterward hi
home. He was q brother of the late ex-Gover
nor Asahel Peck of Hinesburgh.