The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-12-12
. Current Mention.

THE Montpelier items will be found on
fourth page this week.
REV. J. EDWARD WRIGHT is to preach in
Westinghouse at Middlesex Center next Sd
day, at 2:30 P. M.
ONE more has been added to the already
large number Of cheap local papers in this sta
The SITTER Of South Londonderry is that one
CLIPPER: General Ripley Of Rutland, II ~
claimed, is booked for lieutenAnt-governor
In that event, Whit will become of 10. BattellT'
TEE poles are all set for the telephone line
between this village and Mortified, and coSk
nection will be made by Saturday or Monday
sure
WE are indebted to j. 3. j. Cutting Of Iudi-
annapolis, Ind, for copy of the Journal Of
that place, an extract from which appears else
where.
A PATENT has been granted to Mr.. Joseph
Auld, business manager of the Free Press AS
| sociation, Burlington, Tor improvements in the
I tricycle..
REV. II. F. HILL held service at the upper
school-house in North Fayston on Tuesday
last. On the next day one person was baptized
and the Lords Supper administered.
CHICAGO man Is to lecture at St. Johnsbury
on this subject: "Satan-Who, What, and
Where is He? p The lecturer seems to have
considerable hardihood to thus besrd the lion
in his den.
BURLINGTON Ii troubled because St. Albans
and Montpelier are favored with such q vocal
ist as Miss Emma Thursby while the Queen
City is left out. An enterprising local manager
Is the secret Of the matter.
THE slow-going WAToHMAN got out an extra
last Wednesday afternoon containing the pres
ident's message, while the enterprising Argus
followed suit Thursday, we are informed, but
we have had no occular proof of the fact
GEORGE W. FLAGG OF Braintree, and Ira M.
Richardson of Littleton, N. H., formerly of
New York city,, have signed articles for a
wrestling match (mixed style), for 500 and
gate money, in City hail, Burlington, on Christ
mas eve.
Two Of the ten new engines purchased by
the Central Vermont road at the Providence,
r. l., works have arrived. They are called the
"S w. Cummings" and the "JohnL. Ma
SON." They are of the mogul pattern and in
tended for freight work.
SENATOR EDhUNDs' postal telegraph bill pro-
vides for board to establish four trunk lines;
by the civil service rules, and asks for an ap-
preparation of $2.0O0,0O0. No restrictions are
laid upon private corporations.
OUR subscribers should remember that we
forward our names for Good Cheer about the
middle OF each month All those whose names
have been received since Novem ber ID, will
now be forwarded soon for the December
number, and others who wish to begin with
that issue should pay up this ,oeek.
HALL Posi-, G. A. B., of Worcester, had q
rousing campfire Saturday night. 1t taking the
form OF basket sociable." Gen. Stephen
Thomas was present, and gave an extended
address. Remarks were also made by Captain
FL. c. Lull and R. III. Angel. Several mem
bers OF Brooks post of Montpelier were present.
THE new docket for Caledonia county for the
December term shows thirty-seven entries on
the law docket and thirteen In chancery. Just
ten years ago this term the entries at law were
one hundred and sixty-fve and In chancery
thirty-which shows the business of the court
now to be aboot one-fourth what 1. was ten
years ago.
The Springfield Republican comes ont en-
larged, printed on improved machinery. edges
trimmed and pasted. With its improved IA
cilities, we trust 1t has also an enlarged capac-
ity for reasonably fair and correct presents-
tion Of Vermont affairs, In regard to which II
has been habitually, II not perversely, "sll
at sea-"
The silly attempt Of the Barre Enterprise,
IN which OF course II 10 assisted by the Argus,