The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-05
Current Mention.

Current MentlOn.
SERVICES will be conducted by Rev. II. F.
Hill at wright's Mills at half-past two o o'clock
P. NJ, next Sunday.
A GENERAL term of the supreme court is
ordered to be held at Montpelier on the fourth
Tuesday of October next, the 23d.
A RECEIVER has been appointed for the Yer
mont Copper Mining company at vershire;
also for the Goddard mine at Corinth.
Mr.. WRIGHT is to hold meeting in the
cemetery school house, Middlesex, next Sun
day at half-past two o clock in the afternoon.
THE Howard Park fair opens next Monday.
From present indications the exhibition will be
the largest and finest ever known in this state
THE remains Of Mrs Dorcas Leonard, form
erly of Worcester but more recently Of ST.
Albans, were brought to her old home yester-
day for interment
IT has been decided that cent stamp partly
on the wrapper and partly on the newspaper
constitutes sealed package, and will 60 only
to the dead letter office.
NELSON SHoREY of Plainfield enters the
lists for the prize ON long ears of corn having
sent one to this Office which is thirteen inches
in length. Who beats it?
APPEARANCES seem to indicate that the Rut-
land National Bank, of which John B. Page is
president, is getting into rather deep water and
some interesting developments may be sx-
pected soon.
THE premium lists are out for the sixth an
nual fair of the White River agricultural So
ciety to be held at Bethel September 18th, 10th
and Goth. There is a good line of premiums for
stock and agricultural products and 5000 is Of
cred Ia three parses for horse trotting
THE ninth annual meeting of the Woman 8
Christian Temperance Union of Vermont will
be held at West Randolph Thursday and Fri
day, September Goth and 21st. An interesting
programme has been prepared, including an
address Friday evening by Miss Frances f.
Willard, president of the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.
On the morning of August 9th son of Mr.
Murphy, who lives in Sharon about two miles
from South Strafford, was accidentally shot
A thirteen-year-old son of MI Murphy had
loaded a gun intending to shoot at wood
chuck, and the gun was accidentally discharged
striking younger brother, six years old, in the
back Of the neck killing him instantly.
RECEIVER RICH of the St. Albans Trust Com
pany has satisfied himself that there are goot
and available assets sufficient to pay the de
positors fully thirty per cent of their claims
What may be realized hereafter from asset
which may be regarded as doubtful he is un
able at present to form an opinion, but will
communicate his judgment to the depositors
with detailed statement of the situation, al
soon as possible.
IT is stated that the directors of the Lamoill,
county fair are having hard time in securing
some one to deliver the annual address, s,
they have decided to compromise the question
of who shall deliver the usual address, b,
emitting it entirely. Two or three of the di
rectors wished to secure Ingersoll If possible
but an influential member of the board threat
ened to resign IL this was persisted in, and 81
the whole matter was dropped. Therefore
there will be no address.
BETWEEN the Christian Messenger of Mont
pelier and the unchristian Messenger OF ST
Albans, THE WATCHMAN had a hard time las
week. We decided, however, to get out on
more issue before giving up the fight, just t
see II we were entirely demoralized. The cd
itor OF the former paper, Rev. j. r. Bartlett G
Barre, evidently has very poor opinion of thi
paper and its publisher, for which we are dul
sorry, but being unable to help it, we shall d
our best to struggle along under his censure
TWENTY-FIVE Italians employed on the La
moille Valley extension railway near Swan
ton, struck for increased wages Saturday
Captain Hawley, one Of the contractors,
powerful man. visited the Italian quar-
ters and ordered the strikers off the railroa
property, and on their refusal jumped into tn
midst of the gang and began throwing the me
out doors, and after a dozen had been thu
served terror seized the remainder and the
jumped through the windows and rushed
the gravel pit and began work.
THE Rutland Herald makes some tellin
comparisons between the statements of the
Albans Trust company and Of the Montpeli,
Savings Bank and Trust Company, as publishe
In the WAToHMAN, and very pertinently say
" This violent contrast between the Montpeli,
Trust Company, which pays six per cent div
dend and is in state Of superb financi
health, and the broken bank of the st. Albal
Trust Company is simply the difference b
tween honesty and dishonesty; between fol
and wisdom; between honor and dishonor;
tween fidelity and fraud"
IT has been usual for postmasters to give
detectives or others interested in tracing su
pected persons information derived from ii
addresses of letters passing through their han
or from requests to forward correspondence
The post-office department now decides tn
this practice must not continue, but know
edge Of personal character acquired by