Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-04-18
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tives, has returned from a trip to Iowa.
REV. MR. ALLEN OF Somerset Mass, has had
call to the Christian church at West Randolph.
| THE Marquis OF Lorne and the Princess Louise
were the guests OF the city Of Boston last week.
GEORGE GossELIN Of Rutland has leased the
Otter Creek House In Pittsford for term OF
years.
REV. IL LocKHART OF St. Johnsbury has ac-
cepted call to the Free Baptist church at Wor-
cester, Mass.
STATES ATTORNEY NICHOLS OF Essex county is
about to remove to St. Johnsbury and a vacancy
is likely to occur,
COLONEL U. NJ. WOODBURY. has after long
struggle been elected president Of the Burlington
board of aldermen.
MRS. MARTHA HAzELToN OF Barnet has been
appointed by the grand lodge Of Good Templars
as state organizer
REV N. W. ALGER OF the Baptist church at
Passumpsc has resigned. He has been pastor
| there for eight years.
REV. J. X RICHARDSON OF Rutland has received
a unanimous call to the Central Square Baptist
church at East Boston.
nor W. Park has been elected president Of the
Panama railway company
DIR. Y. II. TowsLEy, son OF DR.. N. Towsley Of
Panton, a graduate OF the medical college, Bur-
lington, has located in Rutland.
Hon. MARsENA +. CUTS, member of congress
from Ohio, is reported as dying at his home in
Oskaloosa. lie is native Of Orwell.
GENERAL JOHN W. PHELPS OF Brattleboro has
completed the History OF Madagascar" to
which he has been devoting his leisure OF late.
Hon. DANIEL NEEDHAM, formerly OF Vermont,
but now bank examiner OF Massachusetts, has re-
turned from southern trip thoroughly recu-
perated.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance Union OF
Vermont has secured the services of Mrs. NJ. G.
c. Leavitt OF Boston as organizer and lecturer in
| the state.
| GEORGE X. MONTGOMERY, who lately sold
| dry goods business at West Randolph, has been
| elected treasurer of the new Marble savings bank
at Rutland.
SENATOR EDMUNDs and daughter, accompanied
| by n party OF friends, have gone to St Louis by
way of Louisville. From ST. Louis they go to
| San Francisco.
CORNELIUS NOLAN Of Bennington while eating
dinner last Monday ehoked to death. lie WAS
landlord of the Cente nnisl House and about forty
| FIVE years old.
DEACON JOHN HULL, one OF the keepers OF the
state prison, awoke one morning lately and found
himself totally blind. His sight has since been
partially restored.
DIR. CAMPBELL OF Saxton's River, one of the
best known physicians in wndham county, is
| seriously sick with erysipelas, but his friends
hope for his recovery
JUDGE CHARLES B. LAWRENCE, formerly chief
justice Of Illinois and native OF vergennes, died
| on the 9th, at Decatur, Alabama, where he was
temporarily residing for his health.
MAJOR HENRY c. BANTER, ON Brigadier- Cen
| eral L. A. Grants staff during the war, lately
custom house officer at Derby Line, has rendered
his resignation to take effect May LIST.
HON. MARSHALL CARPENTER lately died at
Derby at the age Of seventy-one. He was promi-
| nent in town and county affairs and held the
| office OF judge OF probate from 1855 to 1868
SELuoIUs GARFiELDE, a native OF Shoreham,
was formerly delegate in congress from Wash
iugton Territory. After leaving congress he kept
| a noted gambling house in Washington City. He
died last Friday night.
DR.. JOHN C. PATTON OF Aburgh Springs,
graduate Of the medical department Of the Uni
versity of Vermont in 1871, died Thursday night,
| after an illness OF eight or ten weeks. He had
been in practice there for several years
GEORGE F. o. KMBALL OF vergennss has been
| appointed by the grand lodge Of Free and Accepted
Masons of the state Of Texas to represent them
at the next session OF the grand ledge OF Free and
Accepted Masons OF this state, which is to be held
| at Burlington June next
Mr. PARKER LEACH OF Rutland Is the possessor
| of a book Of Common Prayer bearing date of
| 1916, In which is recorded the marriage OF Will
| liam Arthur and Malvina Stone, father and
mother OF President Arthur. The marriage cere-
| mony was performed by -" Rev. Charles c. Cot
ton, minister in Durham, L. Canada, on the
18th day Of April, 1921" The book also con.
tans record of the births Of Regina Mavna
| Arthur, born March 9th, 1922 in Durham, L.
Canada, Jane Arthur, born in Burlington, Vt,
March 14th. 1924, and Almeda Arthur, born jan
uary 22d, 1896 In Jericho, Vt.