The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-09-12

as possible the secretary should keep register
of all the living members of the regiment and
TO this end 1t is desired that members send to
the secretary their names and the names of
others they may know with the letter OF their
company and present address. They should
also notify the secretary when their address is
changed The association adjourned to meet |
next fall at the call of the officers. Vermont |
papers will oblge the Tenth Regiment by CIV |
ing this notice place in their columns.
In Woodstock the perseverance of some la
dies for few years in behalf OF free library |
has achieved the following results: A collec- |
tion of some sixteen hundred volumes has been |
secured, and suitably catalogued, and since
March, 1880, when the library was opened
with five hundred and thirty-one Volumes
these books have been used by about eleven
hundred different persons. Books may be
drawn Wednesday and Saturday afternoons
and evenings; and at the present rate Of use
more than seven thousand issues will be made
in year, the sem-weekly average Of books
taken being over seventy. And now, as a glo-
rious crowniDg of these humble but earnest
efforts, wealthy and benevolent Philadel-
| phan, formerly a resident OF Woodstock,
| DR.. Williams erects for the town beau
| tiful $50, 600 library building, which our hon
est and talented townsman, George H. Gnern-
sey, is engaged in constructing. OF course
| such a building means more books from some
| source, and ultimately a well endowed educa-
| tional institution of which Woodstock may
reasonably be proud.
| THE st. Albans Messenger is at length telling
| the plain truth about the St. Adams Trust Com
| psny's affairs. 1t calls for the indictment of
Lawrence Brainerd and the management of
the company at the coming term Of Franklin
county court OF one painful phase of the
history OF this affair the Messenger says: 1.-THE
| cases OF individual hardships and distress that
are daily coming to light as consequence of
President Brainerd's mismanagementa are sufh-
GENTLY narrowing; but no feature of the dis
closures is worse than the taking of deposits
from poor people on the last day the bank was
open to the public, when he must have known
that his bank was not in sound condition. II
there are any circumstances to be pleaded in
extenuaton of this action they have not been
made public" Curiously enough the facts
upon which the Messenger bases its structures
and its call for the criminal prosecution of the
officers of the company are none other than
those which The WATERMAN published sew
eral weeks ago. In estimating the probability
Of realizing on the Norwood property it ap-
pears to think the figures given by our inform
ant we're about right after all.
THE Baldwin mill at Groton Pond was raised
last week 1t is one hundred and eighty feet
long, thirty.five feet wide and two stories high
The workmen claim it will be the best mill in
the state. boarding house ninety feet long
and two stories high is completed The second
story contains twenty-five rooms. The first
story contains office, kitchen, dining-room
twenty by twenty-seveu feet, and a number of
small rooms. The attic is unfinished but has
space for about twenty-f rooms. Three
double tenement houses are up and being fin
ished. Two more are soon to be raised A
store, thirty by sixty feet, two stories, with
tenement overhead will be commenced very
shortly. The mill will be fitted with new and
! improved machinery, comprising double saws,
cutoff saws, jig saws, edging and surfacing
and dressing machines, and will have a pro-
ducing capacity of some 40 600 feet of lumber
per day The property has recently been pur-
chased of the Messrs Baldwin by the Groton
Pond company, in which Mr.. j. S. Potter of
Newton Center Mass, is chief owner. In ad-
ditiOn to the 8, 200 acres of woodland bought of
. the Baldwins, Mr. Potter has purchased l 400
acres additional.
THE Free Press had a very neat burlesque
one day last week on the Vershire veterans
reunion, giving full report of such gather
ing together with an alleged poem which was
: credited to Colonel" c. S. Forbes We give
: the remarkable metrical production in full:
Listen, my children and you shall hear
q OF the terrible raid on fair Vershire,
How tie brave militia came riding down
5 In charcoal carts to Ely town.
, Twas at the dawn of a summer day;
The mist on the hills hung thick and gray,
: And the drowsy star-worlds by one
4 Sank in the light-waves from the sun.
No tramp was there of martial feet
- Or bngle's larum or drums sharp beat,
But the eraunchng sound on the gritty road
OF the prancing carts that the troops bestrode.
: Hundred and Fifty with bated breath
@ Riding into the jaws of death
For who could Tell behind what tree
Q The miner and his gun might be?
II Boldly they rode for the state they loved,
u With humping hearts but brows unmoved
And anon went round the whispered word
o Prepare to attack the rebel herde"
h Just as the sun sprang up in heaven,
The order, " Get ont OF the cartsW was given.
, Then up the hill the soldiers crept.
II Into the town where the rebels slept.
A All In moment the thing done
" Was ever battle 80 quickly won?
stripping of bed-clOihes-a drowsy growl-
clicking of handcutfs-and that was all
+ The battle of yershire now Is Ger,
9 And the miner threatens the state no morei
But the deed of the soldiers shall long be told
3. When they slumb'rlng meath the mold.
Il Major John c. Stearns of Bradford was reporte
J. as delivering patriotic and eloquent oratio
l. which the association voted to have printe
l. and he was elected historian for the COMM
y year. 1t was gravely stated that the Presiden
81 OF the United States and his cabinet, the gen
o eral of the army and his staff, the Prince q
n Wales, Count Won Moltke, Comte de Paris
10 the Car of Russia and Arab Bey were electe
Mt honorary members Of the association. PEI
a haps the richest part of the whole thing wa
Id that the Boston Journal and Springfield Repul
IS Hcdn took it all in and reported it as a fact.
lis THERE is a class of reformers" self-style