The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-27
Current Mention.


after this week.
NOTICE the change in the railroad time
tables on this page.
"THE COUNTRY WEEK" children may be
expected July 81, to remain till July 30.
THE meeting in Wrightsville next Sunday af-
ternoon may be expected to begin at two o'clock.
THE work of setting the telephone poles be-
tween Montpelier and Burlington has beeu
completed as far as Richmond.
If you have not paid for your WATcHMAN
you will greatly oblige the publisher by doing
so at your earliest convenience.
TWELVE of the graduating class Of St. Johns
bury academy are to enter Dartmouth; one
goes to Wesleyan and one to Williams
IT is now reported that there is no truth in
the recent statement that the Canadian Pacific
railroad had purchased the Southeastern.
H. w. LOVE of Rutland is discharged by JUS
tice Bailey's decision in the blackmail case,
which is the last one pending against him.
REV. GEORGE S. GUERNSEY will preach in
East Calais next Sunday, July 1st, at 1880 A.
NJ, and at Calais at one o'clock in the after
noon.
AT the Champlain Association of Universal
lists held in Fletcher last Wednesday and
Thursday, there was raised for missionary
work in Vermont S1O7. .56.
RUTLAND REVIEW: "Mss Hemenway pro-
poses to rent quarters at Rutland, buy type and
print the next number of the Vermont Gazetteer
herself with the aid of our local historians"
MANY of the interesting details relating to
Lafayettes visit to this state have been gath
cred up by Hon. E. P. Walton and embodied
in the Governor and Council compiled by him.
| OK and after Monday, July I'd, a single do
mestic postal money order may be issued for
any amount from one cent to one hundred
dollars inclusive and the existing rates will be
reduced.
| JOEL PUTNAM of Cambridge has black hen
which will beat Colonel Porters of North
Thetford. having laid four mammoth eggs
measuring respectively 81 by Il inches, r by
6s, s by 81, y by 81. Who can beat this?
THE ladies society Of the Church of the Mes
siah will give lawn party this "wednesday
evening, the 9th, at the grounds of Mrs. C.
H. Heath on Barre street. Music begins at
eight Admission fifteen cents Ice cream
and cake fifteen cents.
EDITOR HARRIS of the Inde1 objects to hav-
ing his paper sold out by his brother editors
without his consent, and says he is going to
stay. We are glad of it. There is field In st.
Johnsbury for a good, independent paper and
the Indec has got good start.
THE time for depositng Vermont Central
bonds and Vermont & Canada stock with the
American Loan and Trust company, with a
privilege Of securing interest from April on
the bonds of the Consolidated Railway Com.
pany of Vermont, to be issued July 1, has
closed.
LAST spring six Rochester fellows attempted
to tar and feather certain Brink of unsavory
reputation in that locality. Brink's wife ended
the affray by pouring hot water on the boys
and at the late term of the Windsor county
court they were fined from five to twenty dol
lars each for the assault.
AMONG the prizes awarded at Dartmouth col
lege last week, the Grimes prize of $50 for gen
eral improvement during the course was giver
to John W. Gordon of West Bolton Honora
BILE mention was made Of A. L. Fuller Of Yer
shire for excellence in Greek and of Z. A. Bay
ley Of Newbury, in mathematics.
MDDLEBURY College commencement is next
week. The principal features of the pro
gramme are as follows: Sunday, baccalau
reate by the president; Tuesday evening, prize
speaking; Wednesday, $3.50 A. NJ, meeting OF
associated alumni; $3.50, graduating exercises
followed by the inaugural addresses of Pro
fessors Eaton and Foster; evening, concert by
Blaisdell's orchestra, and soloists.
THE publisher OF the WAToHMAN wishes tc
make due acknowledgements to the press o.
the state for the very appreciative manner IN
which the change and enlargement of his paper
has been noticed Every newspaper which
has referred to the subject has done so in very
complimentary terms, with the solitary excep
tion of the Argus, and its reason for not doing
80 is too obvious to require comment
CONSIDERABLE Indignation WAS felt among thu
students on Seminary Hill because membe
OF the graduating class, F. L. Goodspeed o
East Warren, was not allowed to deliver hi
Grafton with the rest at the commencement ex
ercises. The reason given by the faculty Il
that he would not cut it down as requested
but the young mans friends say that he haC
cut 1t down once and that 1t had been accepted
and committed to memory before the final al