The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-28


counts. which may be ordered to speedily take
place. That the action OF the Vermont and
Canada railroad company and the Consolidated
railroad company OF Vermont. in executing the
mortgage to secure said bonds, may be fully
approved by the court, and for such other re-
lief as to equity may appertain.
THE purpose Of Mr. Brock to supply the viii
lage with water from Berlin pond continues to
be discussed. The desirability, the real neces-
sity for having the water is not questioned.
There seems. however, to be some diversity Of |
opinion as to the manner in which the end in |
view should be reached. The view that 1t |
should be exclusively by the village. seems to
have been adopted by some individuals who at
first favored the proposal OF Mr.. Brock Moth
ing succeeds like success, and that way which
will be most sure to bring the water, and put
Its management on q good and economical
basis should succeed The voters should come
out to the meeting, which occurs next Mon
day evening, listen to the presentation Of the
case from each point of view and vote their
honest convictions.
THE United States supreme court at WASH
ington heard last week, the arguments In the
great Burdett-Estey organ case. This involves
the patent on which the triplet reed organ lie
based, OF which more than 900 are in use.
Riley Burdett was formerly partner with
Jacob Estey & Son Of Brattleboro, and he
claims that In 1867 they stole away from him
the secret upon which this patent is based.
The circuit court, Judges Blatchford and
Wheeler, gave him verdict of $161 900, from
which the Esteys appealed. Mr. Evarts con-
ducts the case for the Esteys, and E ]. Phelps
for Burdett The latter Is now wealthy or
gan manufacturer in Erie, Penn, but at the
time Of the patent he was poor, and the money
upon which he worked was loaned to him by
| S. M. Waite, then president of the First Ma
tional bank Of Brattleboro, but now serving
| term in the house Of correction for wrecking
| that institution. The loan was made for a half
interest in the prospective profits. II Burdett
wins the sum, one-half the net proceeds will go
to waites estate and his creditors will profit to
that extent.
THE professed discovery by the Argus and
| Patriot of " Nichols boom /" in TEE WATCH
MANS recent article on the govern orship was
at first regarded as q feeble display of that
exceedingly subtle Righteousness which now
and then, when the elements are propitious, is
imported into the columns of our esteemed
contemporary. More mature consideration
has led to the belief that in the darkness
visible" of his imagination the writer Of the
argus article did see what to his vision, dis
torted by his childish fears or too intense
gazing at q single object, really appeared to be
living and moving Nichols BOOM" The
writer seems to have been reassured by the
announcement Of similar discovery by the
Landmark, or perhaps he took his cue from
that journal which was week ahead Of the
argus in the publication of its discovery. The
omnipresent spook at it's elbow and laborinl
under that mental infrmity which seems al
ways to afaict it when treating Of Vernon
affairs, falls an easy victim to the infantilt
babble of these twin innocents. We have had
} our "little chuckle" over the freshness o.
these astute knights Of the quill.
On Saturday last one Edgar Hill, who live
in Calais, came to this place to procure the ar
rest of George Mower and A. L. Blanchard
from Boston, who had been in his vicinity buy
ing poultry, and had given him ring TO
which they claimed to have paid ten dollars
in payment for their board. A warrant TO
, their arrest was placed in the hands OF Office
Lull. While attempting to serve the sam
Captain Lull found the warrant to be defectiv
and was told that it could not be served afte
sundown Saturday night. He doubted this an
l while seeking legal advice the parties met an
settled up, the men paying Hill seven dollar
| doy lin,
ious and disturbed corn doctor" who wa
. selling wonderful compound" at the hes
r of State street, and the latter ordered hir
, away. This he resented and attempted {
, climb into the wagon. when the man Of med
o cines seized his torch and struck him on tn
: shoulder. Hill was then arrested and taken t
q jail. Some time afterward Officer Keega
n went to the Union house to arrest the do,
n tor" The name ON the warrant was wron
1 and Keegan sent Charles Sumner to Wing
law Office to have the correction made
While Sumner was gone the " doctor
r stepped to the hall for drink Of watt
= and departed" AS soon as Sumner n
turned, search WAS instituted, and the hous
and barn carefully guarded, but to no purpose
= Messrs. Lull and Keegan went to Montpelit
junction on the 12 40 train Sunday morning
:, search the train. AS they entered one car tt
object Of their search, who had concealed hin
:, self in the woodshed, followed them and too
. q seat, while they passed ON to the next ca
On Monday telegram was received from hin
ordering his baggage sent to Whitefield, I
Hill was bought up on Monday and fined
and costs and released on payment Of the sam
THERE has been "much excitement"
> Waterbury and business has been disturbe
the past week, not however by reason OF IL
presence of diphtheria, but on account OF ii
:, outrageous reports which the associated pre-
;. agent has sent out in regard to the prevalen,
: of the disease there. People from distanc
a who had planned to spend Thanksgiving wit
a friends and relations in the village, terrt
y stricken by the startling dispatches, hastene
to indicate their determination to keep ava
from the pest ridden community. Physician
- have written to their brethren there for par Il
ulars OF the work of the dread contagion. A
" acute practitioner in a neghboring state raise
u the query II the disease had not been comm
y nieated by railway trains from station on IL
T. line some fifty miles distant, in which a deaf
). from malignant dphthera had occurred. A
u this Is the result of wretched canard, ign
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