The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-14
Current Mention.

Current Mention.
SOUTH RoYALToN is again free from diph- |
iberia.
GooD hard wood, four feet in length, is |
wanted at this Office in payment for subscrip- |
tions
LIMITED quantity Of fruit and vegetables
of good quality will be taken on subscriptions
at this office.
If any Of our old subscribers did not receive
sample copy of Good Cheer for October, we
should be glad to know it.
The services in the Westinghouse at
Wrightsville next Sunday afternoon are to be
conducted by Rev. Mr.. Wright.
BALL will be given at the Summit house,
Roxbury, on Thanksgiving eve, November 2S,
to which general invitation is extended by
the proprietor, E. S. Whtcomb.
JUDGING by the way new names are being
added to our list and old subscribers are re-
newing, 1t is evident that THE WAToHMAN will
be read by adults for while longer at least,
the Argus to the contrary notwithstanding.
PALLADIUM" Five inches OF snow at Mount
I1Oily 10 IcpOItcu. mouuS hoAiy hoo puoh
known as chilly locality since delegate Hos
kinson made his great speech against the SOL
dier element in politics at the last republican
| state convention"
THE White river valley agricultural society
elected these officers last week Tuesday: Pres
ident, Charles N. Parker Of Royalton; vice.
president, George W. Flagg Of Braintree; sec
retary, E. A. Maxham of Bethel; auditor, Will
liam Skinner of Royalton.
WE have sent to the publ shers our first list
OF names for Good Cheer, and the November
number will soon be received by those who
are entitled to it. Hereafter all subscriptions
will begin with the December number unless
we are directed to the contrary.
TIE committee on the celebration of the
| centennial of the evacuation Of New York city
have requested Governor Barstow to extend an
invitation to veteran military organizations
and cadets of military schools in the state to
participate in the parade. The governor and
staff are also invited to be present.
THE annual catalogue OF Goddard seminary,
Barre, is out and shows the number of students
for the past year to have been one hundred and
thirty-eight. There are English, college pre-
paratory and ladies' collegiate courses with
instruction in music, painting and drawing.
The institution appears to be thriving under
the new principal, Mr.. A. W. Dana. The
winter term begins December 9th.
FREIGHT train No. II was wrecked at Brain
tree, Friday morning. and Engineer Edgar
Hibbard and the fireman and brakeman were
slightly hurt. The locomotive Joseph Clark 3"
and four cars were badly smashed and several
cattle were killed. The reason of the accident
was the breaking of some part Of the machin-
cry on the locomotive, which caused it to catch
J on the switch and threw the cars from the
track.
THE St. Johnsbury choral union will hold a
convention in music hall, St. Johnsbury, un-
der the direction of W. F. Sherwin of the New
England conservatory, commencing Tuesday,
November 20 and continuing through Friday,
November %. The union has secured the SER
vices of Mrs. Martha Dana Shepard, pianist,
and of Mrs. E Humphrey Allen, Mrs. Ella c.
Henderson, Mr.. j. c. Bartlett and Mr.. Clarence
E. Hay, all of Boston.
A woman's suffrage convention was held at
st. Johnsbury Friday, and state association
organized, with these officers President, Mrs
M. L. T. Hidden of Lyndonville; four vice
presidents secretary, Miss Laura Moore Of
Barnet; treasurer, Mrs. L. A. Nelson of West
Burke Addresses were made by II. B. Black
we'll of Boston, II. c. Ide of St. Johnsbury
: Mrs. Lucy Stone and Mrs. Howe. The attend
ance was quite large.
REVOLUTIONS never go backward " shouted
| tho AT,1Ie pofriof in a upn nant ~
gush over the result in Ohio There woult
seem to be something of crabs motion in thu
democratic majority of year ago in New
York. The wipiDg out of 200 900 majority
In the late election has a kind Of back actor
u look about 1t. The redemption also of Penn
sylvania by over 10000 ajority and a gain O
o 10000, with a republican victory, in tn,
"land Of steady habits" would seem to ndi
Q cate that the democratic revolution " had re
ceived something of a set back.
: SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN,: "The Washing
+ ton correspondent Of the New York Herald say
that Edmunds is helping George Hooker o
Z Brattleboro into place as sergeant-at-arms o.
il the senate. This report needs a great deal O
confirming. In the first place the senate
avoids all these patronage squabbes as h
= would the plague, and in the next place the re
doubtable George is not at all his sort OF a man
1t is more unlikely than ever, by the way, sine
the Virginia result, that Gorham will be able T.
get himself chosen secretary OF the senate
Certain New England senators who have Away
y been ready to vote against him have probabl'
9 seen no occasion to change their minds"
~ THE Vermont Met thodist Conference vii
hold its next annual session In this village
o beginning April 10Th. Bishop Matthew SimP
y son of Philadelphia will preside. The la
- electoral conference, whose duty it is to cleo
two laymen to represent the conference in tn
next general conference to be held at Phila
d delphia, next May, will meet at the same time
II The conference will make new departure Il