The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-21
Current Mention.

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.
OUR readers will find an exceptionally good
story, " Honest for Day." on the third page
The stories are not the only good things among
the selected articles, from week to week.
The reports which come from the Northwest
OF billiards. of driving SHOWS Of mercury
hunting the lowest ranges in the measure Of
cold go far to reconcile Vermonters to their
homes
GEORGE +. EDMUSDs teaches the Center
school; this is his second term in that district.
Coventry Cor. We rise to remark that this
is not the next president, as some might be led
to suppose.
JOSEPH PROCTOR, the renowned actor, will
appear in "virginius" with a fine com.
pany at Capital hall, December and g. This
will give our people fine opportunity to see
some standard acting and they should i'm
prove it.
HARPERs Weekly has cartoon, on its last
page which represents "the skin Of human
being tanned in Massachusetts, stretched
upon an easel, Governor Buffers familiar face
and head being on top, and the cut is entitled
Tanned with his own Bark"
OUR dictionary premium is taking i'm
mensely. We have disposed of our first lot.
sending out three yesterday and we shall
order more at once. You will find that very
little effort will secure one of these books and
we think it will pay you to try It,
SPECIAL poultry train will be run on the
Montpelier & Wells River railroad on Friday
November 23d, for the accommodation of ship
pers of butter, cheese eggs and poultry The
train will leave Montpelier at half-past seven.
A. M, Woodsvile at one, p NJ, and arrive in
Boston early Saturday morning.
The Boston express train leaving Mont
peer at 1875, now stops at Northfield and
South Royalton, but not at Roxbury. This is
a change which will be greatly appreciated by
Northfeld and South Royalton people. In con-
sequence of this arrangemenethe mixed train
for Mortified, which formerly followed the ex-
press, has been discontinued.
THE Montreal Gazette says that an action
has been taken by Ex-Governor Fairbanks of
st. Johnsbury through Messrs Church, Hall g.
Atwater, to recover $50, 600 endorsed by him
for Bradley Barlow. Ten locomotives are
seized in the possession of the South Eastern
railway, these, 1t is claimed, having been
pledged as security for the amount.
WE learn that the criticism on Judge Bar-
retts absence from the meeting of the bar as
sociation, which we referred to last week az
having been made by the Bennington Banner.
appeared originally in the Argus We found
the item in an exchange credited to the Banner
and, as we did not read the report in the Argus.
failed to recognize the paternity of the para
graph, but the facts remain unchanged.
GOVERNOR BARsTow has decided to accent
the invitation to be present at the celebration
OF Evacuation day In New York on Monday.
November 26. He will be accompanied by His
staff but not, probably, by any military Or
ganiz ttion. The governors OF all the New
England states will be present as well as civic
and military dgnitaries from all this part OF
the country. and the celebration will be a
notable one.
THE festive bean has never been regarded as
very tony article of diet, but has hitherto had
the reputation of being a safe kind of nutri-
ment. 1t seems, however, that the whirligig
OF time is likely to rob the bean of the only
quality which recommends it to the public con-
hdence, as a man has just died In Lynn, Mass,
from liberation caused by the Judgement OF
hard baked bean in the appendix calci, sit
uated in the right lilac fossa.
WE have received, and offer our thanks for
copy of discourse commemorative of the
Hon, George P, Marsh by Samuel Gilman
Brown. The discourse was delivered before
the faculty and students OF Dartmouth college
and repeated before the officers and students
OF the University of Vermont. 1t is an ELOQUENT