The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-08-29
Current Mention.


RUTLAND has applied for the letter carrier
system.
THE Eighth Vermont Regiment will have a
reunion at st. Johnsbury on Thursday, Sep
tember 9th.
THE stock entries for the New England fair
at Manchester, N H. are large, and include
425 head of booded stock, 131 sheep, 100
horses and 81 swine
ZONE of the miscellaneous and peculiar con-
glomeration who edit the Argus in the alb
sence of the old man." is the fraternal man
ner in which the index puts it,
IT appears from an advertisement published
elsewhere that number of copies of the Yer
mont Historical Gazetteer have been unlaw-
fully taken from j. d. Clark's bindery and
reward is offered for their recovery.
THE fall term of the Washington County
Grammar School begins Monday, September
10th, and we commend this institution to those
who are looking for some good place to send
their children. The tuition is only S5 per
term, which brings it within the reach of all.
Do not make any engagements, either for
business or pleasure which will interfere with
going on the excursion to the Weirs Thursday
of next week. Ask any of those who went
before and you will find that it will pay you to
visit this famous resort and the fare has been
-, plIed SO low by the management as not to
fS9ssrs-enS-ssom going who desire to do so.
Ee on hand with your sisters and your cousins
and your uncles.
TEE change in the postal rates will have one
queer effect. A letter with a two cent stamp
mailed in the United States and directed to
any point in Canada will go through all right
but one mailed from any point in the domn-
ion and addressed to another must carry a
threecent dominion stamp. Thus citizen of
the United States writing in his own country,
can send letter into the dominion for one
third less than loyal Kanuck can commune
cate with his friends in the next town.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made by which
Vermont veterans desiring to participate in the
excursion to the Shenandoah Valley may make
the trip at greatly reduced rates Superintend-
ent Barney has made arrangements by which
round trip tickets between Burlington and New
York via Lake Champlain and Hudson river
steamers will be sold at IS. From New York,
tickets for the round trip with board) are
S3l 40 Those attending will leave Burlington
on Saturday morning, September 18TH
THE Odd Fellows lodges of Montpelier,
Waitsfeld and Mortified will hold union
basket picnic on the camp ground at Mortified
Friday, August 81, at nine clock, A. NJ. Short
speeches are expected from prominent men,
bers of the order, and the Mortified cornet
band will be in attendance in the afternoon
1t ia expected that the railroads will carry foI
half fare, and trains at nine A. NJ and twenty
minutes past four p. NJ. will stop at the camI
ground. All members of the order will be
welcomed.
SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN,: at was hardly
refreshing spectacle which greeted two of the
large losers through the peculations and delin
quences of Silas NJ. Waite, late president ant
financial manager of the First national bank o.
Brattleboro, to see him stalking into the Rut
land depot just before the departure OF Fri
days Saratoga train, alone and unattended
banding his mail to the postal clerk on tn,
train, and leisurely vending his unrestricted
way through the crowded depot. This wa
indeed a painful exhibition of the facilities al
lowed Vermont criminals and the inducement
offered for increased crimes The sight wa
said not to be an unusual one to those aroun,
the depot and, indeed, it is claimed that Wait,
has carte-banche in visiting about town"
Ex-TREAsURER J. NJ. HAVEN was arreste,
Wednesday at Rutland by Sheriff Peabody
Grand Juror Spellman charging him with issu
ing A TIT false shares of Rutland railroad stock
hearing was had Wednesday evening befor
the municipal court, over which Judge Evart
presided. Mr.. Haven waived examination
and was bound over to await the action OF tn
grand jury, which convenes with the count
court, September l1th. Bail was fixed in tn
sum of So 000 and Haven's son Frank, becam
his bondsman. Ex-Judge Dunton appeared a
counsel for Haven. The names of the vii
nesses appended to the complaint were g,
Governor j. B. Page, Lawyer A. F. Walker an
Accountant Rodney Mclaughlin, The penat
provided for the crime charged against Have
is a fine of not over 81 900 and imprisonmer
in state prison not over ten years nor less tha
one year.
THE semi-annual encampment Of the depart
ment OF Vermont of the Grand Army OF tn
Republic, will be held at St. Johnsbury Thur
day evening" September 9th, in Odd Fellow
hall. Another meeting will be held during tn
day. Friday, and in the evening, by invitatio
OF Colonel Greenleaf, a campfire will he hel
In the camp Of the First Vermont Regimen
National Guards. 1t Is expected that comrade