The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-07-25

"another gift of 100000, as though such
thing was an everyday affair, and now an ex-
change has raised it to another gift Of $780,
000" The amount actually given was S1,OOO.
The post office department has officially no.
titled postmasters of the reduction in postage |
to take place October LIST, and directed them to |
make announcement Of the fact 30 that the |
public may not accumulate supply Of three |
cent stamps as no arrangement will be made
to redeem them. The two-cent stamps will be
ready on the 18th of September.
THE following vermonters have gone to Den
yer, Col. to attend the G. A. R. reunion A.
B. Valentine, department commander Of Ben
nington; E. II. Pettingill, Saxton's River;
Warren Gibbs, Burlington; N. P. Bowman, St.
Johnsbury; A. p. Childs, Bennington L. +.
Tyrell, Underhill; c. G. Kinsman, Rutland; G.
A. Bundy, Arlington; W. H. Parker Cam
bridge; A. T. Woodard, Rutland; William
Murphy, Bennington; F. N. Squire Benning-
ton Gen. William Wells, Burlington; Gen. W.
W. Henry, Burlington; Gen. T. s. Peck, Bur-
lngton; Gen. w. G. Veazy, Rutland; Gen. +.
B. Goulding, Rutland G. W. Hooker, Brattle-
| boro
W. IL DOhNAf VI DurnnglOn HAS uleu Hin
report upon the exceptions of the Rutland rail-
road company to the answer of the defendants,
Clement & Sons, in the suit of the Rutland
railroad company against Clement & Sons ct al,
brought to test the validity Of the over-issued
stock of the railroad company held by Clement
| q Sons, in which suit the railroad company
asks the court to declare the stock void and
| order 1t surrendered and cancelled, and in
which suit a temporary injunction was granted
restraining Clement & Sons from disposing of
the stock. Clement & Sons moved to dissolve
the injunction and the railroad company filed
twenty-three exceptions, of which eight in
their entirety and three others in part Burnap
sustains.
LAST Saturdays New York Commercial Id
uertiSer has the following: GA well-dressed
man walked into the City Hall police station
this forenoon and said he was very sick. After
much questioning the sick man, who was very
reticent to speak, said his name was Daniel
Purdy, and that he formerly lived in Mont
peier, Vt, but now had no home He said his
wife died several months ago, and that he did
not know the whereabouts of his little boy.
He said he had taken morphine yesterday.
Two officers led Purdy to the Chambers Street
hospital, and from thence he was transferred
to the Bellevue hospital. The surgeon OF the
Chambers Street hospital thought Purdy was
suffering from alcoholism, and that his case
was not one of attempted suicide" We have
made inquiry, but have failed to find anyone
, who ever knew any such man.
ACCORDING to the Montreal Gazette, there is
likely to be another hotel at Lake Memphre'
magog. 1t says At the invitation of the
Hon. ]. Gregory Smith, president of the Cen
trail Vermont railway, party of about thirty
Montreal and American gentlemen left the city
by special train on Saturday for Lake Mem
phremagog to select a site for the erection Of ?
, mammoth first-class summer hotel on the Can
ada side Of the lake. Among them were the
Hon. Mr. Smith, Mr.. A. c. Stonegrave and Mr.
Futvoye, of the Central Vermont; Mr.. G. w
SWEET, manager of the Windsor hotel, ant
Messrs Hartt, Hector, Mackenzie, Arch, Cas-
sils and r. McLea of Montreal. In the opinion
of one Of the gentlemen present the site Sc
lected is one of the finest places on the beauti
full and far famed lake, and he had no doubt il
his own mind but that the erection Of the hote
would be shortly commenced"
Mr.. WILDE has temporarily abandoned hi
work as an apostle of the beautiful, and is Civ
ing lectures in London ON the prosaic subiec
: of America. "If you ask me- he said, ''wha
D.. first struck my attention in New York, woult
say it was this, that II the Americans are no
@ the most well-dressed people in the world the.
/. are certainly the most comfortably dressed
. | saw no rags in New York at all. One
o struck with the prosperity that is seen every
! where; and the second thing that strikes me /
= that everybody seems to be in hurry OF som
kird. As regards nature in America, whe
one lands it rather tries to bully one by its en-
. ormous size 1t behaves like big boy in
> private school. 1t says it is so much bigge
i than everything else that one has to admire il
But confess it is not the big things in Americ
IS that are to be admired at all. Niagara, lik
IS the Atlantic Ocean, is extremely disappoin
o ing" California opened upon his view as tn
y most beautiful part of America. The people
"Well, the American girl is the prettiest despo
8, in the world. She seems to me to be littl
/, oasis of picturesque unreasonableness in d.
D, sert of common sense"
n SUIT has been commenced against She
D. man & Jenne, insurance agents at Brattleborc
by the New York Life Insurance company,
al p Childs, general agent, for libel An anony
NJ nous circular has been distributed by the d.
ct PENDANTS in which was quoted an article frol
e. the New York Herald of February 16, stain
VI that the general term of New York courts ha
held the New York Life Insurance company
r. tontine system to be based on false represents
at tions and breach of contract in failing to ket
IN the tontine funds separate, and then went c
10 to make comparisons unfavorable to the Ne
At York Life of its agents commissions and e.
penses, with those of the Mutual Life. III
plaintiffs claim is that no such decision as tn
=, reported in the Herald and circular has in IA
- ever been rendered, and that the legislature
the state of New York and the full bench OF Il
10 supreme court in general term, have fully su
tanned the action Of the company, decidii
that it had fully carried out both the letter al
10 spirit of the contract The circulars were di
~ tributed by Sherman g. Jenne, but it is undt
u stood that it was by the instructions of {
ns Mutual Life, which company it is expected W
VI defend the case.
SINCE the abolition of the match tax the ma