The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-07
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NEWELL FARNHAM has few bushels of the
Beauty OF Hebron potatoes left that he sells
for thirty-fve cents per bushel.
WE are told that Joel Hersey has a Jersey
COW that, from one-thrd of an ordinary pail of
milk, he made pound and a quarter OF butter.
OUR ex-townsman, George w. Smith, and
wife, will spend the summer In Europe. Mr..
Smith Is a prosperous manufacturer in Phil
adelphia.
ONE of our leading farmers has become con-
WINGED that on his farm, a handful OF wheat
bran In hill Of potatoes Is the best "phos-
phate he can USE
THE administrator of the estate of the late
Mrs. Edison Martin will sell at auction, on
Saturday afternoon next, her undivided half
OF the place known as the Deacon Ware
place." in this village.
REV. AND MRS. WILLIAM SCHoFIFLD have
sent out large number of invitations to
friends, here and elsewhere, to join with them
In the celebration OF the twenty fifth anniver-
sary OF their marriage, on Friday afternoon
and evening OF next week.
Miss LovfsA RICE, now in her eghty-fourth
year and for whom some of our old citizens
cherish a very kindly feeling, has never been
so feeble as at the present time. She is almost
entirely helpless, being confined wholly to her
bed. Her sight and mind are failing her, and
her death at any time would not surprise one
MRS. EMILY POOLE DUNCAN, now OF Lebanon
N. H., buried her husband, William Duncan,
on Friday last. Mr.. Duncan was raised" by
the late Joshua living of Barre. For years
past he has resided in Lebanon. He was q
competent, genial and successful man. He
leaves one of the most devoted of wives and
son.
THREE anniversaries of marriages have re-
Gently been observed here-the thirty fifth Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Folensby Goodrich, the twenty
fifth of Mr.. and Mrs. Prentiss Waldo, and the
nf Mr. md ra Uax G. r.
as we know, all were surprises" Gifts ex-
pressive OF esteem were brought by friends In
| each case.
THERE are many ways OF judging of charac-
ter. The latest we have seen is the statement
OF a man of note," who says: 81 Judge of
every man by the first question / ask him
| Has he a mental reservation or not? Does
| he answer what he knows simply, or what he
thinks will do? II the former, he is my
| friend henceforth; IL the latter, he is nothing
| to me-" This is worth thinking Of
UNDER the system OF leasing prisoners in vogue
| in most of the southern states, we see the case
| reported of a man convicted of manslaughter
| being leased to his own wife. While this out
rage on justice ought to crimson the cheek OF an
American citizen, won't the average man"
in these days of spring g. ouse-cleaning,'
wonder whether this criminal doesn't wish he
had been hanged, and done with it?
| WE know man in middle life who has for
| some time been saying "he expected hence
forth no new experience, in kind, in this life -
After recentand new experience, 1--WE rise to
| explain " to any such man that il he has never
made, or mended, a brush fence" there is a
sensation" never dreamt of In his philos.
ophy! II he wants to try it, we counsel him,
| however, not to do 80 unless he has "certif-
cate" for good moral character and even then
he better 90 alone to his work, IL he wants to
keep his reputation
| If we all appreciated fully what boon to
| this world Sunday was designed to be, should
we not guard it much more jealousy than we
| do? There has just been given us the name OF
one of our farmers, who is so conscientious
| that he will not bring into the village on Sun
day evening any stock he may have sold that
| must be " car "-red the next day, but rises al
| midnight and delivers the stock. Will not his
course one day appear, we will not say the
most Christian, but the most humane, the most
patriotic, because a wel-kept Sunday is such a
blessing, when considered only in its relation
| to this present life? The world cannot afford
to lose one of these blessings.
| OUR long time townsman, Hiram Dexter
now of Martha's Vineyard Mass, is in town
stocking up his farm, which he is to rent tc
Fred Whitney. Henry Poole went to Leb
anon, n. H., last week, to attend the funeral Of
William Duncan. Stella Cheney of Barre is
to teach in the Olney Seaver district this
| season.