The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-10
Current Mention.

FREE Press: "The Central Vermont sells
tickets from Boston to Chicago for ten
dollars"
REV. GEORGE S. GUERNSEY will preach in
Hancock next Sunday, December 14th, at
one o'clock in the afternoon.
PROFESSOR JOHN WEIR of the Yale Art
School has been awarded the design for the
Bennington battle monument.
REV. II. A. SPENCER will lecture at the
Methodist church, Groton, next Friday
evening at half-past six o'clock.
NEXT week we shall publish supplement
to THE WATcHMAN containing all the laws
of public interest passed at the late session
of the general assembly.
L. j. SWEET, as architect, and Joseph
Brean, as head carpenter, go to New Or
leans next week, to take charge of the erec-
tion of the Vermont building.
The venerable Stephen Herrick of Mid
dlesex made THE WATcHMAN Office pleas
ant call on Monday and paid his seventieth
annual subscription for this paper.
SOME one ought to inform the editor of the
Barre Enterprise. if there is such person,
that the legislature adjourned two weeks
ago. He does not appear to be conscious of
the fact.
AN exhaustive article ON the Labor
Organizations of the United States" by
Colonel Hinton, giving full statistics and
many important facts, is to appear in the
January number of the North american
ReUie,c.
THE Central Vermont road is preparing
two nice coaches to run as smoking cars be-
tween st. Albans and White River juno
ton on the fast express trains. That part
of the travelling public which is addicted TO
the weed will appreciate this move.
VERMONT STATE GRANGE, Patrons of Hus-
bandry, meets at st. Johnsbury to-day and
tomorrow, and it is expected the State
Board of Agriculture will meet there at the
same time. The annual address is to be
given by Master A. b. Franklin of Newfane
MARTIN MANSFIELD, formerly of Roxbury,
went out to Dakota, some two or three years
since. accompanied by Will, his son, and it
is reported on what is believed to be good
authority that both father and son were
last week hanged by viglants in Dakota for
horse-stealing.
The passenger department of the Central
Vermont railroad will issue a circular Civ
ing, in detail the rates of fare to the New
Orleans Exposition via the different roads,
and other information which will be very
useful to parties who contemplate going to
the exposition.
AT recent special town meeting in
Craftsbury resolution was unanimously
passed to the effect that if the new county
buildings were located further from Crafts
bury than Barton village, the town would
petition the Legislature of Vermont to be set
into Lamoille or Caledonia county.
THE indications are that Vermont will
have very credtable exhibit of the prod
ucts of the soil, the mine, the quarry and
the forest, as well as a fine display of man
ufactured goods, at the New Orleans Ex-
position. Quite a number of Vermont peo-
pie talk of visiting the Exposition in a party
in midwinter.
OUR Hardwick correspondent sends us
the following: T" Edgar Hill of Calais was
arrested at South Woodbury. on Friday
evening last, charged with stealing poultry
ing here, through lack of vigilance of the
officers, he made his escape. Hill went to
Montpelier from here Friday morning by
stage taking along with him box of poul-
try that had been brought here some time
in the night previous. The poultry was