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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-10-15

Groton.-F. NJ. Page, A. j. Carpenter
and George Carruth are repairing and other
wise improving their buildings. - Miss
Pearsons came from Boston last Saturday
to assist her brother in his millinery store.
- Our lumber manufacturers suffer
great Inconvenience from lack of a sufficient
number OF cars. 49, About one hundred
partook of the oyster supper by the temper
ance club at their entertainment last Friday
evening. 1t was success. -- The Marsh
school house hall on Friday evening, Octo-
Der "a.
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Corinth. = Rev. j. Hamilton of West
Fairlee breaches at the Corner next Sun
day. 49, Warren Fuller, who accidentally
shot himself in the arm, IL gaining. - G..
Eaton will have an auction sale soon,-sell-
ing his personal property, etc.
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Hardwick.-A. E. Judevine has COM
menced suit against the town. We suppose
it is for the recovery of some hundreds Of
thousands of dollars, more or less, that the
" fathers Of the tow" have been trying to
" swindle him out of for some years past
- l.. ID. Hathaway has the Nichols
building nearly completed. He has en-
larged the tenement and fitted up rooms for
his law office, which he expects to occupy
before many weeks. - L. ID. and NJ. v.
b. Hathaway intend visiting Boston, New
Bedford and several other Massachusetts
towns the present week, expecting to return
the last of next week. - Mr.. and Mrs. /.
p Titus went to Portland and Boston last
week and are expected to return the last of
this week. - The poles for a telephone
line to East Hardwck have been set and com
munication with that place will soon be es-
tablished. - AlonZo Crandall has put
in about sixty tons OF ensilage this season.
He feeds it in connection with hay and
other dry fodder believing that method to
be the best and most satisfactory. =- The
Advent church has made much progress in
building the past week. The frame is up,
walls boarded, and the roof is rapidly APP
preaching completion. MANY hands make
much work" - William Folsom is NOV
ing to Wheelock, where he has recently pur-
chased a farm
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South WOodbury.-Last Sunday two
persons united with the church by profess
sion OF faith. - Next Sabbath forenoon
at eleven o'clock a harvest sermon will be
preached, and on the afternoon at half-past
enc harvest concert will be held
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Granville.-N. ID. Rice is to put steam
engine into his mill at North Hollow. -
w. Kendall has sold his place to Frank +.
Sawyer for 81, 100. - Mrs. Annie Robin
October 7th. - Moses and Isaac Sawyer
returned from the West last Thursday night
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Barre.

Dr. g. r. CAMP Of Orange is soon to To-
cate among us, having rented tenement in
Hiram Martins new house.
MICAH FRENCH has rented his house, and
he and Mrs. French have moved into the
house with Mrs. Stillman Wood for the
winter
G.. w. LANG and family have returned
from the mountains and will occupy apart
ments in Mr.. Martins new house when
completed.
The foundations are being laid for an en-
CINE house and lookup on Bridge street next
to the bridge. The lookup is expected to be
ready for transients by winter.
HIRAM MARTINS new house on the corner
OF Main and Bridge streets is rapidly APP
preaching completion and is well set of by
u coat of light green paint with dark trim
mings.
Mrs. CALVIN DENsMoRE has sold her
dwelling house in Gospel village to Addison
Batchelder, he paying her about S2,i00.
Mrs. Densmore Is to board at Mr.. Batchel-
der's while.
THE village schoolhouse under the hands
of carpenters and masons Is assuming
better proportions, il being raised one
story and stairway put in, thus giving
twice its former capacity. 1t will probably
be ready to occupy the last Of November.
THE Knights of Honor held a sociable at
their hall Monday night and a very pleasant
evening was enjoyed by the Knights and
ladies and invited guests. After refresh
ments of fruits, etc, there were a few short
speeches, select reading by Miss Flossie
Howard of Barre Academy, and songs by
Professor Foster of New York city.
WARREN G. BARNES and family are soon
to go to Massachusetts to live for at least a
time. He will sell his farm before he goes
II he can; If not he will rent it to party he
has already had talk with. We are sorry
to lose Mr.. Barnes and family from among
us, as they are the kind of people town can
not afford to spare, but they have our best
wishes wherever they may live.
GODDARD SEMINARY.
Among those who visited Goddard last
week were Representatives John Robertson
Of Bellows Falls, Ira Calef of Washington
and Mr.. Bottum of Orwell, and Senator WV.
man Clarke from Addison county. -
| Great improvement is noticed in the sing.
ing in the chapel this term. This has been
| sadly neglected in the past but 1t is in the
hands of Professor Foster mt present, and
| still greater Improvement may be looked
| for. =- There was no lyceum Friday
evening on account of the general attend
ance of the students upon Mr. Ragan's illus
trated lecture upon Paris which was fol
| lowed Saturday evening by a lecture upon
| Spain and Morocco Mr.. Raglan is very
entertaining speaker and his views are very
| fine =- We are very sorry to learn that
Mr.. Williber is to leave us. He goes to Yer
| gennes as a night Waterman Mt the reform
school. - Mr.. Newton has come into
the building to board. He adds MATERIAL,
| to our musical department - Room
are already being engaged for the winte
| term. The prospects are that the building
will be well filed this winter.
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Waterbury.-Mr. and Mrs. Paul Dilling-
ham are spending few days in Boston.
- c. X. Richardson of the firm of Rich
ardson & Fullerton went to Boston Mon
day. - F. l.. Knight and Dan C. Rich
ardson, students at st. Johnsbury academy,
have recently made short visits to their
homes. - A report of the meeting of the
State Spiritualist Association in this place
last week is to be found in the current men
ton columns of this paper. 49, A tornado
burst up through Bolton gap Monday morn
ing, drenching the village, twisting off
branches oftrees and taking off the top piece
al the Congregational church spire. -
Miss Bedard of st. Adams is the guest of
Mrs. w. 7. Dillingham;. - Mr.. Dan Kane
Of New York has been spending his VACATION
with his friend Paul Carpenter, who for sew
eral weeks has been a visitor at the home of
his grandfather, Ex-Governor Dillingham;.
- The mud has been scraped up on
Main street between the hotel and the hill
and veneering OF river gravel laid on.
49, Mrs. Joseph Adams, an elderly wo-
man in the "little river" neighborhoo cd
rose from her bed Monday night to go to the
kitchen and by mistake opening the cellar
door, was thrown down the cellar stairs, re-
ceiving severe injuries - Mr.. Warren s
new tanncry is in running order and work
has been resumed. The note of the new
whistle is very agreeable and has the sound
Of life and business. 49, Mrs. Katherine
e. Henry having sold her residence and eff
fects has taken up her abode with her
brother, Mr.. Charles Royce of Springfield
Mass. Mrs. Henry personally and the
members of her family have been very
pleasantly associated with the village life in
the years that have passed. She and they
will be remembered with interest and heart
lily welcomed here, for we hope that auld
acquaintance will not be forgot and days
o. lang syne.'
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Ely.-Thomas Scully quite an old man,
attempted suicide here last Sunday by
shooting himself with a pistol. The ball en-
tered his head, leaving II hole in the skull
through which probe could be passed, but
no ball was felt and he is doing we'll.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-10-15

Tunbridge.-Mis Alice Monkey has re-
turned from the Randolph Normal School
very sick with typhoid fever. - Samuel
Adams is very sick at Albert Taylor's. -
Mrs. Susannah Campbell of New York is
visiting her brother, r. II. Drew. - H.
q. Cushman has lost valuable horse
- Mrs. Ann Cushman is making q short
visit with relatives in Rhode Island. -
The premiums awarded at the fair last week
will be paid in full. - Mrs. o. A. Gay
gave the Band of Hope children fine treat
large gathering Of the friends Of Jessie Grit
fifth at her fathers residence last Friday
evening to celebrate her sixteenth birthday
=M Myrtle Farnham returned from the
White Mountains last Friday. - Byron
Whitney moves into Mason Griffith's house
this week. - Charley Gay and wife start
for Florida to-day. - The late rains did
not help the wells and some of them are
nearly dry.
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East Hardwick.-The telephone line
between here and Hardwick will be COM
pleted next week. - Holden Warner,
who has been surveying government lands
in New Mexico for the past two or three
years, is visiting friends in town. - Mrs.
Wheeler has moved her goods TO ST. Johns
bury and Miss Lumsden has taken possession
of her shop. - w. Wech, who has been
in Hunt x Rabbits store for the past two
years, has left town. We understand he is
to engage in mercantile business at John
son in partnership with G. Harrington in the
store recently owned by X. Mcfarland
John Cannon. - Il. Dow has moved into
NJ. Smiths house. III. Warner and f.
Duncan have closed up their business and
Duncan returns to Cabot to engage in black
smithing with Albert Fort. - S. Russell
has bought the shop near the bridge and
will finish it for dwelling house.
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Worcester.-Mr. Lyman Hinkson had
the misfortune to break his arm the other
day. - Mr.. Il. NJ. Hamblett had the
good luck to find his turkeys on the prem
ises OF Mr.. Loveland in Barre. - Mr.
Orame Cummings has a very sick family,
three OF his children having typhoid fever.
- Benjamin II. Bowman OF Royalton
is in town, the guest of Captain Hutchinson,
procuring powers OF attorney Of old com
rades for the purpose of locating their quar-
ter sections OF government land in Dakota.
His object IL TO get enough to locate a town
ship or more.
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Braintree. - Parish j. Blanchard and
family moved to Middlebury this week.
- j. ID. Williams has moved into his
new house. - The sewing and mite so
afternoon of this week. == Frank Dana
of Boston IN visiting his many relatives and
friends in this vicinity. - Amasa Cross
has sold his place 10 Oliver Rumrill for $500
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Hancock.-Rev. George S. Guernsey will
preach in Hancock next Sunday, October
10th, at one o'clock in the afternoon.
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North Thetford.-It will be communion
day in the Methodist church one week from
Sunday Presiding Elder Cooper will preach
the Word. - The young people are get
ting up another entertainment to come off
before the city boarders leave. 1t it takes
as well as the other, it will be a success.
- Lizzie Baxter has gone to Bristol N,
Jaquith returned home on Monday last
from Boston. - Mrs. Mary Silver has
been visiting friends in East Lyme, n. II.
Roland Morrison from Boston has
moved here and is going to live with his
father, on the farm for year.
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Warren.

THERE came near being two serious
accidents in one family on the east hill
last week. r. 9. Lamb and his father
in-law, Stephen Goodspeed, were getting in
corn last Wednesday, when in some way
portion of the load was tipped off, carrying
with it Mr.. Goodspeed and Eddie, small
son Of Mr.. Lamb. They both fell upon their
heads and were badly hurt. Eddie was car
ried to the house unconscious. Both are
now doing well. On Saturday, NJ. X. Good.
speed was carrying load Of apples to the
cider-mill, and in going down hill tho
front board to the wagon came out, causing
Myron and the apples to fall upon the
horses. They becoming frightened ran,
dragging Mr.. Goodspeed quite distance.
They finally brought up, or rather DOM,
after leveling several lengths of fence for
Mr.. Heath. - Fred Sargent of Massa-
chusetts made brief visit in town last
week. - The funeral services of Mrs.
Charles Porter were held in the church In
this village last Wednesday afternoon, con-
Quoted by Rev. John Buzzel of Fayston.
Mr.. Porter's family have the sympathy Of
all in their deep atflicton. - A telegram
has been received that Mrs. Jonas Sargent
who went to Boston last week TO have a
tumor removed, has passed through tho
operation successfully, and is ~ comfort
able AZ could be expected. The tumor re-
moved weighed fourteen pounds. 80
There are several cases of typhoid fever in
town Among them are Mrs. Hazen Ly-
ford and two daughters of Charles Porter and
VIII Curtis. 80 Mrs. w. A. Averll and
Miss Abbie Wiley have been quite sick dur
ing the past week, as has also been Mrs.
James Levitt.
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Newbury.-Mr. A. +. Fuller OF Maine
has been in town for several weeks. He
was a student OF Newbury Seminary in
1854 - Miss Jennie Pike, daughter OF
Isaac Pike, is very sick, and the physicians
say there is no chance for her to recover.
- Rev. j. II. Winslow and family have
gone to Walden this week on a visit. -
Mr.. Buell. died on Sunday and was buried
on Monday - Mrs. Kinney, formerly Of
this place but now of Coventry, spent few
days in town last week. - Rev. w. w.
Colburn and family of the New England
Conference are spending few weeks at
Willie Baileys. - Mrs. John English is
going to Claremont, N H., to spend the
winter with her daughter. - Mr.. j. A.
Cilley OF Topsham has moved into the New
bury House. - Mr.. John George, the
overseer of the poor, returned last Friday
from a vacation of four weeks. - Rev.
Addison Eastman OF Warren, n. H., Is
making visit with E. G. Stocker and fam
lily. Mr.. Eastman was a student here in
1S48. - Mrs. T. K. Parker of Lyndon
vile is about to open branch millinery
store in the Newbury House. - The old
wooden-back seats which have been used in
Newbury Seminary for the last fifty years
have been removed and new settees put in
| their place. - Mrs. Peasley formerly OF
this town, has been visiting here for the
past week. - Mrs. Houston, who re.
sides here, but is in Michigan among friends
is reported to be very sick and not expected
to recover.
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East Moutpelier.-A friend of David
Fleming, who came from Michigan last week
to reside with him, has been quite i'll since
his arrival. - Mrs. Il. b. Nelson, men
toned last week as visiting her four sisters
for the first time in twenty years, returned
home Saturday, having received u telegram
informing her that her husband had broken
his arm. - young man of our ac-
quaintance who has been accused of devot-
ing his spare time for the past two years to
fishing for Herring, was seen after Trout
last month, but came home not long since
bringing Bass, and gives ii as his opinion
that there are as good fish in the sea as
were ever caught yet" The last specimen
measures five feet eleven and wears a Jer-
sey jacket. - In reference to a recent
item we wish to say, that the mother who
claimed to have used one hundred pounds
of lard this year has discovered that the
three thirty-pound sugar-pails in which she
stored her lard, instead of holding ninety
pounds of lard held only about fifteen
pounds each, and this, with fifteen pounds
purchased, was the amount used But that
is neither here nor there as to the purpose
of the item. Our object was to set people
10 thinking; for, while the ma jority of man.
kind do know that arsenic will poison and
alcohol intoxicate, they do not know that
the excessive use of pork and lard will put
the human system in a condition liable to
develop certain forms of disease. Some
hygienists 90 so far as to maintain that in
those people who habitually eat large guam
titles of pork, the animal nature will pre-
dominate over the moral and intellectual
and they will be given to anger, untruth-
tulness and the like low passions There
is a series of health tracts published by
Drs. Austin and Jackson at Dansville. n
Y, which are worthy of perusal by all who
value good health. - E. p. Mcknight
has sold his chestnut PAGER to Horace Ban
croft of Barre for $500. - One of oul
maiden ladies', who is given to agricultural
pursuits, has succeeded in raising a beet, OF
the mangel-wurtzel variety, which measures
thirty-four inches in length. 1t grew as two
separate beets of equal size for the first few
inches, then joined into one and doubled
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North Montpelier.

Mr.. M. v. b. HoLLIsrER and wife we're
away on visit last week to friends in Dan
vile. - A. j. HOLSTER picked sprig
in his field last week Thursday upon which
was ripe strawberry and one or two bios
soms,-a rare thing at this time Of the year
- Mr.. and Mrs. George Kelton made
short visit to friends in Morrisville and
Stowe, returning home last Sunday. =-
The lecture at our church last week Monday
by Rev. James X. Applebee was very well
attended considering the time used in adj
vertising. His subject was the writings of
Charles Dickens, and the manner in which
he took up and handled the several charac-
ters most prominent In Dickens works
showed him M u delineator second to none
We are assured by the thorough appreciation
evinced during the entire lecture that should
he come again he would have a crowded
house. =- On account of the dark and
stormy night the childrens Sunday-school
concert on Sunday evening was rather
thinly attended, but this did not detract
from its excellence In the least. Those who
were present enjoyed the entertainment
from first to last. The platform upon which
the speakers stood was very finely trimmed
with evergreens and flowers, arranged with
excellent taste, for which thanks are due to
Mrs. Butterheld, the superintendent and
Mrs. HOLSTER, one of the teachers. The
concert is to be repeated next Sunday at
two o'clock p. NJ. - Our village is not yet
to be claSsed as one quite behind the times.
There is at present considerable talk about
fitting up skating rink in the second story
! of the cheese factory. - Henry Martin,
while cutting up some pumpkins for his
stock one day last week, met With quite an
| accident. He was holding the pumpkin
with his left hand against his breast cutting
the same with a large knife in his right
hand, when the knife, slipping through much
easier than he expected. inflicted severe
cash several inches in length across his
n 4 40 pf hi in 70
which in all probability saved him from q
very dangerous wound. - Andrew How.
arth-formerly OF Eorthfield but now Of
Oxford, Mass, where he is the proprietor Of
q large wooden mill-was in town last week
on flying visit to relatives and friends.
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BENNETT ABoR.-Although it il little
Late, yet being guest your correspondent
cannot refrain from giving brief notice of
the marriage of Miss ii. Frank Tabor of East
Montpelier to Mr.. CaSsius G.. Bennett of
Pierre, Dakota, which occurred the 22d of
September at the residence of the brides
mother, Mrs. G. A. Tabor. There We're up
ward of one hundred guests present and
congratulations have been received from
many more. The floral decorations were
very fine. large mound of flowers, very
tastefully arranged, stood in front of the
bridal party, which added much to the fine
appearance of all 1t was indeed pleasant
affair The presents were numerous, con-
sisting of fine assortment of silverware, a
number Of books and fancy work besides
hfty-one dollars III currency. They departed
for their new western home in Pierre the
sixth instant, where he is pleasantly located
in the real estate and loan business They
took with them the best wishes of their
large circle of friends and relatives for a
pleasant journey and prosperous future.
In her departure she leaves behind "a sor-
rowing mother under whose maternal love
and care she has been reared and ever lived.
The tie that bound them together seemed
much stronger than usually exists between
mother and daughter, as she has been her
constant companion since the death OF her
father.
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CheIsea.-The mails now leave for the
south at $50; north, 1880; east, $50 o'clock.
49, Clara r. Allen has gone to Lake
wood, n. j., for the winter. === Eunice
a. Noyes is visiting friends in Boston and
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her sister at East Somervlle, Mass. -
George l.. Stow and wife are visiting at Lob
anon, n ii. = Bertha Rogers, who has
been spending few weeks with her uncle,
William Hood, has returned to her home at
Lowell, Mass. - l.. G.. Hnckley has had
his telephone instrument removed from the
Office To his house. - William Peters and
wife returned from Boston last Saturday
night. =-= Laura Wilson is home ON va
cation from Mclean Asylum, Somerville,
Mass
The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-05-28
No Opium,

EDITOR GAZETTE:-As opium is on the tapis now,
and the question as to licensing it endeavoring
to suppress it, soon will be decided upon If it not
already is, let consider what people i'll the coun-
try heretofore have failed to discover that earnest
and effective measures have steadily been taken
by the police to suppress the use of the poisonous
drug by the Chinese and others. There is no
doubt in the writer's mind that the police in most
country districts are nearly useless appsndage.
What can expect from lot of "dolce far HieHfef
well-fed fgureheads, chosen for makuis on the
hoopilimedai principle2 What from deputy sherifs
at $40 per month with family of children to SUD
port on that? Can they give all their time and all
their thoughts to intercept wrong doers? What
can be expected from a lot of DIdkdis that never
have been taught the first part of detectives
work, and who besides would never think of doing
a thing taking step that they were not ordered
TO do? How about using parties for police, to
whom it is impossible to keep a secretl How
often 1t is that lot of opium is spirited away be-
fore search-warrant for it has been obtained!
At times il seems as though everybody including a
lot of native lawyers, were on the side of the
wrong doer. If planter has lot of work to be
done and lacks labor, he has. to go to Chinese
contractor and let the work out to him. Some of
these contractors peddle out opium TO their men;
they of course some discretion in so doing but
part of their profit comes from furnishing opium
to their employees.
Let us not say that because thus far we have not
been able to suppress the opium traffic, we un-
able to do so. That opium can be kept away to a
great extent from the working people in the coun-
try by providing efficient police force, there
can be very little doubt. The planter will willingly
assist the police as far rs he can. 1t cannot be
expected however that the planter will turn police
man. People once given to opium smoking, viii
have it, let the price be what it will it is therefore
of no to argue that under license the price OF
the drug would be so high that poor people could
not afford to use it. If there is n possibility OF
getting opium, the smokers will have it,
Respectable Chinese are strongly opposed tc
| opium; they should be heard. Because thus fal
the police have not been able to suppress or con
troll the opium traffic, that is not reason why the
doors should be thrown wide open by granting
licenses to sell the drug. A large revenue is moi
desirable when misery and death of the people is
| a necessary concomitant.
Respectfully Yours, KAMA4rSA
The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-05-28
cHAsTG GULICK.
GOVERNMENT LoANl

Minister nf Interior.
rtm-nt Of Interior Mag isih. issi. lnr 81