The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-06
Wafrhman & gunrnaL
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1884
Current Mention.

THE members OF the Rutland county bar are
disturbed because the name Of II. W. Love
appears in the directory in the list of lawyers,
and wish to know why this ia thus.
THE American Express Company now issues
money orders as high as fifty dollars. These
are m ade payable at any one Of more than six
thou sand five hundred places in the United
States and Canada, which the remitter may
desire.
THE joint commission on boundaries of the
Troy and Vermont Methodist conferences will
meet April I'd. The Vermont members propose
Burlington as the place Of meeting but will
go to Rutland IL it is preferred by the Troy
members.
ONE Of the most striking illustrations of the
quick re turns sometimes made by advertising
is related by the New Haven Ne,os. Mr.. G. D.
r. Hubbard advertised in tba paper for good,
steady boy, and in two days Mrs. Hubbard
presented her liege lord with young son and
heir. 1t pays to advertise.
THE Fitz.John Porter bill passed the house
by vote of one hundred and eighty -four
to seventy-eight, vermont's representatives.
Messrs Poland and Stewart-voting in the af-
firmative. When Judge Poland voted he was
greeted with round of applause from the
democratic side of the house.
COMPANY l, second regiment, of Vermont vol
unteers, formerly commanded by Colonel F.
V. Randall, will hold reunion in this place
one week from tomorrow night. They will
have a campfire, and this will probably be fol-
lowed by banquet for the members of the
company and invited guests
A MOVEMENT is on foot to organize ver-
mont amateur press association. There is a
good field in the state for such an organization,
and its membership would be large If all should
join it who would properly come under this
classification, although the present association
might suffer some as the result
THE Brattleboro correspondent of the Spring.
field Republican, who affects to know all about
state politics in general, and the next COVER
norship in particular, speaks of the candidacy
of estate Treasurer Nichols" If this dis
ringuished correspondent knows as much about
the politics OF the state as he evidently does
about the present incumbents of state offices,
he must be perfect mine of interesting infor-
nation.
IT is now plain that it has been over fifty
thousand years since the creation, and not six
thousand, rs some, who are simple enough to
believe, would have us think. There can be no
doubt about + this time as DR.. Earl Flint has
discovered some footprints in quarry in Mic
aragua which he says were made at least fifty
thousand years ago. How perfectly convinc-
ing is this statement Let all unbelievers now
.Ja %l,os- l., e. .l.n
settled
Hon. L. P. POLAND has introduced bill in
the house directing the secretary of war to
amend the war record of Harrison Dewey, late
second lieutenant of Company E. Second Regi-
ment, Vermont Volunteers, 80 as to grant him an
honorable discharge Also to correct the record
of Frank Greenwood, late private in Com
pany H. Third Regiment of Vermont volun-
teers, by removing the entry of desertion and
entering that said Greenwood was honorably
discharged.
WE referred last week to the fact that the
present state superintendent of education was
being " mentioned" for the governorship, and
now Springfield correspondent says: "Justus
Dartt, state superintendent of education, is
mentioned in some quarters as possible can
didate for the governorship. If he will con-
sent to have his name used, few men within
our borders would 30 fittingly fill that position
and no man can so fully command the respect
and support of the large class of our citizens in
this state who now follow agricultural pur-
SUITS
SOME one. who has evidently had experience
in such matters, gives the following as an ideal
plumbers bill Fixing up Smiths busted
pipes, to wit: Going to see the job. 81; coming
back for tools and help, $2 finding the leak,
$1.5O; sending for more help. $1,25; going back
for solder forgotten, 81 30; bringing the solder,
81; burned my finger, 50; lost my tobacco, fifty
cents; getting to work, So; getting my assist.
ants to work, 50 30; fixing the pipe twenty
five cents; going home, $3.50; time, solder,
wear and tear on tools, overalls and other
clothing, So; total, $23.50
"WIsE men make proverbs and fools repeat
them" The Manchester Journal and the Mes
senger, doing in their chimney corners, wake
up long enough to remind their brethren, with
Bunsbyan air, that they should :" catch their
rabbit before making rabbit stew" This Is
supposed to have some reference to state poll
tics. Onr wise contemporaries seem to be
laborine under a two-fold difficulty slothful.
ness and want Of confidence in their ability to
distinguish rabbit from less savory animal
and 80 prefer to suck their thumbs or live on
broken victuals," rather than brace up and
venture out on the trail for material for more
satisfying diet.
CIRCUMSTANCES connected with the recent
disappearance of one Hermann Krauser, a Ger
man resident OF Grand Isle indicate that he
has been the victim of foul play. Something
over week ago he was visited by Oscar Won
Blumendale, felow-countryman from st. Al
bans, who on his return to that place, induced
Krauser to come across the lake with him
They came as far as Lapham's bay since which
time nothing had been seen or heard of Krau
ser. The latter had about eight dollars on hii
person, and after the two had been away som'
time, Won Bumendale returned and procured
an axe, a rope, a large stone and hand sled
A handkerchief belonging to him was founC
covered with blood, and he was afterwards seel
with some of Krausers clothing on.
CANDIDATES for the governorship are gettinJ
to be about as plenty on the east side of tn
state as colonels. and almost every editoria
column has boom for some one lurking amon
its paragraphs on various harmless subjects