The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-27
Nafrl,man d gnnrnaL.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1884
Current Mention.

towards the organization of a new savings bank
at st. Albans.
ONE of the former boarders at the Lake View
house, Woodbury., has bought small steam
boat and is fixing it up for use on Woodbury.
lake next season.
The Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany of Montpelier pays tax of seven hun
dred and eighty-one dollars and ninety-five
cents, and the Vermont Mutual about two
thousand dollars
THE gross receipts of the St. Johnsbury
Young Mems Christian Association course for
the season just past we're S1,S15; expenses,
81, ,465-leaving a balance of $3.50 in the associa-
tion treasury. A very coed showing.
A PROMINENT Boston market man says: "All
meat should be removed from the brown paper
in which it is wrapped as soon as it comes
from the market, or it will taste of the paper
and the paper will absorb all the meat juices"
POLITICAL economist in Illinois urges that
bread and butter be eaten upside down. The
sense OF taste is most acute on the tongue, and
by applying the butter to it directly a smaller
quantity will answer and immense saving result
LIE cpiihSuoAu ntpuOttCuU VI w Wcunosuhy
last says: 1.-THE senate to-day confirmed the
nomination Of Stephen weatherlow to be post
master at Seneca Falls, Vt" Will the Repub-
lican give the exact location OF the office
named?
ALL the legal holidays of 1884 will fall on
Thursday and Friday, as follows Good Friday
on the 11th of April; Decoration day on Friday,
May 30; Fourth of July on Friday; Thanksgiv-
ing on Thursday, November 81; Christmas on
Thursday, December 20.
A BILL has passed the national house of rep
resentatives fixing at one cent for each four
ounces the rates for postage on second-class
matter when sent by persons other than pub
Usher or newspaper agent. This is measure
which the public can thoroughly appreciate.
THE Union Trust Company of New York has
begun proceedings to foreclose mortgage
given on the property at Malletts Bay by the
Wakefield varegated Marble Company to Sc
cure bonds amounting to S150,000 issued by
the company. The matter will come up at the
approaching term Of Chittenden county court
THE secretary of the treasury, Thursday
afternoon, issued the one hundred and twenty
elXtu Gall lOT UOuuS lue Gall is IOr tne re-
demption of bonds of the three per cent loan of
1882, and notice is given that the principal and
accrued interest will be paid at the treasury on
the 1st day of May, 1884, and that the interest
will cease on that day.
THE bill to make the department of agri-
culture an executive department, and its chief
officer member of the executive cabinet, has
l>an, 20 tl,nI T.;H 1.
the committee on agriculture. The Office of
" secretary of agriculture" is to be created
with the same salary as the other cabinet Off
GERS, and he is to have an assistant, like the
secretary of the interior, and with the same
salary
REFERRING to articles in a late issue of this
paper, the argus says that THE WATcHMAN
iran helter-skelter for the last ditch" Well,
it was our contemporary we were after, and
we had to seek it in the ditch " or give up the
chase. That it has been driven to the "last
ditch" its late issue undeniably shows. So
THE WATCHMAN' s presence in the miry precints
is fairly accounted for
The Free Press publishes some evidences OF
Burlington's prosperity, and says So, ,OO0, ,OOC
were paid to workingmen in that city last year
and that the Central Vermont railroad man.
agement took from the city for the month Of
October 2627S, 700 pounds of freight-more
than 486 net tons for each business day Of the
month. The October payroll Of some sixty
concerns is given, making a total OF Sl24, 1853
the largest being that of the Shepard & Morse
lumber company. Four of her wholesale
firms do an annual business amounting to ovel
$4,000, OOO
This is how the Burlington Haukeye dis
courses upon recent incident at Montpelier
Last week an engine on Vermont railroad
ran away, with no employees on board and only
one passenger in the coach. Possibly the engine
thought that by starting off alone it might gel
somewhere on time. But it didn't. The habit,
and training of a lifetime are not easily over
come, and the runaway stopped on the mair
line, five miles away from the nearest station
and waited for stray train to come along ant
push it up the HILL" Facts do get a little awry
in travelling West.
THE musical convention at Mortified, las
week Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, unde
the direction Of Professor E. r. Ober of Water
bury was very enjoyable affair." and success
both musicslly and financially. The solosts a
announced were all present, and every on
gave entire satisfaction, the general pro
gramme as laid down being carried out il
every particular. or soloists not announced
Mrs. B. w. Braley Of Barre and Miss Berth
Ober were most enthusiastically received Tn
number from out OF town was probably owe
one hundred, about seventy five being provide
with entertainment by the committee. TIL
officers and Professor Ober deserve and receiv
much credit for the success of the convention.
A BELIEVER in the town system OF school
says: :" Tell the people to keep away from de
signing men. Go to the Statutes, and you vii
find that no fat offices are created. The stat
pays the chairman of each school board, an
the town saves what 1t now pays the superin
tendent OF schools. The town system does no
tear down school-house or stop a single school
Districts are not consolidated, except as thei
inhabitants find that their best interests de
mand 1t. Read the Statutes and learn that uu
der the town system no more than fifty-cen
tax can be raised, and at the same time learl
that the town system simply provides for equa
taxation. Read the law for yourself and finc
that the opposers Of the town system neve
read the full text" Attention is called to
letter upon The Town system of Schools 1