The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-17
Current Mention.

mont is unusually heavy just now.
THE Sauveur School of Languages will be
located at Burlington again next year.
THE late Judge Parker of Burlington was
insured in the New York Life Insurance
company for $4,000.
RECEIVER RICH of the st. Albans Trust
Company is making up another dividend,
which will be declared in the early part of
next month.
Mr.. SPARHAwK of West Randolph re-
ceived his insurance policy on Friday, De-
cember 9TH, and at the moment the alarm of
fire was sounded on Saturday, the 9Th he
was in Mr.. McWain's office paying him for
the same.
ROBERT j. BURDETTE, the humorist of the
Burlington Hdlokeye, recently lectured at
West Randolph. He was to have received
500, but gave $75 from the amount for the
benefit of sufferers by the recent conhagra-
ton there.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER E. b. DwINELL re-
ports the following sales of liquor at the
several town agencies for the quarter ending
November 1st: Marshfeld, $113.59 North
pelier, $370.45; Barre, S777.7S.
GEORGE MASON of Walden, aged twelve
years. accidentally shot himself while play
ing with a loaded pistol last Sunday morn
ing, and died the same night. DIR. j. M.
Sanborn was called to attend him. The
funeral will be held to-day wednesday,
The usual commemoration of forefathers'
day will take place at Middlebury, under
the auspices of the Middlebury Historical
Society. President Hamlin is expected to
deliver the address. This will be the forty
second consecutive observance of the day.
WE make new announcement this week
which is commended to the attention of our
readers. Such an opportunity to secure
good reading for mere trifle is not often
presented. We cannot promise this chance
for any definite length of time and it should
be improved at once.
WALToNs VERMONT REGISTER AND BUsI-
NESS DIRECTORY for 1885 is among the many
publications arriving, which indicate the
approach of the new year. The Register
contains the usual amount and kind of in
formation which make this publication val
liable to all classes of people.
THE University of Vermont can undoubt-
edly claim the oldest college student in the
United States. Rev. j. c. Wilder entered
the class of 80, but was unable to finish his
course. He has just joined the class of So,
and although he is in his eighty-third year
he seems full of enthusiasm for the compile
tion of his course.
A SPECIAL Christmas poultry train will
be run over the Central Vermont line this
week for the accommodation of shippers at
points between Ogdensburg and White
River Junction, Rchford and St. Albans
and on the Rutland division. The special
poultry train at Thanksgiving time over
this line carried five hundred tons of poultry
ORLEANS county is thoroughly stirred uI
over the location of the shire and the news
papers of the county, the Express, Monitor
and Pdlladittm, are having regular family
quarrel on the subject. The locating com
mittee begin their labors with public hear
ing at Barton this evening. Hon. w. p
Dillingham;, Waterbury, is counsel before
the committee for Barton Landing.
THE Boston Journal says that each news
paper publisher receives the munifcent sun
of S25 from the state for spreading the rec
ord of the legislature before the people
The Journal correspondent ought to know
that a different law on this subject wa
passed two years ago, and that newspaper
are now paid according to their circulation
When the state does a fair thing it ought t.
have the credit for it.
WE have received from e. G. Parmeee o.
Georgetown, Col, a copy of the Register
CAL, in which we find the following item
marked: "The Vermont legislature has ad
journed, after a session Of eight months L
is charged that it was completely controlled
by the railroads and refused to pass a bill
establishing railroad commission" Thi
reads like an item from the Springfield
Republican, a mixture oftruth and exaggera
ton.
The catalogue of the University of Yer
mont contains the names of one hnndre,
sixteen academic and two hundred thirt
medical students-a larger total than eve
before. There are twelve ladies among tn
number A series of receptions is to b
given to the citizens of Burlington in tn
tOlltBt DullhlHS unutl bnt uliSplCtS Ol ln
University battalion. The first will be hell
/, next Friday evening when an interesting
programme will be rendered.
+, IT is rumored that a fast train will be rui
in few days from Boston to Chicago vi
, the Central Vermont railroad and tn
, Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain railroad
and that the time from st. Albans +
: Ogdensburg will be three and one-hal
y hours, including stoppages at six station
. and three times for water. The distance i
one hundred forty-three miles, making tn
: actual running time about three hours-a
q average of nearly fifty miles per hour.
;. AN early anecdote OF Larkin G. Meade
1 the sculptor, is the subject of poem in tn
forthcoming January Harper's from the pc
of Wallace Bruce. As a boy he built c
snow on the village green the figure q
e " The Snow Angel" and long afterwards
= in Italy, fulfilled in marble this dream G
n his youth, Mr.. Meade is Vermonter b
'- birth, native Of Brattleboro. The marbl