The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-19
Current Mention.

READ carefully the premium offers at the
head of this column.
THE annual meeting of the Vermont State
Agricultural Society will be held at St.
Albans to-day wednesday,.
ANY party wishing to purchase first
class engine of eight horse power will do
we'll to call at The WATcHMAN office.
WE are indebted to Mr.. Willis Bliss of
Cornth for several fine specimens of natural
fruit grown upon apple trees which have
been cultivated by himself.
SOME good wood is wanted at this Office in
payment of subscriptions. Those who are
anxious to settle their accounts in this way
are requested to attend to it at once.
Hon. DANIEL ROBERTS, receiver of the
First National Bank of st. Adams, began in
the United States court last week large
number of suits against the stockholders
and debtors of the bank.
FREE PRESS: "The letter carriers are
having hard road so travel. Each one is
stopped on every trip by some democrat
who hauls out a piece of tape and COM
mences measuring torsee if the uniform will
fit him.
THE members of DIR. Sauveur's school left
in Burlington last season S25, 900 at the low
est estimate, and some of the people of that
city quite naturally think it worth while to
make vigorous effort to secure the school
there permanently.
THE new skating rink at North Montpe-
lier is to be formally opened to the public
on Wednesday evening of next week. Mu-
sic will be furnished by the Marshfield cor
net band. A cordial invitation is extended
to the public in general
WE are in receipt of the thirty-second an
nual announcement of the medical depart
ment of the University OF Vermont and State
Agricultural College for the year 1886. To.
gether with the announcement is published
catalogue of the alumni from 1854 to 1884
FRANK HARRIS, who was appointed com
missioner for Vermont to represent the col
ored people of this state at the New Orleans
exposition, finds himself embarrassed by
southern prejudice against his people. The
Massachusetts commissioner Tor the colored
people has resigned because of discrimina
tions by the managers of the exposition
against the interests Of that race, and there
is a prospect that the whole affair will be
failure, so far as the colored people are con
cerned for this very reason.
WEDNESDAY night j. III. Holders safe il
Barrett & Holden's store, MiddleseX, wa
robbed of 500 to $500 and several papers, o
no value except to the owner. The from
door of the store was opened with the aid o
a jimmy" and the safe was broken opei
without the aid of powder. The combina
tion handle was knocked off and the spindle
driven through. The dog was then cut off
the bolts drawn, and the door thereby lef
free to swing on its hinges. The robbery
was not discovered until Thursday morning
and there is no clue to the perpetrators
THE examination of teachers for Wash
ington county will be held at the court hous
IN Montpelier, November 2S and 90 at TEL
o'clock in the forenoon. pursuant to law, TO
those who wish a county license for fiv
years. Candidates for this examination
must be twenty years of age, if men, an,
eighteen years, II women; must bring test
monials from the town superintendents VIII
granted their certificates and from the com
mittee who hired them showing they hav
taught successfully for at least ten weeks
and approving their moral character" lie
them also be prompt in attendance.
SATURDAY night the store of j. II. GeoYg
at East Hardwick was entered and the SAT
therein was broken open and robbed Of 81