The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-04

Joel Foster and s. C. Shurtleff, Montpelier.
The directors report was accepted and adopted.
At the directors meeting d. r. Sortwell was
elected president; S. s. Thompson, vice-presi-
dent; Joel Foster, secretary and treasurer;
w. A. Stowell. general superintendent Fred |
W. Morse, cashier and general freight and |
passenger agent; Fl. W. Whitcomb, superin- |
tendent of transportation.
COLONEL GEORGE W. HOOKER is quoted in |
Washington as saying: "In case Edmunds |
should be the nominee would at once use my |
influence as member Of the national COM |
mittee to spike the big democratic gun about |
federal assessments and blood money by issu- |
ing an order that not one dollar should be re- |
ceived from any holder Of Office, either by |
assessment or through voluntary contributions,
and allow the candidates and the party to run
before the people strictly on their merits In
case this plan should be adopted and rigidly
adhered to, the benefit received by the party
for steadfastly giving proof of cvil-service
reform would be Of far more consequence than
the effect of money on the campaign at large
The nomination Of John Sherman would not
however, in the least surprise me-"
IT is estimated that nearly one hundred
vermonters are in Chicago this week. In sd-
dition to the delegates and their alternates are
the following well-known gentlemen Hon.
j. L. Mason of Richmond; Hon. c. W. Writers
and Hon. ]. P. Clark of Milton; Hon. J. D.
Hatch, General William Wells, Hon. c. M.
Spaulding, Captain Buel Derby, DR.. Walter
Carpenter, Hon. George II. Bgelow and A. G.
Pierce of Burlington; Colonel Fred E. Smith,
]. w. Brock, c. w. Porter and Arthur Ropes
OF Montpelier; DR.. w. W. Hutchns, General
c. L. Marsh, Hon. A. W. Woodwork and Olin
Merrill of Enosburgh; Captain P. D. Blodgett,
j. H. Drew and Hawln Paddock of St. Johns
bury; Colonel George T. Childs and F. S. Stran-
ahan of St. Adams; George H. Babbitt of
Bellows Falls; Philip X. Gleed Of Morrisville;
AS one way of whistling to keep up its cour-
age, the Argus talks loftily about the whole
some castigations and the dressing down"
which it has given to this paper. This cheerful
view of the situation recalls very forcibly the
story of a slight unpleasantness between an
editor and man who was aggrieved at some
thing which appeared in his paper. The in
counteri "By an adroit movement first
succeeded in entwining my hair about the
editors fingers and giving several vigorous
pulls; then made a pass and struck my left
eye against his right fist with terrible force;
next repeatedly drove my ribs against his
clenched fist, and ended the contest by holding
him down on top Of me with my proboscis
between his teeth gave him terrible drub-
bing, assure you" We commend this little
incident to the careful consideration of our
esteemed contemporary
THE June term of Orange county court
opened at Chelsea on Tuesday last. The jury
calendar contains fifty.nine cases. We give
below the list Of grand and Petit jurors: Grand
jurors-Bradford, Cyrus Stearns: Braintree Ira
Mann; Brookfeld, Marcus Peck; Chelsea,
Thomas Godfrey and II. Cabot Corinth. Fred
erick Eaton; Fairlee w. II. Kibbey Newbury,
Jonathan j. Smith; Orange, N. G. Waterman; /;
Randolph, c. R. Granger; Strsfford, Burleigh
H. Smith; Thetford Harvey Dodge; Topsham,
George E. Newton; Tunbridge, Lewis Dicker-
man. Vershire, William F. Maltby; Washing
ton, John A. Stanley; West Fairlee, Asa NJ
Child; Williamstown, c. U. Lathrop. Petit
iurors-Bradford, T. Renfrew and John Nor
cross; Braintree, A. X. Mcintyre and V. l.
Spear; Brookfeld, Ira Carpenter and M. p
Gaylord; Chelsea, Dudley Cabot and E. B.
Robbins; Cornth, M. ]. Butterfeld and Frank
Taplin; Fairlee, N. M. Renfrew and NJ. E.
Rugg; Newbury, Dexter S. Fulton and G. w.
X. Carldon Orange, j. M. Dickey and Chaun-
cey Cutler; Randolph, J. M. Pember and E. O.
Hebard Strafford, D. K. White and A. j..
Morey; Thetford, s. G. Smith and G. s.
Worcester; Topsham, o. P. Dickey and A. T.
Smith Tunbridge, F. Butterfield and George
W. Preston; Vershire, c. c. Cotton and d. T.
Bunker; Washington, A. L. Skinner and c.
Dickey; West Fairlee, J. N Kimball and A.
Southworth; Williamstown, w. s. Covell and
| W. z. Pratt
A SPECIAL dispatch to the Boston Globe
speaks thus of the meeting of the friends of
Edmunds at Chicago: "The meeting lasted
about an hour and broke up amid great enthu-
siasm. The meeting has made great impress
sion upon the friends of the other candidates,
and it has freely dissipated the delusion that
the Edmunds men are not in earnest. Many
remarks are made at the contrast between the
| Beutlon6u pttsont III tno foTuOut nchuQuhIt6fh
this afternoon and the ward politicians headed
by Commissioner Evans and Bill Chandler, who
fill the Arthur headquarters In the same hotel
with tobacco smoke. The business aptitude
which the promoters of the Edmunds boom ex-
hibit greatly disturbs the Blaine and Arthur
managers, who have supposed that they had a
monopoly Of practical politics and that the
Edmuuds men were merely theorists and
literary felers' The truth Is that the Ed
munds partisans at this convention are a
curious mixture of idealists and sharp poll
ticians, while Curtis, Schurz and some of the
rest may well be called political cranks. Gov.
ernor Smith, Mr.. Billings, Governor Proctor
and Colonel Hooker are men of affairs, who
in the little state of Vermont have learned all
the arts which are to be learned in conducting
a campaign. What they don't know about
practical politics is hardly worth knowing. II
is cold day when they get left at home, and
they do not propose to get left in the rehearsal
field II they know themselves, AS an instance
of the attention which they are paying the
smallest details, a careful canvass is being
made of each delegation, and the sentiments
Of each member have been sounded"
A CASE which is trifling In itself, but which
involves point Of considerable interest, has
arisen in this village. Friday Of last weeh
John Hardigan was arrested and committed tS