The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-10
urday afternoon at half-past two All are in
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chanic streets.
Mrs JAMES s. PECK went yesterday to Loon
Lake, N. Y, to visit friends there She will |
be absent three or four weeks.
GEORGE II. RoLFE is the present usher at |
Christ church. Mr.. Rofe fills the vacancy oc- |
casioned by the departure Of +. NJ. Kendall.
MEssRs IRISH e. SPARROW have recently |
purchased fine pair Of gray horses, which are
to be driven with the Montpelier House hack.
EVENING services at Bethany church will
hereafter begin at seven O'Clock instead of at
half-past seven, which has been the hour of
service during the summer.
OWING to the numerous entertainments of
the present week, the regular open-air concert
by the band will be omitted Next week
fine programme will be given.
II is the intention of a large number of our
citizens to visit the Howard Park fair at Bur-
lington this week. The large majority OF them
will go down tomorrow, which is the "large
day."
WE have received from Mr. j. H. Burpee,
who is travelling in the West in the interest OF
the Montpelier Carriage Company, copies of
western papers, for which we make due ac-
acknowledgement.
IT is expected that Rev James Kay Apple
bee, to whom our people listened with 30 much
pleasure last winter, will deliver a course Of
four lectures in this village some time in Octc-
ber and November.
THERE Is on exhibition in one of the windows
of the First National Bank cornstalk twelve
and one-half feet in height which grew in the
garden OF Hon. J. A. Page, in this village. 1t
was pulled up before 1t had attained its growth
JOHN EWING, who lives on Clay hill, was ar
rested for intoxicatiou Friday, and after his
trial was again arrested for an assault on his
wife. On the same day he also created a sem
sation in his Deighborhood by swapping gun
at and threatening some children.
A Il
night announced that G. w. Selinas of this
place had broken a leg few inches below
the knee and would be home on the midnight
train We are unable to learn any further
particulars at the hour Of going to press.
HENRY E. CoFFRIN, painter, while intoxi-
Gated fell through the railroad bridge which
crosses Worcester Branch, last Friday, and re-
ceived serious wettipg. Officer T. ]. Keegan
told him to 60 home, but was subsequently
obliged to arrest him. Coffrin disclosed on
Lane, but no offence was proved.
THE twentieth anniversary OF the beginning
OF the work which resulted in the organization
OF the Church of the Messiah in this place is to
be observed by the preaching of commemora-
tive discourse in that church, next Sunday
morning, by Rev Charles A. Allen of New
Orleans. Mr.. Allen will also preach in the
evening.
Mr.. Fl. CLARENCE EDDY. the noted organist,
gave pleasant recital in Seminary chapel last
Wednesday. Mr.. Eddy expressed himself
much pleased with the organ, and pronounced
1t fine instrument. The class in instrumental
music at the Seminary numbers over sixty five
pupils this term, and the two vocal classes
about fifty
PROFESSOR ]. R. BRACKErT, formerly prin-
cipal of the Union school but for the past year
at North Adams, Mass, was reelected for
another year with an increased salary, but has
preferred to accept the chair of English litera-
ture in the University of Colorado. His friends
here will be pleased to learn of this deserved
promotion.
ABOUT eighty skaters from this place " took
| in the opening of the new rink at Barre, last
Thursday evening, going thence by special
| train They were met at the Barre depot by
the Barre band and escorted to the rink
| Complimentary admission tickets with skate
check were furnished the Montpelier visitors,
and they were Hospitality entertained Music
was furnished for skating during the evening.
| The rink closed promptly at ten o'clock, and
at quarter past ten the train left for Mont
peier.
| A SHORT time since Mr.. Dennis Lane pur-
chased for 81 800 the water privilege near the
outlet OF Berlin pond The bailiffs concluded
that 1t would be for the interest of the village
to own this privilege, and Mr.. Lane has very
| generously transferred it to them for Just what
he paid, together with the accrued interest,
| making the price 81 ,526 30. The baiiffs have
I shown good judgment in making this pur-
| chase, and our citizens will appreciate Mr.
| Lanes public spirit in declining to take any
advantage of the situation.
YESTERDAY we were shown novel specimen
OF needlework. 1t consisted Of the Lord 8
Prayer written with white thread upon a
! square OF purple silk The work was done by
Z. X. Meader Of this place upon a No. New
American sewing machine, without marking
or even turning the cloth to form the letters.
The chirography is exceptionally good and the
whole work is remarkable for its symmetry.
| At the top Of the square Is cluster Of flowers
| produced in the samo manner as the written
text. The whole is an ingenious production
| LETTERS uncalled for at Montpelier, Vt, post
office September g. 1884: Lsdies-Mrs. Nancy
Cummings, Mrs, Nora ]. Colby, Mrs. O. A.
Cummins, Miss Laura A. Eastman, Mrs. M. M.
Jones, Miss NJ. G. Toomy, Ida NJ Trotter Miss
| Matte L. Wade, Miss Lie William and Miss An
ME L. Young Gentlemen-H. N. Bosworth, Mer-
ritt NJ. Covell, o. NJ. Donaldson, w. Jackson, C.
B. Morse. Frank Mead, Rev. j. J. Noe, DR.. ]. Z.
Robinson, Oliver Rich, E. D. Seaver, &. S.
Turner, A. W. Woodbury. and Pliney o. Whea-
ton. Parties applying, for any Of the above
must say advertised and give the date.
| GEORGE w. WING, Postmaster.
THE excursion to Newport and Bay View
| Park on Saturday was grand success in point
| of numbers and in other respects, so far as the
officials of the Montpelier Wells River rail-
road were concerned. but owing to delays upon
| inc blthlntT Nv NbWpOFt tnt return train QlQ
not reach Montpelier till early Sunday morn
ing About two hundred and fifty tickets were
sold from this station and some two hundred
| more from Barre, and there were in all about
seventeen carloads from the line Of the Wells
River road. With the exception of the delay
at Newport the trip was very pleasant one.
ABRAM P. MORRILL,, a well-known citizen OF
this village committed suicide yesterday by
| taking laudanum at his residence on North
Main street. Mr.. Morrill, has been resident
| OF Montpelier for twenty years, and during
| the entire period has been an employe OF the
Lane Manufacturing Company, being a ma
chinist by trade. Twenty.six years ago he
gether with daughter. Mrs. William II. Best,
| survive him. He was member Of Vermont
Lodge, Independent Order OF Odd Fellows, and
also Of Aurora Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma
sons. Mr. Morrill, was well provided with this
worlds goods, and was held in high estimation
by all who knew him The most pleasant rela-
tions existed between himself and his family
and no cause can be assigned for the deed
except mental arrangement. His age was
| fifty-six years. Funeral services will be held
from the house tomorrow, probably at two
| o'clock.
TOMORROW Thursday evening the opera,
| "The Sleeping Queen by Balfe, will be pre-
sented at Capital Hall by the Montpelier Opt ra
| Company. The company comprises Mrs. w.
| A. Briggs, Misses jamie Kimbal and Mary A.
Phinney, and Messrs +. w. Bancroft and A. N.
| Wheelock presenting an array of talent rarely
found outside Of the large cities All except
Mis- Phinney appear in the opera. Previous
| TO the opera there will be fine miscellaneous
| concert, in which Miss Phinney will take prom-