The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-09
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 0, 1884.
Current Mention.

OF barbed wire fence to warn off the colts.
A NEW postal card will shortly be issued. 1t
will be smaller, of better material, more beau
tiful in design and of blush tint.
THE states of Colorado, Delaware, Florida,
Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont
have less than one-half the population OF
Illinois, but have the same number of represen-
tatives in congress-twenty-two
MESSENGER: "The Cdledonian nominates
the editor of the Newport Express for secretary
of state. The Newport Express should now
nominate the editor of the Cdledonian for some
thing, then honors will be tolerably easy"
REFoRMER: Frederick Billings of Wood
stock, B. F. Ffield of Montpelier and B. D.
Harris OF Brattleboro-as things look now
are pretty certain to represent this side Of the
mountain in the republican delegation to
Chicago"
A REPORT comes up from Windham county
that Speaker Martin is likely to fill one of the
easy chairs in the senate chamber this fall,
and that Colonel George W. Hooker may oc-
cupy his old seat in the house once more. So
mote 1t be.
THE Bradford Opinion man, and some others
in the state who are issuing illustrated editions,
should take warning from the experience of
others. The news now comes to us that the
editer of a Madrid comic journal has been sen
fenced to eight years imprisonment for pub
fishing an offensive caricature of King Alfonso.
THE selectmen of st. Adams have increased
the reward for the discovery Of the body of
Krause, the man who is supposed to have been
murdered recently at Grand Isle, to one hun
dred dollars. There is yet possibility that
the body may be in such a condition and loca-
ton as to serve the purpose Of completing the
evidence in this case when discovered
A CORRESPONDENT of the Windsor Journal,
who signs himself as Essex County," adds
the name of Hugh Henry of Chester to the list
of candidates for the governorshp, with the
remark that |" he belongs to no ring or clique,
but is a plain, strong man of the people, who
like his independence and honesty" The same
is true of large number of good men in
the state.
{" ME miserable! Which way shall fly! Which
way l fly lis not paradise. Here is the Gale
donidn declaring that we are "pure unaduter-
ated, inconsistent gall "-(Query, Gaul ?)-
because we don't know more about DR.. Nichols
private business; and the doctors neighbors
are badgeripg US because we know, or insin-
uate, 80 much that amt So" We resign this
branch of the business to our Newport and St.
Johnsbury contemporaries
THERE are many of our subscribers who
ought to be receiving Good Cheer, but who fail
to do 80 because they do not pay for THE
WATCHMAN a full year in advance. Remember
that this twenty-page monthly will cost you
nothing If you will remit enough to pay for THE
WATCHMAN to date which is one year in ad-
vance of the time of making the remittance
that date now being April, 1885. This offer is
for all subscribers, new or old.
THE worst fears of the public about the fnan-
cial standing of the First National Bank of St.
Albans have been realized, and that institution
closed it doors yesterday morning Drafts in
Boston first went to protest last Friday, and a
large number followed suit Monday. IL is
rumored that unfortunate operations in Wall
street are the direct cause of this latest down.
fall. st. Albans is now left without any bank,
all three of its banking institutions having
failed. There are rumors that the bank in
Swanton, and also one in Pattsburg, have
failed.
THE town superintendents of Lamoille county
met at Hyde Park the 1st instant. The follow
ing towns were represented Stowe Rev. W.
L. Anderson; johnson, B. A. Hunt Wolcott,
Emma Tillotson; Morristown, g. M. Powers
Hyde Park, R. w. Hulburd. The rules and
regulations of last year we're adopted, and the
time for spring examination fixed for Saturday,
An.H ntl, ID Wy
and G. M. Powers were appointed county ex-
aminers. 1t will be seen that only one-half OF
the superintendents in the county were present
at this meeting.
THE commission appointed by the Vermont
and Troy conferences of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church to consider the vexed boundary ques.
tion met at Burlington last Wednesday and
left the matter just where they found it. There
were five delegates from each organization, and
on every question of Importance the vote
stood five to five, regular electoral commits
sion style of doing business. This result re.
mands the case to the general conference, which
in case of such failure to agree upon the part
of a joint commission, becomes the court oi
final adjudication.
The school superintendents of Orange county
met at Chelsea, April 1st, and organized witt
the choice of B. NJ. Weld of Thetford, chair
man, and j. Arnold Keyes of Chelsea, secre
tary. list of questions for spring and fall
examinations was prepared, and April 26 and
November 22 were selected as the dates for tn,
examinations P. E. Grow OF Randolph b. M
Weld of Thetford and E. w. Goodhue of Wells
River were elected county examining board
for the ensuing year 1t was voted to require
an average of seventy per cent, five per cen
more than last year.
THE post-office department has issued gen
eral order, directed to all postmasters, on th
subject Of illegbe postmarks. The orde
states that constantly recurring complaints
have been made to the department from bust
ness men and others regarding the failure Of
postmasters to postmark in legible name
mail matter deposited in their Offices" II cite
the regulation on this subject, and require
postal clerks to hereafter report all cases o.
illegbe postmarks to the division superinten
dent, through whom such violations of tn
postal laws will be reported to the department
OUR enterprising Deighbor's report of tn
doings Of the republican state committee /
stripped OF the only remaining point whicl