The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-16
BY w. w. PRESCOTT.

The first half of the school year OF st. Johns
bury academy closed with examinations on
Thursday and Friday of last week, and pub
lie meeting of the two literary societies con-
nected with the school on Friday evening. |
The attendance OF the term has been very |
large three hundred and six names being en- |
rolled. The school is to be congratulated, not |
only for its efficient corps of instructors, but
also for the high moral tone which seems to
prevail among the scholars.
PREPARATIONS for the winter carnival in
Montreal, beginning February 4, are far ad-
vanced. The central tower of the ice palace is
raised to the height of about fifty feet and the
walls about thirty feet A leading amuse-
ment will be the attack upon the ice palace,
Wednesday night, by snow-shoe brigade,
thirteen hundred strong. Provision has been
made to defend 1t by disciplined troops, who
will be supplied with fireworks and rockets.
The snow-shoers, who will make the attack
from the outside, will also be provided with
fireworks
In the case of the Central Vermont Us. the
Montpelier g. Wells River railroad, which was
tried before commissioners last summer, the
point at issue being as to the matter of
through train, the commissioners modestly
charged twenty-five dollars per day and ex-
penses for their valuable services. The case
came before the Chittenden county supreme
court on the plea that these charges were ex-
cessive and the court sustained that view, cut
ting the price down to fifteen dollars per day
and expenses We doubt II there will be any
L., nil f,
serve, even at that figure.
AN accident occurred last week Tuesday az
ternoon on the St. Johnsbury & Lake Cham
plain railroad, about a mile and half west OF
Highgate. Mr. John Butler OF Hghgate was
on his way home from Swanton, and, in at
tempting to drive over a crossing, was struck
by the express train. His horse was killed
and he was thrown in the ditch. When picked
up he was found nsensble with a deep wound
on the back of his head, and has since died.
He was quite deaf, and it is believed was not
aware of the approach Of the train, as the
crossing was upon curve where the track was
only visible for few rods in each direction.
Mr.. Butler was brother OF James Butler,
station agent at Highgate, and was well-known
in Franklin county.
DURING the past summer Colonel Levi X.
Fuller of Bratteboro has given the whole SUBJ
ject OF sewing-machines a careful study, going
over the entire range of machines in the mar
ket and as a result has designed and made a
very simple and beautiful machine Those
who have seen it say that it will not only rank
alongside of the New Home and Domestic
which are acknowledged to stand at the head
of the market, but that it goes even farther
and in many important particulars will exec
them all. The sewing-machine company il
now engaged in fitting up machinery to manu-
facture this new machine, which will probably
be ready for market the coming spring. The
name of the new machine will probably be tht
"Fuller Model " of the Estey.'
The "nutcake of our grandfatbers, which
has always been regarded as simply one of the
effective agents by which strong men were
made into dyspeptics, will be invested with 6
new interest when the good housewives dis
cover that it is liable to act the part of tn,
miniature bomb-shell and wreck any well
regulated kitchen without moments warn
ing. That the danger is real and near at hand
will be seen when we relate that while Mrs
Nellie Keeler of Hyde Park was frying dough
nuts, one of them exploded, with report quit
loud, small pieces of the doughnut and mucl
of the lard in the kettle flying all over tn
room aud burning Mrs. Keeler in several place
on her face hands and arms. We trust tina
"doughnut explosions will not add to tn
calamites of 1884
OUR Gaysville correspondent writes: "Tw
young fellows, one named Broughton and tn
, other Hafford, went up Stony Brook fey
weeks ago. Broughton represented himself a
Sheriff Jones from South Royalton and Haffor
? personated a detective from Boston. They or
tered the house occupied by Alonzo Packard
telling Mrs. Packard that they were in scare
of a horse-thief and wished to search her hous'
showing her some papers which they said wer
search-warrants. She suspected nothing wron
and gave them leave to go through the house
which thay did pretty thoroughly. They the
went to Rufus Mack's residence where the
went through with the same role. On Tue
day they were arrested and put under bono
for appearance at court, which convenes tn
: 22d of this MONTH"
, The Rutland Herald seems to agree with Til
WATCHMAN that the loud professions OF ind
pendence recently made by the Argus al
q simply the imaginations Of its own concet.
says: "The Argus poses as an independel
newspaper; it was once an independent new
paper, and that was during the war, wht
! its convictions placed it honestly and sincerel
- we grant, in opposition to the war for Il
>, Union. The only knowledge we have of
subsequent independence is that once describe
= by the late Artemas Ward. Said Artemas:
met man in a bar-room in Nevada who hi
killed eleven men in the course of his expel
ence, and who on the day of my arrival had C
~ open the bowels of his own brother, and ye
ID continued Mr.. Ward this man was gent
IL man. know he was, because | heard hi
D. say 80 several times"
- ANOTHER legal step was taken last we
70 toward establishing the relationship of Jol
Stewart of Johnson to the late Alexander
Stewart OF New York city in proving his clal
to a share in the estate. On petition of t
d. claimant, Judge Taft Of the supreme court pl
'u ceeded to Granville to take the testimony
Is Mrs. Isabel Cosgrove, in relation to the cai
oi The claimant was present In person, wi
81 counsel. Mrs A. 7. Stewart and Judge Hit
at were represented by Judge Horace Russell
iE New York city and Noble Smith of
e, A1hana Mra Cnaorova'a teatimonv uaa