The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-03

THERE are fifty-eight telephone subscribers
Of the St. Johnsbury exchange at St. Johns
bury eight at Lyndonville and eleven at Lyn-
don. There are toll stations at st Johnsbury
Center East st. Johnsbury, Passumpsic, Dam
vile, West Danvile, North Concord, West
Concord, wheelock, Sheffield, East Burke,
Miles Pond and Victory; and CRANKY. Glover,
Barton Landing, Barton, Irasburgh, Coventry
and Newport will be connected this month
All except the last seven named are now in
communication with the Montpelier, Burling-
ton and St. Albans exchanges.
AT the general inspection Of the First Regi-
ment at Brattleboro, by Generals Peck and
Kingsley, the different companies we're marked
as follows the standard Of perfection being
one hundred Company A, Rutland, ninety;
Company B, St. Albans, eighty-four; Company
G, Brandon, seventy-fve; Company D, st.
Johnsbury eighty-eight; Company Z, Bur-
lngton, eighty; Company F, Mortified, eighty
eight; Company G, Bradford, ninety; Company
II, Montpelier, ninety; Company I, Brattle-
boro, eighty-ive; Company X, Bennington,
eighty-eight First separate company, New
port, ninety-one.
THERE Is to be grand Rhode Island clam
bake at Roxbury on Friday. Dinner will be
served from two to half-past four p. NJ, near
the Summit House. There will be grand
bicycle race at four P. NJ. for the following
prizes, best three in five: First, cycometer;
second, bicycle head lamp third, silver cup.
The race will be free to all amateurs, or those
who never rode for money. A game Of base
ball will be played between Warren and North
field mines during the day. The Mechanics
band of West Randolph will furnish music for
the occasion The festivities will close with a
grand ball at the Summit House. Return checks
will be given those paying full fare one way.
MONTPELIER gives a larger majority on the
| governor ticket than at any time since 1868.
This result is attributable not to the energy Of
the state committee or the member of that
body from this county, but to the activity Of
an alert and plucky town committee, abandoned
by the state organization to their own re-
sources. No great meetings have been held
and the diligent efforts of the town commit
tee to procure prominent speakers on their own
account have been defeated by the prior en-
gagements Of the men they have sought to
obtain. Still Montpeliers majority is greater
than in the very hotly contested canvass of
1880. Contrast this with the result in Bur-
lington, the home Of the chairman Of the state
committee and the scene OF the most imposing z
demonstration made in any part of the state
Our friends in the Queen City who have slurred
Montpelier for her apathy" and death " in
this canvass may learn from this contrast the
difference between noise and effective work.
REV. NEWELL s. SPAULDING native of
Moretown, died at Ocean Grove, N. j., August
10, at the age of eighty. five years. His father s
name was Royal and his mother was Lucy
Benton. Through the latter he was related to
Senator Thomas Benton, and the late Senator
Matt. H. Carpenter was also relative. Father
Spaulding was ordained deacon by Bishop
George, at Barnard, in 1922, and elder by the
same bishop at Wilbrahsm, Mass, in 1896
His first station was at Mansfield, Mass, then
Portsmouth, R. l., then New London, Conn,
where he married Laura Jerome Mckinley,
who survives him. After his marriage he was
stationed at many different places in Massa
chusetts and Rhode Island, moving to New
York city in 1862, where he resided thirteen
years. His declining days were spent at his
pleasant home at Ocean Grove. He was one
of the first subscribers to the fund establishing
the Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn
He was a successful revival preacher in his
day, and labored side by side with many o.
the great men of New England Methodism.
REFoRMER: Colonel Greeneaf pronounces
the annual muster of the Vermont militia
which closed Wednesday, one OF the best il
the history Of the regiment. The weather wa
reasonably good and the camp was pleasantly
located. OF course there were some thing
about camp to criticise, but on the whole tn,
citizen-soldiers conducted themselves with com
mendable dignity. The dress parades were tn,
chief features Of interest. and the towns peopl,
turned out in large numbers nightly to witnes
them. There was more sickness than usual il
camp, attributable, undoubtedly, to melon
and unripe fruit although the cold nights ant
warm days aggravated the trouble. One da.
the surgeon had upward Of eighty sppli
cations for medicine. Brattleboro villag
people prepared an elaborate reception TO
the regiment Tuesday night, but thu
weather and the governors departure in
terfered with the arrangements, and it wa
| huahy kNou ~ 10 thouBut tudt SOlOue
Greenleaf will resign before another muster
and that Lieutenant-colonel Estey, who is
> good tactician, will be promoted to tn
colonelcy."
THERE is to be grand operate excursion
; from the line OF the Montpelier & Well
River railroad to Newport and Bay Viev
Park, Lake Memphremagog, on Saturday G
this week. At the park will be presented tn
8 beautiful opera, La Mascotte," by artists sc
J. lected from the best Boston and New Yorl
companies. Tickets, good only Saturday
4 September g. will be sold from stations on tn
Y Montpelier & Wells River railroad to Ba
3 View Park and return. with coupon admittin
to the opera, at the following rates: Mon
a pelier, East Montpelier, Planfield and Marsl
Q field, $50, Groton Pond, Rickers, Grotor
Q South Ryegate and Boltonville. $125 Th
. excursion train will leave Montpelier at hal
: past six A. M, arriving at Wells River at twey
Q minutes past eight; Newport forty minute
i past ten; and Bay View Park at noon. Re
n turning, leave Bay View Park at fifteen mil
d utos past three p. M, arriving at Wells Riv,
o at seven o'clock, and Montpelier at forty-iv
d minutes past eight p. NJ. This trip includes
ride of twenty four miles on the magnfcel
- steamer, Lady of the Lake, passing some
a the finest scenery in northern Vermont II
= officials Of the Montpelier & Wells River raj