The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-10-22
MONTPELIER, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER

the reform school, and the remainder have
been returned to the "home," or are still
out on trial. The infant department has had
thirteen inmates during the year. Thirty
children have been admitted during the
year. The secretary makes an appeal in
behalf of unfortunate children who become
inmates of alms-houses, and says: The
home has offered, and does still offer, to
take these children when under ten years
of age, from the towns, for 500, S75 or $50,
according to the age"
ABOUT forty members of the Vermont
Medical Society assembled in the large
committee room at the state house last
week Wednesday morning, to attend their
seventy-frst annual meeting. After the
reading of the records of the last meeting
and the appointment of committees, Drs.
Babbitt and Smith, delegates from the
Massachusetts, Medical Society, made their
reports The obituary notices of DR.. III. w.
Hendricks, written by DR.. Joel Allen, and
Of DIR. S. II. Corey, written by DIR. e. =.
Fairman, were read. 1t was voted that a
committee be appointed under whose direc-
ton the progress made in the different de-
partments of medical science should be re-
ported to the society from time to time. On
motion of DIR. Rugg, the bylaws of the So
ciety were amended SO that hereafter the
time for holding the annual meeting shall
be the third Thursday and Friday in Octo-
Der of each year.
AT the annual meeting of the Vermont
Mutual Fire Insurance Company, held last
Wednesday, the following directors were
chosen: Washington county, T. p. Red
field, f. E. Smith, c. T. Sabin, j. w. Ellis,
II. N. Taplin; Addison county, John A.
Child; Bennington county, Charles Il.
Houghton; Chittenden county, NJ. A. Bing-
ham; Caledonia county, S. S. Thompson
Essex county, Hiram A. Cutting; Franklin
county, II. p. AUSTIN Grand Isle county
II. G. Hill; Lamoille county, w. II. II.
Bingham; Orange county, l.. G.. Hinckley;
Orleans county, j. n. Webster; Rutland
county, George Briggs; Windham county,
c. w. Wyman Windsor county, M. ii.
Goddard. The only change in the board is
in Washington county, where j. w. Ellis
| and H. n. Taplin were chosen in place of
| Charles Dewey and w. T. Dewey. At a
subsequent hItctILS VI uIiVNbNio WIN i'i-
| lowing officers were elected: President, w.
| II. II. Bingham vice president, Fred e.
| Smith secretary, James T. Sabin; treas
urer, II. N. Taplin; auditor, Charles Dewey;
| finance committee, w. II. H. Bingham.
JOHN c.. HUTCHINs of No % South Eighth
street Philadelphia, formerly of Wolcott,
| Vermont, has presented to the state collec-
hrin tla h,til1 1i,,fy in, xyh hinh
| Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of
| Independence. In his letter he says:
"Some twelve years since / visited Mont
pelier and had the pleasure of passing
through your capitol, and observed you had
a collection that might call states mu-
| scum. / desire to present to that collection
a brick taken from the building in which
| Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of
Independence. 1 have been in business for
| the last twenty-three years within a few
| feet of this building. / procured this brick
at the time the building was demolished lin
| 1889 for the purpose of erecting the Penn
| sylvania National Bank building. / can as
sure you and vouch for this brick having
| been taken from one of the front ornaments
on the old house. 1t was imported from
England. AS this building was demolished
| the brick and most of the wood work was
taken by the Smithsonian Institute OF
Washington, ID. c." The identity of the
building was vouched for by Thomas Jeffer-
son himself, before his death, and in a pri.
vate letter he says that "it is not wholly
identified by memory, but from written
proofs in my possession" Thus the iden
tity is beyond question. This peculiar
brick can at present be seen in the central
showcase in velvet box prepared by the
| donor.
AT the annual meeting of the Vermont
Bible Society, held at the Methodist church
last Wednesday, the following officers were
elected: President, Hon Joseph Poland
Montpelier; vice-presidents, Rev. Leonard
Tenney of Waterbury and Rev. ii. A
Spencer of Montpelier; corresponding secre
tary, Rev. l.. II. Elliott of Waterbury; re
cording secretary, Rev. j. o. Sherburne o
Northfeld; treasurer, Curtis Wells of Bur
lington; auditor, Deacon f. A. Fuller o
Burlington; directors, Rev. c. S. Smith o.
Montpelier, Rev. j. A. Sherburne of Barre
Rev. Peter Merrill of Enosburgh Falls, j
G. Stimson, Esq, of Norwich Rev. w j
Kidder of Northfeld, Hon. w. p. Dilling
ham of Waterbury, Rev. Austin Hazen o
Jericho Center Rev. William S. Hazen o.
Northheld, Rev. j. w. Bemis of st. Johns
bury Center, Rev. e. p Wild of Newport
Rev. V. NJ. Hardy of West Randolph, Dea
con e. A. Fuller of Burlington The fol
lowing resolution was adopted: " Resolyed
That in the retirement OF Hon. John A
Page from the Office of treasurer of thi
society," after twenty-three years of faith
full service-a step rendered necessary, il
his judgment, by seriously impaired healtl
we hereby acknowledge and place upol
, record our sense of obligation for his lon,
and valuable service, praying that he ma,
be speedily restored to health and yet en-
joy many years for labor in a cause whicl
lies so near his heart" Hon. Joseph Polan'
presided at the evening meeting. Rev l.
ii. Elliott presented the annual reports
and Rev. A. III. Qunt delivered an inter
esting address on "The truth of the Bibl
as established by Christian experience"
THE state convention of the prohibition
party OF Vermont, called to nominate eleC
tors to support the nominees of the nationa
party at the coming presidential election, wa
held at Capital Hall, in Montpelier, the l5t
instant. About two hundred persons wer