The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-10-08

Montpelier and Wells River railroad office,
informs us that the Glen House, Mount
Washington, and all the outbuildings were
burned last week Wednesday evening.
The fire spread to the adjoining woods, and
the spectacle from the signal station, from
which the dispatch was sent, was one of
grandeur The house had been closed for
the season in the morning and consequently
few of the employees were present Origin
of fire unknown. The total loss is nearly
S225, 900 The insurance on the house and
furniture was S124 $50, distributed among
fifty-seven companies the amounts ranging
from 81, 600 to $4,000. The light of the fire
was plainly seen from Portland. Mr.. Mil
likin, the proprietor, will soon lay the foun-
dations for new building.
A SOMEWHAT remarkable suit in chancery
has been begun between two brothers living
on adjoining premises in this village. The
suit grows out of dispute as to the bound
ary line between their house lots. So far
as we can learn, the plaintiffs brother
claims three or four inches at the front, run
ming to a point towards the rear. The dis
pute is whether the center or the side of the
fence post at the front is the point from
which the true dividing line should run.
Interest in the matter is heightened by the
fact that the plaintiff is one of the most dis
tinguished citizens of the village. He has
procured an e1 parte injunction from Chan
cellor Homer e. Royce enjoining the de-
fendant brother, under the penalties of the
law and the further penalty of $1,000,
6 ;,ta p,a1Ila in
| by himself or his agents with the stakes or
other marks or monuments set, or to be set,
| by the engineer of the orator along the line
| which the said engineer shall find or mark
as the line between said house lots, or with
any fence which the orator shall or may
build along the line that the orators
engineer shall find or designate and mark
as the standing line and true line between
| said two houseots." There would seem to
have been cause for some wholesome advice
from the chancellor rather than an iron-clad
| injunction. The value of the land is about
three or four dollars. The brothers married
sisters and have lived beside each other for
many years.
I EVERY one knows that the Argus and Pa
triot is the very pink of high-minded and
conscientious journals. 1t lives in a sub
limated atmosphere Of pure and refined
| journalism. Injustice, coarseness, malice,
envy, falsehood, slander, misrepresentation,
scandal all those faults and vices which
stain and degrade other newspapers find no
harbor in the upper air our contemporary
breathes. Itwas fitting, then, that this ire
proachable Argus and Patriot should admins
ter reproof to the erring Maloney of the
Richford Gazette, and should set forth the
duties and responsibilities of the conscien-
| tious journalist as we'll as the cares and per-
plexities that weigh him down. Since our
esteemed contemporary celebrated pro-
nunciamento of its DUTY to Republicans y
last winter we have not had occasion to quote
to any extent from its columns, but we
now reprint some impressive words from
the last issue of this newspaper mentor:
A conscientious and high-minded journal
ist has a task always weighing on him,
which is very imperfectly understood by the
public No one but journalist knows OF
the contrvances and devices by which ma
licious persons seek to use a newspaper for
his own ends An editor who strives to dc
his duty wishes to praise good and rebuke
evil; but the trouble is to ascertain what is
evil and what is good. A large share of his
time and his energies must be spent in in.
vestigation, in order that he may spread be-
fore the public the truth as near as possible
And do the best he can he is often deceived
| We know by experience that nothing ii
harder than for u journalist to administer
strict justice TO all, without fear or favor
But he can use every endeavor to ascertain
the truth, and this Mr.. Maloney utterly
failed to do = 4 He never took the
slightest pains To investigate the truth o.
the stories. Judge Royce's tes
timony makes it plain that if Maloney, aftel
first receiving the stories, had gone to him
as man to man, and asked for an explana
ton, he must have been satisfied of theii
falsity. That he did not resort to this
simple and indispensable course, proves
that he is disgrace to his profession anC
deserves the severest punishment. Such 8
man should be treated as an outlaw by TIL,
community, whether he is prosecuted in tn,
courts or not. He is not fit to associate will
his fellow-men. He should be driven out o.
society as remorseessly as our ancestors
drove away the panther and the catamount.
Let all wicked journalists tremble before th'
retribution that is in store for them. Iron!
, aside, it is matter of regret that the forc
of our severely virtuous contemporary
precept is somewhat weakened by it
example. Indeed, it goes without sayinI
that there has been hardly an issue of th
Argus and Patriot in more than twenty
years in which it has not to a greater or les
extent been guilty of the very things it 81
Enthusiastically laments, and has neglected il
the face of easy and abundant opportunit,
to do the very things it says journalist cal
= do and which Maloney ought to have done
The Argus and Patriot preaching agains
newspaper wickedness and Satan rebukin,
, sin would make good companion pictures
though the latter might suffer somewhat b,
3 reason OF the colossal impudence of its mate
g Personal.
COLONEL L. X. FULLER of Brattleboro sail
, for home from Liverpool on the 10th