The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-11-26

pointed n committee 10 locate anu liidhc III
rangements for the next fair.
ABOUT twelve o'clock last night Governor
Pingree sent the following appointments to
the senate and they were all confirmed;
For railroad commissioner, General I. 0.
Seaver of Woodstock; for tax commissioners,
w. p. Dillingham; of Waterbury; members
of the Board of Agriculture, DIR. II. A. Cut
ting of Lunenburgh, Henry Lane of Corn
wall, A. f. Perkins of Pomfret, NJ. w. Da-
Wis of Westminster, f. d., Douglass of
Whiting and E. r.. Towle of Franklin.
SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN: " The trustees
of Middlebury college seem to be having
trouble with their presidency. Nothing is
said about President Hamlin's having re-
signed, yet the place has been offered to
and declined by e. Higley of Worcester,
Mass. formerly professor Of Greek and Ger
man at the college, and the presidency has
now been offered to Rev. DIR. Kerr G. An
derson of the First Presbyterian church at
Troy, n Y Rev. G. S. Murkland of
Chicopee, Mass, has also declined profess
sorship in the college"
THE committee of five appointed by the
st. Adams Trust Company depostors when
the company failed last year, to watch their
interests and secure as large dividend as
possible, make a statement of the present
condition of the trust company. They say
Receiver Rich will probably declare another
dividend of ten per cent within two or
three months, and hint that at least twenty
per cent more may be expected even, that
making a total of fifty per cent which the
defunct institution may pay. The pres
ent available assets are given at little less
than $4,000.
THE governor has made the following ap-
pointments Inspector of finance, Hon. Car
roll S. Page of Hyde Park; superintendent
of the house of correction, George n. Eayres
of Rutland superintendent of the state
prison, e. w. Oakes of Windsor; board of
dental examiners, Drs. o.. p. Forbush of
Montpelier, Joseph Lewis of Burlington, L.
T. Lawton of Rutland, G. II. Swift of Man
chester, and r. NJ. Chase of Bethel. 1t is
understood that Hon. Charles Dewey, the
present inspector of finance, declined a re-
| appointment. The governors staff will be
announced to-day.
WATERBURY, people had burglary scare
| on Wednesday which turned out to be good
| joke on the bank officials of that town. j.
| II. Walker of New York city has been MAX
ing maps of towns in this vicinity for insur-
| ance underwriters. His business requires
him to make a close inspection of all build
ings, and his strange actions in prying
around the buildings and alley-ways ex-
| ta1 no cncpiniop of Watarl,1ry
who had heard that gang of burglars were
on the way from New York to that town
After Mr.. Walkers departure from Water.
bury, "spotters " were put on his track and
bank official came to Montpelier to look
him up. Mr.. Walker tells us that this is
the fourth time he has been taken for a
burglar, and that he intends to double his
life insurance if he remains in the business
OF map-maker.
| The Washington correspondent of The
Springfield Republican furnishes the follow
| ing gossip concerning two of Burlington's
distinguished townsmen. He says: "Mr
Smalley, first of ALL will probably ask thai
Edward j. Phelps, the well-known Burling
! ton lawyer and wit, be given the mission tC
, Italy. Mr.. Tilden promised the place tc
Mr. Phelps, and Mr. Cleveland will be
deferred appointment. For himself, it is no
known what Mr.. Smalley desires He car
| have the nice plum of collectorship at Bur
lington, with its $1,000 year, and the ap
pointment of large number of subordinate
stretched over the entire northern frontier
of Vermont. This is the best place in tn,
state, and it will undoubtedly be rendered
to Mr. Smalley unless he expresses a desir,
for something outside"
THE Boston journal inficts ON Senate
Edmunds an article surcharged with worm
wood and gall. The Journal or some on,
behind it, seems to have grievance agains
the Vermont SENATOR and like a screechinl
vixen with broom in hand, it falls afoul o
the object of its resentment and roundly be
labors him for certain alleged offences o
omission. In the intervals of the shrew'
onslaught we imagine we hear the cool, cain
tones of the imperturbable voice remarl1in,
to a protesting world: Don't mind the ole
lady; it eases her feelings and don't hur
me-" 1t may not be generally known tha
Mr.. u. A. Smith of Maine is editor Of tn
journal. Can it be that this fact account
both for the milk and the acidity of tn
milk in this cocoanut? Until the appear
ance of this termagant's screed it was popu
larly understood that Senator Edmunds
brains had had something to do with " hi
fame and reputation in the senate OF til
United States;' that his brains had givel
him the rank he has won; and that he ha,
reflected honor on his state, his party an,
the nation; but it seems that position homo
and fame have all been contrived for him
and that he has been invested with them a
with suit of ready-inade clothing 1t
atfiicting to have an illusion so long cher
ished so rudely dispelled.
THoMPsoN's History OF VERMONT give
February, 1881, as the date when the publ
cation of the first Vermont newspaper be
gan at Westminster. This date has bee
accepted as correct and number eight G
the newspapers (Which was The Vermont Ga
zette, or Green Mountain Post Boy) is date,
April 2, 1881, as copy in the possession G
the Vermont Historical Society shows. Thi
would bring the date of the first issue Feb
, ruary l2, 1881, If it was a weekly publica
ton. But " find of old almanacs mad
| by DR.. Conland, representative from Brat
; tleboro, shakes modern authority In tn