The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-20

ing. The first rehearsal will occur Wednesday
evening. The second rehe rsal and business
meeting takes place Thursday morning at nine
o'clock A public rer ear al will be given
Thur day afternoon at h ,lf-past two o'clock.
A public Sc vice of song Is announced for
Thursday evening, when the full choral even
so &, with anthems from the order of music,
will be given st. James parish will entertain
a clergy and members of choirs. The various
railr ads will carry persons attending the
festival for fare one way. The former festivals
held by the Episcopal church choi's OF the
d geese have bfei largely attended, and very
successful from an arti-tic nd musical stand
point.
The Target and most enthusiastic rally Of
the campaign WAS held Friday night at Bel
lows Falls, under the auspices of the Rock
lug am republican club. Previous to the
m citing large and handsome banner bearing
the portraits OF Blaine and Logan was flung to
the breeze acr IS Main street, and fine flag
with the names # the repub lean candida es
was raised at the north end of the village. A
torchight procession, composed of uniformed
plumed knights, headed by the Bellows Falls
correct hand paraded the streets early in tie
evening, and sub equen'ly marchei in the
hall wi h VS. crowded to III utm 1T cap C ty
A. N. Sw in, president OF the Blaine an Logan
club, presided at the meeting. The principal
speech OF the ev ening WIS m de Ivy Hon. A. w.
Beard of Boston. Short addresses were 50
made by II. c. b. Eddy Of Bellows Fal s.,
Congressman William A. Russell of Lawrence,
Mass, and Hon. G orge A. Dewey of Owozoo,
Mich. The speakers ere 'equently interrupted
by app ause, and .he me ting was ole of the
larg, st and best OF ay he in tue state since
the o. ening of the camp ign.
THE forthcoming port of the supervisors of
the ms ne will show that on the first day of
August, 1884, there were 437 patients in the
asylum Mt BrattleborL 239 ma es and 1913
females; and of these 1873 were private, 1872
state and l72 room patients. The number OF
Grimm ii inmates WAS ten of convicts eight,
and one from the house of correction. Thee
patients occupy ward by themselves, and are
provided with special airing courts. twenty
two have been in the asy um over thirty We RS,
forty tn ee others have be II Inmates over
twenty years. and about thirty-fve pr cent
have been there longer than than ten years
Twenty have been discharged by direct n of
the supervis rs, with TIE concurrence of the
supern endent, as either non compos" OF
"not dam erous," under the law of the last
Legislature, thus saving to the state so e thou
sands of dollars, which won have paid fol
their support. One of those persons had be- II
au inmate OF the asylum for tnlrty.six years
one for twenty-seven, one for twenty-five, one
for twenty-four, one for twenty years, and sc
on down to twelve weeSs. None of these cases
were DISCHARGED as cured" bat as persons
who could be just as well cared for out of the
asy um as in it, and a, less EXPENSE, leaving
the 81 a;e they occupied and the care they re-
quired for Others, whose cure of the terrible
nt1ict on was more prob bic. The proportion
of at endans is about one to every eleven
patients