The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-03
Current Mention.

GOOD wood is wanted at this office in pay
ment for subscriptions.
THE Rutland Herald and Globe is now
printed on paper made entirely of sawdust.
THE officers of Washington county for the
two years ensuing were sworn in at Mont
pelier on Monday.
The Champlain Valley Poultry Associa-
tons exhibition will be held in City Hail.
Burlington, December 10Th.
THE Central Vermont Railroad Company
has made a reduction in the wages of en-
ployes, taking effect December 1st.
CHARLES FISK of Waterbury Center has
caught this fall sixty-nine skunks, twenty
four foxes, seven coons, twenty-seven musk
rats and one mink
IT is good time to pay up what may be
due on your paper, if you are in arrears,
and to renew for another year. Have you
noticed the date on your label?
LAST Thursday morning Ira E. Whitney
of West Brooktield hung himself in his
fathers barn on Braintree Hill. He had
shown signs of insanity for some time. He
leaves wife and one child.
IHE ATTENTION OF our readers is directed
to the premium offers at the head of this
column. We have already begun TO furnish
the scales, and hope to send out a large
number. A little effort will secure any one
of the premiums offered.
THE following appointments to the office
of deputy sheriff have already been made
by Sheriff F. II. Atherton: Montpelier, ID.
NJ IN Wy
ren, II. w. Lyford; Moretown, A. G. Prem
tiss; Cabot, N. B. Rogers. Other appoint
ments will follow.
GOVERNOR PNGREE has appointed his
staff, as follows: Colonels and ades-de-camp,
Ward b. Hurlburt of Weybridge, William
p Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury, Edward G.
Smith of st. Adams, William S. Dewey OF
Hartford, William b. Wright of Orwell and
Alfred A. Hall of st. Adams.
DURING the session OF the legislature we
were obliged to use only the most important
OF the items furnished by our corresponds
ents, but the pressure upon our columns is
now removed and we hope to find room for
more of such matter. Our friends will
please send in their favors, as heretofore.
THE Rutland Herald hears the name of b
b. Smalley mentioned as likely to be post
master-general under President Cleveland
but does not think he would accept the ap
pointment 1t says: "The republicans o
Vermont respect and esteem Mr.. Smalley
as an able, open and honorable opponent
THE DIVORCE QUESTION is the title of {
work by Rev. Samuel w Dixie of Royalton
which Funk & Wagnalls are soon to issue
Mr. Dixie is regarded as the first authority
in this country in matters relating to the
family" and this work is the result of years
OF investigation. One Of its most valuable
features will be its tables of statistics, com
thentic sources.
BosToN HERALD Senator Edmunds o.
Vermont purchased from Secretary Freling
huysen, last week Friday, the lot on thu
corner OF Twenty-frst street, where he will
erect handsome residence. The lot fronti
fifty-three feet on the avenue, is one hun
dred thirty-five feet in depth and is next ad
joining the residence of Mr.. G. j. Hillyer
The purchase price was $l4,3 ,310."
THERE was another change of time on tn
Central Vermont railroad last Monday. Th
morning mail south and the local passenger
north now leave Montpelier at 9.20. HalPi
train leaves at TOO p. M, and only runs Il
Roxbury. An additional train, for the ac
commodation OF passengers for points south