The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-09
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HARRISON JEFFoBDs' physician encourages
him to hope fer recovery Of his health.
WE learn that Rev. Mr.. Mcmillan Of Barre
will preach here at the Congregational house
next Sunday afternoon.
SOME OF Miss Corrie Hills friends dropped
In upon her on the evening of her birthday,
last week, and left with her a handsome copy
of Bryant's poems, with which to temper the
prose Of life
NORMAN G. DAVIS can crow over good
hay crop this season. Isn't he about the only
man in town. that CAM His six cows have
already made him over one hundred pounds Of
butter each this year.
REV. AND Mrs. HARVEY WEBSTER we're
lucky enough to catch twenty-five pickerel at
the Cutler pond last Monday. Mrs. Webster
" LANDED" one that weighed only three ounces
less than three pounds.
RATHER guess General +. Bass will make
the quickest time on record, in the haying line,
this season. The third day Of July saw his
hay all in the barn, with never drop of rain
on any OF 1t. 1t was cut on shares.
Mr.. COLLINS OF Barre, who has developed
a quarry, purchased Of William T. Pratt, will
perhaps sell out. We are told that 1t is an ex-
cellent quality of granite that this quarry
yields. Why do not some OF our townsmen
purchase it, and thus save to this place some
OF this wealth of rock2
EDISON is of the opinion that within the next
fifty years electricity will take the place Of
horses for travelling over common roads. We
should have some pleasanter memories IL this
change had come about before some horse
trades OF our making I'M the past Horse
jockeys about here better take warning in
season OF Edison.
AN ex-Vermonter, who has had experience
in the West as farmer, tells us he thinks the
successful farmers in the West work harder
have less LEISURE and fewer luxuries may be,
than our Vermont farmers. While he knows
of men who increase in wealth, as rarely ever
happens here now, he is by no means disposed
to contrast the situation OF farmers here and
there, to the great disparity of the former.
WE some time ago referred to the decided
hit made by Daniel Royce in his newspaper
plea for old New England as a farming section.
1t has brought him inquiries from some fifteen
diff erent states, concerning the subject, Oregon
being one of them. Alaska Is to be heard FROM.
This plea has just brought letter Of inquiry
from Massachusetts party as to the chances
for summer board in these parts. II printers
ink can resuscitate New England let it flow
freely.
GAMES bubble" A fresh reminder OF
this has just come through reading an ex-
! tended review of a new publication, " Memories
of Rufus Choate," by Judge Joseph Nelson.
When near the termination Of his brilliant and
honored life he said, 81 have spent my
strength for naught" He was then reminded
by friend of the high reputation gained in
HIS ptOioSsiOu DIS a idWyoT, anu also rs u
scholar. To this he replied 1--WE used to read
that this kind of fame was but an empty
bubble; now know it is nothing else." Isn't
| this lesson needed just as much for common
folks, in smaller places, as for any one else?
DON'T you know" said Gubbins, the other
morning, that when man gets some honor
or Office that puts little handle or tail to his
name his calibre II come out then, il it never
did before? II he's a small man, the tail ways
the man every time. Why there's Pumpkins.
More'n forty years ago he was 'pinted corp'ra
in the militia service. That very day the
Pumpkins died, and then came forth in the
resurrection-body Of corp'ral and he's stalked
round in it ever since, and ruther guess he'd
be contented to go on that way fur thousand
years to come Yes, sir, you may mark it
every time, the end (the man or the title) that
carries the wagging power determines the
weight of the mani"
WE have just made the second visit to the
quarry Of Prize, Lamson Il Co, In the northeast
corner of the town, the first having been made
last year, and reported in these items. We
| hardly know where in town a rougher few
acres will be found, but from no others-even
| of much greater number-aro there being taken
80 many dollars. Some twenty men have been
working there this season, and double the num-
Der of last year. The company has put up
fine derrick, at cost of a thousand dollars OF
more, that greatly facilitates business. An
accident to some part of this derrick, that was
easily brought ABOUT, nad Just caused loss
all told, of one hundred dollars to the com
pany. Mr.. Prize told us that were the railroad
extended to our village it would save the com
pany now some eight or ten dollars day ex.
pense in the matter Of hauling their granite
block twenty-five feet In length, and tc
square twenty-seven inches at the base, il
being gotten out at this quarry 1t is one Of
the largest ever gotten out in the section.
REV. WALTER DAvENSbRT and wife, now Of
Weston, have been visiting friends in town.
80. Mrs. Arthur Ralph has made round
trip with her husband, visiting friends in
Warren and elsewhere. Miss Emma Foge
has been obliged to give up her school, tempo.
rarily at least, by sickness. Mrs Arc
Nichols has just returned from her old homt
in Massachusetts, which has been broken W
by the recent death of her mother. sister
came back with her, and will make this place
her home for the present. George W. Houst
has returned from Boston with eyes looking
better than forty years." he says Probing o
the tear-ducts was all the treatment received
80. Mrs. Anna Simons Denney, daughter of GU
ex-townsman, Rufus Simons, died at her HON,
in Mortified on Thursday, and was buried or
Saturday last. She leaves little child few
months old.