The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-02
Current Mention.

THE annual session of the grand lodge, Inde-
pendent Order of Good Templars, will be held
in St. Johnsbury the 10Th and 18th of the pres
ent month.
MRS EMMA HOPKINS of Spring Lake, Mich,
claims to own Ethan Aliens sword, and she is
anxious to sell it to the state of Vermont for
one thousand dollars.
RECEIVER RICH has engaged L. P. Cotton to
run the Norwood Lumber Company's property
for the next six months in the interest of the
depositors in the St. Albans Trust Company.
OUR premium offers are still good, although
they have not appeared for some time for lack
Of space. We still send the dictionary for two,
and the Waterbury watch for five, new names.
Send them in.
WE have received from T. C. Evans, adver-
tising agent, Boston, uniquely illustrated
calendar for 1884, which represents old Father
Time and the four seasons personified, astride
Of the snath of scythe.
THE new ice palace in Montreal is now in
process of construction. 1t is to be between
one hundred and one hundred and fifty feet
long on the front, to cost about $4,000 and con-
tain ten thousand cakes of ice.
THE supreme court for Chittenden county
opened its regular January term yesterday.
The judges are Chief Justice Royce and Asso-
ciate Judges Ross Powers and Veazey. The
term will probably be very short one.
THE Randolph normal school closes its fall
term next week Friday. Rev. j. A. Pierce Of
West Randolph breaches the baccslaureate on
Sunday evening, and President S. G. Bartlett
Of Dartmouth college gives the address on
Wednesday evening.
ON the first day of the introduction Of bills into
the house, Congressman Poland presented ten,
the most important Of which were to make
trade-dolars a legal tender and forbidding the
further coinage thereof, and to limit the use of
the writ Of habeas corpus.
THE Monitor and the Inder are having a
duel, on paper, over the temperance question,
while the Monitor and the Express are swapping
away, each calling in question the honesty Of
the editer of the other paper which seems to
US to be small thing to quarrel about
THE next annual winter meeting of the Yer.
mont Dairymen's Association will be held al
St. Johnsbury, January % and "a. An excel
lent programme will be offered, and the meet
ing (the first on that side of the state) is ex.
pected to be more than usually interesting.
THE appearance of the wonderful afterglow
in the western horizon during the past week
has been the subject of fresh speculation
With Venus, the evening star, flashing like 9
brilliant jewel in the red setting, the spec
tacle on clear evening was one of rare mag
nifcence.
THE appeals of preferred depositors in the
st. Albans Trust Company from the recent de
cision OF Judge Royce ordering pro rata di
vision of trust company assets, without regart
to preferred claimants, have been filed will
the county clerk, and the case will be heard a
the January term Of the supreme court To-
Franklin county.
AN article reprinted from the New Yorl
tribune in another column is worthy of thougt
full perusal Peck's Bad Boy may have
vein of humor, but 1t is coarse-graned crea
tion and thoroughly demoralizng. There i
neither wit nor originality in his sayings ant
doings, and in the interest Of good morals h
should'be "sat down upon
OUR offer to send Good Cheer, the new
monthly paper, is as follows Any subscriber
old or new, who will pay for THE WATCHMAl
to date which is one year in advance OF tn
time when he makes the remittance, will re
ceive Good Cheer one year free. Thus aDyon
who now pays to January l, 1885, will compl
with the terms of this offer, and so will be en-
titled to the extra paper.
THE comet of 1882 is an object of increasin
interest among the astronomers Its path
favorable for observations, which will cover
period OF nearly year. 1t will be nearest tn
earth in about three weeks 1t is now visibl
to the naked eye, and it is expected that tn
comet will grow brighter and project its tai
much farther than at present before its peri
helion passage on the 25th of January.
THE "moral and dramatic editor" of tn
Argus offers gold watch to The WAToHMA
II we will reprint its editorials for the comm
year Whenever the Argus says anythin
worth presenting to the class OF readers anon
whom this paper circulates, we shall be glad t
put 1t before the public; but we suggest tina
this sportiye writer save the money which tn
watch might cost and send it to Burlington, 4
order to take advantage Of the Clipper man
recent offer to him.
PRAIRIE dogs dig their own wells. Fror