The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-30
Current Mention.

A NEw timetable went into effect on the
Central Vermont road last Monday.
THE Central Vermont railroad company are
to use some of the new paper wheels on their
new engines.
PREcocIoUs little st. Johnsbury girl is
said to have propounded the question to her
father: Papa, which is the biggest, Fair
banks or bod ?''
TWELVE of the foreign insurance companies,
doing business in this state, have already paid
to the state treasurer their taxes for the year
under the corporation tax law, and none have
paid under protest.
THOSE scientists who account for the red
sunsets by glibly remarking that they are due
to meteoric or other foreign matter, in the at
mosphere should now explain why they occur
at brief intervals and not every night.
THE VERMONT BOARD OF AGRICULTURE will
hold a meeting at Waitsfeld, on Tuesday and
Wednesday of next week, in the vestry of the
Congregational church. A large and interest
ing gathering is expected. A meeting will also
be held at Chelsea, February 7th and sth.
THE Rutland Herald thinks that our state
legislature needs to pass an act to protect a
soldiers pension from attachment in Vermont,
and that congress ought to pass a statute OF
this character which would protect the soldier s
pension in all the states, North and South"
SATURDAY last was an intensely cold day in
all parts of the state. At Enosburgh Falls the
thermometer marked twenty-four degrees be-
low zero; at Northfield, twenty-six below at
Barre, thirty-two below; at Montpelier thirty.
four below; at Moretown, thirty-eight below.
In our last issue appeared an item which
stated that over ten thousand pounds of honey
were produced in Addison county last year
We should have said over one hundred thou.
sand pounds Two men in the county pro.
duced over fifty thousand pounds of cont
honey.
In the interest of the common schools, edu
cational meetings are to be held as follows
Stowe, Monday evening and Tuesday, February
A and 5; Waterbury. Tuesday evening and
Wednesday, February and 6; Richm ond
Wednesday evening and Thursday, February
and 7.
ALL those who had complied with the terms
Of our Good Cheer offer by the 18th instant
should have received the January number oi
that paper by this time. Bear in mind that il
is now necessary to pay for THE WArCHMAS
to FEBRUARY l, 1885, in order to secure Coco
Cheer The offer is open to all subscribers
old or new.
THE Central Vermont railroad company ha,
issued an order that will make drummers and
other wealthy travellers weep. On and aftel
the 1st of February it will not receive a trunl
weighing over two hundred and fifty pounds
If man wishes to transport property weigh
ing more than two hundred and fifty pounds
he must divide it among two or more trunks
NORMAN BLISS of East Calais has half
blooded Jersey COW from which he has mad
four hundred and fifty pounds of butter tn,
past year. The cow was dry one month during
the time, and had only four quarts of corn-mea
day. Mr.. Bliss intends to test her the pres
ent year, and thinks that, by giving heras mucl
good feed as she can stand, he can compet
with any on record in the state.
SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN: "In his lette
declining to be a candidate for the Vernon
governorship, Frederick Billings spoke in favo
system, and number OF newspapers up ther
are following in the same line. Vermonter
like lots of politics, but they are not likely t.
go back from this reform. By the way, the,
can have Ben Butler, il they want him."
THE recent negotiations between the Centra
Vermont railroad company and the Deawar
& Hudson canal company by which it was pro
posed to run sleeping cars between New Yorl
and Montreal via Whitehall, Rutland and 81
Albans, have been suspended, and the presen
arrangement Of through trains via the Tro
& Boston railroad, the Bennington e. Rutlan,
railroad and the Central Vermont, will continu
in force.
THE Free Press tells Of photographer VIII
supplied picture for widow whose husban,
died without leaving such remembrance
There were, however, the remains of a bas-re
lief, which had been made by son of LeGran
B. Cannon, and afterward broken into fiv
pieces. The photographer glued the bits Of tn
bas-relief together, the widow stuffed suit @
clothes Of the dear departed's. some one els