The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-03
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REV. Mr. STAFFORD, now Of innesota,
preached to his former congregation here last
Sunday.
CARLOS L. ADAMS may be here to preach one
more Sunday for the Congregationslists. He
| goes soon to begin a theological course In Bos-
ton, Mass.
RAIN prevented the musicale at John Farm
hams last Saturday evening. similar enter
tainment was appointed at Leavitt Haywards
Monday evening Of this week.
PRINCIPAL DANIEL r. MARTIN returned to
Pullman, ILL.,, on Friday last He has an in
crease OF salary this year, which would seem to
indicate satisfaction with his work.
WE have just learned Of the death OF Mrs.
Sanford Hatch, who removed from here years
ago TO Illinois, where she died Our informant
thinks she was about eighty five years old.
REV. HARVEY WEBSTER and family have re.
turned from Highgate Springs. He had fall,
just before his return, that famed him seriously,
and 30 he preached but once on Sunday last
THE Jeffords centennial will be observed on
Thursday Of this week, II the day ia pleasant.
II not then on Friday Of this week, instead OF
Thursday of next week, as the item OF last
week made IL.
WORK about our town hall has been begun.
When completed, we hope 1t will be warmed"
with reading" and 'charty" concert.
Helpers for the latter have kindly consented,
though more will be needed.
WE have Just seen an ENJOYABLE report of
recent interview Of Josh Billings by a New
! York Tribune reporter. Billings seems TO think
that in writing, Z" a phrase, or sentence, or par
agraph." rather than pages" is what does
the effective work, and "minie-balls" are
generally deadly things.
OUR new Doctor McClearn of Nortbfield
took deed OF the DR.. G. A. Bailey place last
week, and will soon be on the ground for prac-
tice. We have been painfully healthy lot OF
folks here for years past, and that is rather
discouraging for doctor. But we welcome
you. doctor, to your new field.
A: NJ DEMERITr of Waterbury was in town
on Monday, to look over the Edison Martin
farm, with a view Of leasing it. II he is az
good man as a son of his, with whom we are
acquainted land " like father like sol" could
be entered as proof, he will find no cold shoul-
ders II ne decides to come here to live
WE have just seen an extract from an ad-
dress delivered before the American Bar Assoc
citation at Albany, in 1881, by Hon. f. j.
Phelps, who must be considered authority in
the matter of which he speaks, to-wit, the
character Of the legislators and their legisla-
ton too often in our states 1t would, we
think, pay our own state If every one Of our
dress and ponder it we'll before October.
A VERMoNTER OF more than ordinary legis-
lative and other official experience recently
said TO u.s. {" think the law for the election of
town representatives should be changed so
that, upon the failure to elect after two ballots
under the majority rule, the plurality rule
should be in force in succeeding ballots.
III no injustice could come from such a law let
some iegislator-elect champion it at the next
session, for 1t would seem boon to the state
WE have just been told that in neigh boring
town the question of taxing a church fund
OF some two thousand dollars has agitsted the
listers and the society interested this season.
Appeals have been made to high legal au-
thority that says under the law of the state
it cannot be done" This matter seems to be
one Of growing Importance that our people
consider. II the non-taxsbleness of such
church property be the evil that some think il
to be, let it be nipped in the bud here in
our own state. The next legislature must be
held responsible for any neglect to attend to
the subject.
WILLIAMsTowN "fingers" are doubtless out
OF place in Chelsea pie. But may we rise
to say" to "a Lichen" and townsfolk Of Chel-
sea that Z. FL. KS recent breezy letters from
there to The WATCHMAN did nothing to min
imize our estimation Of our old shre-town.
Have you not seen some over-full boy grasp his
dear old mother (for whom he could lay down
his life almost If need be) and waltz her about
the room In spite OF herself And thus, per-
haps, E. FL. < might be sporting with his old
mother-town, II such she be. very live
Western man may be expected to seem cyclon-
ish in one OF our quiet New England towns
But is not good "fnd" in the track" of this
hbtio CyCOu0 tuC pcu VI n llCu6n IL Ougnt
not to be allowed to gather moss
WE have just learned some particulars of a
fact which, though an old one here may be of
interest to some Of The WATERMAN readers.
Aaron G. Martin was pasturing horse in
Brookfield, which he found, in one of his
weekly visits to the pasture, had broken leg.
He was advised, Of course. to kill her at once,
but thought he would experiment in trying to
save her. She came home ON three legs from
Brookfield. Mr.. Martin then bound her leg
with flannel, and outside Of it put on splints OF
basket stuff, which were bound to the leg with
strips of cloth filled with starch. In seven
weeks the splints were taken off, and in three
months the horse was free from lameness She
has since trotted a mile in three minutes Per.
haps no higher guarantee Of the a-rightness
Of the horse would be needed in these facts
than that she was afterwards purchased by one
OF the most careful buyers, and to-day is doing
good service.
HARD WORKING farmers boys, Just word
with you! Many Of you are longing to be free
from the farm, are you not? Your lives otter
seem intolerable to you, do they not? To worn
80 hard, economic so closely aud forego &C
many things that sons of rich men have il
hard case indeed, do you think? Well, we
know two men who, a half century ago OF
more were born and reared on Vermont farms
and felt about all these things very much a.
you do, we suppose. They left the farms
went to busy city, and are rich, and theil
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these fathers have seen both sides of life, and
both have said to us, personally, that it would
be better for their children II they were t.
, grow up as they themselves had done Ant
you, parents, who moan over your neither
poor-nor-rich condition (more for your chill
dren's sakes than for your own. thought, may
well reflect that heaven /" seems to be moi
!. the only kingdom that "they that have
, great riches hardly enter"
WE have had the pleasure of chat with oul
ex-townsman, Nathan Harrington of Grinnel
: Iowa, who is now here on a visit He is
! farmer who has been greatly benefited, finan
cially, by going West some seventeen year
,, ago. Stock-raising is his speciality. At pres
ent he is keeping a hundred head of tn,
cattle kind. He is also feeding ninety head O
hogs, and makes no account In this reckoninl
: Of lot of small swine. Then he has sheer
besides He says their stock Ia much su
perior to what he sees here-Durhsm ant
!. Hereford being favorte breeds. He is con
STEERING the project Of shipping carload o
Liore OF young stock from here to Iowa to feed
prices being less, though the stock here is infe
ror. OF course he is ready to praise +" the bridg
that has carried him over" to success. an,
likes the West. He thinks a man OF clea
! grit and knowledge Of stock could go to som
parts OF Iowa now, with thousand dollars
! and go to stock-raising, with the hope of
competency In comparatively few years ii
3 is accompanied by his wife and one child, an
will go about among old friends here at hi
:. leisure.
A FEATURE Of the Jeffords centennial thi
: week will be the singing Of old-time music, @
tab ~ y.l1 i'll