The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-16
Current Mention.

THE indications point to the immediate es-
tablshment of new bank at St. Albans.
WE hope to publish next week longde
ferred letter from Aurora, Illinois, 1t is Of
general interest and of special value to the
farmers.
ORANGE LONG, a young married man who
worked in John Dow's mill in Marshfeld, was
thrown upon a large circular saw, yesterday
afternoon, and instantly killed. The body was
terribly mutilated.
THE Troy conference of the Methodist Episco-
pal church unanimously resolved to petition
the general conference to retrocede to it the
churches of the Burlington district transferred
against their will to the Vermont conference.
THIS is the fourth year of the law requiring
individuals to make oath to an inventory of
their taxable property. The amount Of prop
erty put into the list under it has increased
from $86, 152, 900, the year before the law was
passed, to $154, ,135, 1884 last year.
A TELEPHONE exchange at Bradford is now
an assured thing, and from there a line is to be
run direct to West Randolph, taking in Corinth.
East Corinth, West Topsham, Chelsea and
other smaller towns. This will join Bradford
with Montpelier and all the towns connected
with this exchange.
THE suit of the trustees of the Southeastern
road against Receiver Hendee of the Vermont
National Bank at st. Abans, to recover the
Montreal, Portland & Boston bonds held by
him, came up at Montreal recently. The plaint-
ifs failed to prove service on Hendee or the
existence OF property in Canada, and Hendee
claimed that the court had no jurisdiction for
that reason. 1t is thought at st. Albans that
this will throw the case out of the courts and
remove the present obstruction to the sale of
the bonds.
THE movement among the Methodists in
favor Of longer pastorates in cases where the
people of a charge desire an extension of time
beyond the three years limit, has taken shape
in resolution passed by the New England
conference, at Lynn. asking the general confer
ence to SO modify the discipline as to allow the
bishops to appoint pre- acher to q charge for a
longer time than three years when asked by an
annual conference. 1t remains to be seen how
the general conference will regard this resolu-
tion, which was unanimously adopted.
WE reprinted last week from the Woodstock
Standard an article on Australian wool. The
editor of that paper has kindly sent us samples
from the cargo described in that article, and
any one interested in the matter can examine
them at this Office There are three samples,
two of unwashed and one of washed. The
latter, said to be washed on the sheep, is laid
down in Boston at sixty cents 1t is beauti-
full article. Domestic wool-growers could hardly
compete with it if the duty of twenty cents
were thrown off. The unwashed is laid down
in Boston at forty cents, the duty being ten
cents.
WE have often heard that there is poetry in
much prose, and the following from the De-
trot Post seems to be striking example
too low; and everywhere the farmer goes that
wool is sure to go. 1t followed him to Wash
ington, into the caucus school, which made
Carlisle and Morrison say: This is pretty cool.
The speaker sagely shook his head, and wisely
gszed about, and to his free-trade pupil said
Turn that strange creature out!' But when
that frightful lamb ba-a-ed, and round its eye
balls turned, that free trade caucus, badly
scared Immediately adjourned And now they
fear this awful lamb which terrfes them So
intends to sound its fearful ba-a again al
Chicago"
CORRESPONDENT of the Brattleboro Re
former, writing from st. Albans, compliments
that paper on " the independent stand " 1t has
taken on state economic and political ques-
tions. He speaks OF the great need of indie
pendent and courageous newspapers, names
the Reformer as the leading and the trusted
state democratic organ, and intimates that the
Argus has fallen from grace with the stancl
adberents of democracy by reason of doing
the republican dirty work in sly way" The
correspondent further says this has greatly
impaired the power of the Argus and its fol-
lowing is diminishing" He has evidently
sized up this matter correctly Many things
in this vicinity confirm this view Of the mat
ter of which the steadily INCREASING circulation
OF THE WAToHMAN, and the reports and com
ments of old friends and hosts of new ones, ART
not the least.
THE following paragraph from the LyndoI
Union will be a surprise to many Vermonters
"People familiar with Lyndon Corner in tn,
years between 1840 and 1850 win remembe