The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-14
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WEDNESDAY,, MAY IA, 1854.
Current Mention.

The Vermont Homeopathic Medical Society
holds its thirty-fourth annual meeting at
Montpelier, June and 8.
PosrMAsTERs are being notified that the
postal cards of new design will be supplied as
soon as the old ones are exhausted.
THE fifteenth annual meeting Of the YER
mont Editors and Publishers Association will
be held at Saratoga, July 3d. 4th and 9th.
SENATOR EDMUNDs, who is now talked of by
detractors as worth millions, makes this return
to the assessors at Burlington; Personal prop
erty, 500, ,S25; real property, $15,12o.
AMID all the distractions of the presidential
canvass it is certainly encouraging to be assur-
ed by correspondent that lin the town of
Benson one hardly hears dissenting voice to
the nomination of George F. Edmunds,''
THE Vermont delegation to the republican
national convention at Chicago will have their
headquarters at the Palmer house, the parlor
aud rooms assigned to them being adjacent to
the quarters occupied by the state delegation
in 1850.
SENATOR MORRILL, has offered resolution,
which was agreed to. calling on the secretary
of war for a report as to the damage done to
the breakwater in the harbor of Burlington by
the recent gale, and for an estimate of the ex-
pense necessary to repair the damage
A WRITER in the Boston Herald is responsible
for the statement that there was once funny
column in the Free Press that was really mer-
itorious, and that the items therein contained
were not only copied throughout this country
and in England, but were translated into con-
tinental papers.
OUT of over one thousand taxpayers in Mont
peler, only twenty-one were either doubled or
assessed, while in Burlington, of nearly four
thousand taxpayers only about one-thrd gave
in their lists, and about twenty-five hundred
lists were made by the assessors. This is the
worst record OF which we have learned yet.
THE Cdledonian puts this ticket into the field:
For governor, Samuel E. Pingree of Hartford
for lieutenant governor. S. M. Dorr of Rutland;
for secretary of state, d. M. Camp of New
port; for treasurer, William II. Dubois, of
West Randolph; for auditor, Charles D. Brain
erd Of Danville. We should move to amend
by striking out the enacting clause.
IT is poor week when the North Star does
not furnish its readers with at least one fight
of eloquence over some local matter. This
time it is fire, and our Danvlle contemporary
soliloquizes thus: I'VE read of brave men in
ancient days, but none more 80 than those who
fought the flames till their faces and necks
were blistered, and in many instances their
clothing in flames All honors to these brave
workers." We concur.
THE Boston Herald has the temerity to refer
to our esteemed contemporary as "the rural
argus" and as "a newspaper published in
the unpaved districts trying to keep up with
the procession" which "really wants all the
information it can get from the leading organs
of its party" This is rather severe snubbing
for " the one independent paper of Vernon" +"
which delights to refer to the metropolitan
press as "our esteemed contemporaries
Two passengers in the branch train at Mont
pelier Junction, Monday morning, had en-
crossed the attention of car full of fellow
travellers in warm theological discussion,
while the train was awaiting the arrival of the
local passenger going north. One was appar-
emily a clergyman the other a layman of some
antagonistic belief. At moment when there
was suggestion of fire and birthstone in
"the theologic war, Conductor Bailey appeared
at the door and settled the point directly at
issue by announcing, in stentorian tones,
Passengers going north, change cars!" "
This innocent Interpolation was exceedingly
appropos and convulsed the listeners with
laughter. Those "going north" obeyed the
summons with unwonted alacrity and the
others took shelter in Montpelier.
Our esteemed contemporary, the Argus and
Patriot, was vociferously shouting in Decem-
ber about i" the chiefs of the ring which runs
the republican party in this state THE
WATcHMAN urged the Argus in the most per-
suasve terms it could employ to do its full
duty to republicans" and expose this "ring -
and its "chiefs." The Argus snddenly lost its
voice. For weeks and months it has been un-
able to articulate the word ring" and its
republican patrons" have sadly missed the
voice of their "guide, philosopher and friend. -
Last week the lost voice was found long enough
to individualize the ring in incoherent accents
as "ex-Governor J. Gregory Smith and those
associated with him." and to say that it
"would be glad to have those gentlemen
smashed politically" for the benefit the de-
mocracy would derive from the smashing" !"
As usual the Argus blunders while it essays to
toady. The " rims" and its " chiefs " have been
much more correctly described by The WATCH
MAN. Our contemporary opened its long pent.
up mouth only to put its foot in it,"
WHEN Winnie Ream was modelling her statue
of Farragut the admirals old boatswain visited
her studio. She asked him to look while she
worked, and tell her IL there was anything he
liked; "And anything you don't like, either, u
she added. He stared and stared, and pres
emily he began to laugh softly to himself. She
turned quickly: whats the matter?" "Why
you've gone and left out the trumpet and the
old man never would "a left it off that day y
The first idea was to represent the historic
"swear-sword" scene at the passage of the
forts. Why, to be sure" she said; land
what else?" But Jacks courage was gone, and
he hemmed and hawed; she urging him with
questions, until he burst out with: We'll now
look a-here; the old man wasn't such -
fool as to go into fight with his best clothes
on, and you've logged him out there like g
house a-frel" Then he fled precipitately-
leaving me" the sculptor said, :" face to face
with the awful fact that had put him in full
dress uniform. | sent at once to Mrs Farragut
for fighting suit, and she let me have the
very one he wore at Paquemine Bend, of which
this Is fac-simile"