The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-19

ten years ago. He was eighty-two years Of
age. He had been failing in health for three
or Tour months, and meantime told his
friends che was dying, slowly diving. :"
though they did not look upon his case as so
bad But he said . he was ready to 90 any
time he was called" His physician attrib-
utes his death to nervous prostration and
old age. The end, when it came, was a very
gentle and easy one. He was the last of
his fathers family, so well-known in the
earlier history of this place. For many
years he was an ernest member of the Con-
gregational church here, and we may be-
lieve cherished to the last an affectionate
interest in its welfare. The kindly feeling
we have already heard expressed for this
man leads us to think he will be very kindly
remembered by many in the years to come.
- joshua f. Bailey buried his father
on Saturday last He was resident of Ber-
lin and eighty-nine years of age. - A
farmer friend elsewhere, whose fine-looking
farm Is sufficient emphasis for his opinions
about farming, recently told us, in accounts
ing for good-looking pasture, that he would
rather have six cows in a lot that would
seem capable of keeping but four and feed
them a third more in his barn. To this
principle of working he attributes the i'm
provement of one of his own PASTURES
- Mrs. Elisha X Burnham died last
week, after long and distressing illness.
She was member of the Baptist church of
SATURDAY.
afternoon last her pastor, Rev. f.. ID. Ma
son OF Montpelier, OBLIGATED. 80 Friends
OF DIR. and Mrs. E. G., Lewis of Rutland will
be sorry to learn that Mrs. Lewis is vet in
an alarming condition from hemorrhape of
the stomach, of which she had an attack a
month ago FOR time she seemed gradually
convalescent, but last week there was a
change Tor the worse, from which, at last
accounts, she was not improving. Mrs
Herbert =. Martin has been with her from
the first. This cloud that hangs over the
doctors delightful home seems to him, as il
Is, an appall1ngly dark one. He deserves
the sympathy he will have now. A
successful young farmer here tells us of his
very decided opinion that his farm has
grown better, in part, for cutting his hav
late. He thinks he has ocular proof that a
iarm mat ne knows of is being materially
injured by the grass lands being worked on
the opposite principle. - Is it not COM
plimentary to our young townsman, will
Martin, that his employer, Perley Chandler,
Jeweler, OF Barre, takes a western trip now
leaving the store in his care to the extent he
does? But we expected him to prove thus
trustworthy. - DR.. Jackson OF Barre at.
tributes the very sad case of Dea. Frank RI
Newell's (Brookfeld) paralysis, at the com.
parative early age of forty-two years, to the
almost unmitigated hard teamwork of MANY
years past, but to which he felt himself com.
PEELED. He himself sees the fearful mistake
now, ana would advise down brakes" in
similar cases before it is too late
James Martin has been suffering for weeks
from diseased eye, which has materially
interfered with his work. This year ends
his lease of the late ID. ID. Martins farm,
His age and the health of his wife seem
likely to lead to his giving up of farming in
the future. They have done much faithful
work in that line in the past - The son
of Rev. II. ID. Miller, and his friend, a Mr.
Winch, teacher in Fitchburg, Mass, ac.
company Rev. Peter Mcmillan of Barre
this week, On =" camping-out " trip. They
Will be absent two or three weeks
Mrs. Spinney of Randolph, nee Mrs. Damon
ID. Martin of this place, was in town several
days last week visiting with friends.
Misses Carrie and Hattie Tinker of Beebe
Plain are visiting relatives here. - The
familiar faces of John Walker, now OF
Washington, ID. c., James S. Abbott OF
Boston and Mrs Mary Bass Clark of Ran.
dolph are just now to be seen here.
Mrs. Ida Ainsworth Rowe will return this
week to her home in Wisconsin. - OF
the many good things said of late in con.
nection with our lamented General Grant
has any one found better one than this
" Though the world seeks and demands
signs OF special capacity in its great men, il
is deep truth that true greatness is even
more manifested in the display of simple
virtues, attainable by all. if attained only
by part"