The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-07
morning, in exchange with Rev. j. H.


of Mr.. and Mrs. II. w. Drew.
REV. H. f. Hill expects to hold religious
services in the school-house at Irasville
(Waitsfeld) next Sunday at four o'clock P. NJ.
The reporter of the Free Press has figured
out that the WATcHMAN nine +" was beaten
by about two miles of runs in the game of
base ball last Friday afternoon.
TICKETS are on sale at the Phinney book
store for " Our Irish Visitors, which Murray
and Murphy will present at the Blanchard
Opera-house this week Friday evening
CHARLES BIGELow (' Texas Charley y,
Kickapoo Indian agent, will give free
exhibition of Kickapoo Indians at Capital
Hall on Thursday evening, October Sth.
THE Barre firemen and cornet band passed
through here last Saturday on an excursion
to Plattsburgh. The band played selec-
ton or two at the Central depot in the
morning.
A PLEASANT feature of the exercises of the
reunion this week will be the open-air con-
certs which will be given by the Sherman
and Montpelier military bands on the Cap
itol grounds, to-day and tomorrow, from ten
A. NJ. to twelve o'clock NJ.
AMONG recent donations to the Montpelier
Public Library are included about dozen
volumes upon chess, from Captain Dwight
II. Kelton, Tenth United States Infantry,
through Judge S. S. Kelton, his father.
Additional gifts of books will be welcomed.
HENRY A. BOWERS, recently pardoned by
the President from the work house, to which
he was sentenced for robbing the mails in
1888, stole some $50 from his father last
week and skipped out. Nothing has since
been heard from him. and it is thought likely
that he has gone West.
MEssRs. HENRY LOWE & Son have leased
the store in the Opera-house block between
d. W. Temple & Co.'S and w. w. Parks,
and will move into it about the 1st of No
vember. The location is very desirable
one and the Messrs. Lowe will have one OF
the best stores in town.
Hon. CHARLES w. PORTER, secretary OF
state, is unavoidably detained from the re.
union, having been called away to attend
the session of the United States circuit and
district courts which began at Rutland yes.
terday, where he is to appear for the de-
fendant in an important insurance case.
Mr.. GEORGE w. SCOTT was appointed as
delegate to represent the First Congrega
tional church of Montpelier, with its pastor
at the installation of Rev. G. NJ. Lamson as
pastor of the North church at St. Johnsbury
tomorrow. The Montpelier church is one
of four outside of Caledonia county which
have been invited to assist at the in
stallation.
Mr.. o. d. JONES of Berlin has left in this
Office some peculiar specimens of the irreg
ular growth of corn. One of these consists
of a double ear of yellow corn, another of
triple ear and another of seven ears on tn,
same stem. In the first two cases the ear
are grown together at the large end, while
in the third they are separate and parallel
and were all under one covering.
THE game of ball reported last week t,
have been played by the Goddard and Yer
mont Methodist Seminary mines, with sucl
overwhelming defeat for the former, wa
not formal game at all, but simply
"choose up" game, in which each nine wa
composed of students of both seminaries
We were not present and got the statemen
of the game from one of the spectators, wh
was passing the office after the game.
RAIN on Saturday compelled postpone
ment of the game of base ball between til
" Professional Artists " and " Lumber Ma
nipulators of the Montpelier Carriage Com
pany. The game was played Monday after
noon and resulted in a score of forty-four t
eighteen in favor of the d" Lumber Manipu
lators." j. M. Collins was umpire. Ac
cording to agreement, the defeated part,
gave an oyster supper at the Montpelie
House in the evening.
THE Boston Globe says: "' Our Irish Visit
ors made things very merry at the Bosto
Theater last evening. There is absolute
no plot about the entire performance; on
laughable situation slides into another an
keeps up a roar of merriment from the tim
the curtain comes up, on the first act, unit
the audience leaves at the end of the pei
formance. Messrs. Murray and Murph
have contrived to crowd more real genuin
fun into Our Irish Visitors than has bee
seen in any new play for long time"
THE following is list of the letters IN
called for at the Montpelier (Vt.) postoffic