The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-08
@attbman 4 Journal.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1885.
Current Mention.


A DISPATCH from Tunbridge says that DIR.
G. w. Brown, claiming to be botanic
physician of Boston, was arrested there
Monday night for criminal assault upon
young girl, the ward of a wealthy citizen.
MODERN SINGING METHODS THEIR USE
AND ABUSE, by j. Frank Botume, is a little
treatise which is packed full of sound adj
vice to persons about to take a course in
voice-training. Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co.
CHICAGO HERALD: "Senator Edmunds'
convictions are very strong and his fondness
for doing things according to law and pre-
cedent is great. The man who will refuse
even to do right in an irregular way is of
great service in these days, when there are
so many opportunities to do wrong under
some color Of authority"
Mr.. CHRIsMAN HANCOCK of Berlin brought
TO this Office last week a sixty-dollar bill of
the continental currency issued under a
resolution of congress of January 14th, 1779
This bill was given to Mr.. Hancock in 1923
by Gideon Balcom of Winchendon, Mass,
soldier in the war of the revolution who
received tas part pay for his services.
SALEDONlAN: - Inere nave been fOur
papers started in st. Johnsbury within
few years past to fill a long-felt
want: The Times, the Farmer, the Inder,
and the Republican. AS the Times-Farmer
sunk $25, 900 in a few years, it might be said
that instead Of filling long-felt want it
left an aching void in the pockets of its
owners"
THy q late TO
Morrill, suggests that the people of Mont
pelier canvass the matter of the choice of a
site for the public building and agree upon
the names of citizens for a committee on To-
cation. He makes the suggestion in accord
ance with the request of the secretary Of
the treasury. An agent of the government
will, at the proper time, come TO Montpelier
to decide as to the location of the building.
GENERAL JOHN D. IMBoDEN, who, with
other ex-confederate generals, will contrib
ute to the May Century, was one of three
officers appointed to examine into the con-
dition of the transportation and commits
sariat of the confederate army after the bat
tie OF Bull Run, and report upon the reasons
why the success of that fight was not fol-
lowed up by an attack on Washington. Gen
eral Imboden tells in The Century the result
OF this investigation, which, he relates, was
embodied in report to the confederate ad-
ministration-and suppressed.
The annual meeting of town superinten-
dents of Washington county was held in the
grand jury room at the courthouse yester-
terday, when the following gentlemen were
present: A. A. Lewis, DuXbury; II. f. Hill
Montpelier; e. w. Slayton, Warren; f. p
Gale, Cabot; w. A. Jones, Waitsfield: w. H.
III. Mears, Marshfeld; A. L. Hewitt Berlin
d. e. Miller, Waterbury, l. 2. Booth, North
field; V. V. Vaughn, Middlesex; c. p. Hol-
lister, East Montpelier, and NJ. S. Hatha-
way, Calais f. p. Gale was elected presi-
dent and Rev. l. p. Booth secretary. H. f.
Hill, j. NJ. Hit and E. A. Bishop were
elected county examiners. 1t was voted not
to issue a certificate to any one falling under
fifty per cent in examination upon any sub
ject. The principal work of the day was the
preparation of examination papers. The
spring examinations will take place Satur-
day, April %, and the fall examinations, Sat
urday, November 81.
REFoRMER: "a couple of months since
two Vermont democratic editors came into
collision of opinion at the JaclSsonian ban
quet at Rutland. Mr.. Atkins of the Mont
pelier Argus made an eloquent speech, pre-
dieting grand inpouring of democrats into
Office all over the country Mr.. Davenport
of the Brattleboro Reformer took occasion,
in responding to toast, to predict that
President Cleveland would be found to
mpap inst what 10 said r;
reform-which Mr. Atkins jumped up to
pronounce highly ridiculous. He is prob
ably changing his opinion gradually now"
Per contra, third Vermont democrat Mr..
Atkins co-worker and partner in the pro-
prietorship of the bob-tailed democracy of
Vermont, Mr.. Smalley, is reported as de-
caring that by July there will not be re-
publican holding federal Office in this
state. We hope and believe the Retormer
is right, eternally right" and Atkins and
Smalley are wrong, eternally wrong"-
as usual.
In a recent letter to the Ne1U York Tribune
George Alfred Townsend writes: Among
the leading politicians hear a good deal of
talk about Vermonts prominence in po-
htical way being much greater than her
geographical size warrants. One of her sem
ators is chairman of the judiciary commit
tee OF the senate, and for three years has
been acting vice-president, while the other
senator is chairman of the finance commit
tee, and now one of her democratic sons re-
ceives the most important post in the for
elgn service of the country. Congressman
Stewart of Vermont said to me on this sub
ject; 1t should make no difference what
ever, whether man comes from a small
state or large one, if he is the man for the
place he is called to fill. But there is al
ways cry that the large states should have
all the big places and the small states only
the little places. The opposition to Mr..
Cleveland on the part of certain democrats
is almost wholly because he has made his
selections with reference to men rather than
geography. Senator Sherman shares some-
thing of this idea, which is an Ohio idea as
well.''
THE control of the st. Johnsbury & Lake
Champain road, from Maquam Bay to Lu-
nenburg, has been secured by capitalists,
in the interest of the Boston * Lowell road,
and will hereafter be operated by that pow
erful corporation. The latter fact has been
formally announced by a circular issued by
the president of the Boston & Lowell. 1t is
intimated that this movement has heen