The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-11
BY w. w. PRESCOTT
GMattbmam 4 guurnal.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH II, 1885.
Current Mention.

April 3, to be observed as Fast Day.
WHEN Cleveland had finished his inaugu-
raj Judge Poland is reported as saying
"well, if he lives up to that we cannot
complain"
FULL returns give Curtis s. Emery Of Chel-
sea, temperance candidate for county com
missioner in Orange county, two hundred
majority over A. 7. Clark of Bradford.
THE Boston Evening Record is six months
old, has twenty thousand circulation and is
the great success of the day in Boston, as
well in its enterprising exposure of social
evils as in circulation.
WE have received from M. " B. Davis of
Chelsea a specimen of black lead taken
from the farm of G. NJ. Hall in that town.
1t would seem to indicate that the mine
would pay for working.
WE have received from George B. Cliff
ford of the Dakota Investment Company
copy of the New Orleans Tines Democrat,
containing an editorial notice of the cere-
monies attendant upon the formal opening
of the Dakota exhibit.
STATES ATTORNEY BURLEsoN and Sheriff
Kennedy of Franklin county, who went to
Denver, Col, in search of Lawrence Brain
erd, have returned without their man. 1t is
said by Brainerd's friends that he will be in
attendance at the April term of court.
AN annular eclipse of the sun will take
place the 10th instant visible in the United
States and British America 1t is the re-
turn of the annular eclipse of February II,
1881. 1t will begin in New England at
n,n IN tba
afternoon.
THROUGH the courtesy of the Montpelier
Telelephone Exchange we were able to pre-
sent to our readers, last week, the lists of
officers elected the previous day in twenty
two towns in this section of the state. This
fact shows how generally the telephone has
come into use in this vicinity.
FIVE wooden buildings belonging to d. w.
Aiken & Son, comprising the business part
OF South Hardwick, were burned Saturday
afternoon. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
The buildings were occupied by stores and
dwellings. The Aikens loss is about SIS, 600;
insured for $4,000. The fire was caused by
defective flue.
JOHN II. SENTER and the town of Warren
are heartily congratulated on the vote adopt
ing the town system last week. Mr. Senter
began the agitation of the question ten
years ago, and with characteristic grit has
held on, with other firm friends, till the ma
jority has come to his side. SO will it ulti-
mately be in the state.
GOVERNOR PINGREE, Ex-Governor Proctor
and H. A. Huse, Esq, of the commissioners
on the library building, meet in this village
this evening to examine specifications and
estimates to be submitted by the architects.
A meeting of the full board of commissions
ers will be held at an early date to take
final action in the matter.
REFoRMER: Colonel Hooker is a very as
tute and obliging manager in politics. But
his chance of managing himself into the CUB
ernatorial chair through the Republican
party is good deal better than his chance
of managing the democratic dispensation.' ~
What has the genial Colonel been doing that
calls forth this manifesto?
THE editor of the Manchester Journal is
also postmaster. That he is a modest man
is proven by the following note which ap-
peared in the last issue: "The present
postmaster is a strong republican, of which
fact he has made no secret, consequently
he expects to be ousted; but if the patrons
of the Office desire to present a petition to
Mr.. Cleveland that he be retained, of course
they are at liberty to do So" How con.
siderate!
SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN: "It is under.
stood that Messrs. Smalley and Atkins, the
democratic chieftains, are spending consid
cradle of their valuable time in parceling
out the federal offices in the state Aspirants
will do well to bear in mind, however, that
President Cleveland holds the appointing
power, that he is a civil service reformer
and that one of the cardinal principles o.
reformers is that officials shall be removed
only for cause"
The following extract is from the Rich
mond (Virginia) State: Luke p. Poland
an aforetime United States senator from
Vermont still survives, between eighty ant
one hundred years of age, the only remain
ing relic of the senatorial era of blue swal
lowtail coats and brass buttons, and of Clay
Calhoun, and Webster. The venerable sen
ator is yet pretty peart on his pins, owing
to the fact that he has been lifelong dem
ocrat and well ordered citizen" Some o
these statements will be news in Vermont
THE March term of Washington count,
court opened yesterday, Judge Powers pre-
siding, and Hon. j. M Fisher and Hon.
S. Stanton sitting with him. The list O
jurors was given last week. The first cas-
tried was Town of Roxbury us. Central Ver
mont Railroad. In this suit the town seek
to recover about $1,000 which it was obige
to pay o. G. Fassett for injuries received a
arailroad crossing in September, $780, claim
ing that the railroad company is responsible
for the accident. The case is now in progress
A HEARING was had before Chancello
Royce at st. Albans, Friday, in the matte
OF the petition of alleged preferred creditor
of the trust company for an order declaring
the institution hopelessly insolvent and de
creeing full payment for their claims, as pre-
yided in the charter. An order was mad
giving counsel for the company, and any G
the so-called general depositors who car
to do so, till May 1st to file answer to the pc
tition. A motion to enjoin Receiver Ric
from paying further dividends till decit
ion is reached was also put over to May Isl
THE county temperance convention non
mated K. B. Dwinell OF Marshfield fc