The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-11

nOOuS, ike tne lying charges 10 auJuui-
cate " which Mr.. Atkins is afraid to meet a
tribunal and jury of his own election.
Even IL THE WATcHMAN were purchasable
and were looking for buyer, ordinary pru-
dence would lead us to shun Oviatt. We
should waste no time negotiating with the
champion dead-beat of the state, whose un-
paid bills have given hotel, clearinghouse
and saloon-keepers, grocerymen, jewelers.
and tailors, sad experience of his frailties.
Respecting this controversy; we engaged in
it most unwillingly, in self-defence, as we
would If a skunk had persistently assailed
us. We have reached the end. Our ac-
cuser has been shown to be q craven coward,
fabricating lies and sneaking from the
threshold of the tribunal before which he
proposed to vindicate his veracity. We can
have no further controversy with person
who has the brand of untruthfulness upon
him, and whose malice and lack of honor or
decency lead him to the use of such villain
Gus expedients as he employs.
THE annual encampment of the Depart
ment of Vermont Grand Army of the Re-
public, was held at Rutland on Wednesday
meeting was held at Baxter hall on We'd
nesday afternoon, following which Com
mander Kinsman gave the annual address.
The report of the adjutant-general showed an
increase in the state within the year of thir-
teen posts and about six hundred members.
In the evening there was banquet, with
music by the Rutland band and speeches
by Judge Veazey, Colonel G. w. Hooker,
Major Valentine, General p. p. Pitkin,
Colonel A. r. Walker, Comman Ter 4. 7.
Woodward, u. S. N. Mrs. s. e. Fuller :of
South Boston, vice-president of the Wom-
ems National Relief Corps, and other dis
tinguished individuals. The following Off
GERS were elected for the ensuing year: De-
partment commander, William l. .Greenleaf
of Burlington; senior vice-commander, G.
Il. Graves of Bennington; junior vice-com-
mander, II. X Ide of st. Johnsbury; medi-
cal director, DIR. E. G. Chesmore of Hunt
ington chaplain, Rev. Elihu Snow of Lud-
low. Department Commander Greenleaf
has made the following appointments:
James B. Scully of Burlington, assistant ad-
jutant-general; r. j. Coffey of Windsor, j.
H. Walbridge of Bennington, j. G.. Morse
of Cambridge, w. II. Gilmore of Fairlee and
G. II. Bond of Brattleboro council of ad-
ministration; II. E. Taylor of Brattleboro,
c. b. Gates Of Cambridge, j. c. Stearns of
Bradford and L. 7. Woodward of Rutland,
delegates to the national encampment
Hugh Henry of Chester, j. G.. Morse of
Cambridge, H. f. Perkins of st. Albans
and l.. G. Kingsley of Rutland, alternates.
Mrs. Fuller organized the Ladies' Relief
Corps of the department of Vermont.
On Saturday afternoon the spool and bob
bin manufactory of George r. Holt, Bur-
lington, was destroyed by fire and First AS
sistant E. G. Parker of the Ethan Allen En-
gine Company was killed by the fall of a
portion of the wall of the burning building.
The loss upon the stock and machinery,
which falls upon Mr.. Holt, is estimated at
! $4,000, on which he carried an insurance OF
$500. The loss upon the building, which
was the property af Lawrence Barnes, Esq.
is probably between $40, 900 and $12,0 900, and
the insurance upon it is $3.50. The origin
of the fire is in doubt. The thermometer
was about six degrees below zero, and the
firemen worked at great disadvantage
The Ethans, who were first on the ground
had taken their hose through the alley be
tween the burning building and the Bur
lington Manufacturing Company's building
when suddenly the upper portion of the
brick wall of the engine-house, adjoining
the alley, was blown out by an internal ex
plosion, and Mr. Parker, who was passing
at the time, was struck down and hal
buried by the falling mass, crushing hi
head and killing him instantly. No flame
had appeared in the upper story of the en-
gine-house at the time, and there was no in
dication of danger and no warning to tn,
victim. Mr. Parker was born in Westford
in 1851, and was consequently thirty-fou
years of age He went to Burlington to re
side seven or eight years ago, and was th
head clerk in the clothing house of b. Turl
& Brother at the time of his death. He wa
one Of the best firemen in the city-alway
prompt, cool and fearless-and was pro
NOTED from the ranks, solely ON accoun
of his merits, to the position of first assistan
of Ethan Allen Engine Company at thei
last annual election. His death is the frs
violent death of a fireman, in the perform
ance of his duty, that has taken place in tn
history of the department of Burlington.
THE consolidation of the Inder and Gale
donian newspapers, at st. Johnsbury, abou
which so much has been said, has failed o
accomplishment 1t is currently under
stood that Mr.. Stone offered to sell to tn
company of gentlemen who were seeking
consolidation at what was not an unreason
able price. The gentlemen objected and
was agreed by Mr. Stone to SELL and by tn
company to take, the paper on terms whc
two men mutually agreed upon shall name.
The terms the referees named were yer,
much in excess of Mr.. Stones offer--mor
than double, it is reported-and the "syndi
cate repudiated their appraisal. So nego
tiations, heraded with a flourish of trump
cts, ended in fiasco in more respects thai
one. The "long-felt want" which the con
solidation was to supply to the famishin
republicans of Caledonia county, the news
papers are now saying, was the advance
ment of Senator Henry @. Ide's ambition t
be lieutenant-governor in 1886 and governo
In 1888, Again, Caledonia republicans wer
disgruntled at Mr.. Stones support of 81
John. Wherein was this more culpabl
than republican support of Cleveland? Ii
this section of the state it is generally ur
1araton1 that Mr. ba aIi IN