The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-29

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have been worth ten times more than all of
these" Didn't the Messenger man get any
seeds?
THE National Educational Association,
which held such large and profitable meet
ing in Madison, Wis, last year, meets at
Saratoga, July IA to 1S inclusive Principal
j. NJ. Hit of Northfeld has just been APP
pointed again state manager for Vermont,
and will announce rates and details as soon
as they are determined.
The singers of Washington county, whose |
names have been secured, are receiving |
special invitations to the May festival at |
Montpelier. Those who do not receive such |
invitations should not feel that they are less
favored or in any way excepted, since all
would be so invited, could their names be |
known to the management.
The floods at Montreal and Point st.
Charles have interfered with the running |
of trains to Montreal, and made it i'm
possible to reach that city via st. Johns
The Central Vermont road has taken its St.
Johns passengers directly to that place, but
parties ticketed for Montreal have had to
be sent there by way of Rouse's Point and
Moore's junction, making about sixteen
miles extra travel.
IT has been definitely decided to hold the
musical festival at Montpelier four days,
commencing Tuesday evening, May 10. Mr..
Blaisdell and Mrs. Shepard will be present
from the first, and Mr.. Zerrahn, the orchestra
and sooists will come Wednesday after
noon. The management find it impossible
to secure the services of Mr. Babcock for
the festival, as he is engaged to sing in New
York at that time. Mr.. III. l.. Cornell,
another well-known Boston basso has
therefore been engaged for the festival.
New YORK SUN: go How are things to-
day.? whispered young man to friend
who had just come from General Grants
hall door, where he had been speaking to
the servant. Better, replied the friend, in
the same cautious tone. Douglas has eaten
his breakfast with some relish, and Dr.
Shrady is resting comfortably But how
is General Grant, asked the first speaker
Grant, was the answer. oh l didn't ask
about him. l was merely anxious to ascer-
tain how the doctors were getting along"
COUNSEL for Oscar Meyer have taken ex-
ceptions, and the case goes to the supreme
court. Meyer will be sentenced the latter
| part of the term. The MESSENGER states that
Meyer admitted to fellow prisoner that he
murdered Krause because the latter inter-
fered with woman he was keeping com
pany with in Burlington. After the ver-
dict, on the way from the courthouse to the
Jail, Meyer is reported to have said: There
has never been a German hung in Yer
mont, and | shall not be the first. l shall
not hang-never."
GOVERNOR PINGREE has received the fol-
lowing appreciative letter from Frederick
Billings: "My Dear Gouernor Il am just
back from visit to Bermuda with Mrs.
Billings and two of my daughters. 1 find
here the Arbor Day proclamation which
you were kind enough to send me- | lose
no time in thanking you for issuing such a
wise and excellent proclamation. | have
had good deal to do in one way and another
with the subject of forestry, and it is of the
utmost Importance that the people of our
state be awakened to greater interest in the
matter of tree-panting. No better use could
be made of the 1st day of May than by a
recommend"
THE Brattleboro Reformer must reform an
evil practice. We grieve to say it, but our con-
temporary has parasitic sort of way ofsup-
porting its editorial columns For example,
the statistics of the maple sugar produ ct,
CLEANED by THE WATCHMAN from the CEN
sus reports, reappear in the Reformer as a
stroke of original enterprise; with the table
is paraphrase of portion of our remarks
upon the maple and maple sugar, all with
out credit The Retormer knows it took the
whole thing from The WATERMAN disguised
it where it could by some slight verbal alter.
ations and appropriated it as its own. That
is not honorable journalism. Our contem
porary has often done this same thing be-
fore in treating of other matters. 1t is
easier and honester to give credit than tc
garbe and conceal.
FREE PRESS: eff Mr. Cleveland car
, recognize Colonel Smalley's party service
without doing violence to the principles o
, civil service reform, which the president
Z processes to favor, we certainly should think
it all right for him to do so. But the office
o Colonel Smalley is understood to want il
a that of collector of customs for Vermont
a That Office is held by a man who was
, brave and modest soldier of the Union, wh'
fought his way to rank and fame. Genera
/ Wells has been a perfectly honest, incor
ruptible and capable collector. He has no
been an offensive partisan has neve
undertaken to manage politics or taken any
part in political conventions or meeting
u since the issue OF President Hayes cvi
= service order. To remove him and ap
point in his place party boss-for Mr.
n Smalley is clearly the political boss of tn
( Vermont democracy-would be as gross
e violation of the principles of civil servic
reform and of Mr.. Clevelands own declara
II tions of the policy he would pursue, a
> could well be imagined"
IS The following is the programme of exel
ID cises of the Vermont Methodist Episcopi
it Conference, to be held at Bellows Falls tn
week, as far as announced: The first is I'll
r. conference sermon by Rev T. F. Frost
4 Montpelier, at half-past seven o'clock Wee
9. nesday evening. The opening service
ca the conference will be held at nine A. NJ
NJ Thursday, at which Bishop Bowman wi
preside. At half-past one p, M, statistic
session; at half past two p. M, home mi