The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-18

Plainfeld and see the chairman. did so
and he promised to get the votes printed
and circulated through the county, and sup |
posing he would, and knowing that he had
ample time and was fully competent and
heart and that he must know the danger of
neglect, 1 left the matter in his hands. |
Now if there is blame you very well see
where it lies. / care very little personally
for the defeat but do care for the cause of
temperance" Mr.. Dwinell seems to have
the impression that our article of last week
put the blame upon him personally. Such
was not our purpose. We distinctly stated
that "t the county temperance convention
took no measures to further his
election and did not even have ballots
printed and distributed.
THE fourth annual session of the Burling-
ton Philharmonic Society, held in Howard
Opera House last week, was the most sue
cessful of any held by the society, though the
chorus was not as large as in former years.
The fault in this respect was wholly with
Burlington vocalists, for the attendance
from distant towns was larger than usual.
L ut IlOUtn Vi hldTCn SbtlllS W us dU uIlldNOI
able time to ask so much of singers and had
the festival been held in milder season,
the chorus would undoubtedly have been
the largest ever assembled in Burlington.
The conductor, Carl Zerrahn, is the ac-
knowledged peer of any director of music
in America, and the soloists were among
the very best that Boston affords. With
Blaisdell's orchestra for accompaniment the
deficiency in the chorus was not as notice.
able as it would otherwise have been. The
orchestra never appeared to better advan-
tage in Vermont. The audiences were large
and the receipts were sufficient to meet all
expenses and leave a large surplus to be
applied toward reducing the debt which the
society has incurred at previous festivals
THE following is the full text of the para
graph in the sundry civil bill providing for
the erection of a public building at Mont
pelier: That the secretary of the treasury
be, and he hereby is, authorized and di-
rected to purchase a suitable site, and cause
to be erected thereon, at Montpelier, in the
state of Vermont, substantial and commo-
dious public building, with fire-proof vaults,
for the use and accommodation of the post
office, courthouse and internal-revenue
office. The site, and the building thereon,
when completed, according to plans and
specifications to be previously made and
approved by the secretary of the treasury
shall not exceed the cost of $4,000; and
the site purchased shall leave the building
unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent
buildings by an open space of not less than
forty feet, including streets and alleys and
for the purposes herein mentioned the sum
Of $4,000 is hereby appropriated, out of any
moneys in the treasury not otherwise ap-
proprated, to be expended under the di-
rection of the secretary of the treasury:
Prorided, That no part of said sum shall be
expended until valid title to the said site
shall be vested in the United States, and
the state of Vermont shall cede to the United
States exclusive jurisdiction over the same,
during the time the United States shall be
or remain the owners thereof, for all pur-
poses except the administration of the Grim
inal laws of said state and the service of
any civil process therein"
A DISPATCH to the Boston Journal says
vermont democrats are anxiously await
ing the return of Hon. Bradley b. Smalley
and Editor Hiram Atkins from Washington
where they went two weeks ago, to attend
Cleveland's Inauguration. These two lead
ers of the unterritied are supposed to have
the dispensation of the federal offices of the
state in their hands, and it is stated that
they have received over five hundred appli
cations for the one hundred government
offices outside of the postoffices in Vermont
There are probably not less than five thou
sand applicants for the five hundred twenty
postoffices, and democrats at nearly every
railroad station are desirous of succeeding
the thirty postal clerks accredited to Yer
mont. Unlike the mass of democrats il
other states, Vermont democrats are no
seekers for office to any extent in the de
partments or abroad. The terms of Office
for which the principal federal officers il
this state hold commissions have from on,
to three years to run. Under Cleveland
civil service system these officials, of course
cannot be removed without cause In du
course of time probably Hon. Bradley B
Smalley will succeed General William
Wells as collector of customs at Burlington
John Robinson Of Bennington will be mad,
United States marshal in place of Genera
Henry, Clarence II. Pitkin of Montpelie
may supersede Colonel Kittredge Haskin
as district attorney, George l.. Spear @
Braintree may take the office of interna
revenue collector held now by Major Johl
@. Stearns, Hon. II. f. Brigham OF Bakers
field may be made national bank examine
in place of Ex-Governor Hendee, f. II
, Bascom of Montpelier might be appointe
, postoffice inspector"
SOME interesting facts have been mad
public in regard to the Plymouth gold mine
from which we take the following: 9TH
groupings of the gold bearing lode are Wis
BILE for mile. The highest altitude Of tn
surface groupings is eight hundred fee
above the level of the present development
The lode consists of auriferOus crystalin
matrix and is embedded between contni
5 GUS permanent walls. The width is 81
. feet, increasing as depth is gained. Th
- ore is heavily charged with sulphate {
= iron, the gold is very fine, and general
coated with foreign substances, and is foun
> in feathery veins and minute particle
, The lode is of enormous extent, and grow
= wider and the material richer as depth
attained The working entrance to I'll
= mine is a tunnel at the base OF tie moul