The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-24
this place, and we are glad to learn of his

PROFESSOR GRIMLEY, who made such a
successful balloon ascension from Mont
pelier at the Fourth of July celebration a
year ago, has been engaged to make an as
cension from st. Albans week from next
Saturday.
THE committee on the Montpelier public
library have held several meetings recently
for the purpose of selection OF books.
About fifteen hundred works have been de-
termned upon, which is half of the number
proposed to start with.
A MATCH game of base ball was played on
Seminary Hill last Thursday afternoon be-
tween the Montpelier and the Bethel Mines
The game was sharply contested for three
hours, the Bethels winning, the score stand
ing thirty-two to thirty-one.
THE Woman's Home and Foreign Mis-
sionary Society will hold prayer-meeting
in the vestry of the Baptist church this We'd
nesday) evening, at half-past seven. There
will be social at the close, at which ice
cream and cake will be served. All invited.
HENRY L. f. SMITH left on Wednesday
last for Baker City, Montana, the former
residence of his late uncle, Louis Rivers.
He goes in behalf of the relatives of the de-
ceased to oversee the settlement of the af
fairs of the estate and expects to be absent
nearly year.
LEANDER KIRBY of Waterbury was ar
rested for intoxication, Monday evening,
and was brought before Justice Hinkley
Tuesday afternoon, when he pleaded guilty
and disclosed on George l.. Newton. On
trial Newton was convicted of two first Of
fences and appealed.
CALVIN E. STOWE of Boston, formerly of
this place, was in town on Wednesday, Mr.
Stowe was delegated by the Oak Hall Asso-
citation to attend the body of Henry c..
Money, deceased member, to its last
resting-place in Burlington Mr.. Stowe is
now in the employ of G.. W. Simmons Co.
w. j. PIKE of Middlesex was in town last
Monday, exhibiting pearl which he found
in river clam just below Middlesex vii
lage. 1t was a beauty and was fully five
siXteenths of an inch in diameter. Mr.. Pike
was promptly offered $50 for his find, but
declined it, as he regarded it worth more
money.
T. j. DEAvITT, Esq. has received dis
patch from Philadelphia, saying that the
court has rendered decision in the case he
tried in that city in May in favor of his
clients, deciding that they were the lawful
heirs of Charles Small, and entitled to re-
ceive the entire property in dispute, which
amounts to about $1,000.
POLICEMAN ORDwAY prepared one day last
week to lay the dust and sprinkle the unof
Tending public around the Montpelier
House, but was balked in his questionable
purpose by the bursting of the virtuous
hose. He was struck by the force of the
stream, but could not arrest it, He found
himself guilty, and was punished with con
siderable laughter by the court on the
piazza.
THOSE who listened to the address before
the 4Esthetic Society on Seminary Hill
Tuesday evening of last week, by Rev. 7
p. Frost, were richly repaid for their effort
in climbing the hill on warm night. Mr.
Frost has the happy faculty of combining
the entertaining with the instructive, and
although his address was an hour in length
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to the end. He goes to Castleton, mex
week, to speak before the students of the
Normal School there.
Mrs. C. w. WILLARD, son and daugh
ters, returned from their European tril
Tuesday afternoon. The party with which
they went left here in October, 1888, making
the term of their absence about twenty-on,
months. They came by the steamship Au
rania of the Cunard line from Queenstown
the trip occupying seven days, reaching New
York last Monday morning. The Misses
Richardson, who We're of the same party
arrived by the Cythia at Boston, Satur
day. Miss May, also OF the party, remain
in Germany to study art.
Mr.. GEORGE l. WATERHoUsE, formerl,
clerk of hotel in Fitchburg and latel.
of the Boscobel, Lynn, Mass, succeed
Mr. Sibley at the Pavilion Mr.. Sibley ha
had long experience in the hotels in thi
village-in the old Burnham the Bsho
and the old and new Pavilion. OF the latte
he has been much of the time manager ant
has always proved himself an efficient Off
cial as we'll as popular one with the travel
ing public. His successor is gentleman
of pleasant address and good busines
methods, and he will maintain the popularit
of the famous Pavilion.
THE following is a list of the letters un
! called for at the Montpelier (Vt.) postotfic
June 20, 1885:
, Kitty l.. Andrews, Mrs. Lena NJ Nelson
Sarah L. Avery, Martha l.. Perden,
Miss Anna Conway Miss Louella west
Miss Mary Is. Houston,
, GENTLEMEN
, John Blair, VIM. Gold
Daniel W. Curran, s. II. Jones,
+. Chaffee 4 Son, L. H. Kingsbury,
Don /. Dervey, II. McClary,
Albert Congo Jesse A. Pike.
Parties applying for any of the above mus
: say advertised and give the date.
GEORGE w. WING, Postmaster.
A LARGE crowd gathered at the Well
River station, Monday morning, on the occa
sion of the departure of Washington count
department of Vermont veterans for tn
G.. A. II. encampment at Portland. A wes
ern train of thirteen cars, ten of which wer
Pullman cars, and train bearing Rutlan
a company, passed over the Wells River roa
and were enthusiastically greeted as the
passed the stations The train bearin
Crandall Post of Barre, numbering owe
forty men, and Brooks Post of this place
; with about the same number of men an
the Montpelier military band, twenty-hv
members, was beautifully decorated wit
bunting and evergreen, each car bearing tn
, name of the body that occupied it. Will
waiting around the station our band playe
7 several pieces, and had it not been for tn
unpleasantness of the weather there woul
3 have been slight taste of Portand's gran
parade on our own streets AT a time whe
! the crowd seemed waiting for something
General Stephen Thomas mounted a cor
venient wagon-box and delivered shoi
harangue, by which couple of men wer
: instigated to pass the hat, and the sum {
: twenty-five dollars accrued TO the G. A. Il
boys as the result. One radiant boy il
blue was rendered blue indeed when tn
8 train moved away without him. The il
! creased length of his face made the lowe
9 part thereof resemble chin whiskers. III
= said he would go if he had to walk, but wa
fortunately picked up by the next train.
r The new Capital Cafe has been opened t
: the public and is well patronized. 1t wa
l the intention of the proprietor, DR. c. W
: Locklin, in fitting it up, to provide restau
rant which should be in every way attractiv
| and free from all those Objectionable fef
: lures which are so often found in eating
; houses, and his object seems to have bee
: accomplished. The apartments were pre-
pared under his immediate supervision
: The front windows are adorned with rar
a plants and mosses and fountain. The fron
room is fitted up with shelves, on which ar
r large varieties of imported candies an
I fancy shelf groceries, while against tn
southerly wall stands a beautiful marbl