The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-10

of their arrival, about two hundred of our
citizens, including many of our prominent
business men, met them at the depot with
our cornet band and gave them most cor
dial welcome. Major Burke, acting as mas
ter of ceremonies, expressed the sentiment
of our people in a short speech, in which
he extended the freedom of the town to
them and assured them of our appreciation
of the important addition which they made
to our county, and of the earnest desire of
our citizens to afford them any aid in their
power in this, their present grand enter
prise. His expressions of hospitality were
quite happily responded to, in short but
earnest speech, by Captain Hutchinson, in
behalf of the Vermont colony After the
speeches the whole party, escorted by the
band, marched to the Prior House, where
an elegant dinner had been prepared for
them by Mine Host Hazeltine. After din
ner rigs were procured and the members of
the colony were driven to their new homes
in 121-69 and 70"
THE eighty-frst commencement of the
University of Vermont and State Agricul-
tural College will begin Sunday, June %.
The following is the order of exercises:
Sunday, at 300 p NJ, baccalaureate dis
course by the presidents Z: 30, anniversary
of the Young Mems Christian Association,
address by the Rev. j. II. Van Dyke, Jr.,
ID, of New York city Monday, at 8: 90
P. M, Medical College commencement, adj
dress by the Hon. John w. Stewart. Tues
day, at 9: 90 A. NJ, annual meeting of the Phi
T. M ,f
alumni at college chapel, and dedication of
the Marsh memorial window, addresses by
Bishop Bissell and others; 81 90 p. NJ, dedi-
cation of Billings library, addresses by ex-
President Brown and others; 500, Junior
exhibition. Wednesday, at HOO A. NJ,
orations of graduating class and comforting
of degrees: 9: 90 P. NJ, corporation dinner at
the Van Ness House; 8: 90, commencement
levee at the Billings library. Thursday, at
9: 90 A. M, examination for admission to the
University. Music will be furnished by the
Howard opera house orchestra. The Cen
tral Vermont, Missisquo, st. Johnsbury &
Lake Champlain and Burlington & Lamoille
railroads will carry persons attending COM
mencement for fare one way Return GER
tificates can be obtained of the secretary of
the alumni. Round trip tickets can be pro-
cured on the lake steamers for fare one way
during commencement week.
The NeW York san makes an affecting
| farewell to Senator Edmunds, and breezily
bespeaks for him cordial welcome along the
route and on Old Albion's shores. Here
are some characteristic passages: "The
Hon. George f. Edmunds is on the deep on
his way to England and we hope he will
have pleasant voyage. He is person OF
too much resolution we should suppose, tC
yield easily or at all to the mseries of the
ocean, and yet his temperament is some
what bilious, such as is most susceptible tC
the motion of the waves and gets least ease
upon the heaving bosom of the main. Still
if rough weather visits the Aurania, if dark
storms veil the face of heaven, even as Mr.
Edmunds' slull-cap covers the august toI
of his head in the senate chamber, if winds
lash the waters just as he strs up the sena
tors when he is testy, we know that the
jolly old granitoid chap from the Greer
Mountains will not lose heart, whatevel
else he has to lose, and whatever may bt
his private communngs with the weltering
sea. Everybody and everything OF
the Aurania will be genial, and Mr. Ed
munds most genial of all, if the weather il
pleasant May the boss whales turn out t,
give him welcome, and theirs be the onl,
blowing he experiences in his seafaring
We can conscientiously commend him t.
the English lawyers and laymen who wisl
to study pretty good specimen of tn
American lawyer and statesman, the wi
and scholar, the hard hitter and hater, an,
the stalwart Edmunds republican"
THE Concord On. H. correspondent of tn
Boston AdUertiser thus sketches local legis
lative celebrity. The character is almos
as unique as some that used to haunt tn
precincts of the Vermont Capitol and the ol
historic Pavilion: "The great missin
feature of this legislature is Ruel Durkee c
Croydon. For the first time in the recolleC
ton of the majority of those now in Cor
cord he has failed to present himself at tn
session. His stout figure, which at no houl
by night or day, was ever missing from tn
corridor of the Eagle Hotel, his coarse bu
strong face and the historic s-buttonet
swallow-tailed, broadcloth coat, are for th
first time missing. The mysterious grunt
and ejaculations which expressed his view
on public questions no longer guide tn
: rural legislator. He is lying at the point {
death at his out-of-the-way home at Gro,
don, from which he regularly emerged fC
every state convention and legislature. n
one ever knew him to express positiy
opinion, enter the state-house eat a mea
2 90 to bed, or on what side of any case h
was retained. Yet he was .fdcile princel
: among the lobby, retained in every strugg
4 from a doorkeepership to a railroad tigh
: and no man can tell whether he ever lifte
l a hand in any of them. OF late years he ht
mourned over the degeneracy of the pol
0 ticians, declaring that they We're not up
the standard of former times, and bemoal
. ing the system of biennial sessions, whiC
lessened his Importance and receipts.
II Ruel Durkee could write his recollection
: they would form chapter in the history
). New Hampshire never to be equalled, fl
e no one can fill his place. With all 9th
e things to be talked about, the most heal
y question is, Where's Durkee?'"
4 THE annual field day sports of the st
81 dents of the University of Vermont to,
II place at Howard Park, Burlington, last Ss
% urday, and were viewed by about thr