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


OWING to press of other matter our pre-
MUM offers are again omitted this week,
but they still hold good. This is good
time for old subscribers to renew and for
new ones to begin.
THREE engineers have lost their places on
account of the recent accidents on the Cen
tral Vermont road, Mel. Muzzey being
among the unlucky ones.
COMPANY F. Second Vermont Volunteers,
will hold the second annual reunion in
Montpelier on Thursday of this week.
There will be only a business meeting at
this time and the headquarters will be at
the Montpelier House.
On the seventh page will be found a cut
Of the scales we are Offering in connection
with THE WATCHMAN, and the terms on
which they can be secured. 1t is a very
favorable opportunity to obtain an article of
practical use in every household.
THE Inter- Ocean of January 30th gives an
interesting account of the eighth annual
meeting of the Sons and Daughters of Ver-
mont in Chicago, on the Goth of January. A
banquet was held at the Palmer House, and
there was music and a joyous time gener-
ally. The address was delivered by Rev.
Arthur Little.
DIR. SAMUEL j. ALLEN of White River
Junction, charged with the killing of Dell
Hansell of Rocklan1 1, Mass, was sentenced
in the supreme court at Boston, last week
Wednesday, to five years in the state prison
at Charlestown, one day to be passed in
solitary confinement. The sentence is gen.
orally regarded as very light one.
GOVERNOR PINGREE, Ex-Governor Proc
tor and State Librarian Huse, of the COM
missioners to erect the state library build
ing, are to meet some Boston architects here
to-day to look over the grounds and con-
slider specifications Estimates will be made
at once, and some definite conclusion will
doubtless be reached at an early day.
THE Springfield Republican announces
among the candidates for the commissioner
ship of agriculture DIR. Peter Collier, for
merly of the University of Vermont at Bur-
lington, who has been for twenty years
student of scientific agriculture, and during
the past seven years has been in position
to know all about the department at Wash
ington.
WHY do The Tuttle Company of Rut-
land persist in advertising themselves as
" official printers to the state of Vermont ~?
There is no such official as a state printer,
but the work is done here and there, in the
state and outside, just as it happens. The
Englishman who announced himself as
barber to her majesty the queen had a
better reason for so doing than can be
shown in this case.
THE trustees of the Soldiers Home held
a meeting last week, at which Governor
Proctor presided. 1t was decided to post
pone the permanent organizing to future
day. Warren Gibbs of Burlington, George
T. Childs of St. Albans and William Wells
of Burlington were appointed committee
to draft bylaws, etc. 1t was voted that the
chairman be authorized to call a meeting
for permanent organization at place and
time that he may fix
OUR esteemed contemporary, the Free
Press, /" the best paper ever printed in Ver-
mont" finds it convenient to fill three col
umns of its valuable space each day with
"plate matter which is set up and stereo-
typed in New York. This is well enough
and doubtless adds to the interest of the
paper, but it is hard on its readers when the
Free Press prints in this way one Of its old
jokes, credited to itself, as it did in Monday IS
issue. The public ought to be let off with
one reading.
The recent examination of the Vermont
Life Insurance Company by the insurance
commissioners has confirmed the current
report that the capital stock has become inn
paired, the amount being found to be about
ten per cent. This simply means that if the
company should close up business at once
there would remain, after paying all liabili-
ties, $4,000 instead of 100000, which was
paid in by the stockholders. 1t will be seen
that the company is still on perfectly
sound basis.
1T is known that among the early settlers
in Vermont were many from Connecticut
of the name of Stanley, descended from
John, Timothy or Thomas Stanley of Hart.
ford. All persons connected with these by
birth or marriage, or who have any knowl
edge of such families, are respectfully in
vited to send their names, and such facts
and data " will aid in preparing a Stanley
genealogy, to Rev. L. p. Warren, editor o
the Christian Mirror, Portland Maine. Be
sides births, marriages and deaths, all bio
graphical and historical matters, items re
specting business and estates, and anecdotes
that will enliven and enrich the work, ar,
desired.
WE call special attention to the institute
to be held by the Washington County
Woman's Christian Temperance Union at tb,
Congregational church, Waterbury, Febru
AIRY 10 and 20. Topics for discussion, "Scien
tific Temperance Instruction in Schools
and Hygiene and Heredity," two depart
ments of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union work OF great interest to the genera
public. Every father and mother ought t.
know the methods by which their childreI
are to be taught in the common schools
Every person in the community, old o.
young, has vital and personal interest in
the great truths of hygiene and horedity
The institute is fortunate in having secure,
the services OF two such speakers as Mrs