The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-11-25


on skates with wheels seven and one-half
inches in diameter and weighing seven
teen pounds, and played on a number of
different musical instruments.
DIR. AND Mrs. II. G. BRIGHAM left on Mon
day for their New York home. DR.. II. S.
Boardman of Ludlow has purchased his |
practice here and will minister to the wants
of DR.. Brigham's former patrons. The field
is good one, and with eight years of pre-
vious experience DIR. Boardman ought to be
very successful, as DR.. Brigham has been.
THE people of Montpelier have responded
very cheerfully to the appeal of the COM
mittee appointed to solicit funds for the pur-
chase of new instruments for the Montpelier
military band, and the committee hope to
close the matter up this week. The first of
the series of assemblies will be held some-
time next week, but the exact date has not
yet been fixed.
EDUCATIONAL meetings, in the interest of
the common schools, are to be held as fol-
lows: AT Stowe, December 1st; Middlesex,
December ID; Worcester, December Sd;
Roxbury, December 4th These meetings
are not exclusively for teachers-all are in
vited to be present. The exercises will con-
sist of addresses and papers upon educa-
tional topics, class exercises and discussions.
THE Madison Square Theater Company
will present :" A Russian Honeymoon at
Blanchard Opera-house tomorrow (Thurs-
day. evening. The New York Critic says:
"Of all the pretty plays produced at the
Madison Square Theater, A Russian
Honeymoon is the prettiest." Tickets are
on sale at the Phinney bookstore and the
prices of admission, with reserved seats, are
within the reach of all.
THE well-known Duprez & Benedict's
minstrels will give an entertainment at
Blanchard Opera-house on Monday evening
of next week, with Harry Horton, male
soprano vocalist and speciality artist; the
famous Whippler Twins, speciality artists;
George Leslie, American grotesque spe-
cialty artist Thomson and Duclos, in artistic
solos on guitars, Spanish mandolins, staff
bells, cornets, banjos, Xylophones, and the
great delineator of aged negro character,
Archie White. The show bids fair to equal
any minstrel entertainment given here for a
long time.
THE following is list of the letters un-
called for at the Montpelier (Vt.) post-office
November 81, 1885:
! Miss Mary Armstrong, Miss Katie SWEET.
! Miss Lucia Barton, Miss Laura A. Swift,
| Ellen Burke. G. II. Browne,
Mrs Charles Cady, Geo. c. Dunning, Jr.,
Melissa Campbell, L. Z. Kelly,
Miss Almira Hooker, l.. II. Miller,
Mrs. Jennie Mayo, ifrS Alfred Il Nelson
Emelie Paradis, Edgar Wright
| Marosa Peck, A. q. Wason,
Miss Gertie Robinson, ID. L. willcutt,
Mrs Grace Z. Smith, Novelty Co.
Parties applying for any of the above must
say advertised and give the date.
GEORGE w. WING, Postmaster.
THE audience which greeted the Dillon &
Stedman Company in the play of " Esmer-
aida at Blanchard Opera-house, Saturday
evening, was a small one in point of num-
bers but very enthusiastic and apprecia-
tive. The play is good one, if well per-
formed, and the Dillon & Stedman Com
pany gave it very pleasing representation.
With one or two exceptions the characters
were admirably sustained, and the enter
tainment was said by some to be the most
satisfactory of any of its kind yet given in
the new opera-house. There ought to have
been larger attendance.
ONE of the interesting cases heard and de-
cided at the general term of the supreme
court was the Windham county tax case Of
Chester B. Newell against Whtingham
which was decided for the defendant, affirm
ing the Judgment of the county court
Judge Barrett appeared for the town o.
Nottingham and the case involved the right
of a man TO qualify his oath taken on an in
ventory of property under the old tax law
Newell refused to take the "iron-clad oath ,
and inserted the clause, to the best of my
knowledge and belief" The town officers
doubled his tax and he appealed to the
courts, which now decide that the statut,
form of the oath must be literally followed
Judge Ross dissenting.
introducino tho lanturar Mr. IT TT
Ragan, at Blanchard Opera-house, Monda.
evening, Colonel Fred f. Smith made sew
eral announcements concerning the new
public library which will be of general in
terest. The library now has a subscribed
fund of 5000, which is rapidly being pal,
into the treasury. The committee has sc
ected and ordered some three thousan,
books, several of which will be imported
For this and other causes numerous de
lays are occasioned, but the trustees hop
to be able to open the libary to the publ
, early in January. AS has before been an
nounced desirable room has been secures
in the opera-house building, and this is nov
being fitted up to receive the books whe
they shall arrive. The ladies' auxiliary Sc
ciety have taken advantage of Mr.. Blancl
ards kindness in rendering the use of tn
: opera-house, and have arranged a series c
four entertainments, of which the Raga
lecture was the first. Others will be dul
l announced.
THE delights of travel, without its discon
forts, were experienced by a little compan
of Montpelier people who went to the opera
house, Monday evening, to accompany MI
Ragan on his journey up the Rhine an
+. among the Alps. Every part of the trip wa
a enjoyable and the pleasure was increase
by the entertaining and instructive remark
of the guide, who had been there before an
was so careful that nothing of interest shoul
. escape the notice of his followers. Mr.. RI
gan's illuminated tour was revelation I
: those who had never accompanied him bt
q fore, and especially so TO those who wen
q with any feeling that they were attendin
an ordinary magic-lantern exhibition. Th
" lecture itself was sufficient to hold tn
n closest attention of the audience and tn
: portrayal of the scenes through which tn
lecturer passed, given with the aid of
/ powerful electric light upon a canvas whic
l. covered the whole proscenium, made thei
!, seem so familiar that for the time it was NJ
difficult TO imagine them to be real 1t is
v pity that there were not more in attendanc,
but the managers and those who were ther
=, have the satisfaction of knowing that thos
y who did not go were the greater losers.
> Personal.
4 Hon. FREDERICK BILLINGS and family al
at their winter residence in New York,
Il Il r. RANDAII of Rutland has racai We