The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-06-03
Montpelier.


town.
THE first thunderstorm of the season oc-
Cured Monday afternoon
SUNDAY evening prayers at Christ church
now begin at seven o'clock.
c. II. FULLER has moved into j. w.
Brooks house on Loomis street.
Hon. II. II. POWERS and Hon. George
Nichols were in town yesterday.
Mrs. M. A. DUDLEY of White River
Junction is visiting at ID. w. Dudley's.
Mrs. j. EDWARD WRIGHT returned yester-
day from three weeks stay in New York.
MT. zion CoMMANDERY was represented
by about twenty-five men at Northheld, Sat
urday.
THE Golden Fleece will be open for skat-
ing next Saturday evening, with music by
the band.
MRS CHARLES f. ROBINSON is very low
with lung fever, and her recovery is consid-
cred doubtful
THE regular weekly concert of the Mont
pelier military band will be given Thursday
evening in front of the state-house.
DIR. n. c. KING came home from New
York yesterday afternoon, having finished
his engagement at the Colored Home and
Hospital.
AT the close of the concert, Friday even
ing, the band was invited to the residence
of II. c. Webster, where they were filed
NIll SOou uHlhSo'
THE unprecedented amount of freight bust
ness on the Wells River railroad has neces-
STATED the securing of additional help in
the Montpelier office.
NJ e. SMILE, II. w. Kemp, A. NJ. Che
ney, Richard Dillon and Charles A. Kilham
are on fishing trip to Lake Megantic, in
the Province of Quebec.
COMPANY H made fine appearance in
the procession Memorial Day, and Captain
Clark is to be congratulated upon their ex-
celent drilling on that occasion.
A PARTY of Montpelier young men spent
Sunday on Mount Mansfield, The weather
was cloudy during their stay on the summit
and no good view was obtained.
AT the annual meeting of the New Eng.
land Woman's Suffrage Association, held
May 26th, Mrs. Charles Reed was elected
one of the vice-presidents for Vermont.
j Miss ROSE NJ. WILLIAMS of West Med
J ford, Mass, and Mrs. S. Il. Graham Clarke
of Portland, Maine, are here to assist in the
gospel meetings Miss Williams will leat
the singing
DIR. G. w. LoCKLIN opens his new cap
; ital cafe " this week Among other hand
some furnishings is beautiful variegate(
marble soda fountain, which it is claimed il
the finest in Vermont.
JAMES MCMANUs was arrested for drunk
enness on Saturday. Monday he was takei
before Justice Ferrin and disclosed on A
g ID. Lane. Lane was afterwards trleu anI
convicted of first offence.
|. l.. ROBBINS has purchased of Mis-
Eliza Taylor her two-story house near tn
upper end of Hubbard street, and also tn
t adjoining vacant lot at the corner of Huh
+ bard and East State streets
q Mr.. AND Mrs. CHARLES II. MOORE (Lizzi
Cummins) arrived in Montpelier yesterda
e afternoon. They have been in the Sout
| for several months for the benefit of Mrs
| Moore's health which, we are panied to state
+ has not been improved by her stay there.
= THE streets in the route of the procession
Saturday, with one or two exceptions, wer
6 in bad condition, and there can hardly b
n offered a reasonable excuse for the negleC
> of the proper authorities to have the1
= thoroughly sprinkled during the forenoon.
. c. II. OsGooD of Lewiston, Maine, prom
: nent democrat and a delegate to the las
e democratic national convention, was
. town last week. Mr.. Osgood was a men
" Der of the committee appointed by the COZ
vention to notify Grover Cleveland of h
l. nomination.
r. WE should have mentioned last week,
II our report of the musical convention, thu
J. no less than thirty members of the chort
were students from Seminary hill Th
Is large representation was due to the unite
Is efforts of several of the professors, who's
d interest in the success of the festival w;
- great, and who have abundant assuran'
- that such efforts were appreciated.
n, SEALED proposals have been received |
III the commissioners from seven ditfere
of parties representing seven sites, for ii
Il sale of land for the new federal buildin
Owing to the absence from town of one
III two of the commissioners, the propose
have remained unopened until to-day, wht
they will receive due attention, but it is n
certain that the result will be made publ
at once.
s., THE Golden Fleece was open for skatil
a. last Saturday evening, with the Montpeli
military band in attendance. A game
polo was played by the Stars of We
~ River and the Golden Fleece club, the Ii
-. ter winning an easy victory, Two exhil
)" ton goals were played after the regul
lis game, and the five straight goals were
cured by the home team There was a ia
attendance.
THE appearance and playing of the MOI
IN pelier military band on Memorial Day we
es a surprise to many, and drew forth ma
expressions of satisfaction. The band W
unfortunate in not receiving the necessa
nd additional uniforms, which We're order
le- more than a week before, but the reaS
nt was generally known. The band number
"' twenty pieces, and their playing on t
march was superior TO that of any ba
d- which ever passed through our streets,
~ cepting, of course, the Shermans.
~ A CAREFUL revision of the list for 1885 l
- been made, and the following are the G
personal estate, 81 ,533, ,963.S4; polls OPS IL
al III militia and tiremen) 757, assessed
TAI $500, Sl,5l4OO; total, S3,ll7 603 ia
a gain of S71, ,030. The number of tax-pay,
nd this year is one thousand three hundr
lo twelve, gain of seventy-four. OF these,
no names of one hundred sixty begin with
er' of one hundred thirty-one with S, and of c
hy hundred twenty-One with Ca total of fl
ms hundred twelve, or nearly one-third the
tire number of taxpayers.
er- THE following is list of the letters
the called for at the Montpelier (Vt) postotl
He May 80, 1855:
ac- Miss Mabel Brown, Mrs Ellen Lamso
NJ Miss f. Byrnes, Miss Annie Maro'
~ Mrs. j. W. Briggs, Mrs. NJ. A. Meller
c. Miss Sadie Goodrich Mrs Emma Whee
Mrs f. II. Howe,
'Ne GENTLEMEN.
n. w. Bailey, j. T, Leavitt,
A. l.. Frost, Preston A Alton
OF Albert II. Jones, l.. G. Smith,
- Joseph Laundry Hugh Quimby 90
-el- Charles Lawson,
zee Parties applying for any of the above IN
,m- say " advertised and give the date,
,ar GEORGE w WING POSTMASTER
toa CONSIDERABLE anxiety was caused
V'u family and friends of Hon. Joseph Poli
ard by an Associated Press dispatch, publish
un- Thursday morning, relative to a massacre
mi whites by Apaches at post in New MeN
ir, at which Ned Poland was known to be
cai toned The dispatch, as published in
ion Free Press, stated, in substance, that :"
in land returned to camp and found his c,
,,rs panions murdered, and that he was $
klllt iG NlaN IN har tn