The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-03-04

son, the captain of the team. The club ex-
pect soon to purchase the patent cage goals,
which are used in games played according
to the New England league rules. The club
will go to Burlington next week for another
game with the Pioneers.
WHTMoRE & CLARK's MINsTRELs will ap-
pear at Capital Hall next Tuesday evening.
The Sherbrooke Examiner says: " The fa-
nous Whitmore & Clark's Minstrels gave
one of their capital entertainments at the
City Hall last evening TO crowded house,
the entire show being first-class in every
respectable music, both on the street and
in the hall, being very fine. The cornet,
clarionet and banjo playing merited special
praise. That jolly Hank, in his mimicry and
ready songs and jokes, elected much APP
plause."
The largest beef animal ever brought into
Montpelier was four-years-old thorough
bred Short-horn bullock raised by Luther
! Town of East Montpelier. The !" critter "
| girthed exactly nine feet and weighed, live,
twenty-seven hundred thirty-fve pounds;
dressed, twenty-one hundred thirty-seven
pounds He was bought by c.. S. Whit
tier and was taken from the cars to his
slaughter-house, Saturday. While standing
in front of Mr. Whittier's market photo
graph of the animal was taken by o. W.
Chase of Harlow's gallery.
THE investigation in regard to the ex-
pense of lighting the village by electricity
is still going on Last week Mr.. O. w.
Marsh, general manager of the Tuerk Hy--
draulic Power Company, was in town, and
offered to put in the plant himself and light
the streets for $500 per year, if the water
would be furnished free. There is plenty
of water, for which the village must pay in
any case, and the cost of the gas last year
was over $1,000 but the proper way is for
the village to own the whole plant and get
the lighting done as it ought, for the first
cost.
THIS item is going the rounds of the Ver-
mont newspapers: Rev. j. d. Beeman, the
well-known principal of the Montpelier
Seminary has realized some very advanta-
geous investments recently. Last year he
purchased large tract of land near Mo
riah, n Y, for the pulp wood upon it, and
from the sale of that made handsome profit
, and now marble quarry has been discov-
cred on the property, the product of which
finds quick sale, at from S12 to S15 per
square yard, at the Port Henry dock. This
marble is susceptible of very high polish,
and its variegated colors make it very valu-
t able for all ornamental work in which
| marble is used. 1t is said, also, that Mrs.
Beenan has recently fallen heir to large
A fortune"
2 The second game of polo between the
: Newport On. H. polo club and the Golden
| Fleece club, at the Golden Fleece, Thurs
day evening, was won by the former, who
1 secured three straight goals in thirty-tve
: minutes. Twenty-one minutes OF this time
e were occupied in securing the first goal,
i which was hotly contested. The other goals
n were easily won by the visitors. Henry
Moore acted as referee, and his decisions
:, were satisfactory to all. His position was q
= somewhat embarrassing one, inasmuch as
!. he is actively identified with the home
/, team. The most friendly feeling existed
n between the contesting clubs, and the New
=" port boys were much pleased at the treat
ment which they received at the hand:
n of Montpelier people.
q The Free Press of Friday morning said
4 Lovers of polo in this city are much elateC
u over the result of the game at Montpelier
last night, as it is equivalent to a victory fol
the Pioneers" This is most remarkable
d statement. The Newports, in their game
IL with the Pioneers, were treated shamefully
80 and their success in tying the game wa
n very creditable, when all the circumstance
e are considered. The Pioneers began th'
game in their usual way, slugging fercely
TO they were given every possible advantage
ID by the referee, and were cheered by tn
y. audience, who Kissed every good play mad
rs by the NewpOrts. Every claim of the latte
t. club, and even the call of time " by one o
its members, who had lost his skate, wer
g utterly disregarded by the referee In add
p, ton to this fierce opposition was the fire
y quent use of whistles by people in the au
Il dience, which greatly disconnected the New
. ports. One goal, too, was unfairly awarde
ar the Pioneers after call of foul" Not
" withstanding all this, the Burlington team
only secured two goals. The Free Press an
uOunttti VIC game MOulu bC W hcSlu
az the championship of the states of Vernon
er and New Hampshire and after this disgrace
CT full affair, learning of Montpelier's defeat, b
er some unheard-of system of reckoning make
CT it " equlvalentto to a victory for the Pioneers,
who have been lohipped three times in Sut
he ceSSion by the Golden Fleece club
!r- AFTER much patient effort on the part
ne those who have interested themselves in th
, project public library is assured to Montpt
IN ler. Subscriptions have been solicited pay
ay able on condition that $4,000 be pledge
and the papers filed in the town clerk
es office by March /, 1885 These condition
IL have been complied with and formal motto
le is given in another column of a meeting @
wv the shareholders to be held in the vestry {
ch Trinity church Monday evening, Marc
ey 16th to organize an association and tax
such steps as may be necessary to carry OF
, the purposes of the subscribers. Th
eu money thus pledged and some money nov
mt in the savings bank will make a fund {
No about So 1000, to be invested in books for ii
'ss library. OF course no location has been d,
u cided upon but there is some talk of rentin
Is a room on the second floor of the postotfC
block. An examination of the subscriptio
I'll paper shows that the nine hundred share
&C. are divided among about three hundre
VS. persons nearly two hundred of whom hav
in taken one share each. The largest sui
ell scription is by Miss l. j. Bradshaw for tift
'es shares. Although others have rendere
:" some aid, yet the burden of this enterpri
has fallen upon Rev. Messrs. Hincks, Fros
n, Hill, Mason and Wright, Hon. Josep
bba ba Poland, j. V. Babcock, Miss l.. j. Bra,
M shaw, Mrs. A. ID. Farwel and Mrs. Ere
lar Blanchard, who have solicited the SUI
70 scriptions, and it is matter of public know
~ edge that Rev. Mr.. Wright has taken ii
of lead in the matter giving much time an
energy to carrying it through. The Who'll
village is to be congratulated on the success
we we of this important public enterprise.
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