The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-06
Current Mention.

The Justly celebrated Sherman Military
Band of Burlington has recently been newly
uniformed and has had some additions to
its membership. The organization now
comprises twenty-nine musicians.
In leading article entitled Eating"
the Herald and NelcS again comes up to the
"open and unhinching support of repub-
lican principles" for which admiring and
apprecative democrats pat it on the head.
NORTH STAR "The stockholders of the
ST. Johnsbury Republican were assessed $50
per share again last week to help pay the
running expenses of that long-felt want.
There is lots of fun in owning newspaper"
THREE or three and a half pounds of
maple sugar to tree is considered a very
profitable yield, but f. b. Warner of Man
chester made four hundred thirty pounds Of
sugar from fifty trees This beats the record,
as far as heard from.
A PAPER from one of the revsers of the
Old Testament treating of their work and
conveying much interesting and valuable
information, is promised for the June num-
Der of the Andocer Recie,c in case the re-
vision appears in season.
QUITE number of Vermont veterans are
in attendance upon reunion held upon
the battlefield of Gettysburgh this week
Among them are Governor Pingree, Gen
eral w. w. Grout, General William Wells
of Burlington and DR.. G.. b. Bullard of st.
Johnsbury.
APPRECIATING the work which The
WATcHMAN has been doing in awakening
an interest in the subject of forestry, F. e.
Grant of Boston, formerly of Montpelier,
has ordered copies of the paper to be sent
to the island of St. Helena. Mr.. Grant
says: " am fully convinced that most OF
the barren parts of the island could be made
to look green and cheerful by planting trees
and shrubs, if there was the least dsposi-
ton shown in that direction"
New YORK SUN: "Mr Phelps was penned
up, as it We're, among the mugwumps lat
the Carl Schurz dinnerl, and of course he
had to be civil and to try and make himself
agreeable to his entertainers. He has the
reputation of a man of wit and humor, and
it was certainly a very humorous idea tC
represent the happiness and prosperity o.
the United States as dependent upon the
spread and success of reform by means o.
examination papers. The mugwumps very
seldom find anybody who agrees with them
and when they do they are naturally
pleased"
A WASHINGTON special to the NelC YOrj
Commercial Adcertiser says: A story come
from New England that Senator Edmund
of Vermont will have some opposition t,
his reelection to the senate. 1t is rumore,
that movement is on foot to secure his de
feat in the Legislature, the engineers of tn
scheme being members of the party wh
complain because the senator did not TAX
more active part in the late presidential
campaign" Upon this the Boston Herdt
thus comments; "When the opposition
TO Edmunds in Vermont comes to ma
terialize, the services of political micro
scopist will be required to find it,"
The democratic epublican-anti-mon
oly-ring ng-free-pass-sheet, known as the A,
gus" is the laconic, but truthful thong
somewhat mixed, characterization of ou
esteemed contemporary, by the pungen
Swanton Sentry. Says the Sentry further
1T processes to be democratic organ, bu
as Franklin county democrats well knoy
from the experience of last falls campaign