The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-04

can put piece of insenstized plate tin in
your camera, train the instrument on one
of them, and go to California in confidence
that the object will not move until picture
is produced"
DR.. SAMUEL j. ALLEN of White River
Junction, who was arrested last May in
Boston, accused of the murder of Dell Han
sell OF Rockland Mass, and has since been
confined in Jail, was brought for trial be-
fore the supreme judicial court at Boston
last Monday. Among the gentlemen pres
ent were DIR. Allen, the father of the pris-
oner, Governor Pingree, and Rev. DIR. Flan-
ders of White River Junction. The accused |
withdrew his plea of I" not guilty" and en-
tered the plea of guilty of mansaughter,"
which was accepted. The hearing on the
sentence takes place to-day.
RAILROAD men say that Wednesdays
storm was the worst experienced on the
Central in twenty years There has fire.
quently been heavier fall of snow, but the
delay was at no time in that period so great
as that caused by the blizzard of that day.
This is in part accounted for by the extreme
cold. AS fast as the snow drifted it became
of the engine were effectually blocked. All
the freight trains were discontinued and it
was with great difficulty that any of the
passenger trains were gotten through. The
storm was quite general throughout New
England.
THE fourth annual festival of the Burling-
ton Philharmonic Society will be held in the
Howard Oparo Houaa March nth 11th 10Th
and 18th, conducted by Carl Zerrahn. The
following soloists have been secured; Mrs.
II. f. Knowles, soprano; Mrs. Ella Fender
son, contralto; Willis Clark, tenor; ID. M.
Babcock, basso; Mrs. Martha Dana Shep-
ard, pianist. The orchestral work will be
performed by Blaisdell's full orchestra.
The principal works to be given are: " The
Messiah" Max Bruchs " Fair Ellen" or
the "Siege of Lucknow" and the best Sc
lections from Elijah" The festival prom
ises to be larger and more successful than
any yet given by the society.
The night express north, due in Mont
pelier at 800 A. M, met with an accident
between Bethel and Royalton at 3 o'clock
Thursday morning, which disabled the en-
gne and necessitated transference of pas
sengers and baggage. The train, delayed
by the storm, met and passed freight train
on the siding at Royalton. Owing to the
binding storm, neither engineer nor con-
ductor noticed that the freight carried
signal indicating that another train was
following it. The express left Royalton,
running at fair rate of speed, and when
about midway between Royalton and
Bethel, collided with log train, the engi-
neer of each train being unable to see the
others headlight until it was too late to
prevent the collision. The j. w Hobart"
one of the two finest engines on the road
was badly smashed, and the freight engine,
the Arnold was also good deal broken
up. The engineers and firemcn of both
trains jumped and escaped uninjured, and
fortunately nobody was seriously hurt-one
of the passengers being considerably shaken
up, the baggageman on the passenger train
having his foot hurt so that he will be laid
by for few days, and brakeman on the
freight being hurt some. The track was OBJ
structed until Thursday evening
w. B. PARISH, secretary of the State Spir-
itualist Association, has kindly furnished us
with the following particulars relating to
the holding of the quarterly convention at
Waterbury: The Vermont State Spiritu-
alist Association held quarterly conven-
ton in Hotel hall, Waterbury, commenc-
ing on Friday, January 30th, and holding
through Saturday and Sunday. 1t opened
with small audience Friday, but the num-
bers increased until Saturday and Sunday,
when there was a full attendance, the hall
being well filed with attentive listeners
The speakers were Mrs. Abbie w. Crossett
of Duxbury, Mrs. Lizzie S. Manchester OF
West Randolph Mr.. A. f. Stanley of Leices,
ter, Mrs. Emma L. Paul of Morrisville Mrs
Sarah A. Wiley of Rockingham, Mrs. Fan.
ME Davis Smith of Brandon and Mr.. Alonzo
f. Hubbard of Tyson Furnace. The confer.
ence meetings were participated in by many
with good and telling words, useful, inter.
esting and instructive. The speaking was
of high order, fraught with wisdom, coun
sci and instruction culled from the literature
of the spheres. Mr.. j. f. Waterman OF
Montpelier kindly furnished us one of his
finely toned organs for the use of the glee
club of Duxbury, who enlivened the occa
sion with their soul-stirring music. Oul
host, Mr.. Barrett, furnished satisfactorily
+ and bountifully for the demands of the
physical man. The convention was very
harmonious and enjoyable throughout, anC
closed with the best and happiest fraterna
feeling. The usual votes of thanks wert
passed-to the various railroads for furnish
ing return checks, to the landlord, family
and assistants for their kind and prompt at
tention, to the speakers, singers, officers ant
Others of the association for what they con
, tributed to make the convention success.
JUDGE HoYT III. WHEELER of the circui
court of the United States for the district o
Vermont has rendered a decision in TIN
celebrated case of Daniel b. Wooster o
Northfeld against Samuel Hill of Greens
boro, Benjamin b. Prentice of Hardwicl
and the Vermont Farm Machine Company o
Bellows Falls, the assignee of Hill and Prem
tice, in which the orator, Mr.. Wooster, win
y in all the important claims made by him
|, especially that which makes him the pat
- entee Of the Cabinet Creamery, so-called
s. G.. Shurtleff of Montpelier has been Mr.
Wooster's counsel from the beginning of tn
. litigation. The case has been two years il
~ litigation and about one thousand one hun
; dred printed pages of testimony were taken
the most ever taken in any case tried i
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