The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-22
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REV. X. D. MILLER will preach at the
William u. Pratt school-house next Sunday
afternoon at four o'clock, if the weather
is pleasant.
NAT" SIMoNs and wife (nee Rebecca
Lynde) OF Princeton, Illinois, are visiting
this their old home, accompanied by their
four children.
BoTH the oldest and youngest sons of
Mrs. Daniel Field, employed in wholesale
houses in Boston, have recently been home
on a vacation.
Mrs. j. EDWARD ArNswoRTH. now of
Iowa, and daughter of the late Calvin Aims
worth, arrived at the old home last week
for the summer.
GEORGE w. LYNDE has lately been putting
silo into his fine barn, with a capacity for
eighty tons of ensilage. This is the second
one in the place.
JOSEPH DRURY, who has been living with
ms children elsewhere, is now staying with
his son, Lyman Drury, of this place He is
elghty-four years of age.
JOHN WALKER, in government employ at
Washington, ID. c., was recently sent to
New Orleans La, on business in connec-
ton with the United States mint there.
INTERNATIONALLY we omitted in our items
last week the name of the late Stillman NJ.
Seaver as one of the five assistant county
judges TINS town has furnished the county.
PRINCIPAL DANIEL X, MARTIN reached
X, IL
few weeks vacation He is to be at the
head of the schools there the coming school
year
ANY one wanting to find one of the grand
est views to be had in town should ride. on
one OF these pleasant summer days, on the
Toau passing Lyman Drury's farmhouse.
1t is surprisingly fine
CAREY WATSON, principal of the schools in
Wyanet, illinois, is vacationizing here in
his old home. Mrs. Watson, Waitsfield
lady, is with him. He will return to Viva
net for the coming school year.
Mrs. Doctor E. G. LEWIS, now of Rut-
land, who was recently and suddenly pros
trated by very severe hemorrhage OF the
stomach and whose case at first seemed
well-nigh hopeless was living at last ac-
counts, and with better prospect of recovery.
JOHN G. MILLER, ABB, son of Rev. r. ID.
Miller, delivered the Masters Grafton at the
recent commencement at Middleburv Col
lege. The Rutiand Herad reports it as
timely written and well handled" The
thelhe was The Value of the Study of His
tory"
FRIENDS of the Rev. Mr.. Osrood who
used to preach in Tunbridge, will be inter
ested to know that he has just gone to Prov
lncetown, on Cape Cod, Mass. to reside.
and to minister to Congregational church
there. 1t is place of some five thousand
inhabitants.
In tHAkLES w. MCCLEARN deserves
thanks for what he has added to the aDpear-
ance of our place by identifying his own
house and grounds this season. Such home
cage deserves fine bird in it, and it is sus-
pected strongly that the doctor knows the
bush on which she sings.
ONE of the sorriest sights we remember to
nave seen was that of the valuable horse
OF Herbert Martins, recently injured on a
wire fence. How an animal so badly emf
on her fore-legs can ever use them again is
beyond our understanding. She rests in a
swing, and Mr.. Martin is making a great eff
fort to save her.
a. j. DUFuR, who had many interesting
things to tell his old townsmen of Oregon
in his visit here last year, writes of a fear
full snow-storm there last winter. lasting
some twelve or fourteen days and doing
very destructive work among stock He
says the Dufur family lost thirteen thousand
dollars by that storm.
DURING the vacations here of Daniel r..
Martin (who, by the way, is president of the
Motet musical club OF Chicago, Ill.), /" Nat F."
| Slmons (who has charge of the music in the
Congregational church of Princeton, ILL., h.
and Carey Watson, our place ought to be
| favored with some musicales worth attend
ing. Their own, plus our home talent, is
surely sufficient for some good musical work
| OUR farmer friend, elsewhere spoken of,
tells us he planted last spring two acres of
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name he did not remember), at a cost of
seventy-ive cents for the use of the planter,
and the owner to handle " it, At the same
time of planting the corn, it phosphated it
and planted pumpkin-seeds. He furnished
| a hand and a horse and thinks good work
was done, and at great saving of expense
over doing the same work in the usual way,
by hand.
A GOOD farmer-friend in a neighboring
town, to whose practical knowledge of sue
cessful farming we listen with much inter-
est, recently surprised us by saying there
was no neater, cleaner stock naturally, on
the farm than swine All that is needed to
prove this is to give them fair chance
Under a newly-built barn, and under his
horse-stables, is his s. apartment " for swine.
The troughs in which they eat are on plat
form, standing nearly two feet higher than
the main part of the large open" This
platform is eight feet one way and the width
OF the pen the other way, thus giving them
plenty of room for feeding. Some ten or
twelve inches lower, and adjoining, is an
other platform of four feet, by the width of
the pen, and like the other. well-planked.
1t is only step of about a foot from this
second platform down on to the main eart
of the pen, which is also well-panked The
manure from the horse-stables above is
thrown down here, and well-worked over
! by the swine. wheat-straw bedding for
the horses he regards valuable ingredient
horses above, and four or six swine below,
he takes out twenty to twenty-five loads
yearly of what he regards a most valuable
fertilizer for his fields. And a heater,
| cleaner pen for this od-time 80 unclean -
animal one will go far to find.
SEEN in what we believe to be its true
light one of the very saddest of things oc-
| CURED here last week Wednesday evening,
| in the suicide of the young man, James
Latham, on the grave of his aged mother
by-adoption, in the West Hill cemetery
Since the death of the latter last winter, he
has been freely saying that he was going to
| kill himself but no one believed he would
do so. His body was discovered on Friday
morning by Mr.. York, with whom he had
been boarding. A revolver, two barrels OF
which had been discharged, was found be-
! side him, and bottle partly filled with
alcohol. He was shot through the brain.
Since his mother died he has felt himself
to be wholly friendless, and not long before
his death he said to one that he wanted the
thirty-eighth psalm read at his funeral
While it must be said land with all deserved
tenderness and pity, be it said) that strong
drink seemed to have had " its perfect
work y in this case, we think the question is
being seriously asked here by some whether
all their duty to such an one was done by
efforts made to save him? Would more
sympathy shown him and more loving eff
forts put forth for him have availed ?
Doubtless a marginal reading of the new
revision, " despairing of no man." ought to
be the motto for every one. Let the dead
body, now lying beside the one whose love
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