The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-29
Rochester.


f. A. FIELD of Rutland has been offered
the assistant postmastership by Mr.. Red
ington
REV. CHARLES NJ LAMsoN of Worcester.
Mass, has accepted call from the North
Congregational church, st. Johnsbury.
FRANKLIN GRIswoLD has sung in the
choir and social meetings of the Congrega-
tionai church at Casteton since 1890, and
b. w. Burt has sung in the church two
thousand Sundays since 1910
III. f. BRIGHAM, Esq, of Bakersfield has
been appointed United States consul at
Stanbridge, p. @. Mr.. Brigham is a mem-
Der of Franklin county bar, and represented
Bakersfield in the last Legislature.
THOMAS III. CANFIELD of Burlington is one
OF the largest farmers of the Northwest
and works five thousand acres for the best
quality of seed wheat. He has sixty miles
of fencing, three hundred blooded CATTLE
seventy horses and immense fiocks of sheep
Mrs. SERENA NJ. ARMSTRONG, who died
Sunday of last week, had resided in Castle
ton seventy years. She joined the Congre-
gational church there in 1917 sixty-eight
years ago, and was the last of what was
fifty years ago large and influential family
in Castleton.
Ex-Governor HALL of North Benning-
ton reached his ninetieth birthday on Mon
day OF last week, and the event was cele-
brated by the gathering at the residence of
General j. G.. Mccullough of his grand
children and great-grandchildren number
ing in all over fifty persons
BRADLEY BARLOW SMALLEY of Burlington
has received the nomination to the office
of collector of customs for the port of Bur-
lington, in place of General William Wells.
suspended. General Wells was first ap-
pointed collector by President Grant in
1872, and was last commissioned by Presi-
dent Arthur, for term of four years, March
TO- 1884, so that his term did not expire until
1888.
COLONEL DYER TOWNSEND of Wallino.
ford has read the pages of the Rutland Her
aid regularly for the past ninety years. He
keeps his strength and faculties in a way
that is very remarkable, works like a man
hardly past the prime of life, retains all his
senses in high degree and in general ap-
pearance seems like well-preserved man
of about seventy. He has seen ninety-six
years of active life
MR. HENRY HowEs, formerly of this state
and well known to many of our older resi-
dents, is one of the latest victims of the
reform policy of the administration.
me Philadelphia Press gives the particu-
lars, as follows: The removal of Mr..
Henry Howes of Vermont, chief of the pre-
emptlon division of the general land Office
which took place the Goth. is probably the
beginning of complete change of all the
chiefs of divisions in the bureau These
thltiS are HOl Sucll III IHt KNOWLEDGE OF law,
but are only fourth-class clerks who are
designated to act as chiefs 1t would seem
that they ought to be considered as in the
classified service, but the civil service COM
mission decided, in the case of the chief of
the division of accounts, who was on the
same footing as the others, that he was not
protected and could be summarily removed.
All these chiefs, so-called, have been in the
service OF the government for many years,
and have won their advancement from first
class clerkships by special fitness and in
dustry. MI Howes had been in the office
step by step, from a $1,000 clerkship His
successor is III. o. Billings of Alton Illinos,
a new man, wholly unacquainted with the
land laws, and, of course, utterly ignorant
of the practice and rulings of the office" 1t
is proper to add that there were no charges,
except political, against Mr.. Howes, and he
was removed simply because of the demo-
cratic pressure for office.