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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-20
Notes and Comments.


If the democracy really expected to
find Uncle Sans cash account short, as
they professed to believe they should
when, during the late canvass, they
were shouting as campaign cries, "Give
us look at the books" " Count the
cash." ETC., they have so far been Woe
fully disappointed The cash has been
counted under democratic supervision,
and found right to cent. Democratic
clumsiness, however, came near pro-
ducing a deficit of two cents in count
ing bag of pennies.
NEW YORK TIMES: " In fact it is
probable that the chief substantial re-
suit of this circular, if the plan unfolded
in it be carried out, will be a valuable
but tedious and costly process of educa-
ton for the new postmaster-general
He is likely to learn before he gets
through with it that members of con-
gress, whether representatives or sena-
tors, are not the guileless and trust
worthy persons they ought to be, and
that his obviously excellent purpose will
be exposed to serious miscarriage if
their advice and judgment be too closely
followed"
WRITING of an epidemic of resigna-
tons, the Philadelphia Times says:
" This infection scarcely requires close
examination by specialist in order to
disclose the germs from which it has
arisen. None of the bacilli are known
to have existed prior to the fourth day
of November of last year. In spite of
this fact the disease has spread so
rapidly that by the fourth of March,
only four months after its appearance,
it had assumed the epidemic form, and
now, only two months after the inaug-
uration of new president, it has spread
into every part of great country"
CHICAGO TRIBUNE: "Thievish work
men in the African diamond fields have,
until lately, been allowed to take their
dogs into the mines with them. 1t has
been discovered that when one of the
men found valuable stone he would
wrap it in dough and throw it to his dog.
the animal of course boiling the mouth.
full. Nothing would be found upon the
workman when searching him, as usua,
after emerging from the mine, and
passing this ordeal, he would 90 home
kill his dog and secure the prize. 1t is
thought that this trick was known tC
the democratic managers, who utilized
the mugwump dog last November
The killing has been delayed little, bu
preparations for it are now apparently
in active progress"
Boston ADVERTISER: 1.-The Penn
sylvania legislature is considering
high license law. A writer, arguing il
favor of its passage, calls attention t.
the good effects of similar law il
Illinois. There the licenses for sellin
malt liquors are $50, and the loves
for general liquor-selling are $500. Thi
law has reduced Chicago saloons fror
one thousand in number to five hur
bred, and raised the city revenues owe
million of dollars. In nineteen othe
cities of the state there were seve
hundred thirty-three liquor saloons las
year, which paid 100000 year. No'
the number is four hundred siXty-eigh
but they pay S253,000 In Cairo arrest
for drunkenness fell off fifty per cen
and in Springfield, the capital, tiftee
per cent. Such figures are worthy {
attention, not only in Pennsylvania: bl
here in Boston,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-20

Braintree.-The Congregational church
at West Hartford has given Rev S. l.. Vim
cent who has been supplying the pulpit in
this place for the last two and half years,
a call and he has accepted the same He
moves his family to West Hartford this
week. 1t is with deep regret that we part
with him. - Last Sunday evening, about
six o'clock, as Orvis Thayer, with his wife
and daughter were riding down the hill
past Deacon Martins residence, the colt
which he was driving became frightened
and SHE'D out of the road towards the bank
when Mrs. Thayer jumped from the wagon,
breaking her leg just above the ankle joint
Mr.. Thayer and the little girl We're both
thrown from the wagon, but escaped serious
injury, though they were somewhat bruised.
Dr. Stewart of West Randolph was called
TO set the broken limb. go The Orange
county Good Templars' quarterly basket
picnic union will meet with Cleaveland
Lodge of this place on Wednesday, May 9th,
at half-past ten O'Clock A. NJ. The forenoon
session will be private. The public are cor
daily invited to attend in the afternoon and
evening. - The sewing and mite So
ciety will meet this week Friday with Mrs.
NJ. Il. Flint. - The fishing season has
commenced, and no less than fifteen "an-
glers " were counted fishing on one small
brook recently at the same time. The mum.
Der of fish taken was about equal to the
number of fishermen. 49, The youngest
daughter of Allen Thayer is very sick Al
the present writing her recovery is consid
cred doubtful. - III. n Olcott has pur-
chased a fine yearling colt, paying 800 fol
the same. - Mrs. A. NJ. Sherman and
daughter, Della, returned from Salem, Mass.
last week, where they have been spending
the winter with Mrs. Sherman's daughters
Mrs. Edgar Sanborn and DIR. Sarah Sher
man. Miss Jennie Packard has also re
turned from Tunbridge, where she has beer
stopping through the winter
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-20

Cabot.-Memorial services for our patriot
dead are to be held by the Grand Army Post
next Sunday afternoon, Rev. Mr.. Enright
preaching the sermon. - Rev. James
Ramage of South Woodbury. is to occupy
the desk of the Congregational church, next
Sunday, in exchange with the pastor. -
The Cabot cornet band Qeslie j. Austin,
leader furnished music for the promenade
concert given by the Masonic fraternity last
Saturday evening. Although the members
of this band have been in practice but lit
tie more than five months, they give prom
Use of becoming fine players. 80 Miss
Gertie Wiswell's class in elocution gave an
interesting entertainment to full house at
the village hall last Thursday evening.
Some of her pupils who once thought that
they had no voice for public speaking have,
under her teaching, made great Roadway,
and the exercises proved that the training
had been thorough and efficient. -
Hon j. NJ. Fisher has sold his village resi-
dence to b. G.. Rogers of the firm of Wells
& Rogers, and ten acres of land lying near it
to Rev II. a. Russell. Mr.. Fisher has pur-
chased of DIR. NJ. u. Wallace the farm at
Lower Cabot lately owned by II. S. Dow.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-20

West TOpsham.-The aspirants to the
office of postmaster are circulating their pc
titions. G.. NJ. Tubbs (democra0 has had
his agents out for number of days. Ii is
said he does not confine his petitioners TO
patrons of the office, but democrats no mat
ter where they live, are invited to sign. l.. V.
Wiley, the present incumbent, has sent in
his petition, containing the signatures of a
large majority of the patrons of the office,
many democrats having signed the same.
60 The remains of Mrs. Smith, widow of
the late Elder Smith, formerly resident of
this place, were brought here for burial last
Saturday evening and were inferred Sunday,
Rev. e. ID. Mason Of Montpelier officiating.
- DIR. o. l.. Watson has so far recovered
from his recent severe sickness that he has
ridden out once. He says he is slowly but
surely gaining. The doctor will not try to
do any work this summer, but expects a
physician here, about the LIST of June, to at
tend to his professional duties until he is
able to resume the same. - Our farmers
are now very busy with their springs work.
Rain is greatly needed.
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MiddleseX.-Sidney b. Hastings has
bought the George Wiley place on the
Moretown side of the river for 81 600. -
j. II. Holden has bought of j. G. Hobart
the premises known as the old hotel stand,
and his stock of goods giving in exchange
the Joel Pattrell farm in Waitsteld, stock
and farming tools, and about twenty-five
acres of land near this village. Considera-
ton, $500. - S. Hallock and wife of
White River Junction are in town visiting
friends. == Rev. w. q. Evans, the new
minister, has moved into town, and has
preached twice very acceptably.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-20

A FERTILIZER OF REMARKABLE LASTING
QUALITIES" East Randolph, VT, January
., 1885. | have used Bradley's Phosphate
for several years, and consider it the best.
In the spring of 1880 prepared piece of
land for corn and used Bradleys in the hill.
After taking off the crops / seeded it to
grass, and last fall, after an interval of four
years, i could plainly see where the hills of
corn grew in which the phosphate was used,
the grass being taller and thicker, which
proves to my satisfaction the lasting effects
of Bradleys Phosphate Q. Brigham"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-20

Warren.-Joseph Eldredge Post, G.. A.
r., is making preparations for the proper
observance of Decoration Day. Answorth
Post of Watstield is to participate in the
ceremonies. Colonel S. NJ. Pingree, who so
CALAMITY led the old Fourth Vermont, is to
deliver the address, and Gouldsville band
will furnish the music - Rev, III, c.
Howard of RoXbury preached in the church
last Sunday, in exchange with Rev {. III.
Smith The funeral services of Mrs.
&. b. Williams We're held at her late resi-
dence, last Saturday, by Rev, Mr.. Hazen of
Mortified. Her remains We're taken TO
Roxbury for burial. =- Mrs. Hiram
Pierce was injured last Sunday, while on
her way to church, by being thrown from
her carriage. -= Miss Rose Perkins has
returned from Randolph and is teaching
school in the Fassett district. == Miss
Edith Allen gave "A birthday party, recently,
nine little misses spending the afternoon
with her.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-20

West NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Hanback,,
one of the oldest members of the Congrega-
tional church, died on Thursday last and
was buried Saturday. He was one of the
best of men. A memorial service was held
at the church Sunday evening. - d. g.
A. Bass, who has been i'll with pneumonia
died last Sunday evening. He was buried
Tuesday with Masonic honors. == Two
new streets are to be laid out this summer
one south of the railroad, on the western
fiat, coming out opposite ). V. Newton's,
South Main street, opposite j. A. Fowler's,
Memorial Day will be observed here
with appropriate exercises. Colonel George
w. Hooker will deliver the address. =-
Several yards have been graded up this
spring, improving Their appearance very
into the house formerly occupied by his
uncle, Roswell Curtis. The doctor will rent
his own house, the old William Sharp place,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-20

Rochester.-Rev Il. s, Fske of Bethel
occupied the Congregational pulpit last Sun
day and Mr.G. Il. Hyde the Methodist. -=
Decoration Day services will be held in the
Universalist church next Sunday. ==
The village school closed on Friday last. A
levee was held in schdpl-house hall in the
evening - Our corhet band is making
rapid strides in proficiency by constant drill
- Colonel Fuller isvo ~ the orator here
ON Decoration Day.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-20
EAST Hardwick.-NIrs. Ancnsta CONAN

East Hardwick.-Mrs Augusta Conant's
sugar-house, with six hundred buckets was
lately burned. -= William Fort has eX-
changed his blacksmith shop with +. j.
French for twenty-five acres of land near
the village. IL. Lewis has sold his
house to Mrs. j. NJ. Stevens and removed
his family to Walden. j. Porter has
taken down two old barns ON his farm, the
past week, and commenced work on a new
one, which will have all the modern i'm
provements. S. Meader and Charles
Whitcher have united their forces and COM
menced painting roofs. They have painted
H. Defords and j. b. Livingston's buildings
the past week, and will commence on j. w.
Hoveys this week. 60 George Hale is
adding II second story to his dwelling-house.
- The bridge across the river below the
village will be completed this week. -
George Rowe has moved into the house va
Gated by j. Lewis.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-20

East Warren.-Mrs. Martha Merrill
wife of c. B. Williams, died of consumption
in this place on the 14th instant at the age
OF about tifty-one years. Mrs. Williams had
resided in town some fifteen years, and the
esteem in which she was held was partially
attested by the large gathering of friends
and neighbors at her late home on Saturday,
the 10Th, to attend her funeral services, upon
which occasion Rev. w. S. Hazen of North
field spoke words of comfort and counsel
from Proverbs xii: 2S, text of her own Sc
lection. Although for the past few years
she had been an invalid, she will be greatly
missed especially by the family circle,
where the mothers influence is so potent
and the mothers words So comforting.
Gradually, with perfect faith, she went
down to the brink of the river trusting in
her Savior-giving to all fresh illustration
of the power of sustaining grace. May the
mantle of her kindly life and Christian grace
fall upon the members of her household.
- A temperance meeting, under the di-
rection of the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union of this town, will be held at the
church next Sunday evening. - G.. III.
Williams, accompanied by Mrs. j. Riford
and daughters, returned to Chelsea, Mass,
the first of this week.
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Worcester.-Rev. Ii. f. Hill of Mont
pelier is to deliver the Grafton here Decora-
ton Day. Calais band &c. w. Foster, leader
will furnish the music. - The singers
are requested to meet at the Corner next
Monday evening for rehearsal. === The
next meeting Of Hall Post will be held
Thursday evening, the 2Sth inst. A full at
tendance is desired
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-20
Moretown.-Mrs. Eben ,

Moretown.-Mrs Eben johnson of DuX-
bury died last week from paralysis. Flu
neral services were held on Saturday. go
G.. A. Walker Of Ashland, Mass, is visiting
his sister, Mrs. William Sawyer. go Mrs,
Remington of Waterbury visited al Curtis
Carpenters last week. -- Mrs, ID. f.,
Freeman has gone to Illinois, where she in
tends to visit for several months.
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East Calais.-ReV, S. G. llayford will
preach here next Sunday AT five o'clock +. NJ.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-05-20

Tunbridge.-The friends of the soldiers
buried in this town are invited to send floral
offerings to be placed upon the graves Deco
ration Day. Entertainment will he furnished
soldiers coming here to aid in the observance
of the day. 80 Mrs o. ii, King is now the
WOmans Christian Temperance Union SUI
perintendent of juvenile temperance work.
- The town meeting last Saturday was
not a success == Mrs, NJ T. King is said
to be worse. === Born, May IL, "A daughter
to Mr. aud Mrs. K. l.. ID, Preston.
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Bradford Professor Campbell of Dart
mouth College has occupied the Congrega-
tonal pulpit for the past three Sundays.
The parsonage is undergoing repairs and
the church is being neatly painted -
Heath Brothers have sold seventeen acres
of Connecticut river meadow land to Mr..
Hammond for $40 per acre. - 1t is very
dry and dusty. a good rain is much needed.
- Rev. X. l.. Bruce is to remain
another year, much to the qualification of
his many friends. - j. \. Worthen has
purchased the David Eastman house on
Back street and moved there from Oxford,
n. II. - j. X. Squires and family have
moved to Haverhill, n. H.. to live upon the
farm of Mr.. Talton. - Mrs. Leonard of
Newton, Mass, is here settling up the es-
tate of her father, Lewis Brunell, who died
last winter. A sale of household goods
will be held next Saturday. = Mr.. and
Mrs. William Aldrich are here visiting
friends and relatives. They moved from
Bradford to Wisconsin nine years ago.
- E. H. Doton and family returned
last week from Woodbury., where they have
been visiting for six or eight weeks, and
Mrs. David Horner has returned from Flor
ida, where she spent the winter with her
daughter.
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COrinth.

FARMING has been somewhat delayed
ny the cold weather. Some grain has
been sown but no planting done IA yet.
PASTURES and meadows are badly injured by
white grubs, and some are worthless until
they are reseeded. Hay is nearly used up
and there is but little feed in the pastures.
Feed is high, bran selling at 81 %, meal at
~ 55, oats at fifty cents and India wheat at
NIFTY cents. Potatoes bring about forty
cents per bushel, and sugar and butter are
low. - Jeremiah and Clarence Day lost
a valuable horse from pneumonia last week
Owners of horses should not let them stand
when warm, where the wind will blow upon
them. - Judge Kinney was called to
Plainfield, last Sunday, to visit his mother
who is dangerously sick. - A student is
preaching at West Corinth He is to re-
main few weeks and then return to the
seminary. - Frank Kinney is visiting
his father and other friends this week.
60 The mother of Samuel T.. Durgin is
quite low and failing. NJ. j. Taplin
was in town last week. He thinks Barre is
larger place than Corinth although the
town has less square miles. - George
Wilson and son, George Henry, have bought
and moved on to the John Collins farm,
so-called - Rev. II. y. James occupied
the pulpit at the Meadow last Sunday. Rev.
MIR. Warner of West Cornth preached at
the Center. - Mrs. Aaron Oviatt, who
was thrown from carriage, recently, and
severely injured, is convalescent
/
Hardwick.-Road machines have made
their annual appearance. The Champion +"
was tried last year, doing excellent work,
and the " Victor y is expecting a trial this
season by our selectmen, one of that kind
| being now at the station here. - Swal-
lows and the bright and fragrant dandelion
| made their first appearance this season dur
| ing the past week. - The band gave
| promenade concert at Shattucks hall on
Wednesday evening of last week. 1t was
well attended and enjoyed. 80 Walter
French was suddenly stricken with heart
disease on Friday evening last. He is re-
| ported as slightly improved, but is still in
| critical condition - Hon w. y. Smith
Judge of probate. has been in town for few
days past to visit his aged father, j. S.
Smith, Esq, who is in very feeble health
- The condition of the roads is unusu-
ally bad this spring, owing to the deep frost
and rapid melting of the snow. This condi-
ton gives abundant employment to the Sc
lectmen, who have the care of the roads this
year. - f. G.. Wells has engaged in the
meat business. NJ. c.. Warren and
Peter Nelson have gone to Holyoke, Mass.
to do carpenter work for the season. -
ID. w. Aiken, Jr., has arrived home from
Madison Parish, La, where he has been en-
ployed in mercantile business for several
years past. - The academy and village
schools closed successful term and year
May 14th. Mr.. Wilson Nevins, the princi.
pal, left for his home at Falmouth, Me-, on
Friday last.
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North Fayston.-Elder Buzzell is to
preach next Sunday. Ii is expected that he
will preach half of the time during the sum
mer. - Religious services We're held by
L. Il. Kimball at the school-house in dis
trict No. last Sunday. -= Miss Annie
Corlss of Dnxbury, who has been sick
long time, is failing. - Mr.. and Mrs.
Jason Hill are a happy couple. 1t isa b
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-15

ticOated private, secretaries; queenly.
Widow Hickses hirt with octagenarian
O'Conors, and elope with antediluvian
Tom Lords; and she Methuselahs, like
Burrdette-Coutts, surrendered s500, 200
a year for the pleasure of calling lack
adaisical lily-boy Bartlett hubby"
The bigger the folly the surer the stroke.
No man was ever truly in love who did
not make Joyous ass of himself, and
the huger the ears the purer the flame.
No woman ever loved who was not pre-
pared to discount whole as-silly-um of
man-iacs at q moments notice. No
freak Is too wild. no vagary too mons
trous. Eagles mate with mOles, and
swans with hedgehOgs. Tom Thumbs
pine for she Goliaths; sous of Anak wed
human humming birds; mighty-brained
heroes and statesmen rave over inane
little butterflies, puny wax dolls, aud
tafy-faced pigmies; kings bow down to
ballet dancers, and queens take refuge in
the arms Of cooks and coachmen; and, in
all lands and climes, in every condition
and state, the Cupid-wounded gosling
and goslingess have hard road to tray-
el to paradise Of squash an imagi
nary elysium, whose roses are too often
rue. All masculinity is doomed, sooner
Or later, to be smitten, punctured, har-
pooned; and, she ltered beneath the man
tie or wings whichever he wears-of
swift-coming Saint Valentine Col p.
Dondn, of Dakota
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-15

....Under the charter granted by the
last Legislature, the Roanoke Naviga-
ton and Water Power Company have
organized by election the following Di-
rectors: Senator j. d. Cameron, s.
2. Arlington r. p. Arlington and Sena
tor VIM. Malone, ofPetersburg, and I.
w. Mason, of Northampton
Senator Cameron is President and S.
2. Arlington, Esq. Secretary and Treas
urer. Mr.. S. Z. Arlington was in this
place Saturday and stated that an expert
would shortly be engaged to survey the
entire canal and locate all the sites
suitable for factories and report to the
Company the cost of putting the canal
in thorough repair and proper condition
for supplying all the water that may be
needed Within twelve months the worN
will begin and as soon as far enough
advanced inducements will be held out
to capitalists and manufacturers for the
erection of factories of every description.
The principal Office will be at Peters
burg but the Company will have rep
resentative at Weldon. The capital
stock is fixed at $500, 900 with power to
increase it to any amount the stock hol-
ders may so determine. Weldon Netrs
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-04-15

Cupid is queer little chap, and the
older he grows the crankier he gets. He
is a bigger fool-ma ker today than he was
four thousand years ago, when he in
duced Colonel Samson, the great Origi-
nal lion-tail-twister and congressional
iaw-bone swinger, to lay his wool and
his glory in the lap of a half-negro De
lilah. He is more resistless moral
tansler and common-sense-smasher in
this 10Gth year of Yankee Doodle than
when he made the Psalmist David a
Mormon and an assassin. He is amOre
egregious ninny-breeder now than he
was when he led all Homer's heroes on
that wild Grecian bender after the Sarah
Bernhardt Of the Trojan era. He is a
more ineffable idiot-manutacturer this
moment than when, twenty centuries
agone, he wheedled Mark Antony-the
ancestor of Susan B., who spells it with
an "h''-into casting aside the sceptre
of the world for nappy-pated Egyptian
mulattress. He is a more uncOnsclOn-
able heathen amid all our nineteenth
century blaze of gospel light and liberty
than when he and his scanty-skirted
mamma, Mrs, Venus, led the pagan
orgies of Athenian damsels beneath the
shade of ancient olive groves. He is
creations marplot, dignity's dethroner
reasons upsetter and scoffer.
Fang of hydrophobic cur never punch.
ed as many madcap faucles into its vic
TINS body as the slightest Craze of one
of his tiny molasses candy shafts. AGED
senators slightly stricken, oil their rusty
joints and caper around lnfantile treas,
ury clerkesses, like hand organ mon.
keys with ringworms on their Darwin
ian combinations Old women, tooth
less and shriveled, touched by the pes
tiferous little archer who turks in rose.
buds and cabbage heads, plaster thei
graveyard countenances with enamels
and pants enough to gorge camp o
Kickapoo squaws, swing gawds ant
gewgaws to every available protuber
ance, pile on sweet sixteen toggery. ant
smirk and giggle in style that woul'
drive whole bedlam of ordinary luna
tics to suicide. Seventy-year-old Chris
tiancys 60 spooneying after sixteen
yearling girl clerks; antiquated Majo
General Harneys, after escaping cannon
musketry, bombs and scalping knive
for a century or more, tumble befor
the smiles and wiles of buxom pet