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

OWING to press of other matter our pre-
MUM offers are omitted this week, but they
still hold good. We have sent out between
thirty-fve hundred and four thousand of
the books and are receiving orders for them
by every mail. This is good time for old
subscribers to renew and for new ones to
begin.
The trustees of the Soldiers Home in
Vermont hold their first meeting tomorrow
Thursday at Rutland, for the purpose of
organizing.
A FREIGHT train was derailed between
Montpelier junction and Northfield Tues
day morning, delaying the south-bound mail
train about three hours.
JUDGE ROYCE has fixed the 9th day of
March as the date of hearing before him on
the petition of certain preferred creditors of
the st. Albans Trust Company.
In the article in last weeks issue on the
meeting of the grand lodge of Good Temp
lars at st. Albans, the total membership of
this state should have been 5,041 instead of
3,041.
THE annual statement of the Mutual Life
Insurance Company of New York can be
found on the eighth page. This company
is one of the best in existence, and its al
ready enormous business is increasing
every year.
On the seventh page will be found cut
of the scales we are Offering in connection
with The WATcHMAN, and the terms on
which they can be secured. 1t is very
favorable opportunity to obtain an article of
practical use in every household.
In the sentence I" Aside from the disputa-
bleness," in recent article on General
Grant, read " disreputableness;" in Ire
lands real warfare" " read welfare" in
our remarks on the London explosions, and
the compositors kinks " will be straight
ened out.
THE first edition of the February Century
QS0,000 copies) was sold within week of
the day of issue. A new edition of 10000 is
on the press, making total of 900, with
the prospect of still further demand. A
fifth edition of the November Century was
issued last week.
The Central Vermont Pomona Grange
will hold its next regular meeting at Will
JAMESTOWN, February 18th. The forenoon
In the afternoon there is to be a public
meeting. All are invited to come, and take
part in discussing any subject that may he
presented.
IT is expected that the new railway be-
tween Alburgh Springs and Ottawa, p. O.,
will be open in February. Its length is
one hundred thirty-eight miles, of which
eighty miles-between Ottawa and Coteau-
have been in operation for two years. When
the complete line is open it is intended that
Pullman express train will make the dis
tance from Ottawa to Boston in thirteen
hours.
"CRAzY KATE" an account of whose
mode of life was published in THE WATCH
MAN two weeks ago, has relieved the Mid
dlesex authorities of further trouble on her
account. Directly after the visit of the
officials, she deserted her den and has not
since been seen. 1t is believed that her
suspicious had been aroused, and that fear
that she might be removed to an asylum
prompted her flight.
VERMONT condoles with Nebraska. The
Omaha Bee says of its Lawmakers: A
large majority of the men who are elected
to the legislature come fresh into the field
of law-making. They know absolutely
nothing or very little about the income and
the outlay of the state, and the needs of the
various state institutions. They know q
good deal less, if that could possibly be
about the laws already on the statute books
and they entirely ignorant as to what
laws ought TO be amended or repealed"
OUR esteemed neighbor, the Argus, boasts
that it furnishes its subscribers with more
ems of reading matter than are found in this
paper. This reminds us of an anecdote. A
gentleman, who was passing through very
sterile country, asked a man by the road
side if he owned all the land around there
"Oh, no, sir" said the man, " am not 50
poor as all that The Argus should i'm
prove the quality of its reading matter be
fore it brags about the quantity. The more
it furnishes of its present grade, the worse
of its readers are.
The thirty-fifth annual statement of tn,
National Life Insurance Company of th
village, Just issued, shows that the receipts
in 1884 were $66S, 1872 93, and the disburse
ments and expenses SAB, 1914 The ne
assets January /, 1885, were S3,0S, 723.S so
and the surplus, by the Massachusetts, an'
Vermont standard $677 ,1l4.29. In 1884 ther
were issued 1921 policies, insuring S3,66S,
800, and there are now ,9l5 policies in force
insuring $l4,O3i,62l. The showing is
highly satisfactory one and very tlatterinl
TO the officers Of the company,
THE new senator from California is the in
ventor of the apparatus by which instan
taneous impressions Of race horses in motion
are taken. The Boston Adcertiser says
Id Sd, whom we suppose to b,
the person lately elected To the Unite
States senate from California, writes TO in
quire whether it will be necessary to tax
to Washington the electrical apparatus b.
which photographs of race horses in moto
are secured in order to get photograph G
bill going through congress. No, sir; no
unless it is bill to take money out of tn
treasury for some purpose of doubtful uti