The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01
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FRANK WALKER and his sister, Miss Alice
Walker, have returned from school at Sax
tons River.
well he decides to remain at Chebanse and
work on a farm this season.
WILL SCHoFIELD has returned to work
for Willard Sprague this season He has
" good name" here as farm-worker.
HORACE WHITE returns to this place to
stay for the present, and will occupy his
recent purchase, the Elijah Kathan place.
Mrs. ALLEN CRAM was buried last week
Thursday, after an iless from heart dis
ease Of many months. Mrs. Manchester OF
Randolph otfciated at her funeral.
HENRY HERsEy, who has been at the
United States signal service station in New
London, Conn, is informed that he may
soon be transferred to the station in Dead
wood, Dakota.
LEWIS FLINT was called home by tele-
graph from Northern Vermont last week,
as it was feared his father Alvin Flint,
might not live many days. We are glad to
say, however, that Mr.. Flint's case is more
hopeful.
THE youngest son of the late Rev. Daniel
Field has just obtained situation in
wholesale house in Boston. His oldest
brother, Henry, has been for some years
with another house in that city, and is a
very capable salesman.
WE suspect the Barre cornet band found
less milk in the cocoanut here last Friday
evening than they or we could have wished
1t seems too near the big milking of the
week before last for any entertainments
here, just yet, doesn't it?
WE hear that K. X. Burnham has sold
out to his brother-in-law, Henry Howard
of Randolph. Miss Eunice Burnham, an
aged and infirm lady, who has a life interest
in the farm, has gone to reside with her
niece, Mrs. Prentss Waldo.
The well-equipped tannery, occupied till
recently by George G. Earle, is to be sold in
due time, and we wish that some first-class
tanner, with plenty of means, might ind it
desirable to locate here and run it, The
property can doubtless be had at a bargain
A MEMBER of our ladies' reading club tells
us she finds the series of articles, -" Children
of Westminster Abbey" in the Chdutduqud
Journal, by ID. Lothrop & Company OF
Boston, is only seventy-ive cents year
1t should be in some of our homes here
THERE is to be a union service at the
Congregational house on Fast day, Friday
next Rev. r. ID. Miller will preach if his
"voce " will allow, otherwise Rev. Harvey
Webster will preach. There ought to be g
return to the custom of the " fathers ~ in
the observance of the day here in the mat
ter of church attendance. Everybody will
be welcomed at the service.
THE Gulf Spring House, to which E. ID
Barnes of Chelsea is about to remove, il
owned, it is said. by Thomas Saunders o
Massachusetts, well-known in these part.
years ago. Not only will Mr.. Barnes keeI
a house that the travelling public will be ex
| pected to like, but it is said Mr. Saunder,
will induce his city friends to come up her,
| in the summer to rusticate. We are very de
sirous that the loneliness of our town in sum
mer be known by city residents. 1t ough
| to be resort for them, and we want til,
benefits to be had from their coming here.
AS DIR. G.. c. Ellis and wife and DIR
Jason &. Briggs were returning to Barr,
after the auction at the j. NJ. Palmer place
| they barely escaped what might have prove,
a fearful accident. After passing Soutl
Barre runaway team land strong drinl
was said to be the cause of the runaway
| came dashing towards them. As it reac het
them their own horse jumped one side int
the snow just in time to save them. TIL
other horse sprang to the opposite sid
and fell, when both the " doctors came t.
it's rescue. They suffered no other damag
than broken sleigh, fortunately.
THE recent appointment of the Hon. f.
Phelps of Burlington as United States min
lister to Great Britain led to the relation O
an anecdote to us by a member of our stat
senate in 1S43 and 1874 AT the session O
the legislature in one of these two years
Samuel S. Phelps of Middlebury father c
e. j. Phelps was the wing candidate TO
United States senator. Though one of tn
intellectual giants of the state of Vermont
Mr.. Phelps seems at that time not to hav
imbibed any of the growing abolition sent
ment in the North. This fact made it har'
for Mr.. Phelps to carry our senate for hi
election, though with the house there wa
no trouble in that direction. But the OF
position in the senate was finally overcom,
| ha ala nua II IL
on the street in Montpelier after his eleC
ton said to him, Well, you succeeded 6
last in being elected" Yes" said NJ
Phelps, and | didn't carry niger on m
back either!' If Mr.. Phelps be correctl
reported, his remark, however it might b
mitigated, helps one to mark the grand pro!
ress of Christian ideas in our land in til
last two scores of years.
GEORGE SAvoRY recently related to us
thrilling incident in his army life. In NJ
vember 1864, he, with two other soldiers, ws
sent to Vermont with three horses belong
ing to army officers. In its passage Nortl
ward his train had reached Havre de Grac
Maryland, and at a little after midnight ws
on ferry boat, in sections, ready, in dr
time, to be taken across the Susquehanr
river. The boat was waiting at the lan'
ing for a passenger train, to which IL
! freight train must give place on the raj
road before starting again. The car
their horses, were travelling, was attached
: the locomotive, as it rested on the boa
} The awaited passenger train arriving
! Havre de Grace, through some carees
: ness took the track leading to the ferr
, boat, and struck the locomotive to viii,
+ Mr.. Savory's car was attached, plungir
( both into the river. The night was one
r pitchy darkness. The car at once fill,
t with water, and the terrible struggle of bo
men and horses for life began. Mr.. Savol
e found himself in the lower end of the G.
with horse coming upon him, but by
marked providence was not crushed. Du
ing the day previous he had been near
n SICK and continued so till the time of Il
v accident. 1t was this sickness that led hii
t just before the accident, to open the door
: the car for fresh air, and il was wholly
'. cause of this open door that he and l
t comrades finally made their way out of t
= car and rose to the surface of the water
t be rescued from drowning. Mr.. Savo
}. fioated half a mile down the river before
n was picked up. In this catastrophe he
$ ceived an injury from which, he says,
:, has never recovered.
n North Fayston.-The barns belongi
n to Thomas and Charles Neill were entire
consumed by fire on the evening of Mar
e 25th, with eight or ten tons of hay. LC
d 81 900; insured for $500. The fire caug
IS from a lantern. They advertise to sell
}, public auction on Thursday, April I'd, eie
cows, seventeen young cattle and five col
- On the morning of March 2Sth Il.
n Marble IispnNaraI n EinHlipn fire. in