The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-06


showing. and 1t pays to make nice butter.
80 Hayward x Cushman have dissolved
partnership in the barbering business. Mr..
Hayward has re-papered and re-painted his
shop in an elegant manner. 80 Snow Is
nearly all gone, but the ice is all here and
many try to stand on slippery places and
iaii. - The Star Theater Company had a
iull house Monday evening They are here
every night this week and give a good show.
- Ezra Jewell is dangerously i'll with
STAFFORD.
The Advent society has leased Hazelton's
hall and fitted it for religious meetings A
new entrance from the outside is reached
by a flight of stairs at the southeast corner
OF the hall Within are pulpit at the
West end an ample supply of settees and
cnalrs, large stove and walls neatly pa
pered. Services were held for the first time
last Sunday, and, Notwithstanding the un-
favorable weather and travelling, the hall
was well filed. The pastor of this society,
rev. Mr.. Earle, is an earnest, able preacher
and undeniably is doing much good in our
community. - Many accidents result
from the slippery walking. Among those
injured thereby are, at the South Village,
Mrs Emeline Lovejoy, lady advanced
IN years, suffering with an injured hip and
Mrs Ira Rogers with dslocated shoulder.
- At " the city," last Friday noon,
Frank Harding's little son, George, on his
his right forearm. The father drove some
fifteen miles before he could obtain surgical
aid. The little fellow endured the setting
of the bones bravely, although much intiam-
nation had set in. - Last week
Wednesday Frank Markham, a young man
about twenty. years of age, scholar in the
Clough district school, was foolng with
revolver under his desk when the weapon
was accidentally discharged, the bullet
lodging in the inside of his thigh. No seri-
Gus consequences are apprehended, but
Frank will probably pursue at home for a
while his studies, including the ways and
tricks OF revolvers. - Moses Il. Brown,
whose assault upon his brother, John ii. .,
with pistol and butcher-knife was lately
chronicled in the WATCHMAN, was taken to
the asylum at Brattleboro on Christmas
day. - DIR. G. S. Dewey has returned
from his long vacation, and is now ready to
answer all professional calls. 80 About
one thousand fat sheep have been sent to
market from this town within few days,
at an average price of SO. 60 Adelbert
Clark has now in good order, at the lower
end of the village, one of the best of grist-
mills and good corn-cracker.
West Topsham,
Mrs. f. G. WATSON, who has been stop
ping with DR.. Watson's family since the
! death of her husband, has returned to her
home in Hartford. - Oscar Peake saws
the foxes are so tame and plenty about his
| premises that they come into his barn and
take poultry from the roost. - John
Foss came to town last week, on his way to
| Chelsea as witness in the suit of State u.s.
| Charles Emery but when he got here he
found that he was not the man wanted, f
! V. Wiley being the man desired. -
| Charles Smith has rented the Tabor 4 Col
| inns store, recently occupied by e. V. Wiley
q Co. - Report says that E. NJ. Collins
Is soon to remove to Chelsea, to become
! Jaller, and other removals are also in con
temptation. - The snow is very thin
about here; still there is enough to make
comfortable sleighing. - Mr.. Batchel
der moves to Barre this week, where he is
to open livery-stable. He has recently
bought Morgan that will make as many
miles in as short time as any horse in
Orange county. - The great question
now under consideration is why those wit
nesses who swore in the recent trial Of
Charles Emery that they saw and talked
with Emery very near the buildings thai
were burned, only few minutes before the
! fire broke out, did not swear to that at the
preliminary hearing.
Tunbridge.
THE secretary of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union is corresponding will
| the president of the state union, with a view
of obtaining speaker to represent them al
the educational meeting to be held here il
February. The Union now meets the frs
Friday in each month. The installa
ton of officers of the Grand Army Post ant
the Relief Corps will be attended by tn,
| friends of the members. - Il. +. Hay
ward returns to Lewis College this week
- Will Blake has purchased new
Gray horsepower. - Mr.. II. X. George
is i'll. - Mrs. Moody Smiths residenc,
caught fire from defective chimney las
week Thursday. - Sherburne Cille,
has returned from New York -= Franl
Hayward fell upon the ice and spraned hi
right arm very badly last Wednesday
- Cyrus Smith and family of Washing
ton are visiting here.
Williamstown.
THE only son of David NJ. Smith, who be
gan winter school in Washington county
came home, some days ago, sick with tn
measles, and he has been very sick, too
His uncle Doctor Dudley b. Smith of Plain
field, was called as counsel last week. III
seems to be doing well now. - Lik
most other towns probably, Williamstowl
has among its citizens those who have a de
sire to write for the public, in one way o
another, some of whom have, perhaps, ar
yet to learn that the road is not an easy on
to travel. A leading newspaper on our tabl
tells MS of " fifteen years being needed t.
master the composition of newspaper ar
tcle." Another paper before us, in a sketcl
of the well-known journalist, Albert Pu
HuZer OF New OrK Guy, says that lie Ofte
recalls as the happiest moment of his life
that when he found his first English articl
i'll print" QHe is Hungarian.) 1t was
report of a case in court. He Drote wha
would fill, if printed "A column and hall
OF this there was actually printed quartz
of column. But he is a " success ~ now
- As indicative of the decline in value
here, as in most other places, of course, w,
hear il said that the real estate of the town
as IA whole, would not probably sell for tn
amount on which it is taxed. - Mrs
Holloway Merrill has returned from Rhod
Island, and is with John Farnham's fami
at present. - The other day John Rec
Of Brooktield brought to his uncle, and on
venerable townsman, Lucius Edson-noy
about elghty-seven years of age-apples froI
tree that Mr.. Edison set out eighty year
ago. One of these apples measured nine an
one-half inches in circumference and locke
nicely. - Is it not high time that tn
state of Vermont follow the course of at leas
one of her sister states, we believe, and hav
law by which a man about to make a wi
can 90 before physicians for eXaminatio
and, if found to be of " sound mind" ext
cute one that cannot be set aside after hi
death, on the plea of unsoundness? Anothe
legislature ought to look after the matte
surely. - Charles Erskine, while assist
ing neighbor, recently, in his butchering
cut his own hand, and though not mindin
much about it at the time, has since bee
suffering good deal from it. We hear tina
blood poisoning has been feared. -
George W. Blanchard has several singing
classes this season. =-= On New Year
uaV friends Of Gurlon Martin uatharpb a