The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-27
Montpelier and Vicinity.

the Westinghouse at Wrghtville next Sun
day afternoon at two o'clock.
FINELY drawn and executed designs for
the new government building to be erected
here are to be seen at the 1rgus counting
room.
EVERYBODY is invited to Bethany chapel
this week Thursday evening, when the la
dies of the society are to furnish an oyster
supper, with a musical programme as an
additional entertainments.
ANOTHER scholar has come under the care
of Professor DeBoer principal of the Gram
mar and Union schools. An explanation of
| this profound joke Will be found upon ref
! erence to another column.
THE Eureka slate quarry at Poultney was
sold at auction last Wednesday, to James
r. Langdon of Montpelier for $4,000. The
bidding was started by Hugh w. Hughes
of Granville, n. Y, at $1,000.
THE Ladies' Library Guild will hold a
business meeting in the parlors of Bethany
church Saturday afternoon next at half-past
two o'clock. Every member, and others
who may design to become members of the
Guild, are urgently requested to be present
MEMBERS of the legislature, and others
temporarily in town, may be glad to know
that the valuable collection of some four
thousand volumes on the shelves of the
Montpelier Public Library Association is
open for their use on the payment of a
! trifiing fee.
BURGLARS prowling about the state will
! not be over anxious to be sentenced by
Judge Powers in the future. The fifteen
years he gave the " Waterbury gentlemen !"
should remind professionals that if they
come to Vermont they are liable to come to
stay Clipper.
DIR. j. G. w. COKE of Washington Iowa,
a former pastor of Trinity church in Mont
peler, as well as principal of Vermont
Methodist Seminary, delivered very able
and eloquent address at seminary chapel
! last Wednesday evening. A reception was
given him at its close. 1t was pleasant
and enjoyable occasion.
T.. A. LOWE has gone to Taunton, Mass,
to assume a desirable position in the ship
ping department of the house of Reed x
Barton, manufacturers and wholesale deal
ers in silver-ware. The young man is pos
sessed of excellent business capabilities and
his new employers will doubtless find in
him a faithful and competent assistant.
THE cantata of Queen Esther was given
at Barre Friday and Saturday evenings by
Professor Foster, under the auspices of the
Choral Union of that place. Miss Alice
Lowe of Montpelier, assisted as soprano,
and won many deserved compliments by
the thoroughly artistic manner in which
she rendered her part. The entertainment
was most complete success.
The fourteenth reunion of the First Ver-
mont Cavalry Regiment will be held at
Montpelier Tuesday, November I'd. The
regular business meeting of the society will
be held at the state-house, at 2: 90 P. NJ, and
the banquet, provided by the Woman's s Relief
Corps, will be served at the Golden Fleece
at s: 90 P. NJ. An address will be delivered
after the banquet by the chaplain, Professor
j. f. Goodrich of Burlington. All honor
ably discharged officers and soldiers of the
regiment are cordially invited to attend.
LETTERS uncaled for at the Montpelier
\ afA,. oh
Miss Jennie Bright, W. G. Church, MD.
Miss Mamie Cronin, L. e. Hickok,
Mrs. Chas. Deusham, Frank c. Jay,
Mrs Mrs SSphiS aqr laTrence AleS MathSsSon MInSs
Mrs. HELEN r. Wilson, Crit Mccartney,
A. NJ. Burrell, Jos. Myers,
4. ]. Brown, Jack Mccarty,
DR.. DR. F +. H. Bixby, ~. rruden. MD.
j. ID. Brennan, Albert n. Vance,
John Cameron, Clarence Van Zandt
Parties applying for any of the above must
say advertised and give the date.
GEORGE w. WING, Postmaster.
BARTON, the celebrated Waterbury bank
burglar, whose escape from the late Sheriff
|. w. Brown several years ago while being
taken to Windsor after being convicted OF
the burglary of the Waterbury bank, has al
last turned up in the Michigan state prison.
He has been living in great style in New
York and Hartford since his Vermont eX
perienCe. His wonderful and mysterious
escape from Mr.. Brown is yet fresh in the
minds of Montpelier people, and never has
been satisfactorily accounted for. Bartor
was supposed at the time to be in the last
stages of consumption, and the true story o
his escape would make very interesting
reading
THERE is to be a reunion of the Eight
Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, in Mont
pelier Tuesday, November ID The bust
ness meeting will be held at the hall of tn,
Grand Army at three o'clock p. NJ, wher
Ex-Governor j. L. Barstow and H. f. Hill
will read papers on service in Louisiana
and Virginia The banquet will be furnish
ed by the Women's Relief Corps in the hal
of the Golden Fleece the First Vernon
cavalry uniting. Round trip tickets will b,
furnished by the Central Vermont and Pas
sumpsic railroads. The secretary, M Fer
rim of Essex junction, desires notice of the
death of any conrade or of any change il
post-ofiice address.
A RECENTLY IMPORTED servant girl in
well-known Montpelier family was given
pan of butternuts the other day with in
structions to take them into the shed anC
crack them, In few minutes she returned
with the pan full of whole nuts, excepting
two, which she had succeeded in breaking
She explained to the " missus her willing
ness to do her bidding as far as lay in he
power, but announced that the butternu
task was more than she could accomplish
and displayed a mouthful of ruined teeth t,
prove her truthfulness aud sincerity. Sht
was shown the United States method o
cracking the hard shells and was not lon,
in catching on" but she will always re
tain the impression made by those two but
ternuts.
The parties arrested for the recent rob
berry of Arms & Haines at Waterbury, ha,
: trial October 90. Burt Labelle was dis
charged and the case against Eddie Bosel
was nOde proSSed Symerna Patterson and
Fred Labelle were each sentenced to eigh
teen months in the work-house and w. j
Lovely to one year at the same place. Sam
uel Reynolds and wife arrested for secretin
the stolen property, We're sentenced to fou
= years each, in the state prison. AT the con
cuson of this trial the jury was dsmisse,
: by Judge Powers, who thanked them 70
, their attention, diligence and patience ant
remarked upon the fact that during thei
> service there has been only one disagree
ment. Thursday morning the court tool
a recess until November 16.
Mr.. GEORGE b. HALL is in town TO can
vass in the Legislature and among our peopl
{ for one of the most interesting books of tn
3 time -" Perley's "reminiscences, Social
Anecdotal and Political, of Sixty Years il
the National Metropolis" All know Majo
Ben: Perey Poore, who has a nationa
5 reputation acquired by many years of sery
ice as Washington correspondent of tn
Boston journal and other papers. Hi
' work, which is in two volumes, is one c
D.. the most entertaining books that has bee
l.lt had ae.l 10 a i1