The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-03

marked contrast with our own here In Yer |
mont, but we should be slow to acknowledge !
al tho odds as against us, everything |
considered. The lowest temperature this |
year at five A. NJ. there was on January 8
and IL, when the mercury marked four |
above zero. We count three mornings
when 1t was in the ffties, seven in the |
fortes and thirteen in the thirties Mr.. |
White says the weather January II was the |
coolest he ever knew in Alabama. The |
mercury at eight A. NJ. marked one degree
above zero. - On recent call at the
well-equipped study of an out-of-town ceri- |
cal friend, he told us that he made nice
article of ink with the diamond dyes"
We have just been experimenting with the
same, using single package of the slate
color, which will make pint of black ink.
We like it well enough to continue its use.
=" Mrs. Emily Martin Emery has been
visiting her sisters, Mrs. William Hanson
and Mrs. Liberty Jeffords, here in town.
Old Boreas " has done but little
thus far this winter in transferring money
from our town treasury to the farmers
pockets. But that he has lost none of his
old-time energy and skill in piling drifts
into the roads was shown last week If it
:" blew no good to some farmers pockets,
what saved it from being an Z" i'll wind?"
- Friends of Mr.. James S. Abbott,
now in trade in St Augustine, Florida, will
be glad to know he finds relief from the
asthma there, and that he also finds the be-
ginning OF his stay there very pleasant
otherwise. (By the way, reader, have you
ever thought how far 'oeSt of us Florida
lies If not, would you have suspected
that its western limit is in nearly the
same longitude as that of Indiana p
- Our Ladies Reading Club will give
its next meeting to Longfellow, in ac-
cordance with its new plan of taking an
occasional rest from Shakespeare and de-
voting the time to some modern author.
- Howard Winchester, after months of
giplxnpg and lampnpeq from rhpnunotiatn ia
again disabled by inflammation of the eyes.
His cup has been pretty full of sorrow of
late. - Arthur Ralph travelling man
for c. II. Cross & Son of Montpelier, has
been on the sick list for some days, but
! hopes to resume work again this week.
- Myron Flint, son of Lewis Flint, has
been taking a course in commercial col
! lege in Newark, n. j. - Mrs. DR.. T.. c.
Lewis of Rutland has been gaining faster
of late, and though able to stand firmly is
yet unable to walk We judge her complete
recovery in due time may be hoped for.
j. Munroe Seaver returned from the
West last week, bringing several horses
purchased in Canada. They are for sale
- Mr.. and Mrs Andrew Burnham
have been visiting friends of late Mr.
Burnham has had cataract taken from one
eye, and is thus enabled to see somewhat
with it. With the other eye he sees but
partially if at all - Frank Lougee has
finished his winter school in Mortified and
| gone 10 WOTK III Une asylum al BrattleDOrO
- The figures have not yet been Off
cially given, but we hear our town will
come out with a debt of at least some six or
seven hundred dollars for the year ending
March 2, 1886. - We recently asked q
business man in an adjoining county about
one of his eX-townsman of whom we had
heard of as in business in another state He
told us that in his native town he accumu-
lated a very handsome property in trade.
He then went to an important city to en-
gage in trade, but entirely ignorant of
the demands of such trade. Disaster
was the result The lesson is plain
and much needed. - We do not
want, and seldom get, anything more
terrific in the way of clustering win
try day and night than we had last Friday.
this storm than that often felt by our coun-
trymen in the regions of billiards. and cy-
clones. But it will help us to pity them the
more. - Our eX-townswOman nee Mrs
Samuel Dickerman, now Mrs l. A. Perkins,
is about to go with her husband to California
where her sister, Mrs. Lucy Martin Curtis
resides. We hear Mr.. Perkins has desir
able situation offered him there as miller
They will take two daughters with them
- The body of our ex-townsman, Dan
iel Bacon, who has just died in Northfeld
will be brought here for burial in the vii
age cemetery. We fail to learn many par
ticulars of his last illness. A citizen o
Northfield told us there was hemorrhage o
the bowels. His mind is said to have beer
clear enough day or two before his deatl
to comprehend the situation and make
needed suggestions with reference to bust.
ness matters-the settlement of his estate
etc. - Charles Briggs, son of j. Alberr
Briggs, and Miss Lena Townsend, only
daughter of Daniel Townsend, Jr., WERE
married on Thursday last We hear they
are to reside in the family of Mrs
Briggs father the coming year. - Mrs
"Memie !" House Graves, daughter o
Henry g. House and for some time past
resident of Kansas, we are told was ex
pected home last week for a stay of severa
months. - ouse-builders Messrs JOIN
Perry and Henry Poole are at home from
Barre temporarily. They are not men
however, to be long out of employment il
these days. They will doubtless work il
: Barre the coming season. - Don Earle
and Bert Bruce returned from st. Adams
last week, having failed to obtain work OF
the Central Vermont railroad. - Mr.
, Enoch Howe, now nearly ninety-four years
of age, says last Friday night was the wors
night he ever knew, for the storm and wind
- III the report of our town supern
tendent of schools, just made shall provok,
4" a tempest in teapot here and there il
town, 1t need not surprise any one. Blu
after the storm will come a sober seconC
thought. We may well believe what SHE
says in this report, that " she would no
willingly hurt any ones feelings" but he
, interest in the welfare of the schools ha
: led her to give her honest opinion of tn,
work done in each school," And she ha
has the courage of her convictions, too ant
, expressed herself freely about others thai
the teachers themselves lin fact, does sh,
, not hit us all?) in relation to school matters
, We know nothing of the merits of the case
but let us be thankful, townsfolk, for good
honest, kindly and justly-intentioned crit
cism from one appointed to this very worl
, in part. No teacher need be discouraged b,
anything in this report. If any fail to ge
( the commentator they would like, il the,
have in them the elements of a true man
hood or womanhood, and of teache
worthy of the name, it will only rouse then
to thankfulness for the criticism and to
purpose unconquerable to succeed in thu
work of teaching. Keep in mind youn,
: teacher, that " failures at first, resolutel,
met, have led more than once to the grand
est successes. Express, then, your thanks /,
your superintendent, and if she shall agail
/ hold the office seek her aid, sure to b.
heartily given, in remedying what now sh
feels obliged to criticise. - DIR. G.. &
Ellis has bought the old Bacon place " oil
, Barre street, Montpelier, and will take pos
session in the spring. 80 Corliss Simon
; (son of Lucius S. Simons) and wife returned
to Elgin, Ill.,, this week, accompanied b.
: Arthur Simons and their cousin, Miss Ma,
l Williams, daughter of Walter Williams
, - DIR. G. w. McClearn has just bough
a matched pair of horses in Washington
They are four and five years of age, full
brothers and of a chestnut color. -