The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-18


is to preach in the Church of the Messiah
next Sunday morning.
REMEMBER that the board of civil au-
thority will meet at Capital hall Friday
evening to revise the checklist, and let all
voters whose names do not now appear
upon the list be present to see that it is prop
erly corrected to include them.
THE COZ ps of teachers of Montpelier Union
school is again complete, Miss Lease of
Montpelier, Miss Tarbell of Randolph and
Miss Graves of Factory Point having been
engaged to fill the vacancies caused by resig-
nations at the close of the last year.
Mrs. AMELIA S. QUINroN of Philadelphia,
secretary of the National Womans Indian
Association, will present the work of the
association to the people of Montpelier in
the parlors of Trinity church this afternoon
at three o'clock. All are cordially invited.
The tents of the First Regiment National
Guard of Vermont are being shipped this
week from the arsenal to Burlington for use
at the annual muster, to be held there next
week. Company III will leave Montpelier
by the nine o'clock train Tuesday morning.
THE time-lock on the safe in the Mont
pelier Savings Bank stopped last Thursday
night and the services of Boston expert
with an electric clock were required to start
it again and help it to run down, so that the
safe could be opened. This was not accom-
plished until Monday night,
LoAFING and carousing in and near Green
Mount cemetery, on Sunday afternoons and
evenings in particular, should be prohibited
and prevented. A certain class of young
men seem to make practice of fcongregating
thereabouts for boistrous amusement, much
| to the annoyance of visitors.
LAST Wednesday night some sneak en-
tered the grounds of Dexter Moody, on
Middlesex street, and chopped down valu-
liable apple-tree. There is reason to place
the suspicion upon a certain party, and he
will be made to suffer if proof can be had oi
his connection with the affair."
CHRIST CHURCH Sunday-school will have q
picnic at Owls Head on the Wells River
road next Tuesday and will leave here
on the morning mail train at half-past
eight o'clock. The fare will be thirty-fve
cents for the round trip and a cordial in
eral public.
The younger members of the Sunday
school of the Church of the Messiah are tC
have basket picnic at Benjamin's Falls to
morrow Thursday afternoon. They vii
go in the band-wagon, leaving the vestry o
the church at half past one, and they cor
daily invite their older friends to Join then
at the Falls.
LOVERS of pleasure along the line of the
Montpelier & Wells River railroad should
be on the lookout for full particulars, to bt
given later, of grand operate excursion tC
Lake Memphremagog, which will TAXI
place Thursday, September I'd. The far,
will be as usual, S1.50 for the round trip, in
cluding admission to the opera.
THE Boston Journal says that Genera
Stephen Thomas old command have pre-
vailed on him to sit for an oil portrait, and
T. w. Wood, president of the New York
Art Club, has produced at Montpelier, Vt.
an excellent portrait of the general who 81
CALAMITY held the confederate divisions il
check at the battle of Cedar Creek.
Mr.. j. c. HAswELL sends us from Cali
fornia copy of the Grand Army edition ;
of the San Francisco CdH which consists o
twenty-eight pages and gives the history o
the order, an account of its recent grea
meeting in San Francisco, brief biograph
ical sketches and portraits of leading Gran,
Army officials and department commanders
etc, etc.
LETTERS uncalled for at the Montpelie
(Vt) post-ofiice August A. 1886:
Mrs. Sophia Butterfeld, Miss lena White
Mrs. Lurinda Bruce Miss Eliza Zethel
Miss Fidelia Fisk John Bacon,
Mrs. Benz, Pierce. +. A. Lawrence
Mrs. g. +. Sheplee, Pomeroy Il c.,
Miss Annie Whalen WILDER Recor.
Parties applying for any of the above mus
say advertised Z" and give the date.
GEORGE w. WING, Postmaster.
THE eminent character comedian, E. l.
Walton, will appear at Blanchard Opera
house Wednesday evening, August 18th, il
, "The Diamond Broker" supported by
strong comedy company and full bras
band and string orchestra, elegantly uni
formed and costumed. OF the play an
company the New York Uerdld says: eth
Diamond Broker is a Hebrew play an
one in which Mr.. f. L. Walton shines wit
remarkable brilliancy as an impersonato
of Hebrew character, The progress in lif
of a poor fellow-an Israeite-is show
with remarkable fidelity. He appears be
fore MS in the humble but honest guise of
match peddler, and by successive stages h
rises to that of a wealthy diamond broker
The plot of the play is quite interestin
and gives glimpses of life which are studie
from nature. The last act, in which tn
diamond broker falls in love and defines hi
ideas of courtship love, marriage and iea
ousy, is especially clever. The cast is c
exceptional strength" Reserved seats ma
be obtained at the Phinney bookstore afte
Monday next.
THERE are many who will learn with sol
row of the death of Mr.. Henry Cobb, pre-
prietor of the Montpelier Marble Works
which occurred at his home on Mechani
street Sunday morning, August 10Th, at
quarter-past three O'Clock, after an Hines
, of nearly two weeks He had been in feebl
health for some time, but his death was nc
anticipated until his disease proved to be
more serious disorder of the heart than wa
at first supposed. He would have been six
ty-three years of age on the 3lst of Octobe
next. Twenty years ago, after having bee
t in business in Fall River, Mass, for lively
n years. Mr. Cobb came to Montpelier an
began the marble business, in which he wa
engaged at the time of his death He had
large acquaintance in different parts of tn
state, and was highly esteemed by his bus
ness acquaintance and the entire con
munity. A kind husband father and frenC
: his memory will be fondly cherished. ii
y was member and office-bearer in tn
Baptist church. His fellow-members weI
warmly attached to him, and to them hi
g death is personal bereavement. Funera
! services were held at his late residence o