The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-10

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plant Of Grand Juror George Rice, for in
toxlcation the Saturday previous. He dis
closed on one Hattie Magoon for furnishing
MN cider-brandy and said that b. +. Wat
son sold him cider The parties accused
were brought before the same authority and
vehemently denied the charge, but the court
believed differently and fined each $40 and
costs, amounting to about S1S in each case.
Farnham was also fined 50 and costs for in
toxication. His father became responsible
for the amount and Charles was released
- Charles f. Smith has been appointed
deputy sheriff for this place, to ill the
vacancy caused by Il. NJ. Collins, who moves
TO chelsea. 80 The extreme cold weather
OF last week was quite damaging to some
cellars.
Tunbridge.
a. j. Wills house was badly damaged
by fire last Friday morning. It caught in a
partition through which pipe extended.
George Mudgett is now In New York,
where he is assistant electrician for the Bal
tlmore x Ohio Telegraph Company. -
Alton Miller's children have the measles.
The children. in the South Village have
nearly recovered and the school is now open.
- We had some very cold weather last
week. - Hon. Justus Dartt speaks at
the Congregational church tomorrow even
ing - The attendance at the quarterly
meeting of the Free Will Baptists was large.
- s. b. Hebard of Chelsea, Charles II.
Heath of Montpelier, Lamb & Tarbell of
South Royalton and Joe ID. Denison of
West Randolph were here last Wednesday
and Thursday, engaged in a suit between
the heirs of the late Widow Amy Ballou.
- The Womans Christian Temperance
Union prayer-meeting will be held at Mrs.
). e. Hayward's next Saturday evening.
- Mrs. G. II. Smith of Washington is
at DIR. Fish's, taking care of her mother
- Andrew Ordway has not recovered
from rheumatic fever.
Washington.
SOME of our older residents who had
falth in DIR. Fosters prescriptions will have
reason to think that he knows how to take
care of himself as well as his patients, as he
IS now, at the age of eighty-five, able to
ride out every day and to walk about as
brisk as many men of sixty years He
resides at Enfield, n. II.
West Fairlee.
Mrs ABBA BATES, who died January Both
was the widow of Henry Bates, who died
last September. Both died of consumption.
They had buried two children, and one, about
ten years of age, is left double orphan
Mrs. Bates was the only daughter of the
late Josiah Dearborn of this place. 80 A
court has been in session at Judge Beans
to consider the bankrupt case of George
Fits of Vershire, and another is soon to be
held on the will of the late Horace Orr o
Vershire, which some of the heirs are try
ing to set aside.
Williamstown.
ONE of the veterans in the post-office de
partment in Washington, ID. c., was the lat,
Mr.. Chauncey Smith of this place. Man,
years ago, when post-office accounts wer,
Il ha mar
ner of doing it, we remember to have hearC
of his saying that returns showed our town
to be quite remarkable, for its size, for thu
amount of Matchmaker received here. Tha
our people have been from the first read
ing people is doubtless owing in part to TIN
valuable town library that was founded il
its earliest days. Through the kindness o
Harvey Cheney who was at the trouble o
| counting for our benefit the papers, letters
etc, received at this post-of1ce in recen
week, we learn that the newspapers mum
bered seven hundred fifty-six; letters anC
postal cards, four hundred fifty-two; pack
ages, twenty-three. Aside from what mail
matter comes into town through this Office
quite number of our families on the out
| skirts of the town get their mail at Chelsea
Barre, Northfield and Brookield. Their
are nearly one hundred copies of the WATCH
MAN taken in the place. (And right here w
may add that our people might be surprise,
zens and widely separated the WATCH
MAN is sent each week from the Office G
publication) How does this record CON
pare with those of other towns, in pre-
portion to our one thousand inhabitants
Our young townsman, Bert " Briggs
is to return to Barre from Mortified, to wor
at his trade of blacksmithing, having bougl
out Mr.. Minard - Ryland Seaver
stopping here for little time with oil
friends and kindred. His wife is visitin
friends in Virginia. - Rev. and Mrs
| Harvey Webster may well feel pleased a
the large turnout on the occasion of dona
ton visit, at the Methodist parsonage, o
! Tuesday of last week. Such visits, on tn
part of that society, have been very rare i
late years, we believe. - Joel Bass re
turned from his work in the asylum at Brat
tleboro, last week, in fine health and f1esl
He is to attend the spring term of st. Johns
bury Academy. - Our grange seems t
have taken new lease of life. Seven neN
members, we hear, We're taken into tn
order last week. - George G. Earle Ina
hired part of the old Squire Kinsman hous
in Barre aud will soon move into it. w
believe it is his intention to take boarder'
- In recent ransacking of an old fam
lily cred chest y we came upon volume @
Songs for Social Worship, printed more tina
fifty years ago. How much older wha
some are accustomed, perhaps, to think {
as modern and Moody-and-Sankey idea
is, we know not. The work was prepare
by Thomas Hastings of New York an
Lowell Mason of Boston. A strange featur
in the arrangement of the music is that S
little part is assigned to tenOrs-bass, all
alto and second treble being the part
chiefly indicated. The movement of tn
music is of course the old-time, stately
hammered, and nothing of the modern " jig
kind, that rasps the nerves of some "ancient
people. But who that carries among his mos
delightful early memories the singing {
forty or fifty years ago or more would nc
love to hear it once again? One who has see
more than three-score years and quite
good deal of the world, and has had chanc
TO hear some fine music, was talking wit
us quite recently of our townswoman, tn
late Miss Susan Watson, who used to TAX
such an active part and so sweetly an
beautifully in the old-time singing her,
and wished that once again she could liste
to her music. She has perhaps heard nothin
since that has thrilled her more. -
In recent conversation with our first S,
lectman, Marcus A. Smith, he told us tina
in looking over some records he found ths
in 1876 some S2,4i0 were expended in til
care of our roads here. In 1878, about 81
800 We're used in this way. He cannot W
tell, of course, but thinks some 81 200 ma
cover the expenditures this year. He think
there is no occasion for regret at buying til
road-machne, though there is complaint
some Of our roads. The fault is, in part, to
small an outlay of money on the roads. Nj
commissioners elected the coming sprins
and that the town should own the necessar
team for working the road-machine. w
suspect if vote were taken here now upo
the matter of the old and the new method
OF caring for our roads that the new woul