The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-13

surance - Mrs. Chester Martin returned
from Glencoe, Mimi, last Friday. 80 Mrs.
William $. Beckett died on Friday last, at
the age OF eighty years or more, after q long
time of i'll health. She was worthy woman.
-- Rev. Carlos Adams who is to have
one more year of study in the Boston Theo-
logical Seminary, finds his vacation length
ened beyond his expectation He returned
home again last week for a few weeks stay,
- G. G. Barnes has just returned from
Canadian trip Of some weeks. He has been
canvassing in that country. 80 Our ex-
townswoman, Mrs. Adeline House Har-
worth, died at her home in Lowell, Mass,
on Sunday, the Goth ult She had long been
in i'll health, the disease, we hear, having
been something like cancer of the stomach.
80 Fred Jackson intersperses with farm
ing the buying OF eggs for Barre firm. An
abundant hay crop last season enables him
to take in " stock to winter, especially of
the horse kind 80 Fred Martin reports
that he is doing as much as, or more than
he expected to do at first in his new store
in South Barre. - Mrs. AFRO Nichols is
quite i'll with lung trouble 80 Lyman A.
Work has been very sick of late with what
is supposed to be trouble in the gall bladder
- Mrs. James Morse (pee Miss Ellen
Kathan) of Barre, but a former resident of
this place, is teaching the district school in
TwingSville (Barre) this fall. - Mr..
John Lynde went to Boston some days ago
to sell the product of his tannery. 80 Mr..
and Mrs Walter Newcomb have returned
to their home in Detroit, Michigan. -
Return s. Davis and wife have been
visiting their Field brothers in Boston.
80 Perley Sanders picked strawberries
in his fathers moving the 22d of last month.
80 Joseph Sanders lately sold calf a
few months Old that weighed three hundred
seventy-eight pounds. He thinks it will not
be easy to beat it, 80 At a spelling match
in Miss Julia McCarty's select school, last
Friday, little Miss Rosa Jersey, the young
est of the contestants, spelled down all the
others. - At the time of the death of Mrs
Isaac Jillson, some years ago, pension and
back pay had been granted her, but she had
not received any of it,. Her daughter, Miss
Elvira, who did so much for her parents in
their lifetime, has been at work for quite a
| long time to get what was due her mother
from the government, and at last has obtained
| it, much to her Joy and help. - The
la est word we have had of James f
Jilson was trifle more encouraging. Pos
sibly he will yet be much better. - b.
| f. Sibey finds himself wrestling with an
abscess that followed the erysipelas that
followed the removal OF a tumor on an ear,
two weeks and more ago. 1t is hoped he
| will be successful in this "match." Tues
| day of this week was appointed for bee
! for huskng out field of corn by his friends.
1t is always a pleasure to record such deeds
of kindness, and especially when shown
| OnG WHO HAS uOnt 81 luuCu loT OIutGS Ill IillS
way as has Mr. Sibley, and who now for the
| first time, we believe, has had any occasion
to receive such favor from friends -
A few of the friends of Lyman A. Work
gave day last week to digging his pota-
toes, since he is so sick. He is worthy of
the kindness so worthily shown him. Let
us have more such acts, as circumstances
may require. Unfortunately this is by
no means an uncommon occurrence, but it
carries lesson making it worth telling. A
friend tells us of family out of which has
| come one of the noted men of our country.
He was not the oldest son, nor was he
deemed the brightest one of this family
| when a boy. Acquaintance would likely
have said then, had they known that one OF
these sons was to make great mark in the
world, that it would surely be the one who
| failed, rather than the successful one. But
the former yielded himself slave to strong
drink and " the wages " have been the usual
ones, while the latter stands before
kings" - When, hundred years ago
Robert Burns gave the world his beautiful
pen picture of "The Cotters Saturday
| Night" (whose "colors" time rather en-
riches than dulls,) he saw that
=" From scenes like these old Scotias grandeur
springs,
That makes her loved at home, revered abroad"
There are many who think they clearly see
| that in the years since las before) Burns
sang, " in simple Scottish lays" old Scotia's
grandeur has sprung in no small measure
from " the big ha' Bible, "reverently turned
DER. All this has been freshly suggested tC
us by the hearing of an incident in the life
of one lately come from Scotland to make
America a home henceforth Among the
farewell words of the good Scotch mother
as this, her child, was about to leave the ole
home for new one in this western world was
the entreaty to 60 be faithful in the observ
ance of Sabbath Worship" without which
there can be no real prosperity" There
are many who deplore what seems to then
a growing anfaithfulness in Sabbath observ
ances on this side of the sea, and will not
some Of them send at least silent, heart
felt greeting across the water, to that Scotch
mother, whose admonition, if generally
needed, would be priceless boon to
America. - On Wednesday night o
last week a horse-thief visited the premise,
of Herbert j. Colby. and took off fine
horse, harness and top buggy. The mex
day Mr.. Colby offered 800 reward for tn,
detection of the thief and recovery of tn,
property, and made good use of printer,
ink. the telephone. etc. On Friday he was
called to Bradford, where the stolen prop
erty and the thief were found. - Franz
o. Beckett and Mr.. and Mrs. George Mar
tin came from Washington ID. c., to attenC
the funeral of their mother, Mrs. William
Beckett on Sunday. - Yesterday nearly
forty persons showed their sympathy for b
p. Sibley in his time of sickness aud scar
city of help 10y husking out large field o
corn for him. He warmly appreciates tn,
kindness.
Orleans County.
Barton Landing.