The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-21

a thing" he will find very profitable and
enjoyable "A Century's Message" an adj
dress by Andrew ID. White, LID, ex-
president Of Cornell University, that Pub
Usher John B. Alden Of New York will lay
down in his post-office for three cents. We
do not wonder that one of our Vermont
literary institutions not long ago ordered
numerous copies of 1t for study, as we
happen to know. 1t ought to be -" study"
in all our homes, for 1t deals with facts that
concern us all. He charges against us,
amongst other things, that " criminals are
more secure from punishment here than in
any other civilized land 10 and that jury
trials are being made a farce" - APP
propos of jury trials, q lawyer in active
practice once gave his opinion in this wise.
He thinks II judge and jury were each and
all what they should be, no better method
of getting justice could be found. In his
opinion, however, nineteen out of twenty
average jurymen fail to do what their oath
really requires. When lawyers have case
where claw " is on their side and equity"
on the other, he said, they like to have
trial by jury, as they think jury will care
less for law and more for equity. And for
the same reason, when the case is reversed,
they would prefer that the judges decide
the matter-they, usually, being sticklers
for the written law. - Norman Daven-
port is said to have succeeded in getting a
pension and back pay, the former to be S12
month, the latter 81 200. - Myron
Flint was called home from Trenton, n. j.,
last week by the sickness of his father,
Lewis Flint. - Burt, son of ID. ID. Royce,
is at home from Massachusetts,. -
George Adams is at home from Ludlow,
where he works in drugstore. He returns
next week. - Mrs. e. Durgin, daugh-
ter of our townswoman, Mrs. Hannah Clark
Kimball, and a teacher in Boston, is spend
ing her vacation at Leavitt Hayward's. She
is accompanied by a daughter. We believe
she is the fine contralto of a Boston church
choir, who was here a year or two ago.
- Mrs. Rev. William Schofield and
daughter, Anna, now of Irasburg were in
town last week, having driven from Iras-
burg and being on the way to Chelsea.
They are to return here again. - While
breaking up piece Of ground, the other day,
that had not been plowed for score of
years, perhaps, Albert Goodrich brought to
the surface an old-fashioned blade that
weighed almost pound and three quarters
and with an eye for a two-inch handle
What wonder If some fellow buried the
thingl - The Miss Ada E. Cotton of
Princeton, ILL.,, one of our last summers
visitors, whose singing will be pleasantly
recalled by some of our people, was lately
married to Mr.. Reeve Norton of Liver
more, Iowa. A Princeton, ILL.,, paper speaks
of " the open-air " wedding under an elm
as very delightful affair - Charles II.
Ainsworth accompanied by his wife, and
Henry A. Ainsworth of Moline, ILL.,, sons of
the late Dlr. ana MRS. calvin AlnSworth OF
this place, arrived here last week, after an
absence of years. OF the six living children
of this family five are here, just now, from
| the West for reunion at the old homestead
which, by the way, we are glad to hope will
long remain in the possession of this family.
- From reports made to us, we judge
the hay crop here, as whole, may be con-
siderably larger than last years cut. -
| A son (the first-born) was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Jesse Poor on Friday last. - A sor-
rowful sight is that of three-year-old
Cleaveland Boy" colt of Rev. Harvey
Webster that was mangled on a wire fence
! (of the saw-teeth pattern) some two weeks