The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-09-19

street been open for inspection about long
enough? Put on the finishing touches and
! let us have State street in its company dress
before the members begin to come in.
In securing the performance of Jim the
! Penman at the opera-house tomorrow
! night, Mr.. Blanchard gives people an OPP
| portunity TO attend play of the first-class
| at popular prices. 1t is hoped that the at
tendance will give encouragement for the
| further provision of entertainments of
! high order.
FOLLOWING is the programme of the band
concert to be given Saturday evening at the
| State street band stand:
March, Review of the Guard d.........s. Robinson
Overture AleNis'''''''''''' '''''. ''schiepegreI
tisiop, Flyims wing
tavote Hearts Delight warren
Medley The Black Brigade. Greyer
March, st. Lawrence .,..,............ Sims
The pipe under the river, on the new line
from the Berlin reservoir, was laid Sunday
by gang of men under the superintendent
of Water Commissioner Foster. The
method of getting the pipe to the bottom
was to joint it at the top of an inclined
plane built in the river and then to roll it
evenly down to the foot. About LOO feet
of pipe on the other side of the river are
vet to he laid.
AN incident of the state canvass is told as
a laughable instance of the weakness of the
enemy in Vermont visitor in a town in
] the northern part OF tne StdIe WlUneSSeu IL
democratic tlag-raising one night, but the
next morning failed to discover the flag
where it had been raised. On asking about
| its disappearance, he was told that the
catered ensign had been torn down
and returned to the party from whom it was
borrowed.
OVER thirty Masons from this place and
many from others availed themselves of the
pilgrimage to Boston arranged by Frank II.
| Bascom this week on the occasion of the
meeting of the supreme council of inspec-
tors general of the 80 at Masonic Temple.
The events of the week are the opening of
the supreme council, which took place last
night the meeting of Boston commandery
tonight, and of Aleppo temple, Mystic
| Shrine, tomorrow night.
THE Argus ostentatiously cudgels its
"young man for making a mistake of one
thousand in figuring up the vote of Mr..
Shurtletf in the late election. Twas ever
thus with the understrapper at the ArguS
Office This particular one should be
hanged for leading the good and truthful
Hiram into uttering such whopper. But
while Hiram was coniesslng TO the sins OF
his devil, he should have had the grace to
acknowledge part of his own, which are
neither few nor small.
THE third annual reunion of the Seven
teenth Vermont Regiment is to be held in
this place Thursday, October II. The busi-
ness meeting, in Grand Army Hall, COM
mences at /: 80 o'clock. In the evening a
campfire is to be held in Capital Hall, The
principal address will be given by Ex-Gov-
ernor Smith of st. Albans. Colonel l.. +.
Knapp of Middlebury will give historical
sketch of the regiment. 1t is expected that
Governor Dillingham;, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Woodbury., DIR. j. G. Rutherford and others
will be present
ANOTHER merchants week." or trade
excursion of retail merchants to Boston, has
baap arranUaI ~ the vlplaSalp lpalprS Of
that city, encouraged by the success of the
spring excursion, and will commence Mon
day the 24th. Tickets will be sold at half
rates to Boston and return and they will be
good to return until the 29th On Thurs
day reception will be held at which there
will be banquet with addresses and music.
All merchants who expect to attend must
notify the secretary. Rufus A. Flanders, II
South Market street, Boston.
In the case of State rs. John w. Smith,
charged with committing perjury in the case
, of Rowell rs. Fullers' estate at Orleans
county court, February, 1887, the respondent
demurred TO the indictment, arguing that
ii did not contain averlnents that the re-
spondent falsely" swore, nor that the
matter testified to was false in fact. The
court overrnled the demurrer to the first
count and sustained that to the second.
The respondents counsel elected to stand
on this demurrer and the cause is passed
to the supreme court. If the court find
Judge Rowell's disposition OF the matter
correct il Is tantamount to a plea of guilty
on the first count.
Two lively runaways were perpetrated
Saturday afternoon by horses that decided
I to have " no flies on them" The horse of
( Theodore Beach first came on the track
from Barre street with two wheels of a
wagon, narrowly escaped running over a
child wheeling a baby-carriage at the corner
of Weston & Smiths marble shop, swung
r around the premises, and out on to the
, sidewalk, which it kept until reaching
State street where 1t was caught. Strangely,
no damage was done. The other animal,
owned by Austin Kelton of Worcester,
broke loose in the yard back of Blanchard :
opera-house, set up one-ring circus,
smashed into a wagon standing in one of
= the sheds and completely demolished the
express wagon to which it was harnessed.
IN response to something like two hun
dred fifty invitations issued the day before,
a large company of friends of Mr. and Mrs,
Andrew j. Howe assembled Saturday even
| ing at their pleasant home on Loomis street
to assist them in commemorating the twenty
e fifth anniversary of their marriage. Guests
: were received by Mr.. George w. Scott,
Mrs. Howe's father, by Mr.. and Mrs. Howe,
Z Mrs. j. V. Babcock, sister OF Mr.. Howe,
y and Mrs. A. c. Vail. The reception rooms
were beautifully decorated with cut flowers,
asters in great variety being especially nu,
, merous. Mrs. Howe wore the dress and
greeted among the guests no less than sixty
, who were present at her wedding. The af-
t fair was delightful one for all who were
present, and congratulations and express
sions OF good will were showered in abun-
: dance upon the worthy pair.
Miss CLARA DEWEY of Boston is guest
= at Hon. Il. p. Walton's. - Edward L.
:. Smith returns this week to resume his stud
9 les at Yale Theological Seminary. -
A. II. Baker went to Springfield, Mass, on
Saturday, intending to spend the Sabbath
! in that city with Willard Cotton, and to
! enter upon the duties OF his new position al
= Hartford, Conn, on Monday. - At the
recent national encampment Of the Grand
: Army of the Republic at Columbus, Ohio
g Colonel Fred K. Smith was appointed a
: member Of the national council OF admins.
tration. t. As was limited by Hiram
o Atkins at the democratic county convention,
n John H. Senter, Esq, has been appointed
T bank-examner, to take the place OF j. j. r.
: Randall of Rutland, resigned - Hon