The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-05-16

Her age was forty-six. 80 Mr.. John
Lynde has received the sad news of the
death of his little granddaughter Lucy
daughter of Nat. and Rebecca Lynde
Simons) in Princeton, ILL.,, April "a. She is
remembered here as a very bright little
Miss. Her death Is attributed to failure
of nerve power in connection with the heart.
She was some eight years of age. 80 The
poSt-mortem examination of the body of
George w. Farnham showed an amount of
disease that seemed TO surprise the doctors
even Lungs, heart stomach, liver, bowels,
kidneys-all were involved. 1t was found,
however, that there was not a nutmeg
liver" as two of the physicians told us they
expected surely to find. If there was a
single starting-point in this complication of
diseases it is the opinion of one at least of
the examiners that it was the liver For the
benefit of other sufferers, ii may be said here
that possibly there has not always been
charity enough for Mr.. Farnham in the
early part, at least, of his sickness. In
fact a physician some time ago said he be-
lieved his troubles started in his magma
ton-a supposed case, of course. -
Some months ago we itemzed the sale by
Mr.. Moses Persons to Messrs. j. r. Lang
don and Co. of water-power on the old
Lyman Capron place. 1t is said that the
heirs of the Kimball p Martin estate, adj
joining this, have put in a claim for part
L
the public here understand the matter
Alright the case may prove an interesting
and important one If it gets into the courts
Meantime 1t behooves persons having land
unfenced and occupied by others, about
which any dispute can arise later on, to
know just where they stand - Ex-
Governor Farnham of Bradford was here
on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last
week as referee in a matter pertaining to
the estate of the late Mrs. Alvah Simons
The hearing was finally adjourned till
August. - Conductor Frank w. Flint
was last week in attendance at the con-
ductors' international convention at To-
ronto, p. Q. - Frank j.. Martin, son of
the late X. p. Martin, and a law-student
with Frank Plumley, Esq, of Northfield,
has, we hear, been appointed deputy county
clerk of Washington county. - 1t is
reported that Ex-Governor Smith of st.
Adams is to be here this week. OF course it
will be on railroad business, if any. -
We have just had an instructive conversa-
tioIEwith Asa G. Wilbur about southwest
ern Louisiana, where he spent the winter.
He has lived long enough to know that
every place has its outs as well as ms. Yet
he likes that section well, and for himself
thinks it has fewer drawbacks than Ver-
mont has. He has bought seven hundred
eighty acres of prairie and timbered land
there, and would go there to live if his fam
lily would consent to go. Land is cheapand
cordial. His health is better there than
here, he having experienced consider
able relief from catarrhal trouble. His adj
vice to young men is to go South instead of
West. - A travelling man in Vermont
tells us he has never known it so hard to
make collections as of late. - George
Sibley left on Monday for California with
an excursion from Boston. His father went
last fall from Winooski to Los Angeles,
Cal, to live, on account of health. - Lee
roy S. Norris has taken the agency for Orange
and Washington counties for the Empire
fuel burner 1t is device for
burning Kerosene in stoves and CRATES. He
has already sold some sixty of them. 80
Rev. r. ID. Miller preached his last sermon
here on Sunday. He will sell off a lot of
his effects at auction on Friday next, in con-
nection with the sale at the Warren Poole
place, and 90 to Massachusetts to live for
the present. - 1t was very brotherly
and characteristic suggestion on the part of
Rev. +. w. Hamblin of the Methodist
church here that union service be held
with the Congregationalists on Sunday
afternoon, in view of Rev. r. ID. Millers
departure from us. The meeting was a
good one and well calculated to nourish the
very kindly spirit existing between the two
churches. When pastors of all churches
can truly say, with Rev. Mr.. Hamblin, that
the name of Christian is to them above the
name of Methodist Baptist, Congregations
true union that the world needs to see.
- Charles II. Beckett has been reap
pointed a clerk in the surrogates office in
New York city on salary of $1,000, He
has so far departed from the political faith
of his fathers as to be a republican, and is
one of the two only of that party just now
in that office. - There was landslide
in the narrows of the Gulf last week. Some
one tells us ten or fifteen large trees and
perhaps hundred loads of earth came down
to the road. - Let no one who wants a
home among us, and with the hope of gain,
forget the auction sale of the Warren Poole
on Friday next. There is a house
that in Barre would be made into four tene-
ments, perhaps, and fifty acres of land. We
want some frst-rate man to buy it. -
Miss Celia Wilbur has opened a dress
making establishment at her fathers house.
- Principal Daniel Il. Martin of Pull
man, ILL.,, is to be married in Boston to-
morrow. He will pay flying visit here on
his return to Illinois.