The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-12-04
Grape and Canister.

A LADY visiting a hospital gave a
soldier who had lost both legs tract on
the sin of dancing.
THE president has appointed Charles
p. Lincoln of Michigan second deputy
commissioner of pensions He was
soldier in the army during the rebellion.
JAMES MARTIN of Calais, who re-
Gently obtained arrears of pension, has
bought the William V. Herrick farm in
Calais for 81 100. The farm consists
Of fifty-eight acres and buildings.
THE secretary of the interior has re-
quested and received the resignation of
II. o. Phillips, chief of the middle di
vision in the pension office. Mr. Phil
lips is one of the re-raled pensioners
whose cases were recently overhauled
by the secretary.
GREEN b. RAUM, Jr., son of the
commissioner Of pensions, has been ap-
pointed assistant chief clerk of the pen
sion bureau, vice Reeds, resigned The
commissioner has created new d.
vision, to be known as the appointment
division, of which his son will have
charge.
GREEN b. RAUM, the new commits
sioner of pensions, is sixty years old
and was ali officer in the war of the re-
bellion. He belongs in Illinois, but has
been in the practice of the legal pro-
fession at Washington for several years.
He was wounded while in the army,
but has never applied for a pension.
No sale or transfer of any kind of
the whole or any part of pension is
of any legal or binding force against
either the pensiOner or the United
States. BY the act of February IS,
1883, the person who pledges his pen
sion and the person who receives the
pledge are alike liable TO a fine of 500.
Mr.. JOSEPH Cook has purchased the
summit OF Mount Defiance, Ticonder-
oga, where Burgoyne's batteries stood,
and will erect thereon a monument i'll
honor of the soldiers from Ticonderoga
who were killed in the war of the re-
bellion. Tablets will commemorate il
lustrious men of earlier times who made
the name of Ticonderoga famous.
CORPORAL TANNER, eX-commis-
sioner of pensions, is talking of turning
claim agent to earn livelihood, since
he has slipped up in getting any kind
of an office under the administration.
We are not sure but Mrs. Tanner will
yet have to take in washing, for man
with 50 small a capacity for business AS
Tanner displayed in the pension Office
can not expect to succeed in the prdc-
tice of the law General Alger it is
said will assist him to money to start
his private business.
THE Drexel cottage, where General
Grant died, is kept just as it was when
he died, with the exception OF the re-
moval of IA few personal belongings of
he family. The two big eather-cov-
cred easy-chairs, in which he passed so
many painful days, are draped in black
and left in the same position they were
in when he occupied them. The clock
on the mantle has been silent since the
moment of his death, when the doctor
stopped it, and the writing tablets he
used when speech was prohibited are
in IA case on the wall, together with a
pencil and couple of messages in
writing to Mr.. DreXel.
CAPTAIN j. f. ELDREDGE is accom-
panying Department Commander Tracy
on tour among the G. A. r. posts.
They started last Monday. They Wis
tied the Rochester post December 2;
Piltstield, December 3, and will visit
Plymouth, December 4; Ludlow, De-
cember 5; Weston, December 6; South
Londonderry, December Z; Chester,
December 8; Springfield, December 10;
Frlchville, December IL; Woodstock,
December II; Windsor, December 10;
White River Junction, December IA;
South r 'yalton, ID, cember l6; Tun-
bridge, ID cember II; Chelsea, Deem
her Is; Brookfield, December 10; West
Randolph, December 20; Mortified,
December 81.