The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-08-07


to, is about the best thing that could hap
pen for each Of them. II it be bitter feel
ing it is certainly blessing in disguise"
THE trustees ofthe Seminary have secured
the services of Miss Ida s. Award of Bos-
ton Mass, for the vocal music department
the coming year Miss Award comes very
highly recommended having had more
than five years of unusually successful ex-
perence as teacher For three years she
taught in the Ladies' College at Jackson
Vile, ILL.,, and at Albion, Mich, two years.
Besides being an excellent teacher, she is a
singer of rare talent. Among those with
whom she herself has studied are the most
prominent teachers of Boston, Cincinnati
and Chicago. The music department of the
seminary was never so well equipped as at
present, and those who attend may be sure
of the best instruction available in the state
We congratulate the school on having Sc
cured so prominent teacher as Miss AL
ward, and the town that so fine singer as
she is has come to it.
BENJAMIN SCRIBNER, aged seventy-four
years, died on Saturday evening of last
week. Mr.. Scribner was found Thursday
evening lying under his hammock in an un-
conscious condition, having received par
alytic shock on the right side He remained
unconscious from this time till his death,
receiving three more shocks on Saturday
afternoon which paralyzed the left side.
but had lived in Montpelier nearly all his
life, having come here in boyhood. Until
about twenty years ago he was engaged in
farming. The funeral services were held
Monday afternoon, Rev. A. j. Hough Off
eating, and the remains were inferred in
Green Mount cemetery. Mr.. Scribner
leaves three sons, Horace II. Scrbner, the
well known Montpelier musician, and his
two brothers, one at Haverhill, Mass, and
the other at Smithland, Iowa.
FRANK II. BAsCoM returned from his
southern trip on Friday He represents
that the country from Austin to San An
tonic is the richest he ever beheld. Six
days were spent at San Antonio, where the
temperature averaged 90, with cool nights
and good breeze The old Mission church,
which next to that at st. Augustine, Fla,
is the oldest in the United States and also
the celebrated Alamo, where Davy Crockett
fell, were visited. The party obtained the
option of S250,0O0 worth of choice land west
of the city and syndicate is being formed
for its purchase. The home of jefferson
Davis was visited at Beauvoir, Miss, where
the sage of the confederacy still lives with
his wife and daughter, hale and hearty, at
eighty-one years of age. Four hours were
pleasantly spent under his hospitable roof,
the party being served with refreshments.
James Redpath, the author, who was min
lister to Hayti under Lincoln, has been
spending several weeks at the Davis man
sion. Beauvoir is flag station, no tickets
being sold from that office. The post-otiice
is in the railway station and the postmaster
and station agent is an eX-confederate
soldier. The view from the station is dreary
in the extreme, but a walk of ten minutes
brings one to the mansion, which faces the
Gulf of Mexico, and the view is delightful.
Mr.. Davis gave Mr.. Bascom an autograph
card as souvenir of his visit, which he has
on exhibition in his drugstore.
The famous "Capital Cafe " was the
scene, Wednesday night, of promiscuous
melee which resulted in the arrest of four
of the participants. The principal actors in
known as Chin" and Hubert Huse.
The two were engaged in the pastime
known as twisting hands " and Huse,
finding that he was no match for Davis,
proposed wrestling match as a more sat
lsfactory method of testing their athletic
prowess. Huse was more skillful at this
and succeeded in laying Davis on his back.
BY this time the combatants were getting
rather heated and Huse varied the monot-
ony of the exhibition by bombarding his
esteemed contemporary with bottles and
glassware and gracefully smashing castor
over his head. Some of the spectators
then joined in the jubilee, among the num-
ber being Charles Werner and George
Kibbee. Knives were drawn and matters
were looking serious, when the police put a
stop to the proceedings. Huse, Davis, Wer-
ner and kibbee were taken in tow for
breaking the peace. The hearings were
held on Monday before Justice Smile and
all but one of the quartette entered a plea
of guilty. Davis pleaded guilty and was
assessed five dollars and costs, amounting
in all to S1O.26. Huse also acknowledged
the soft impeachment, but the amount of
his tax was not fixed at the time. Werner
also pleaded guilty, and his share in the
IL or ha ,1al1 4
SOL. Kibbee pleaded not guilty and was
to have been tried on Monday night, but
failed to put in an appearance. The pro-
prietor of the popular resort at which the
jamboree occurred is taking vacation, and
for the present all is quiet along the
Winooski.
THE annual meeting of the Union school
district will be held at Capital Hall on
Wednesday evening, August IA. Let every
one interested in the public schools make a
note of this fact and attend the meeting.
Attendance should be as general at least as
upon the annual town meeting, though
the schools outrank in Importance any mat
ter that ordinarily comes before the March
assemblies. The most important matter to
come before the meeting this year is that of
providing for additional rooms for the ac-
commodation of the schools. For some
years the pressure in the lower grade rooms
has served to make it apparent that the
Tune must soon come when more rooms
would be absolutely necessary. That time
has arrived and some provision must be
made. The suggestion of the prudential
committee to meet the present and prospect
i've needs of the district is to build an addi-
ton from the center of the rear of the
school building about forty-five feet wide
and extending back some forty-five feet.
Such an addition could be put in without
interfering with the windows of the present
school-rooms, and would be sufficient to
contain two rooms on each of the first and
second floors of practically the same size as
the present rooms, The two rooms on the
third floor would be well adapted to the
laboratory. The present inconveuient and
crowded library room would be utilized for
cloak rooms and the books arranged where
they would find plenty of space and would
be accessible A small inexpensive gravity
elevator could be pat in for running the
books up and down. The apparatus now
kept in the dark and damp basement would
find place in a room light, dry and airy,
where il could be used to advantage and
where the gases generated by the expert
ments in the laboratory would work off
without permeating the whole building,
Possibly few feet would need to be added
TO the dimensions given above to provide
ample room for the hats and wraps of the
little folks. For the present, it is perhaps
true that two additional rooms would be
SUFFICIENT, but very soon more will be needed.
The library and laboratory now naad an