The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-08-21

read to the meeting. A tax of twenty cents
on the dollar, to be paid November 1, was
voted. This will pay the expenses of the
school for the coming year, and in part for
the addition to the building. The treasurer
was authorized to borrow on the credit Of
the district sum not to exceed $4,000
A FEW editors and many invited guests
participated in the press excursion to Sara
mac Lake last Friday The ride to Platts-
burgh was delightful in the extreme-a day
of sunshine on Champlain is always day
of pleasure. From Plattsburgh tedious
railway ride of more than five hours brought
the excursionists half famished, to Millers
hostelry at the lake at about four O'Clock
P. NJ. On the way, at Loon Lake station, a
barrel of crackers, destined for Landlord
Chase of the Loon Lake House, was con-
tiscated to mitigate the pangs of hunger
Superintendent Inman Of the Chateaugay
railway volunteering to defend the raiders
Like the army of the king of France, which
marched up the hill and then marched
down again, the excursionists swallowed a
hasty dinner that had been waiting several
hours, and instantly re-embarked for Platts-
burgh Along the line of the railway for
twenty-five or thirty miles inland the coun-
try is cheerless and desolate. The forests
have been converted into charcoal and
ashes, and the land is a desert. Coal kilns
and mines of iron are occasionally passed,
with dreary looking villages of log huts.
A cut of these localities would ftly Illus
trate KennanS Siberian articles. The last
stretch of the ride inland was pctur-
esque, but people with empty stomachs are
not apt to have lively sense of the beau
ties of winding lakes and towering noun
tains, and as soon as the cravings of nature
had been satisfied the hurrying to and fro
for the return trip left no opportunity for
rest or esthetic pleasures. During the trip
the Press Association chose for officers for
the ensuing year: President, l.. o. Greene,
IGfn ~ Nn1t O.
Johnsbury; treasurer, l.. II. Lewis, Hyde
Park, with a number of vice-presidents and
an executive committee of three.
Mrs. MARCIA CoNANT BEACH committed
suicide Friday night by throwing herself
into the Worcester branch. Mrs. Beach
was the wife of j. w. Beach Of Essex, but
Tor some time past had been stopping at her
former home on Cross street. having come
to Montpelier for medical treatment In
sanity, caused by poor health and grief at
the recent death of her mother, was un-
doubtedly the cause of her suicide 1t was
evidently her deliberate intention to end
her life on the night in question, as she re-
quested her sister TO occupy another room,
stating that she wished to be alone. At
about eleven o'clock she made some excuse
to leave the chamber and ran down stairs
and out doors. As she passed the Lane
Manufacturing Company shops, the night
watchman called to her, and she replied,
"Will be right back" Thinking that it
was one OF the companys employees, he paid
no further attention to her. She proceeded
directly to the stream and threw herself
over the wall AS soon as Mrs Beach was
missed at the house, the alarm was spread
and large searching party was speedily
| organized. The search was continued un-
successfully till about two o'clock, when it
was abandoned till daylight. At about
! four o'clock, George Lane and Edwin
| Guernsey, who had remained in the Lane
/ Manufacturing Companv'S office Nyerp no-
| titled by the watchman that he had discov-
| cred the body in the water on the side
| opposite the shops. The two procured a
! ladder and went down over the wall Just
below the bridge, where they found the
! body lying with the head and shoulders out
of water. Injuries about the head showed
that death was caused by the fall upon the
rocks and not by drowning. The funeral
services were conducted on Monday after
noon at two o'clock by Rev. A. j. Hough,
and the remains were taken to Essex for
burial The deceased was forty-six years
of age, having been born in Montpelier in
| 1913. Her second marriage, to j, w. Beach,
was in May, 1855. Many reports as to the
cause of her insanity have been circulated
which reflect seriously upon her husband
! but these are pronounced by the family to
| be false in every particular 1t is not true,
as stated in one of the press dispatches that
| she had horror of going home, since on
the very day of her suicide she asked to be
! taken to Essex.
SEMINARY HILL.
THE prospect of larger school than ever
| before is very encouraging. The number of
students the coming term will reach nearly
| two hundred fifty. - The work on the
! old chapel is progressing rapidly. There
| will be sixteen new rooms for self-boarders
in that building. The north house will be
| used for gentlemen this term and will be
in charge of Professor Rogers Workmen
are shingling the front side of the boarding
house. The walk in front of the boarding
houses has been thoroughly repaired and
covered with fne-crushed stone, which
makes good walk. - George Newton
will not be in school this fall, having pur-
chased the right of five counties for the
Perfection Washer. He is now in Windsor
county. - Frank Durham is helping in
the office this vacation.