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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-23
From Our Town Correspondents.
Washington CouDty-Barre.

The Spencer Rifles have formed a rifle
team.
The VS. meet in their hall this (Wednes-
day evening.
The post-otfce is now closed each evening
at eight o'clock,
f. +. Hill is building a large house and
barn on North Main street.
The local ball nine has won fourteen out
of the fifteen games played this season.
Asa Harrington and II. Houston are each
building house on East Montpelier street.
Abraham Mann of Mann Bros, stone cut
ters died on Saturday, after a weeks ill
ness.
The gravel and cobble stone used in the
concrete work at Montpelier are taken from
Barre.
Six houses have been begun on the Smith
farm, three OF them being in the pasture
above the railroad.
j, o. Wilson of Natick, Mass. was in
town last week, visiting his nephew, of the
firm of Marvin Il Wilson,
Rev. p. Mcmillan of the Congregational
church exchanged with Rev. G. w. Gala
CHER of Montpelier on Sunday last.
A committee of twelve ladies of the Pres
byterian church has been chosen to make
arrangements for fair this winter.
The Barre railroad has all the freight
from the quarries it can handle, and the
passenger trains have been taken Off
A concrete walk has been laid on both
sides OF Depot street, and crossing now
runs from the head of the street across Main
street,
The Washington street sewer was stopped
up with clay from the ditch ON Wednesday
afternoon, so that it was necessary to
flush il.
The evening school of Professor j. b.
Campbell began in Academy Hall on Mon
day of last week. 1t will be in session on
Monday and Wednesday evenings.
The second lecture of the citizens course
is TO be given at the opera house mex Fri
day evening by Robert Nourse subject,
John and Jonathan" The third will be
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-23

THE irrepressible conflict in the Con-
gregational church over the attitude of
the American Board on the qualifca-
tions of missionaries showed its head
last week at the meeting of the board.
Rev. DIR. w. E. Griffis of Boston said
the course of the board is chilling to
enthusiasm. DIR. Griflis' remarks caused
sensation. There is little question
that the opposition to the policy of the
board is steadily growing stronger. 1t
is only a question of time when the
board will either surrender,or be swept
off the field.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-23

NED NORTON, an intelligent woods
man of Essex county, writes us that
the wild lands of the townships in that
region that would be the most desirable
for new farms are owned by the Con-
necticut River Lumber Company.
This company, he says, does not cut to
destroy the forest growth. 1t buys,
but does not sell, timber lands. He
thinks it owns lands enough to operate
on for an unlimited length of time, as
the larger trees only are taken. He
says he has been over land of the COM
pany that was cut over about fifteen
years ago, and in five years more there
will be fair growth of spruce for lum-
bering, but the company will not need
it for ten years. This is certainly a
wise and intelligent way of preserv-
ing and at the same time of utiiz-
ing the forests. 1t is precisely the sort
of forest husbandry the WATCHMAN
has been exhorting owners of timber
tracts to practice. We had the impress
sion, however, from what had been told
us of the ways of the lumbermen of
that region that the forests were stripped
from the face of the earth, every tree,
bush and twig was cut down; that in
telling a large spruce or pine the place
where it was intended to reach the
earth was cushioned with saplings, fallen
crosswise of the bed of the forest mon
arch to avoid breakage of the trunk.
Latterly the wastefulness, the bar
harity, of this way of numbering may
have been recognized and wiser and
more economical methods substituted.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-23

THE Mississippi plan still reigns.
The republicans have withdrawn their
state ticket and issued an address Civ
ing their reasons for their action.
We know" they say, "that our votes
would be stolen and our voters driven
from the polls, but we hoped, in the
larger cities and towns, at least, the
semblance of free speech might still
remain to us; but our candidates are
not allowed to discuss or protest. We
desired especially to go before the
whole people of the state and chal-
lenge the democrats to comparison of
principles and records They recite
the horrors of Copiah and Yazoo City,
and the long list of other slaughters,
the numberless killings by creeks and
bayous, on highway and by-way."
"These," they say, care the demo-
cratic arguments which crush us. We
dare no longer carry our tattered and
blood-stained republican flag" Where
is the redoubtable Governor Lowry
while free institutions are being thus
slugged to death ?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-23


daton is that of the new Catholic church on
Barre street. This will be an important
addition to the larger buildings Of the town
Mr.. Guernsey Is also superintendent Of this.
On the Berlin side Of the river are two
new houses. On Prospect street Eldon
Clogston has bought the new story-and-a-
half residence, built by o. ID. Scribner, An
drew j. Smith, foreman. On the same
street Gilman d. Scribner has tenement
house of one and half stories boarded in.
1t will be finished by January.
The ten tenement houses which the
Mechanics Construction Co. is building at
the Pioneer works have attracted much no.
tice. They are all of one and a half stories,
all are completed and families have moved
into some of them. The contractors were
Sweet q Co of Richford.
A number of improvements have been
made on old buildings on Main street. Mr.
Blanchard has remodeled the old block of
the Dennis Lane estate, in the rear of the
opera house, and made it into a two-tene-
ment house. 1t will be completed by No
vember. Mr.. Noyes is foreman. The Lane
estate has moved the old post-oflice block
back and remodeed it into two tenement
houses. Herman w. Goodrich was fore
man. The Reed building on Main street,
which had been used for commercial pur-
poses, has been made into thirteen tene-
ments, which are all rented.
The old chapel on Seminary Hill, which
had been unused for many years, has, dur
ing the past season, been remOdeled into a
boarding and tenement house. Mr.. Hoyt
was the contractor.
These are the operations in the way of
residence-building now going on in Mont
pelier. The new buildings of the Wetmore
a. Morse Granite company, the extensive
additions at the Lane Manufacturing Com
pany's works, the public building, and the
numerous minor improvements in the
houses and grounds of residents have been
referred to from time to time in these col
umns. Take it all in all, it has been a re-
markably busy season, but it is more than
certain that the next will be even buster.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-23
Swedish OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Reported.

Commissioner Valentine made a sec
ond visit to Orange county last week
to examine the lands in that locality
with "a view to settling the third of the
proposed colonies of Swedes. He
found in Vershire land admirably
adapted every way to colonization pur-
poses. The quality of the soil is
unusually good, and with proper Guilt
walton produces large crops of wheat
barley, oats, corn, potatoes, etc. The
farms offered the commissioner have
an abundance of hard wood, and, in
most cases, have good sugar and apple
orchards, and are generally supplied
with running water of excellent quail
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-23
GMattbman 4 Journal.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1889.

THE Vermont editors who were dead
headed, in a luxurinous train of vesti-
buled cars, to Sioux City to sing its
praises are paying their bills. The
Coledonian and the Argus and Patriot
each boom the place in several columns
of roseate writing and adorn their tale
with cuts of the corn palace 1t is re-
marked that these two papers have been
most Jealous in throwing cold water on
the plans that have been formed for
booming Vermont.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-23

Ex-Governor JOHN f. HARTRANFT
of Pennsylvania died last week. AS a
brave soldier and the popular governor
of the great state of Pennsylvania, he
was known by reputation throughout
the country. He had recently been
mentioned in connection with the COM
missionership of pensions. He was
the type of a class of men found all
through the country-men of good ed
ucation, who entered the army during
the war, fought it out, rose to high
rank, were strong republicans in pol
itics, and after the war held the most
important offices in the gift of their
states. These men are rapidly passing
away.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-23

SOME weeks ago we quoted an article
in the CongregationakSt in which let
ter from man who " occupies promi-
nent position at Honolulu " was re-
ferred to as establishing the fact that
Father Damien was a coarse, bigoted
and headstrong man who little de-
served the name of martyr. The BoS-
ton Pilot has taken the trouble to ask
the United States vice-consul-gener al
at Honolulu, Mr. Frank p. Hastings,
who is now on visit to New England,
if the representations of the COngregd-
tiOndHSt were correct. Mr.. Hastings
writes: &" can cheerfully bear witness
to the fact that during my residence of
twelve years at Honolulu the name of
Father Damien has ever beeu spoken
with feelings of love and reverence.
1t has been the very synonym of all
that is heroic and self-sacrificing."
The word of this man, who is willing
to sign his name to what he writes, will
be taken in preference to the asser-
tons of this irresponsible gentleman
occupying ga prominent position in
Honolulu" Edward Clifford, the BIZ
ographer of Father Damien, is a man
whose position in society and whose
means of information make belief in
his story imperative. Mr.. Clifford
paints Father Damien as the martyr of
the century. What could be more
martyr-like than to deliberately walk
into the jaws of leprosy for the sake of
ministering to the physical and spirit
ual needs of colony of lepers?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-23

THE greater brillancy of Mr. Blaine's
pan American conrress does not quite
blind the country to the Importance of
another congress now in session at
Washington. 1t is the international
marine conference, which began its
session last week Wednesday. Its
work is of an advisory nature, but
practically its conclusions will have
the same binding force that ordinary
international law does. There are sub
iects enough to discuss to keep the
conference in session a number of
months, but every problem can not be
settled at once. Everything that is
done will be so much gain. One i'm
portant amendment to present prac-
tees will pay for all the inconvenience
and expense of the conference. Some
of the subjects that will be considered
are the establishment of "steam
lanes" by means of which disabled
vessels far off at sea can be reached
and aided. Another is the adoption of
a better system of signals for day and
night. 1t is hoped that horns or bells
can be used so that vessels course
will be clearly indicated. If this can
be done, many collisions in dense fogs
will be avoided. Science has a fine
field to work in at this conference.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-23

man Of Rutland, Colonel II. e. Taylor of
Brattleboro, Comrade G.. w Bliss of East
Calais, Captain l.. W. Fisher Of Danville
Secretary r. 7. Farrell Of Waterbury, Ser
geant Chaffee Of Company f., Sergeant r.
>. Coifey OF Bennington, Lieutenant Joseph
Needham Of Rutland, w. b. G.. Stckney,
Esq, Of Bethel, Captain Atherton and
Colonel Pngree. Sergeant Cofey made
special reference to the Soldiers Home at
Bennington. There have been over hum
dred taken care of at this institution, Of
whom eight came from the Fourth regi-
ment. There will be a call for twenty new
hospital beds soon. At present there are
three comrades very sick-S. Il. Dmick, f..
e. Turner of Tunbridge and Comrade
Bishop OF Island Pond Seven deaths have
occurred at the home. Sergeant Coffey re-
ferred to the fact that he was the FIRST man
to be mustered in from Montpelier, Colonel
Pingree made the most significant speech of
the day. After relating many incidents
that beiel the regiment, he discussed the
Importance of Gettysburg at length
What would have been the result il Long
street had attacked the First brigade? he
asked. There is but one answer 20 the
questionable brigade would have been like
fan in Longstreets hands. The mistake
OF Lee was in not attacking the Union left
instead OF the center. Colonel Pingree
combatted the idea that Gettysburg was the
Waterloo of the South II IL were Water
loo, why did troops have to be set to New
York that summer? Why were one hum
dred twenty five thousand men lost to the
Union side in Grants campaign? Colonel
Pingree praised the valor of the Second
brigade at Gettysburg, but insisted that the
renown of the First must ever be the
greater. The banquet closed with the sing
ing of Tramp, Tramp, Tramp by the
regiment, led by the quartette and Comrade
II. f. Brooks of Bratteboro, veteran OF
the Tenth Massachusetts regiment. Among
the comrades present were George G.. Max
field of the brigade band, Alonzo Howe of
Melhuen, Mass, and Lieutenant Lafayette
Richardson of Lowell, Mass.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-23

AT last we have a pension commits
sioner, and good one, too. General
Green B. Raum of Illinois was ap-
pointed by President Harrison on Sat-
urday, and he took the oath of Office on
the same day. General Raum was a
soldier, serving in the West under
Grant and rising to the rank of
brigader-general. He was in congress
from 1867 to 1869, and was commits
sioner of internal revenue from 1876 to
1888. AS commissioner he was noted
for his executive ability and for his
activity against the moonshiners. His
appointment was unsolicited, and it is
said that in accepting the position he
abandons law practice worth four
times his salary as commissioner.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-23

is strongest, which is the master fac
ulty2 1t has often been supposed that
a certain portion of the scholars in every
school are too dull to accomplish much
in intellectual lines. Some do not take
interest in school work, and some who
do, and try as well as they may, actually
cannot accomplish much. 1t is not
strange that such scholars become dis
couraged. They have failed in what
they have attempted, and so far as they
know (and their teachers consciously
or unconsciously confirm them in their
belief the test has been perfect and
they regard themselves as utterly in
capable Of doing anything more than
the most ordinary manual labor. Now,
this is all wrong. 1t has been proved,
time and time again, that boys at school
who have shown no interest or capacity
for the work before them have done
great and wonderful things when they
have happened to find the thing for
which they we're made from the be-
ginning. Every one doubtless is emf
nently fitted for some occupation, or at
least some line of occupation. In that
he can do better than almost any one
else in that community; in that he
lives, feels some self-respect and knows
he is of use in the world. When a man
has found his niche in this way, his
true education goes on rapidly, for his
daily work is part of it.
Now, how is this better education to
be secured? Is there an answer to the
complaints from all sides against our
present system? There is an answer,
and it is one based on both theory and
practice. Manual labor in the schools
has been suggested and discussed for
several years in this country. Its ad-
vocates take the high ground that edu-
cation should be tentative process.
The pupil should be given a variety of
work that will call every faculty into
exercise. In the manual part, the work
is with head and hands. It's more than
an exercise in object lessons; it is the
process of making the objects. BY the
constant change from the purely intellec-
tual to the manual, which is also largely
intellectual, the interest of pupils does
not flag. One division may be less
interesting than the other, but the other
soon follows the first. A few years of
this kind of training (Which is purely
training-everything is done on prin-
ciple) teach boy what he can do best
and what he likes best. This normal
growth is not in the line of business
success, although that ought to come
incidentally. 1t is in the direction of
the best character. The man who
works for the love he bears his occu-
patton is sure to be better in every way,
and so more useful.
This is the theory of manual train
ing. 1t is not a mere theory. 1t has
been tried with splendid success in
many places in the West. The West
is leading the East in it. 1t is a sub
iect that must come home to eastern
communities very soon. We have es-
tablished our systems and are now in
the rut. If we do not wish to be out
stripped by the live western states, this
question must be looked squarely in the
face. 1t is more important to Vermont
than is the question of uniformity in
textbooks. Textbooks are no longer
essentials-work-shops are.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-23

THE campaign in Virginia is waxing
hot, and wit seems TO he flowing about
as fully as eloquence, judging by what
correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
mercidl Gazette writes. Here are a
couple of hits by bright negroes which
he relates: " AT AppomattoX the other
day, Mr.. Cabell was delivering an inn
FASHIONED Grafton in denunciation of
Malone and his methods, aud he used
this expression: Now, my fellow
citizens, why do | make this assault
upon William Mahone?' There was a
slight pause, and Uncle Jimmy Cath
ron arose and said: can answer dat
question. You make de assault upon
General Malone because he is five hun
dred miles away in de city of New
York. At another meeting in the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-23

same vicinity, a 'Groaner,' as the re-
calcitrant or kicking republicans are
known in Virginia, made this state
ment: 4 acknowledge, my fellow
citizens, that 1 did at one time swallow
Mahone.' A bright young negro arose
and said: If you did dat, den you's
got more brains in you belly dan you's
got in you head"
Fergus Falls ugeblad. [volume] (Fergus Falls, Minn.) 1882-1938, 1889-11-06

v9espoblaoes". Sra Maorio ifriz
oes: Meb r9espoblaoes" mener man
bos us Bpsoer, iom efterbaanoen
blottes for fin 8efolfnins, til enoelis
be 1ibite forlaber @snen, boilfen oer=
paa taar uoleenbe af ct beriet 2ano.
@aabanne r9espoblaoes" finoes /
Gufnbtal paa 6alppen. Sen fra
ben ipanfe Nrpefplsefrig betienote
lille 8p @iqapiciOia, boor @enoome
panbt fin fore @eier oper bet babsz
bursFe @arti, bat for nerparenoe
lite fere SnbbDgsere eno Boraermez
iteren os bans @triper, tire 9prber
% fire @nfer. @Qe be andre Snbz
bpesere bar enten uopanoret til 9lme=
rita eller ubflpttet til andre @sne i
Spanien. Borsermeteren bar M
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Tarme tilial8S-

Dnlter Sc euer Geres 9uiiner
eller 9eres SDltre eGer 9eres Tonz
ter en- 6arm biui9 o9 poa beore Bil,
faar, eno Onfel Gam pil sioe? 6pis
iao oa ie ousr fplsenoe 2,ite, os Sc
oil iitfert finoe en-, iom Sc liter.
9e anfp1te BriYer er ooermaaoe lape,
o9 &jpberne fan lelo beitemme Betaz
1in9suilfaarene, naor be BLOT nil sig=
re Get 1aaoan, at ies blioer filter paa
at faa Ben9ene en9ans / bet nittenoe
Narbunoreoe. 9erlom leg bliper
operbepiit ON, OF be anfprte Briier
ct rrristise", uil iea toee mere el1er
minore, efteriom Gilfaloet ton uert.
Som tno, S bjemlele uotafteoe, os
tipb en- Jarm.
Per Acre.
Sci sec S, town of Western S 5 90
Net sec 13, town Of Western Is 90
Ne4Ne4 sec l9 town ofNlaine Z 50
N! Sci sec S, town of Amor 7 so
Nw4sec3O town ofMaplewood7 so
Any quarter or all sec 81
town of Rush Lake 100
Set sec 80 town Of Star Lake 5 90
b! of WI sec 80, town of Star
Lake 4 so
Sci sec3o, town af Woodside 6 50
Ne! sec 81. town Of Eastern 5 90
NJ sec %, town Of Orwell 5 90
NJ mel, sw4 mel, nw44, sec IS,
town of Compton 6 26
Nw4 nw4 and lot 8, sec 25,
town of Otter Tail s 50
Set nw4 and lots 3, 5 and 6,
sec 6, town Of Oak Valley 6 90
S! nw4 sec 80, town of Otter
Tail 8 90
81 sci. sci, mel, sec 24, town
of Folden 5 50
Set nw44, lots !, 2 and 1 sec 4,
town of Nidaros 10 90
81 nw4 sec 4, town Of Dunn S 90
S5Se4sec14, town ofScambIerl2 50
SW4 sec IS, town of Lida 10 90
Ne4 sec 26, town Of Scambler 10 90
W!Sw4sec22, town ofPelican20 90
Se9 bat oslao Iorme / Grant,
8ilfin, Beder % Bolt Counter, o9
en- Jortegnelle ooer bi5Ie 1amt Brt=
len pil jea poa Nnmoonin9 meoocle.
9ere5,
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Tergus Tals, Minn.
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Yaitor 81. 8. @jertion, lom fam:

Hator 81. 8. @jertion, iom fam:
men meo $. 8. Melsaare o9 81.
@laoien blep uonepnt al @uuerupr
Merriam til at unoerlp9e Til1tanoen
/ Mar9aQ County, meooeler, at oer
ct 81 5amilier, ale @tanoinauer,
iom pil fomme til at mansle bet npo>
uenoise til 2tusopbolo ior fommenoe
&inter. Soroen oeroppe er frustbar,
og Tormerne er flinfe Tolf, men De
bar baot to llaar efter binanoen, oer
bar ruineret benz os berppet Dem al
&reoit. Sfior bar bet Ggrfen o9
iaar 9a9elltorme, Der poelasoe Mu=
lin9en. De npblioenoe Samilier pil
erbolbe en- Tpnoe Mel pr. 6oueo for
uoen andre 6oripnin9er. De er me-
get tafnemmeli9e for 9ielpen.
Fergus Falls ugeblad. [volume] (Fergus Falls, Minn.) 1882-1938, 1889-11-06

@n forarselig Seilta9elie. S en-
anoen &lasies &upe paa 5rantfurt =
&plnbanen fanot forleben en- fomiF
6eiltaselie @teb. Set bar meset
rnprtt, in9en funbe fienbe isien fin
Sioemano, o9 bet bar umulist at faa
nogen @amtale i9ans. Da afbrpoes
pluoielis Gtilbeben af en- fuinoe1i9
5temme, iom naipt ippr: rMen,
Mre1, bper bar bu faaet Multal9er
fra?" Stor Munterbeo fulste paa
oisIe Orb, Der lite funbe mtsforitaa=
es. De uar ptreoe al en- un9 8ise,
1om unber &ei)en biotil bapoe iibbet
peo @ioen al fin &iereite, men iom
/ Grenslelen ueo en- @tatiou, Der
itetop bar pas1eret, tom til at MITE
fin Hlaos. Sen &asiaser, iom /
Mprtet baobe truffet til at inota9e
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oalaa / oisle Sage iost Nilteo, oa
ban 1er fig npot til at forlane Bpen,
bois ban lite oi1 - al 6unser.

&oinoens @tiuins i China. @n
larb Misfioner, 9r. 6aber, ofient=
lissipr / en- Iuis @bansbai en- Dp=
1ats oper bette gmne Jet fra Be tlas>
fife &ties @tanbpuntt. 9isle bar
iammentottet fine Nnitueller fplsen=
be Sumter:
r&uinoen er iaa lan9t aofilt fra
Manoen iom Soroen fra 9imlen.
@n 9ualisme beitaar life blot meo
6eniDn til oeres 2esemsbpsning men
osiaa meo 9en1pn til oeres inoer1te
Natur. Manoen bprer til uDans",
&uinoen til rDin".
99oen cg alt anoet onot bar fin
Sprinoelie fra vDin"; 9ip os 2ptfe
biorerer fra gins" llnoeroronins
unoer vYan9". Set ct altlaa en Sea-
turlou, at &uinoen ital boloes unoer
&ontrol al Wapoer og life bape mo-
gen esen &ilie.
&plnoen ct pitnOt oslaa ct menne=
iteli9t &Rlen, men / en- lapere @til=
ling os ian aloris opnaa 2i9beo meo
Monoen. Maalet for &pinoens Sp=
oragelie ital oerfor pere fulofommen
unoertaitelle, lite 6oritanoens l1oz
oannelie os uouitlin9.
&uinoen tan lite bape no9en esen
SPITE, bun maa lepe oe arbeioe for
Manoen.
Slot lom Mooer til en- @pn, 1om
5ormiolerinoe af Gamiliens birette
S5ortlettelIe fou &pinoen fomme uo
al fin Sorneore!iesitano og / no9en
Grab bliue iepnlis fin Manb men og=
1aa oa Blot inoen Sulet.
S ben t1lfommenoe Berben er
Rpinoens Sitting Qanlte ben famine,
tbi Der 9iRloer be famine 9}aturlope.
&pinoen er lite liseberettiset meo
Nfanoen. SUN tilbprer bam, o9
benoes 2gtfe er afben9ts al be Sfez
re, bun brinaer 9jennem fit 2lftom"
9isle @at|er 1triper Jig fra Con-
fucius, Mincius os Fere samle Gile,
buis Winoe bar leuet 9jennem 9arz
bunoreoer / ben itprlte N9telie.