The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-11

runaway, last Saturday. The horse became
| frightened on State street, ran around to
Main, left the driver at Hyde block, left the
sulky in the front yard Of Carlos l.. Smiths
residence, jumped over wood.pile in the
rear OF w. A. Stowell's, and left himself be-
hind A. W. Ferrin's house. That was
about all that was left.
AT the meeting in the vestry of the
Church OF the Messiah, last Sunday evening,
about fifty ladies and gentlemen expressed
their purpose to join some one of the sec
tions in the proposed Unity Club, and
committee was appointed to submit plan
OF organization. Rev. j. Edward Wright
was made chairman of the committee,
which consisted of Arthur Hubbard, Mrs.
Fred Blanchard, DIR. X. L. Cleaves and
Mrs. DIR. G. A. Bailey.
Two ingenious school teachers who at
tended the sessions, last week, stopped at a
well-known boarding house on School
street. The first night they went to bed in
the dark. The following morning Mrs. H
was confronted by two very much puzzled
young ladies. "I don't see, Mrs. H, but
what you will have to help us fix our lamp;
we've been trying for some time, without
success. We turned funny little button
at the bottom, but it smelled so we turned
it back" 1t proved to be gas jet.
GEORGE BUTTERFLY was arrested yester-
day af ernoon, charged with conspiracy in
planning the assault on the house of
Joseph. Fisher the night of July 3. The
grand jury found an Indictment against
Piddy," but he has been absent on busi-
ness most OF the time since. An effort was
made to obtain bail, but it was futile, and
the lookup yawned. So did John II. SEN
e%t,vrsn Ter when appealed d. to by the anxious
for the whole county" remarked Mr..
Senter; " 1 don't get time to do anything
else"
LAURA, wife of Enos f. Stevens, died at
her home in East Montpelier, last Wednes-
day morning, aged forty-four years. A
| child was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Stevens re-
Gently, but its coming brought great sac
rifce-the death of a devoted wife and
mother, and the loved friend of all who
had the pleasure of her acquaintance. Mrs.
Stevens was well known in Montpelier,
where she has two nephews, Clarence G.
and John l.. Pierce, who, with large
number of friends from here, attended
the funeral ON Friday. Rev. j. Edward
Wright preached the sermon.
THE Almeda. Cal, Argus of October 81
contained the following: Mr.. H. K Field,
the well-known and popular insurance
agent, was wearing much more ample
smile than usual yesterday morning.
Cause.-The advent of daughter into his
household, which occurred the night before.
His friends are all congratulating him and
he is congratulating himself, and there is
the most satisfactory feeling over it, all
around" The WATCHMAN, which had re-
corded one by one the birth of quartette of
bright boys to Mr.. and Mrs. Field while
residents in this village, joins their Califor-
mia friends in congratulations upon the
happy effect of change oi climate.
A FINE COW belonging to George o. Boyce
was found dead on his premises, last week.
Examination disclosed bullet hole in the
animals head-another victim of careless
shooting, for it is not assumed that the
killing was intentional. Reports of animals
found dead in the pastures from this cause
} indicate culpable carelessness in the use
of firearms. 1t will be surprising II these
casualties are confined to animals. On
these delightful days there are many stroll
ing in the woods and on the hills, parti-
cularly on Sunday. The crack of the pistol
or rifle is heard in every direction, boys and
t young men practicing target-shooting or
firing indiscriminately This is all wrong,
and il there is any power to abate this nui-
sance the proper authorities should use that
7 power to its fullest extent.
3 TwENTY-oNE Vermont banks had ac-
counts with the great Maverick National
' bank of Boston when it failed, and will
r suffer more or less loss. Any loss by saw
ings bank falls upon the stockholders, ex-
a cept in banks having no capital, where it
falls Immediately upon the depositors, and
, there are several such sufferers in the state.
Neither OF the savings banks of this village
a had anything in the Maverick when it failed
The Montpelier Savings Bank & Trust
Company kept an account there for time
but transferred it to another bank some two
years since. The complaint sometimes
, made that stockholders in savings banks
l receive larger income from investments in
) the capital than are paid depositors is not
well founded, when the stockholders liabl-
, ity to loss is considered. A depositor in a
, savings bank with capital can not sustain
i any loss until twice the amount of the capt.
q tai has been absorbed.
B.. DORA WILEY in "Vera," at the Opera.
m | hnnGa aaf aHn h..
liveliest dissatisfaction to part of the au-
q dience and pleased the rest Vera is a
r combination of very good and very bad.
3 The music is clever, being from the pen of
Il John Braham, leader of the Park Theater
r orchestra, Boston, but the libretto was in
e different and grew worse toward the end
Vincent Graham, who played the Count
- is good actor and has an excellent bari
:, tone voice, and Eddie Smith, the major
: domo, is one of the cleverest of men in his
a line. Miss Wiley has sweet voice, but is a
trifie too stout to do the Venetian sweet
> heart act. The bad business to which the
' company had been playing in New Hamp-
shire, and the rather poor house here, prob
!. ably prepared the public for the sad fact
: that the company disintegrated at Rutland
!. the sweet singer of Maine going to Boston
. to enter dime museum.
i, The supreme court is pretty near ready
for adjournment. In the State as. Henry
Smith, the appellant waived the exceptions
duu was oohbcnCcu W pay Hu6 VI CoU
d without costs The conspiracy case of State
: Us. Josiah b. Dyer ct al. was continued, as
J. neither side was ready for the battle. Ii
t State Us. Henry w. Camp, for giving mar
h liquor in a cow-barn, the exceptions were
overruled, and Camp was sentenced to pay
r S25 and costs. The other cases heard were
= George S. and II. p. Wheeler as. Schoo
I District No. 13 in Barre; Joseph A. Wing
q administrator, US. Christopher Spaulding e
= al; Florence Davis Us. Joseph Davis T. j
Raxar o. .Inaanh Jacobs. StQfa o. Il n
y Spencer Charles f. Benton IS, George NJ
Q Stevens; A. NJ Stetson ct al. Us. Clarl
Stevens ct al; Fred Smith Us. Barre Rail
road Company; W. A, Paine us. Hamilton
e Webster Laura A. Waycotte Us. Metropoli
!. tan Life Insurance Company; Charles A
:. Reed Us. Sarah f. and #. l.. Newcomb; Ar.
9 thur l.. Pierce US. w. l.. Bradford; State Us
Il Pat Hassett; State Us. Glenn Coffrin Hiram
= Hathaway Us Daniel Hogan ct al. Charles
II. Cross as. Jane G.. Frost.
9 Obituary.