The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-10-14

10 accept pOsltlOn IN the wholesale mouse
OF Carter, Carter x Kilham. He was sue
ceeded here by Mr. Slade. Both are popu-
lar and energetic young men who under
stand their business thoroughly, and will,
no doubt, be successful in their partnership.
Mr.. Rolfe was in town a short time last
week, and he will be here permanently in a
week or two
BY the will of the late James II. Mead Of
Sheboygan, Wis, the sum OF $50, 900 is left
for the establishment of what dispatch
calls a public library and resort for boys"
The expression would indicate that some
thing in the nature OF club for young men
was meant. III that Is the case Mr.. Mead
has acted very wisely as well as generously.
There is no public institution which large
and growing place, filed with young men,
needs more than place of resort, at which
amusements, reading, gymnastic exercise,
etc, can be INDUCED in Mr. Mead has
done for SheboJ gan what some one ought
to do for Montpelier.
STRANGERS and residents complain of the
condition of the street crossings. Except
ing when private enterprise or interest has
lntervened, the crossings remain uucared
for, and in some of the most public places,
on rainy day, are rather worse than the
middle OF the streets. The large concrete
crossings near the Wells River railway,
designed for the accommodation of arriving
and departing travellers, are covered deep
and are slippery with mud on a rainy day.
If they have been cleaned this summer,
| they need it again-and often. So with
other crossings on Main and State streets.
| There is no expenditure the Taxpayers
! will more cheerfully sanction than that for
cleaning street crossings. In the name of
many pedestrians and the good fame of the
| village we bespeak the road commissioners
| attention to this matter.
| MARBLE RUSSELL, one of the oldest Odd
| Fellows in this vicinity, died at the home of
j. j. Young on st. Paul street on Friday
evening of last week, at the age of eighty
years. He had been i'll all summer, and he
| gradually grew more feeble as time went
on. He had been at Mr.. Young's home for
the six years preceding his death. He was
painter and glazier by trade, and had
| lived in Montpelier about forty years. A
brother and sister, too feeble to attend the
funeral or be of any assistance in his ILL
ness, are living at Springfield, Mass. Ver-
mont lodge of Odd Fellows assumed the
care of their aged brother, and his last days
were made as comfortable and pleasant as
though he had been surrounded by rela-
tives. The funeral took place Sunday after
noon from Trinity church, Rev. A. j. Hough
officiating and the Odd Fellows attending
in body. The interment was in Green
Mount Cemetery.
THE Nebraska papers contain excellent
reports of the opening of the new Union
College at Lincoln, in that state September
"a. The president of the institution is w.
W. Prescott, formerly proprietor of the
| WATCHMAN, and associated with him is a
faculty of twelve ladies and gentlemen.
Mr. Prescott's address at the exercises is
highly spoken of by the press. The Lincoln
Call says: The address of President w.
W. Prescott followed next, and was a par
ticularly fine, logical address, worthy of the
man and the Institution of which he is the
head" The Nebraska State Journal speaks
OF it in the following complimentary man
ner: President w. W. Prescott then de-
livered the principal address. He took for
his subject Christian Education and for
an hour held the attention of the audience.
1t was his first appearance before a Lincoln
audience. His dignified and graceful bear
ing made the address more impressive and
marked him as man who will come up to
the expectations of the patrons of this
great educational institution"
THE case of Charles Spaulding, whom
the court sentenced on Friday to pay a fine
OF 500 and to be imprisoned sixty days,
was peculiarly aggravated one. He had
kept one of the worst places in town, and
those familiar with his practices charge
him with entcng boys into his place and
inducing them to drink He pleaded guilty
to two charges of keeping nuisance, and
TO two OF Keeping liquor with intent to sell.
The penalty for the former offense is fine
not less than $50 or not exceeding 500
with the alternative penalty of fine not ex.
ceeding $50 and Imprisonment not less than
one montn or more tnan three months
in the discretion of the court-for each
offense for the latter for first conviction q
fine not less than 50 nor more than 500
and Imprisonment, in the discretion of the
court, not more than thirty days. Here
was quite range for the exercise of judi
cial clemency or severity. Judge Stanton
for the state argued forcibly for a sentence
of wholesome rigor setting forth in strong
light the aggravated character of the re-
spondent's offenses. Mr.. Boynton besought
the courts clemency on the score of the
motherless children of respondent. The
judgment Of the court was a fine of S2Ot
and two months imprisonment at Rutland
Respondents friends and sympathizers
seem pleased with the sentence 1t is re-
ported that the money to pay the fine has
been raised, 50 that in sixty days Spaulding
will again be at liberty. We believe, how
ever, this is the first case in which liquor
seller has been sent TO prison from thi,
town, and the friends of law will feel dis
posed to thauk God and take courage.
" He laughs best who laughs last" may
again be proved true before the grand fnat
is reached.
WaShiuytOn COuntv C0urt