The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-07-15

has fitted up foundry at its works, on the
Berlin side, and will hereafter make its own
composition castings. This work has hereto
fore been done for the company at Chicopee,
Mass, and New Haven and Ansonia, Conn.
The company will also do job-work in com
position castings.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT preached in the
old Westinghouse in Calais last Sunday
afternoon Francis w. Holden, recent
graduate from the Meadville, Pennsylva-
mia, Theological school, preached at the
Morse school-house in Mr.. Wrights stead.
Mr.. Holden will preach in Calais next Sun
day at eleven o'clock.
THE guests recently arrived to spend the
summer at the Pavilion are: Mrs Mark
Bailey and daughter of New Haven, Conn;
w. B. Hurd and daughter of Brooklyn, n,
Y; w. ID. Keith, wife and daughter Of
Chicago; the family of ID. II. Sortwel of
Cambridge. Mass, and Mrs. Abba Marshall,
two daughters and son, of Troy, ny
G. B. b. DENNY has a novel way of ad-
vertisng. He has several classes with
seventy.fve members each. All deposit
one dollar each week and all draw lots.
The lucky man gets a suit of clothes worth
$35 This continues until thrty-four have
drawn, when the remaining forty-one re-
ceve suits of clothes for which they have
paid full price.
JOEL FOSTER has bought of II. w. Kemp
his sorrel mare Fanny" and Richard is
himself again. Fanny" was the name
of the old family horse Mr.. Foster owned
for twenty-one years, and she was a marvel
of docility and sobriety. Fanny the
first gave up the ghost some seven or eight
! years ago, and was succeeded by " Charlie"
also sorrel, whose sudden demise was re-
Gently recorded,
CANTON MONTPELIER held regular
monthly meeting last Friday night, and a
! special meeting last night. A special can
tonment will be held next Thursday even
ing, when all will be given a free ride to
] nr1a 70 20,
change civilites with the Canton there, and
also make some preliminary arrangements
| for representation at the Bennington cele-
| bration.
COLONEL II. r. RIKER is visiting his old
friends, William Keton and family, in
Glover. The colonel will visit OWLS Head
and renew an acquaintance begun in 1890
the time of his first visit to the mountain.
On that occasion Portus Baxter, Barnard
Langdon and w. w. Miller were members
of the party, and they spent the night on
the Head" with a thunderstorm raging
| below them.
A Boston paper says Professor Allen of
Providence, r. l., who made the balloon
ascension from Boston common on the
Fourth was picked up off Thatcher's Island,
just as his balloon was putting to sea at a
rapid rate. When one remembers that one
Professor Allen ascended from Montpelier,
another from Lowell, and yet another from
Boston on the same day, he begins to won
der what stock comes from Providence.
The st. Adams Messenger of last Saturday
says "The train for the south, due to
leave here at eleven p NJ, was over an
hour late last night, but the Mozart Quar-
tette of Montpelier made the time pass
quickly by kindly entertaining all at the
depot with some choice vocal selections.
They were heartily applauded, and they
could not fail to see that their courteous
compliance with the request to sing was
highly appreciated"
THE Argus and Patriot makes great pre-
tensions to being a newspaper, but if one
has the patience to sort over the RATS
of flood-wood that cucumber its columns,
he is constantly reminded of the piquant re-
mark of Josh Billings: Better not to know
so much than to know so many things that
amt So" In its eagerness to publish trifes,
or what is worse, it will lose sight of
plump, healthy news item lying straight be-
fore its hundred eyes. For example, last
week its columns contained not a word of
the attacks on the residences of Mr.. Poland
and Mr.. Fisher, on the night of July 3.
This is enterprise, indeed.
THIS paragraph appears in an exchange;
"A current item states that the engine on a
train over the Montpelier & Wells River
railroad recently scooped up a chicken. 1t
is hardly necessary to state that the engine
met the Bird everybody knows that train
on this line could never have overtaken
that chick" If the author of this " current
item had been aboard train that went
from Montpelier to Woodsville, one day
last week, he would have had some of
the pin-feathers plucked from his molting
I humOr The trip was made over and back,
the engine turned and three stops made,
in two hours and sixteen minutes. No
"chicken time, certainly.
Mr.. II. X. KEITH of Kingston, Mass,
met the stockholders of the Fort Payne
! Coal and Iron Company at the Pavilion,
last week Tuesday evening, as reported
I, ] last week OWING the ghnrtpass nj
tice but few of the stockholders in this
vicinity We're present. The financial cond-
ton of the company is thus stated OF the
100000 worth of bonds first issued, about
SlS0,000 have been taken. The company is
now in debt; $4,000 will pay its cred
itors, and $4,000 more will start things on
paying basis Mr.. Keith is visiting stock
holders in various parts of the country to
induce them to take more stock. One
hundred thousand dollars is his figure, and
, unless that amount shall be taken, pledges
l to increase stock are not to be binding
) Eight per cert bonds are offered to stock
holders at nnty-tive cents, and the enthu-
, siasts say Montpelier will take $4,000 of
| the 100000.
IT is hard to kill a drunken man. He
5 will fall and escape uninjured under circum-
stances that would be fatal TO a sober man.
. The adventures of an aged tippler on the
D night express from St. Adams Friday
: night, afford a striking illustration. He
. had been noticed by other passengers in
7 company with female relative who was
also badly fuddled. Somewhere in the
vicinity of the Georgia station the old gen.
tleman-for he had evidently passed the
|, limit of three score and ten, dred-up,
: weazen man-went out on to the platform
= of the car. Other passengers followed him,
= and not finding him in the next car,
sleeper, the cord was pulled and the train,
which had been going at a high rate of
speed, came to a standstill Conductor,
J brakemen and passengers started out in
} search and after travelling back a distance
! of some two miles the man was found down
} in the grass by the fence, without a scratch
or injury of any kind, and merry as cricket.
The engine of train on a siding near
by was detached, and the aged bacchanal
and searching party taken back to the wait
> ing train, which had been delayed an hour.
| The female relative had been unconcerned
during the search, but, when the old gem
tleman appeared, upbraided him for dis
gracing her and the railway and wound up
in a shower of brine. The twain came from
snme nnint haYnnl MONTREAL and yxara