The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-22

HE lnuu on Barre street at the WOodShed |
of the Montpelier & Wells River railroad is, |
as usual in the spring, very deep. A wagon
loaded with stone went in up to the hubs |
Monday afternoon, neCessitating unloading
the stone.
A REWARD of $50 for the recovery OF the
body OF Sharles X. Galaise has been offered
by the selectmen, and the search has been
continued but without success. No new
facts of Importance regarding the case have
been brought to light.
THE friends of Mr.. and Mrs Thomas
Allen surprised them at their home last
week Friday evening, which was the
twentieth anniversary Of their marriage.
Several presents were received among
them being chair from the odd Fellows.
The gross receipts of the post. Office for
the year ending on the last day OF March
were over $4,000, and beginning with Jnly
/, Postmaster Morse is entitled to an in
crease in salary of 800 and an addition to
the amount allowed the office for clerk hire.
REV. A. j. HoUGH is to address the Odd
Fellows OF Montpelier at Trinity church
next Sunday morning, which will be the
seVenty-second anniversary of the founding
OF the order. In the afternoon Mr.. Hough
is TO give similar address to Barre Odd
Fellows at the opera house at that place.
In the letter of A. G. Noyes, Madison,
Kansas, recently published in the WATCH
MAN, the writer stated that Kansas is twice
as large as all New England excluding that
part of Maine north of the forty-tifth
parallel" The types made Mr.. Noyes in
clude that part of Maine he " eJcluded."
Mr.. AND Mrs. A. ID. FARwELL had the
pleasure of hearing the lecture of Rev. j. j.
Lewis OF South Boston on the Passion Play
OF Oberammergau, at the Young Mems
Christian Union, Boston, last week. Mr..
Lewis saw the play last summer, and his
description of it is undoubtedly one of the
best that has been given on the lecture
platform.
REV. j. EDWARD WRIGHT's sermon Sun
day morning had particular reference to the
late Rev. l.. G. Ware of Burlington, to
whom lie paid very tender and appropri-
ate tribute. We had intended to publish
an abstract of the discourse, but the lack of
space makes it impossible to do so this
week. 1t will appear in our next issue,
however.
The letter-carrers are now doing third
more work than they did when the carrier
service was first introduced. If the demand
for an extension of the service is complied
with, new carrier will be needed, and the
most practicable way of getting one is by
means of petition to the Washington au-
thorltles. The present force now has all it
can attend to.
The entertainment given by the scholars
of st. Michael's school at the Opera- house
by an audience of about four hundred per.
sons. In addition to the singing by the
school, Rev. r. j. McHugh, one of the pro-
fessors at st. Josephs College, Burlington,
gave very interesting lecture on the " Pas
sion Play at Thiersee.'
CHARLES E. MOVES, son of S. T. Noyes,
was killed in a railroad accident at Hol-
yoke, Mass, last week. His father went at
once to Holyoke, but he arrived too late to
see his son alive. The unfortunate man
was thlrty-six years of age and had been
All engineer on the Montpelier & Wells
River railroad. The body was brought here
on Thursday and was inferred in the Cutler
burying ground.
The young people of the Church of the
Messiah gave a highly creditable dramatic
entertainment in the vestry of the church
last week Thursday evening. Two pieces
were presented, :" Down by the Sea" !" and
Six to One" the latter being short farce.
Both pieces passed off much more smoothly
than amateur performances usually do, and
the audience, which was quite large, was
more than pleased.
ID. W. PERRY, agent of the United States
Mercantile Protection Association, is in
town receiving subscribers to that agency
for facilitating the collection of bad debts
and preventing untrustworthy persons from
obtaining credit OF the several collection
agencies in the country this alone seems to
be devoid of Objectionable features and at
the same time safe and efficient. We COM
mend Mr.. Perry to the favorable attention
OF our business men.
AT the village meeting to consider and
act upon the report of the committee on by
laws the following was offered by j. H..
Senter, Esq, and adopted. "Section 10. If
any person shall put or place. or cause to be
put or placed, any loose paper or adver-
tlsements in or upon any street, highway
or sidewalk within the limits of the village,
he shall be fined five dollars for each of
fense." That covers the nuisance of which
the WATCHMAN spoke last week The by
laws proposed by the committee and which
were printed for public information before
the village meeting did not contain this pro-
vision for the reason above stated Keen
this law live, red hot letter.
THE union temperance meeting at Trinity
church,, Sunday evening was attended by
an audience which completely filed the
church. After devotional exercises and
singing, Rev A. j. Hough introduced Rev
j. Edward Wright as the speaker of the
evening. Mr.. Wright spoke with emphasis
on the necessity for action rather than talk
on temperance in Montpelier. and in the
course OF his remarks he referred to the
many instances coming under his observa-
ton, during his pastorate, of crimes COM
mitted or failures in life made through the
influence of liquor He urged upon his
hearers the duty of adopting means for per-
HilthR Ine young 10 ENJOY variety OF
wholesome amusements, in lack of the op-
portunity for which many are now drawn
into saloons A building containing gym
nasium, reading-room, hall for entertain
ments, etc, is an imperative need and he
| suggested that no organization was so well
| fitted to take the responsibility Of building
and furnishing it as the Apollo club. Mr..
! Wright asked the audience to reflect ON the
amount of misery and crime caused through
| out the country, some idea of which could
! be obtained by remembering that Mont
pelier, although it suffers severely from in
temperance, is better off than many places
on account of its distance from the great
cities and because it has not large number
of residents who are fresh from the sums
Of European cities. In closing he appealed
| to his hearers to at least take a personal
stand in behalf of total abstinence. If
every one present would refrain wholly
! from drinking, much would be gained for
the future prosperity of the village.
THE first of the course of lectures by Rev.
| George Willis Cooke of Boston, at the
Church Of the Messiah, was given Monday
evening to an audience that was CRAFTY
ingly large 1t should have been still
larger, however, for the lecture was filed
with a spirit which too seldom finds ex-
preston. The subject was George Eliot