The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-12
NUMBER 32.


Templar will leave for the Bennington cele-
bratiou on Tuesday, August 49, The Com
mandery has received an invitation to go to
Saratoga, N. Y, on August 30, and partici-
pate in the New York conclave Of knights
Templar. 1t will act on the invitation at
the next regular meeting, and will prob
ably accept.
REV. WILLIAM MATHEWS is in town so
Letting aid to liquidate the debt on the
African Union Methodist church of Provi-
dence, II. |. Mr.. Mathews comes highly
endorsed, and his mission is a most praise
worthy one. He will be pleased to receive
whatever contributions may be made him,
and will publish the result of his labors in
the vicinity when ended.
AT a regular meeting of the directors of
the Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany, held last Wednesday, w. T. Dewey
was elected treasurer of the company for
the ensuing year Mr.. Dewey had filed
out the uneXpired term caused by III. N.
Taplins promotion to the presidency of the
company The annual meeting of the
members OF the company occurs October IA.
SEVERAL Barre riders of the bicycle made
a trip to this village and return last Thurs
day. They were accompanied both ways
by a special train on the Wells River road
the train making slow time so as to afford
its passengers good view of the contest
ants. f. w. Sherburne was the fortunate
winner OF the first prize-a handsome silver
ice-pitcher-and made the twelve miles in
fifty-seven and one-half minutes.
IF President Harrison's tour of Vermont
occurs as scheduled accompanied by Secre-
taries Rusk, Tracy and Proctor, he will be
in Montpelier Wednesday, August 26, from
fifteen minutes past one o'clock until half
past three O'Clock in the afternoon. There
ought to be hearty welcome on the part of
the people of Montpelier. A committee of
arrangements should be appointed so that
whatever demonstration is made may be
well arranged.
THE Montpelier Banjo Club is to give a
concert in the Dubois & Gay hall, in West
Randolph, Friday evening, August 2S. The
gentlemen of the club are NJ. F. Atkins E.
E. Piper (banjeaurines), G.. X. Putnam
! (banio), K. E. Blakely and B. p. Weston
| (guitars). On the occasion of the concert
at West Randolph the club will be assisted
! by Miss Josephine NJ. Hartman, elocution-
ist, of st. Johnsbury; and Master Arthur
| Dewey has number on the programme,
which is banjo solo. The club contem-
plate giving a concert here later in the
| season.
Near the highway leading from East
Cabot to Peacham, about one hundred rods
! north of E. Lane ~ Sons clearinghouse,
says correspondent, is large cave. On
last Wednesday he explored the cave.
The entrance is long seam in the rock.
He was let down by means of rope
some forty feet. After walking a few
further to another landing, from which he
was dropped seventy-three feet Lack of
rope was all that saved him from going to
a lower deep. From the latter point stone
was six seconds in falling till it struck
water. At another spot the cave or chasm
is reported to be several hundred feet deep
THE following relatives of the late Hon.
G. w. Porter were in attendance upon his
funeral: his mother, Mrs. John Porter, and
his sister, Mrs. John f. Porter, and her
daughter, Miss Louise Porter, of Quechee,
Vt; Mrs. Charles T. Smith Ia sister,, her
daughter, Miss Flora Smith, her sons,
Charles Porter Smith, Edward f. Smith.
and Master Willie Smith, all of Brookline,
Mass; Misses Jennie Denison, Mae Dem
ison and Helen Denison, his nieces, and
Mr.. John p. Denison, his nephew, from
New Bedford, Mass. There We're present,
also, from the locality of Mr.. Porter's old
home, Mr.. Daniel Cushing, and Mr.. and
Mrs. j. j. Dewey of Quechee; Mr.. and Mrs
f. S. Mckenzie, DIR. Kidder and Mr. James
G.. Porter of Woodstock.
AMONG those in Montpelier last week were
Timothy ID. Sargent and wife of Omaha,
Neb. Mr.. Sargent was born in Warren, and
is a son of the late Colonel Stephen L.
Sargent, one of the first settlers of that
town. He has been, and is now, a promi-
nent railroad man. He began his railroad
career on the Vermont Central as a section
hand, and has since been assistant and road
master OF several Otner roads, including
the Union Pacific. He is now in an adj
vanced position in the stock yards in South
Omaha. Mrs. Sargent, who is a splendid
specimen of a live Western woman is a
native of RoXbury, daughter of John
Williams, one of the old residents of the
town. With perfect health and a fine flow
of spirits she enjoys every moment of this
visit with her old friends.
THE record of the police court for the past
f1lr
cation, disclosed on stranger" still at
large; fine and costs, S10.01. James Starr,
intoXcation, S1001 liquor expressed c. o.
ID. to Williamstown by j. c. Childs x Co.,
New York; showed bill of wet goods de-
scribed as I" mineral water" Michael Sui
livan, intoXication, fined So somewhat
belligerent, gave Officer Hunt black eye,
committed for non-disclosure Samuel
Tacey, intoxcation, S10.0l; disclosed on
James Ryan and John Mcintyre, who were
arrested, trial continued, j. II. Senter bail,
$500 each; rumored Tacey has fled the state
Carl Augustus Ahlgren, intoxication, So;
disclosed on a stranger of whom he bought
two bottles of whiskey; story too thin, and
} respondent recommitted to refresh his mem
ory
t THE irrepressible Harris of the Hardt0acA
5 Gazette has the following: And again las
= Saturday did the servants of the magistrates
. from over against Barre and Northtield and
- the country around about descend on thos'
3 of the ungodly at Montpelier who dispens,
the liquid combination of vitriol and fuse
4 oil yclept whiskey, and the gates of four o
: them were entered. but in three of then
= nothing unlawful was discovered. And the
I reason was because the string was previ
r ously pulled. But at the resort of the pub
/ lican known as Locklin, otherwise Jack,
was an extremely private room discovered
after much sounding of partitions and di
vers other monkeying. And in it were sun
dry bottles and other receptacles of variou.
! bores, inside of which was found liquor
+ enough TO keep an entire legislature drunl
for a week. And the scribes demanded
bonds for 5000, which was given"
q THE case of the State Us. P. G.. Dewey
i for keeping a nuisance, was tried by jur,
;, Friday afternoon, before Justice P. II
> Hinkley. States Attorney u. S. Stanton
!, and Grand Juror f. l.. Laird appeared fo
= the state, and j. III. Senter and T. j. Boyn
J, ton for the respondent. The jury at frs
disagreed, but on consideration brought il
: a verdict of not guilty. On Saturday after
J, noon, before the same justice and with tn
n same attorneys for the prosecution, Elme
y E. Clark appeared on the charge of keepin,
a with intent TO SELL and was defended by j
"a III Santar n 4 ROvntOn and II w Kao