The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-04-01

E. White; secretary and property clerk,
w. A. Pattee; treasurer, Charles f. Bus
well auditors, Frank Carver, II. l.. George
and Timothy Donahue leader of orchestra,
George G. White.
EUGENE f. RAND was caught between a
couple of cars, one day last week, and was
quite severely squeezed in the chest. He
had a narrow escape from death. Fortu-
nately no bones were broken, and he is
now able to be out
THOMAS SPEAR, living with his son-in-law,
l.. =. Lawrence, in Berlin, has had repeated
attacks of illness during the past week or
two and is yet quite low. His age is eighty
five, but the hope Is held out that he may
survive the recent attacks.
i. NJ. CAMERON of Middlesex does not in
tend that his neighbor Chaplin shall mo-
nopolize the glory of gilt-edge maple sugar
making. Some cakes received from Mr..
Cameron show that in color, flavor and all
good qualities his sugar has the front rank.
Miss CLARA CUsHMAN spoke at Trinity
church on Sunday, under the auspices of
of the Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety. Miss Cushman is pleasing speaker,
and her description of missionary work was
greatly enjoyed by those present ON Sunday.
YESTERDAY the town of Berlin voted,
seventy-six to six, to exempt the business
Of the Cotton Manufacturing Company
from taxation for a period of ten years-a
wise and liberal measure. We heartily con-
gratulate our neighbor on the outcome OF
this meeting.
VERMONT lodge of Odd Fellows conferred
the degree of truth on six candidates on last
week Wednesday evening. At the district
meeting at Northfield on Thursday evening,
fthe lodge conferred the first and third de-
tgrees. The meeting was in charge of Dis
trict Deputy ID. l.. Sanders.
SEVERAL of the young men who are at
tending schools or colleges are now at home
on vacation. Among them are Walter
Washburn, who is at Dartmouth, Edward
Deavitt and Stephen Freeman, whe are at
the University OF Vermont, and Carl Glea-
son, who is at the Rock Point Institute,
Burlington.
The suburban train service between
Montpelier and Barre was begun on Mon
day, and little deviation was made from
the schedule time. A much larger patron
age than usual was observed. The little
engine Tramp" whisks the cars along at a
rapid rate and "gets there" with great
flourish of wbistling.
THE Free Press, in speaking Of the sue
cess of A. W. Barnum in winning the first
prize at the type-writing contest i'll Boston,
says: He was at once offered an impor-
tant position with the Thompson Houston
company in Boston to take dictation direct
upon the typewriter, but he preferred his
general work with the railroad company"
JAMES BURKE of Mortified while drunk
was elected from the saloon of George Reed
for smashing show case and other articles.
Burke's nose was broken by contact with
the sidewalk and he received other injuries.
He was walked off to Jail and his wounds
were dressed He pleaded guilty to in
toxication, on trial How about the other
law breaker-Ee who sold the liquor that
made Burke drunk?
THE annual meeting of the library assooi-
alton was held on last week Tuesday even
ing, and the cid board of trustees was re-
elected. The librarian reported that there
had been about ]. 900 issues from the library
during the past year. Ut was also reported
that the fees and fines had about counter
balanced the expenses of the association
aside from the salary ct the librarian, anu
that there 10 now little over $3.50 in the
treasury.
The attorneys in the so-called "conspir-
acy case, now on trial, express the opinion
that the WAToaMAN should pay something
for the advertising it had in court last week
during the empaneling of a jury. The
Jurors almost invariably declared in answer
to the questions of the attorneys that they
read the account of the trial in October in
the WArCHMAN, and had derived their
knowledge of the case from this paper The
WATCHhANs report was plain, impartial
statement of the main facts elected in the
examination of the witnesses.
A PLAN of the addition to Blanchard block
is on exhibition at the store of Fred Blanch-
ard. This addition will be of brick and
will cost about $4,000. On the second
door the Apollo club will have rooms ar
Eanged to exactly suit its needs, and on the
upper floor there will be q hall, forty by
enc hundred feet in dimensions. The stage
OF the opera hall will be some twelve or
fourteen feet deeper than at present, and
Will be one of the largest in the smaller
theaters OF New England. The portion of
the addition which will be directly over the
present driveway will have a bow front,
aud ii is expected that the building will be
handsome piece of architecture.
THE auction sale of the livery property of
CLARK b. Roberts, last week Wednesday af-
tera oon, was attended by large crowd and
the property sold at good prices. The
horses sold as follows Dan, $40; Dick, SS5;
Nip, Sl3); Luck ,$92 so; Hector, 1927. Jen-
ME, $50; Silver Tail, S125; Miss Paige, S92;
Brown Dick, $40; big bay horse, SIS5 big
pay hiare, $i3l. These were taken by E.
M Irish. The others were disposed of as
follows: Fred, W. e. Adams. $3.50; Gray
Eagle, Joseph Mongeon, 500; Harry, e.
Lane, Sl4; brown horse, z. Moriarty,
S67 90 black horse, Frank Hutchinson,
S12O; bay mare, IL o. Peabody, $14250
ii. H. WETMoRE has just secured for the
Wetm0ra Granite company Of Barre an
order from Grand Rapids, Mich, for a maui
soleun for the Brown family of that CITY.
1t will cost $4,000, and will he finished
by September |. The mausoleum will be In
the form Of an Egyptian pyramid, and will
ne twenty-iour feet square at the base and
rthirty-seven feet from base to apex. The
entrance also will be of Egyptiau design,
about two'hundred tons of the best Barre
granite will be used in the superstructure.
The ceiling will be in the form of q dome
returning TO- pillar, and there will be twelve
erypts. II is thought the tomb will be un-
usually beautiful.
AN examination of public school teachers
was held at the vestry of the Church Of the
Messiah on Monday and Tuesday, under the
direction of Rev.J p. Booth. The examine
tion occupied the whole of both days There
were twenty applicants for certificates, two
applying for those of the first grade and
eighteen for those of the second and third
grades. The applicants were divided among
the towns Of this vicinity as follows: Mont
pelier. nine; Middlesex, three; Berlin and
Granville, two; Waterbury, Northfield,
Barre and Randolph. one. This ekamina-
tion Is the sixth Of the nine that are TO be
held in the county, and in these six lOl ap-
plications for certificates have been made. it
is expected that the total number OF appli-