The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-06

The house was beautifully decorated with
flowers, and every detail of the gathering
was arranged with charming taste. Fifty
seven responses were made to the call for the
quotations contained in the " literary salad"
The salad " was the last course.
THE Montpelier and Wells River railroad
company has decided to lay an extra track
| between Montpelier and Barre junction, 80
that trains between Montpelier and Barre
! will not he delayed by switching. Work
will be begun some time this week. The
new track will lie along the line OF electric
poles, and consequently it is necessary to
remove the latter. The electric light com
| pany is putting in twenty new poles.
SEVEN electric clocks, made by the Self
winding Clock Company of New York, have
| been placed in stores and offices in the viii
! lage. The time of these clocks is corrected
automatically at twelve o'clock each day
| from Washington. All the jewelry stores
| have them, and there is one at the Union
| school building, the Office of the Montpelier
| & Wells River railroad company, the Pa
! vilion and the Office of the Lane Manufac-
! turing Company.
THE board of underwriters of Washington
| county held its annual meeting at the Pa
| vilion Monday afternoon, when the old Off
GERS were reelected, as follows: President,
| E. w. Bisbee of Barre; vice-president, j. X.
! Edgerton of Northiield secretary and treas
urer, James I. Sabin of Montpelier; rating
committee, the president, vice-president
| anu MARIAN w hel1p Oh hOnUpbner. Onl-
form ratings were established, and it was
voted to hold quarterly instead of monthly
meetings
THE Office outfit of the Granite Cutters
| Journal has been sent to Concord, n. H.,
aud j. b. Dyer, the editor and the secretary
of the national union, goes this week. Mon
day evening Mr. Dyer was given compli-
mentary supper by Canton Vinton of the
Patriarchs Militant. He has been in town
for the past two years, the usual period of
his residence in one place, and he will prob.
ably remain the same length of time at Con-
cord. MIR. Dyer has made many staunch
friends in Barre.
SERGEANT LINE of the United States signal
service reports as follows for the month of
April: Mean barometer, 29.950; highest bar
ometer ION the 10th), 30.561; lowest barome-
ter ION the 3d), 29.373; mean temperature,
4l3o; highest temperature, 7So Ton the
22d); lowest temperature 1Oo ION the 6th);
greatest daily range of temperature, 43o ION
the 27th) least daily range of temperature
A. ION the 18th; prevailing direction of
wind, north; total precipitation, 2.4l inches;
for the same month in 1887, 3,37 inches for
the same month in 1888, 2.S7 inches; num-
Der of cloudless days, 8; of partly cloudy
days, H.; of cloudy days, 10.
REV. w. A. SINCLAIR, a representative of
Howard University of Washington, ID. c.,
preached at Bethany church Sunday morn
ing presenting the pecuniary needs of that
luSlllullOH' ne Sldltu JidI d Ob
lady had given $1,000 toward new chapel,
and that another 5000 had already been
! raised He wished to have the chapel built
entirely from Vermont money. Mr. Sin
clair discussed the negro problem in a very
| intelligent and interesting manner, The
solution of the problem seemed to him to be
in the education of the head, the hand and
the heart. AT the conclusion of the service
subscriptions for the chapel were received.
REV. GEORGE WILLIS COOKE of Boston
gave the third of his course of lectures at
the Church of the Messiah Saturday even
ing. His subject was Ralph Waldo Emer-
son. The personal characteristics of Emer-
son, his literary methods and his religious
and philosophic ideas, were described in a
very entertaining way. The lecture was
perhaps the most entertaining of the course
Sunday morning Mr.. Cooke occupied the pull
pit of the Church of the Messiah, preaching
on the question, 'Is There Believable Re-
ligion?" In the evening he gave lecture on
The Religious Teachings of Robert Brown
ing" The audience was not large, but those
present were entertained with most intel
ligent and sympathetic analysis of the re-
ligious element in Browning's poems. The
ceAtral idea of that element, Mr.. Cooke
said is that man works out his saliva
tion, not by any one fact, as faith, works or
prayer, but by the aid of all the circum-
stances of his life. Self-reliance, conf
dent hope, the undoubted existence of God
are cardinal points in Browning's philoso-
ply. This course of lectures has been a
source of much pleasure to many of the
members of the literary societies of the viii
lage and others, and it is to be hoped that
Mr.. Cooke will appear here again another
season.
DEPUTY SHERIFF d. W. DUDLEY and his
daughter, Mrs. Fannie II. Emery, encoun-
tered serious accident while out driving
Sunday afternoon. They We're returning
from East Montpelier, when a colt fright
ened the pair of horses which Mr.. Dudley
was driving. The horses jumped, and in
doing so, broke the strap which supports
the pole, so that the latter dropped to the
ground. Mr.. Dudley and Mrs. Emery did
their utmost to stop them, but before they
could be brought to stand-still the pole
caught in the ground and whirled the car
riage forward through the air The horses
became disengaged by the crash, but Mr..
Dudley was quite badly injured, and Mrs.
Emery suffered a severe dislocation of the
right shoulder, with bruises. Mr.. Dudley's
injuries consisted of three broken ribs, a
bruised shoulder and wound on the head.
One OF the ribs penetrated to the lung, and
the effect may prove fatal The right
shoulder and arm are very much bruised,
and the shoulder-bade is thought to be
broken. Mr. Dudley is still at East Mont
pelier, with Fred Fuller, relative When
the accident occurred, he was rendered un-
conscious, but he is now more comfortable,
and if no fever sets in hopes are enter
tanned of his recovery. Mrs. Emery is at
her home, and although suffering consider
able pain, is doing well.
SEMINARY HILL.
PUBLIC rhetoricals last Thursday and FRI
day evenings.
BEEMAN has nearly recovered from the
sprain of his ankle.
MEssRs. DAVIS AND BURT are spending a
week at the " Hub"
ALL who wish to join the hose company
will deposit an application duly filed ont
in the Office box
PROFESSOR e. G. MoREY, who is now
studying in the graduate school OF Harvard
University, is to teach the classes in the
Students Club of Mt. Desert this summer.
The club proposes to admit young men to
membership who wish to be tutored in prep
aration for college.
Obituary.
KING-tn this village on the I'd instant