The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-09
MONTPELIER, WI, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1892.

by equal generosity on the part of the gem
eral public, the bridge unquestionably will
be built.
AFRO CHASE and son, Eugene, who com
mitted the brutal assault upon Alfred Cor
mier, were taken before Justice Wells at
last Thursday, and held for trial
at the September term of court.
JAMES HARRAN has sold to George L.
Colby lot of land on Barney street for
$500. James g. Cullen has sold his house
at the corner of Main and Jay streets to
Mrs. Margaret Leslie. for 81, ,125.
GENERAL STEPHEN THOMAS was thrown
from his sleigh at his farm in Washington,
last Thursday, and broke a rib on his right |
side. He is getting along as comfortably as
his eighty-two years will permit.
HIRAM ATKINS, chairman of the demo-
cratic state committee, has issued call for |
meeting of the committee at his Elm
street residence, tomorrow, to arrange the
date and location of the state convention.
COLONEL G. s. FORBES and DIR. II. II.
Mcintyre were busy as bees in the post
office, yesterday mailing supplies to the
sugar weighers throughout the state. Fiji
teen hundred tin sample boxes-American
tin-are expected this week.
THE adventure of party of snowshoers
in the wilds of Berlin, last week Tuesday
night, would make interesting reading. but
owing to the youth and good looks of the
the dreadful facts to a curious public.
THE Apollo Club minstrel entertainment
will be given the last week in April. 1t is
going to be ego" this time. The man
agement of the show" is in the efficient
hands of George H. Rolfe and w. G. Berry.
Some novelties may be confidently ex-
pected.
REV. A. N. LEWIS is to preach next Fri
day evening on The Popular Objection to
the Episcopal Church " Mr.. Lewis deliv-
cred two excellent sermons last Sunday,
morning and evening, on the advantages
Christian life has over a non-Christian ex-
istence.
AT Christ Church, this evening, the
Lenten lecture will be upon Modern Meth
Friday evening, Popular Misconceptions
of the Episcopal Church Corrected" Sun
day evening, " Morality Dependent upon
Religion"
Mrs. DELoRME B. HARBAUGH arrived
from Boston, last Monday evening. Mrs.
q. b. Wilson met her at the junction, and
the two left for Seattle, Wash A stop of
day in Chicago and ten days in st. Paul
will serve to break the mOnotony of the
long journey to the land of the setting sun.
Mr.. AND Mrs. JOHN w. PAGE are in town
for week or two. Mr.. Page is now per-
manently located at Beatrice, Neb. The
Californian trip of Mr. and Mrs. Page was
interrupted by a bad attack of the grip, and
in addition they were delayed in Nebraska
by the illness of Mrs. Pages parents
al HAVE just read your account of town
meeting in Montpelier and Hiram Atkins
severe punishment. Good, good, good For
enclosure send as many WATCHMANs as you
can afford. | want to send them to my
| friends" Thus writes a subscriber. and he
is one of numerous company. Hiram's
pulverization gives universal satisfaction.
II; 1
| last Monday evening, he noticed at the en-
trance to the capital grounds a PROSTATE
FORM almost submerged in pool of water.
A minute later he was rescued, silk hat
and all, by two friends, and spirited away.
He was unconscious, and deep cut defaced
the right side of his countenance. Who
was he?
GAN Evening with Old English Ballads -
is to be given by Fred w. Bancroft to-
morrow evening at the Opera-h house, under
the auspices of the Ladies' Library Guild
After the entertainment, Mr.. Bancroft is to
entertain few of his friends with a dane
ing party at the Pavilion. He gives his
ballad recital in Norwich, Conn, next
week Monday evening.
AT the meeting of the Apollo Club, last
Thursday evening, the following gentlemen
were elected to membership: Wallace G.
Andrews, Thomas S. Brophy, w. II. Cow.
ell, Denison Dewey, George NJ. Goss, W. N
| L =. Il,
Piper, ID. III. Robinson, A. G.. Stone, w. +
Terrill, w. Q. Washburn, b. 2. Weston, d
S. Wheatley, II. Carl Smith, George K. Tap
lin.
REV. G. w. GALLAGHER begins on mex
Sunday course of sermons for both morn
ing and evening services. The morning
series will be on Fundamental Doctrines
of Christianity" The evening series will
be addressed to young people. His subject
next Sunday morning will be Reason ant
Revelation" His evening subject will bs
"Danger to the Young from Parental In
dulgence." The public is cordially invited.
The concert by the Montpelier Military
Band Orchestra at Waterbury, last Monday
evening, filed to overtowing the audience
room Of the Congregational church. The
artistic programme delighted the people o.
Waterbury. The cornet solo by g. p. Pit
kin, xylophone solo by I. w. Donohoe, anC
the medley overture Ridiculous" by the
orchestra, were favorite numbers. Fred w
Bancroft, who is always favOrite with Wat
terbury folk, was warmly received, and sans
two songs with orchestral accompaniment
&" In Old Madrid," and Sweetheart, while
you are far away"
COUNTY COURT opened yesterday, Hon
L. III. Thompson presiding. Rev. George
w Gallagher made the opening prayer
The civil docket will probably occupy
week or ten days. There are some on,
hundred state cases, of which about thirty
are liquor cases. OF the cases for trial bu
three were left for the jury after the call o
the calendar. The first of these, Woodbury.
Granite Company V. Mulliken & Gibson
an action to recover $1,000 for grant,
claimed to have been sold by plaintiffs tc
defendants is now on trial and will occupy
about two days. The state cases will pos
sibly come on next Monday.
ONE of the democracy, not having tn,
fear of Hi-rum" (or the Muses. before his
eyes, propounds this conundrum:
Who killed Bert Ferrin?
|, says Hirum,
With my damphool pen,
killed Bert Ferrin
) A. w. FARNHAM of Williamstown and w
III. Loomis of Northfeld renewed their sub
scriptions to the WATCHMAN the past week
the former for the thirty-hfth, the latter TO
the forty-tifth consecutive year. and thei
fathers before them were subscribers. Mr.
L0omis is living on the parental farm OF
which he was born and reared.
FOLLOWING is the meteorological summar.
at the Northfeld station for the month o
February: Mean barometer. 80. 1S2; highest
30.Sl9, the 9th; lowest. 29.l3S, the 18th
Mean temperature, 1862; highest 44o the
23d; lowest, -19o the nth; greatest dali,