The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-03-02


recently doctoring the horse OF Thomas
Eagan OF the Capital Granite Company.
Mr.. Eagan is in the West on a business
trip, nursing sore hand from the same
cause.
TODAY is Ash Wednesday. At st. Au.
gustine's church is to occur the ceremony OF
blessing and distributing the ashes, followed
by mass at nine o'clock. In the evening, at
seven o'clock, there will be instruction, fol-
lowed by the benediction and the blessed
sacrament.
Mr.. AND MRS. C.N. ARMS, who have been
spending the winter at the Exchange, re-
turned yesterday to their home in Water
bury. Their daughter, Mrs. Arthur Baker,
with her little daughter Anna, will remain
in Montpelier, and beard at Mrs. Hayward's
on Loomis street.
THE Montpelier public library will proba-
bly, be moved into the Shepard house in
few weeks and arrangements made whereby
the reading-rooms shall be open every eve
ming. Looking in that direction was the
vote passed at town meeting appropriating
$500 for the library.
On Sunday evening. Rev. A. N. Lewis
will preach the third sermon to skeptics;
Immortality have upon the Conduct and
Life?" Services to-day (Ash Wednesday,
at 10: 30 A. NJ. During Lent, on Wednesday
and Friday evenings at seven o'clock.
A DEPARTURE by the management of the
Central Vermont railroad which will meet
with wide commendation, is the change bv
which, after March /, mileage tickets will
be good for bearer and good until used.
Heretofore, only persons whose names APP
peared on the tickets, could use them.
AN alleged poem, narrating the arrest of
Thomas O'Neil, from the press of the Argus
and Patriot, was widely circulated last
Monday. Charles Hayden confesses that
he is the mute, inglorious Milton who
perpetrated the outrage on the Muses. and
that he was hired to do it for sundry
samoleons.
AFTER Fred f. Bradish returned to Bur-
lington from Montpelier, last week, he went
over the lake to Keeseville on business.
On his return trip, last Wednesday, the ice
gave way, and horses, stage and all hands
went into the water. Fred lost his hat and
satchel and got very wet, but congratulated
himself that it might have been worse.
TURNER'S Female Burlesque Company, at
the Opera house last Monday evening, drew
big house. The show" was of the regu-
lation variety-a few good hits and mass
of calamity Two or three features were
unbearable, notably the happily brief cornet
solo and the second act of the alleged bur-
lesque on the Count OF Monte Cristo." The
music was tedious.
THE comic operetta " Professor Gandor "
will be given in the vestry OF the church
of the Messiah Thursday evening, March
3. Mr.. b. M. Shepard and Mr.. f. w.
Bancroft, Miss Ella Waite and Mrs,
Hattie p Willard are in the cast, and Mr..
ID. S. Blanpied is pianist. A highly enjoy.
able entertainment is assured. Admission
twenty-five cents.
The corners OF Main street are ornamented
late O. nights by individuals who have no
apparent reason for hanging out there, and
several belated wayfarers have been ac-
cOsted by inquiries az to the time of night
and other relevant queries. Some nervous
citizen will one night bore hole through
one OF the gang, and that will have dis
couraging effect upon the others.
The case of James r. Langdon v. Hora-
ito Templeton, involving wild land in
Worcester, was heard asst week before Mas
ters in Chancery w II. Burnap of Burlington
and John HI. Senter, in the Office of Dilling-
ham & Huse. Joseph A. and George W.
Wing and s. G. Shurtleff are counsel for
Templeton, and Dillingham; & Huse for
Langdon. The case is still open.
MRS. DENIsoN DEWEY died last Thurs
day, aged sixty-six years. She had been i'll
several weeks with grip, and heart trouble
hastened the end. The funeral was held
Saturday afternoon, from her late home on
Liberty street, Rev. j. Edward Wright Off
ciating. Mrs. Dewey is survived by hus-
band, one son, Frank D., and daughter
the widow OF the late General p p. Pitkin
AT the meeting of the board of civil au-
thOrity, last Thursday evening, action was
taken on the case of Mrs. T. P. Redtield
Her taxes were doubled last spring, but by
the advice of s, G. Shurtleff, town agent
the doubling was removed, and she paid on
the list as made up by the board. AT the
final meeting, Saturday evening, Mrs.
Amanda Vail was allowed a rebate on list
of forty dollars. The case OF E. E. Graham
involving lumber taxed both in MONTPELIER
and Stowe, was dismissed,
FOUR lawyers gathered around an office
table is not remarkable sight ordinarily,
but quartet which we noticed last Satur-
day impressed the scribe as being rather
noticeable. They were Hiram s. Huse,
Hiram A. Huse, Joseph A. Wing and
George W. Wing. The elder Huse is eighty
five years old and the elder Wing eighty
one, while their sons are each forty nine
years old. If the sons are as hale as their
parents when they have reached their ad-
selves.
FOLLOWING is the list of petit jurors for
the coming term Of court: Barre, w. II.
Bradford, n w. Keith, George w. Cutler,
A. Q. Shepherd Robert Kynoch; Berlin, e.
Il. Towner, E. Glines, James Cook, James
Grossett; Duxbury,. r. j. McMullin, L. C.
Turner; Fayston, j. A, Granfeld, T. A.
Dumdo NouuItiltT, w W. oiduulSH, N. ",
Boyce, A. A. Owen, j. G. Farwell, ii. III.
Deming; Northfed, Horace Mehuron,
George King, w. II. Dillingham;, /. b.
Clark; Painfeld, A. e. Snow, w. III.
Kinney; Roxbury, John Q. Flint, Henry
Vannier; Waitsheld w. IL. Marshall, j. E.
Berry, w. II. Wilder; Warren, Godfrey
Sumner; Waterbury, Luke S. Town, George
ID. Joslyn.
A "Seer" at Bellows Falls addresses
communication to the Free Press to the ef-
feet that So the irrepressible Hiram came
down Saturday week and stayed with his
sister in Bellows Falls. Ordinarily visit
TO sister excites no comment" but in this
case " Seer" found Mr.. Atkins visit big
with political Importance. We were not
aware that Mr.. Atkins had sister in Bel
lows Falls. His wifes brother, George w.
kimball, is usually his host. We venture
the prediction that when the democratic
state convention gets together there will be
little opposition to Chairman Atkins, ex-
cept the usual spasmodic kick from Rut-
land and Brattleboro.
GEORGE S. CARPENTER was captured at
Morrisville, last Thursday, by Deputy Sher-
i'll Keene OF Waterbury, and was brought
TO Montpelier that night and locked up in
the Jail. Carpenter was indicted last fail
for stealing from the station at Waterbury
valise and contents belonging to Nor
wich University student. Frank Ii. Ather-