The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29

Methodist church, next Sunday morning
and evening. = Mrs. Senator Stevens
from Troy has been guest at w r. FL
liott's, the past week. 60 George JAG
quith was in town over Sunday. He reports
the best of success as a book agent, and left
Monday morning for an extended trip
through New Hampshire. - Jesse Colby
has reprinted the Hutchins house. &C.
Albert Haseltne of Duxbury Corners is
very low, and not expected to live.
WilliaInstown.
The abundant rains point to fine hay
crop, after all the doubts early in the season.
John Lynde was very sick on Monday
night, but was better on the following morn
ing.
sire that the owners of lots shall have them
mown.
Did ever a richer June " mantle of green "
rest on hill and dale hereabouts than just at
present?
The Christian Endeavor Society will hold
meetings at the school-house in the George
Crane district, on Sunday afternoons at
three o'clock.
The trade of the Methodist society with
Orville III. Briggs for parsonage has fallen
through. The society will build a parson-
age just south of the church.
Four of the locked-out granite cutters
have started in business for themselves in
the railroad sheds making six in all that
have thus gone to work. They employ Will
Young as sharpener.
Miss Ellen A. Folsom having buried her
mother in Wisconsin, is on her return to
missionary work in Madras, India. At
present she is in Canada She will be here
soon for visit of some weeks.
A Grand Army post is to be organized
here on Thursday afternoon next, a promi-
nent Grand Army officer to officiate on the
occasion. The name to be given the post
will be decided by a vote Just previous to
the organization.
Weeks ago, William Croudis, in the en-
ploy of the Empire Granite Company, re-
ceived an injury to finger, said to be the
result of the carelessness of another person.
In loss Of time the accident has cost him
some S175 already.
Oscar Taylor and twelve other granite
workmen of the quarry district find work
In connection with bridge building, in Mid
dlebury. William Bissett and Thomas Thorp
find work in Adrian, Mich. but with no
certainty OF its long continuance.
johnnie Mari reached his home in Aber-
deenshire, Scotland, safely and it is ex-
| pected he will remain there till the settle
ment OF the granite troubles here. With
the present outlook and talk the lad seem
| booked for long visit in auld Scotia.
An official in the Law and Order League
of neghboring town tells us that an analy-
| sis of certain i" small beer " in active circu-
| lation hereabouts has been instituted by
the league and found to contain alcohol
| enough to put it under the ban of the law.
The wideawake league thereupon took
| active steps to suppress the sale of it.
Mrs. Dorcas Folsom Smith, whose early
years were lived in Washington, and forty
years of whose life have been spent in Free
| Baptist missionary work in India, has been
in town the past week, the guest of hei
cousin, Mrs. Ophir S. Martin. She adj
dressed the Free Baptist quarterly meeting
last Sunday week. She will be about here
Tor short time, visiting Washington and
Waterbury, and in due time returns to the
foreign field of labor, accompanied by hei
cousin. Miss Ellen A. Folsom. She i'm.
| presses one as woman of much character.
No new light has been thrown on the
subject of the recent fire. and whether &C
cidental or incendiary the doctors dis
agree in opinion In the basement of the
barn were stored some twelve or more bar
rels of black lime which some think may
have been wet by water from a heavy
shower just previous. The unslaked con
dition of the lime hours after the fire, with
other facts, is conclusive to other minds
that IL could not have been from this cause
But no other plausible one for "spontane.
GUS combustion offers itself. The asylum
which the basement-open at the time Of
| tered passers-by in the hard thunder-showel
just before, is mentioned as possible Incl
dental cause, If there was any smoking 90
ing on. But in any event the moral is evil
| dent that too much caution cannot well be
used in such place. Landlord Humphrey
thinks all the horses could have been saved
| if he conld have had such assistance as the
| Elliott brothers or the Reed brothers could
have given him in getting them out of the
barn, crazed though the animals were by
the fire and smoke. P. Elliott did splendid