The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-01


tavern as Mine Host, the genial boniface,"
and notes that the party "danced until the
wee sma' hours" We mention these trihes
in the hope that the ArguS staff will some
time revise its phrase book and get into line
with the nineteenth century.
WONDER what the editor of the Argus has
been doing to Harry Parker. Last week
AIRY wrote another editorial, to wit: "The
Arg,tS of this week says that the boys are in
possession while their owner is seeking rest.
The boys should have added that Atkins
left his standing order to blackguard, black
mail and bully all who disagreed with or in
any way conflicted with his methods during
his absence, through the main channel of
his journalistic sewer. Rigid discipline,
even, fails to bring this caloused old
guerilla of the Vermont press to any sense
OF courtesy or decency."
THE Keeley club is now a settled fact,
and will be with us between now and the
10Th, probably, st. Johnsbury and Burling-
ton papers please copy. The rooms in Lang
don block occupied by the late G. w. Porter
are to be used as reading and writing
room and general headquarters for the pa
tients of the "club." The three easterly
rooms on the second floor of the Vermont
Mutual Fire Insurance Company building
have also been secured. One room is to be
used as the general office, another as a wait
ing-room, and the third as shot" room.
Jags removed while you wait.
A PRAISE service was held last Sunday
evening at the Unitarian church. 1t opened
with solo and chorus, am the Alpha
and the Omega" the solo part being finely
rendered by Burt NJ. Shepard. Then came
Scripture reading hymn, and responsive
selections from the Psalms; " AS it was in
the beginning" choir; solos by Mr.. Shepard
and Mrs. Willard from the anthem, "God
shall wipe away all tears" prayer by Mr..
Wright, and one of Helen Hunt Jackson's
poems solo, Mrs. Pitkin; trio, Mr. Bancroft,
Mrs. Pitkin and Mrs. Willard; chorus ap-
/ - i'll NJ
It's of thee choir and congregation; solo,
Holy, Holy, Holy" Mr.. Bancroft.
THE state press has had more or less to
say about the location at Montpelier of
branch of the Kelley institute, and good
many cases of "sour grapes " are noticed.
Here is st. Johnsbury, which has been
after the enterprise, remarking through its
newspaper mouthpece " After the pretty
thorough dose of law recently administered
to the liquor-sellers at Montpelier, it seems
that little something is to be done for
their customers-acco to a current
news item" Burlington puts in its usual
yawp, via the Clipper Montpelier is
threatened with branch establishment of
the Keeley bichloride of gold cure 1t
won't succeed Nobody at the state capital
| would patroniZe it, even with a chrome
thrown in"
The listers have finished their labors of
which the following is a summary: Total
number of taxpayers, 1,706, a gain of 100;
total number of taxable polls, 1,1S1, gain
of 73; valuation of real estate, S1,972, 700, a
gain of S7S, 300; valuation of personal prop
erty, 81 1866, ,8SS, a loss of $3.50. Total valu-
alton, including polls, S357506S gain of
SS5,56O. Aggregate grand list, deducting
polls of thirty-seven militiamen, S35,676 68,
gain of SS55.60 There were seventeen
cases of doubling and assessing, only three
of which appealed. The towns population
is 4,200 and its acreage about 1000. The
town has per capita valuation of 1851, and
real estate valuation of $3.50 per acre. We
shall probably watch the returns in vain
for higher or even an equal average. 1t
is observable also that more than two-ffths
of the population pay taxes.
COLONEL FRED e. SMITH was interviewed,
last Thursday evening, by Boston Globe
reporter on the Blaine Harrison situation.
:" am not authorized to speak for the Ver-
mont delegation" said Colonel Smith. "I
have seen only few ofmy fellow-delegates,
and cannot say how the delegation stands.
They will probably be heard from at Mime
apolis. l received dispatch to-day from
New York paper asking me whether the
Vermont delegation was for Blaine or Har-
rison, requesting my views on coinage, high
or low tariff and few other trit1es. Why,
il were to answer it, it would be quite
political platform. [ have found only one
man in Vermont, thus far" concluded
Colonel Smith, "who is Blaine-frst last
and all the time. He is Smith Wright of
Williston, one of the alternates. He is
Blaine nights and days and Sundays"
THE forty-second annual meeting of the
Vermont Homeopathic Medical Society was
held last Wednesday and Thursday with
about twenty-five homos present. Presi-
dent E. L. Wyman of Manchester Center
delivered the annual address. Wednesday
evening a banquet was held at the Pavil-
ion, F. E. Steele of Gaysville acting as toast
master. At the session, Thursday, the fol-
lowing officers were elected: President, G.
A. Gale, Rutland vice. president, H. S.
Boardman, Montpelier; secretary, W. F.
Minard, Waterbury; treasurer, F. d.
Worcester, Springfield; censors, NJ ID.
Smith of Middlebury, j. F. Shattuck of
I Wells River and W. B. Mayo of Northfeld;
auditors, w. E. Locke of Corinth, j. d.
Lance of Montpelier and G. NJ. Martin of
Rutland; legislative committee, II. S. Board
man, f. f. Steele, and w. B. Mayo. E. X.
Parker of Cornwall and A. w. Allen of
Bristol were admitted to membership, The
next annual meeting will be held at Mont
peler, and the next semi.annual session at
| Bradford, next October.
Is limestone the best material for road
making? For some four years this village
has been top-dressing the travelled
streets with crushed limestone Whether
or not the method employed will prove a
satisfactory substitute for the thorough
going but more expensive process of mac
adamizing, there ought by this time to be
little question as to the unttness of the lime
Under the action of hoofs and wheels the
stone is ground to a fine powder, which
makes insutferable dust in dry weather and
intoerable, nasty mud when it rains. The
stone is not durable Vehicles grind it to
3 dust rapidly. Scrape the streets and re-
move the accumulations, and in a short
time there is again thick coating of mud.
, Nothing in the way of dust like that the
, winds raise from these limestone dressed
! streets--nothing except the dust in build
ing being stripped of the plastering, the
: product of lime rock. Granite is harder
stone and has very coarse grain. II is not
so easily pulverized, and instead of grinding
into a powder, as limestone does, it sepa-
, rates into a coarse sand not so easily raised
by the wind and infinitely less annoying than
limestone dust The village is at tconsider-
3 able expense to quarry limestone. 1t seems
} as if waste granite might be procured at
: much less expense. We believe the expert
/ ment of substituting crushed granite for
crushed limestone should be tried, whether
, or not the practice of top-dressing" is
| continued or the better way of MacAdam is
1 employed-and there appears to be good
deal more than a reasonable doubt as to the