The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-10

discover no traces of the disease, but found
the stomachs of the dead horses eaten as II
by an acid or poison. They were at loss
to understand the cause Of the death OF the
animals.
THE horses attached to the Putney House
hack started to run from the Central YER
mont station last Wednesday. There we're
four passengers in the hack at the time, and
the result might have been serious had not
Major j. l.. Elder, porter at the Exchange
Hotel, stopped the frightened animals in
front Of the Pavilion.
II. II. SCRBNER and II. G. Webster are
delegates from Vermont lodge to the grand
lodge Of Odd Fellows that meets next We'd
nesday at Burlington, with w. A. Taylor
and ID. l.. Sanders as alternates. Canton
Montpelier and Canton Vinton OF Barre will
also attend in a body The grand encamp-
ment meets there next Tuesday.
CHARLES II. Cross is planning TO visit
! Chicago this summer. When he was first
| there in 1886 the town was about as large
| az Mddlesex now is, and the land was beg
| ging for purchasers at one dollar and
| quarter an acre. 1t took over two weeks
then to go there from Montpelier and the
| journey was fraught with danger.
The base ball season was opened in
Montpelier last Thursday afternoon with a
| game on the Seminary campus between the
| sophomore team of the University OF Ver-
mont and the Seminary nine. Score thir-
teen to seven in favor OF the latter The
weather was so cold that only few en-
thusiasts Of the sport saw the game.
W. j. BELL has closed his labors at the
Montpelier book bindery. He has gone to
Bennington for visit OF few weeks be-
fore returning to his home in New Haven,
Conn. w j. Cushway, who has had charge
of a bindery at Sherbrooke, p. O., for the
past ten years, takes his place with Mr..
Wheelock. Mr.. Cushway is soon to move
his family to Montpelier.
PRENTIss G. DODGE, editor of the Burling-
ton Independent lectured at the opera house
last evening for the benefit of Brooks Re-
lief Corps on the Life and Times of Co
| umbus." The lecture was illustrated by
fifty Photographic views shown with the
aid Of stereopticon. The proximity Of the
hour of going to press prevents more ex-
tended notice of the lecture.
THERE is some talk OF repeating the dam
cling carnival held in the opera house last
Friday evening, with an admission OF ten
cents, and giving the poor children in town
the choice OF seats. There are hundreds of
children in town to whom such an exhibit
ton would be a revelation, and the prices
that prevailed last Friday evening debaIred
very many OF them from attending.
The remains OF the infant found last
week on Burgess hill were examined last
Wednesday by DR.. &. a. Bailey at the un-
dertaking rooms of II. g. Webster & Co..
and later secret investigation of the case
was held before Justice p II. Hinkley.
Some clues have been obtained that may
lead to an Identification Of the unnatural
mother, but at present there is nothing for
publication.
REV. A. II. WEBB preached his first SER
mon at Trinity church last Sunday morn
ing before large congregation from the
words, For the Lord God is u sun and
shield the Lord will give grace and glory;
no good thing will he withhold from them
that walk uprightly." 1t was an earnest and
practical discourse, at times truly eloquent,
and made a most favorable impression on
those who listened.
IT is said that one of the concrete walks
the village authorities propose 10 lay
this season is from the lower end OF State
street to the entrance to Green Mount Gem
etery, which will probably be appreciated by
more people than any other that can be laid.
The old plank walk leading there is not
only unsghtly but dangerous to life and
! limb, and a new walk Of some kind to that
| much-frequented spot is an imperative
: necessity.
THE Capital Cycle Club was organized
Monday evening. Theron F. Cotton was
, elected president w. O. Taplin vice-presi-
3 dent, and Felix Seguin secretary and treas
3 urer. The first meet will be tomorrow
evening, when the members will meet on
the concrete in front Of the state house yard
at Is: 10 to receive the members OF the Barre
: club. 1t is proposed to have meet once a
a week during the summer when the weather
. is favorable.
IHE pOSJmdSttrb throughout Uue country
g have been requested to give as much pub.
. licity as possible to the fact that branch
/ of the Chicago post-office known as the
o Worlds Fair Station has been established
q on the exposition grounds. Regular collec-
' tOns and deliveries are made by special
: force of carriers, and money order and
n registry business is transacted. All mail
matter intended for delivery on the exposi-
- ton grounds should be marked Worlds 8
y Fair Station, Chicago"
?. FOLLOWING is the meteorological sum
a mary for April at the Northtield station,
;, William Line observer: Mean barometer,
# 30062; highest barometer, 80 575, on the 9th
lowest barometer % i6l, on the 4th; mean
, temperature, 3660; highest temperature.
y ! go, on the Sth lowest temperature, 11o on
u the 81; greatest daily range of temperature,
u 81, on the Sd; least daily range of tempera-
:, ture, g. on the 10Th; prevailing direction 90
, wind, south; total precipitation, 50
" number of days on which ~
OF precipitation fell =
$ for April for :"
z Der of o."