The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-05
ST1TE IN BRIEF.

LAWRENCE S. MILLER of Burlington has
been appointed to a cadetship at West
Point.
A CHAPTER of the Daughters of the Revo-
luton has been instituted in Brattleboro by
Mrs. Jesse Burdett OF Rutland.
THE grist-mill and dwelling of George
Brown of Chelsea were burned last Satur-
day. Loss, $780, partly insured.
A CONTROLLING interest in the Sunset
Electric Company ofSwanton has been sold
to syndicate of Burlington capitalists.
EDWARD S. SLATE of South Vernon
freight brakeman, was killed at Aver,
Mass, last Friday by being thrown from a
moving car which passed over him.
MRS. MARY H. AUSTIN of Vergennes has
presented to Troy Academy at Poultney
the valuable library of her late husband,
Rev. F. H. Austin of the Troy conference
THE officials of the Boston & Maine rail-
road have appointed H. E. Howard of Brat
tleboro superintendent of the Connecticut
River, Vermont Valley and Sullivan rail-
roads.
THE Catholic church at Castleton and
business block owned by F. K. Mascott were
burned last week. Mr. Mascott's loss was
$500; insured for 81, 800. The church cost
10000 and was insured for $1,000.
Mrs. MARY II. DANA of New Haven has
sent to the Worlds Fair collection of
twenty-one oil paintings executed on YER
mont marble, which will ultimately be
placed in the house of Senator Proctor, and
has been engaged nearly year in the work.
GEORGE A. CHAPLIN, bookkeeper for Henry
. b. Newman & Co.. Boston, committed sui
eide by shooting last Friday. Dependency
caused by i'll health was the cause. Mr..
Chaplin was graduate of Vermont Acad-
envy at Saxton's River, was twenty-eight
years old, and unmarried.
THE directors of the home for friendess
laA 4l,a,
ton at Burlington, and the fine property of
Judge F. A. Weed at Shelburne has been
purchased for that purpose. The buildings
will require little change. They are already
furnished, and it is proposed to open the
home early in April
PENSIONS have recently been granted to
the following Nermonters: Original, Eze-
kiel B. Coates, Patrick Golden, Edward AL
len, Liberty Brown, Joseph Gravel; addi-
tional James Hatch, Byron Dickinson, j.
Worthen, Henson b. Fargo: original, wild
ows, etc. Eliza Robinson, minor of ID. H.
Ryan.
DIR. W. SEWARD WEBB and party left
New York last Friday on a continental trip
that will cover wide territory and occupy
from two to three months. 1t is proposed
to visit points in Mexico, thence proceeding
northward to Vancouver, b. &. The party
will possibly cruise in the North Pacific
Ocean, and return over the Canadian Pa,
cifc and the Great Northern railroads, TAX
ing in the Worlds Fair at Chicago on the
way back to New York
THE annual session of the Vermont con-
ference will be held this year at Barton
commencing April 10. Bishop Joyce of
Chattanooga, Tennessee, will preside and
among the clergymen expected are Chaplain
Q. G. McCabe, who will lecture on 1.-THE
Bright Side of Libby Prison -; DR.. Payne of
New York, educational secretary; DIR. j. b.
Hamilton of New York, and Dr. j. w.
Hamilton of Cincinnati; DIR, j. w. Spencer
of Philadelphia, who will present the cause
of southern education and freedmen's aid;
DIR. Schell of Chicago, recently at the head
of the Epworth League, and who will repre-
sent the interests of that branch of work.