The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-15


for lambs viz, three cents per pound. II
was easy for him to logically connect it with
free-wool" adminstration--if such 1t
shall prove.
A well known fox-hunter hereabouts tells
us that foxes are quite plentiful this season.
To our inquiry how he accounted for 1t he
replied that in late years, wages had been
so good, men could hardly afford to take
time for trapping them, and hence the in :
crease '" and so IL would seem that even
the foxes might rejoice in last weeks re-
publican victories.
Wilbur r. Adams, now a merchant in
Puyallup, Washington, completely sur
prised his old home friends by putting in
his appearance here, one day last week.
The Pacific coast agrees with him physically,
and he likes there. He will return in time
to reach home about january 1. His brother
George has been home from West Rutland
for a visit of late,
Names of the pupils in the upper depart
ment of the village school, having no marks
uring the the fall term which closed No
vember TO- are these: Florence Burnham,
Fred Burnham, Sara Burnham, Susie Bene-
dict, Julia Martin, Leroy Spooner, and
Wallace Spooner. Several other pupils
names would appear bat for single tardy
or absent mark. Number of pupils, 25;
Average attendance, % Al.
1t was doubtless providence" and
possibly Especial providence" At the
Congregational church, last Sunday evening,
our good Parson Perrin had just begun one
of bis usual " familiar talks" on 1.-THE
Origin of Man" and was marshaling and
| massing objections to the Darwinian
| theory " Of his descent from the lower an
| finals, when church mouse appeared on
the scene, dancing up and down the aisles,
and in and out the pews, as II jealous of any
! objections to the evolutionary theory, For
a time it looked rs il it would be demon
| strated, almost any instant, that a whole
congregation could "spring," ful-growp,
from very Insignificant animal indeed,
Williamstown has recently instituted a
! suit against the Central Vermont Railroad
! Company, to get back the two trains taken
off some months ago. That the public
may understand the position of our town,
we may say that, on the 9th of September,
1887, contract was signed by the late ex-
Governor j. Gregory Smith, then president
| Of the Central Vermont Railroad Company
and three railroad commissioners appointed
! by this town, the former agreeing that a
track should he completed to Williamstown
in June, 1888; and also-we copy from the
original contract deposited in the town
clerks office that a passenger or mixed
train shall be run in the morning OF each
day Sundays excepted) to Williamstown
| and return in season to connect with the
mail train going south, in the forenoon (cas-
senger or mixed train each day, Sunday
excepted, from Montpelier to Williamstown
| to leave on the arrival of the mail train from
Boston, in the afternoon. The running OF
! trains, aforesaid, to be as stated, until the
| road is constructed to point of connection
with the Central Vermont railroad at, or
near, Royalton, VT. For all this Williams
| town agreed to give bonds for $50 600, and
did so. We have had two trains daily, each
way, till few months ago, though run. it il
said, at loss to the railroad company.
Then train each way was taken off by the
! com pany, without any consultation witt
our town, as we understand it, though the
president of the road claims, We think, thai
he expected something to be said to oul
| authorities In due time remonstrancei
were made by the town to the company
the trains but with no satisfaction to oul
people. Finding, as they thought, no othel
way of redress, our selectmen have just
entered a suit, retaining the services OF
s. G. Shurteff OF Montpelier as coun.
sci. This gentleman was employed by the
town, when the contract of September q
1887, was drawn up, and he is said to be
lieve it cannot now be set aside by the rail
but regret, exceedingly this situation o
things
There is more hope of the recovery OF
| Mrs. Mabel Carn' s Benevides from typhoid
fever. - MIR. and Mrs. Benz min Poland
of Watsfield were the guests Of their sOI
| Thomas, last week. - Thomas Bissett
who is now cutting granite in East Mont
pelier, was in town last week.