The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-04-12

works are running at full capacity. Among
the large contracts now in process OF con-
struction are $4,000 mausoeum for Mil
waukee, and one costing $4,000 for Wood
lawn Cemetery, New York. Two massive
granite entrances for a park in st. Louis
Mo-, are also being built The Ellis mauso-
leum, to be placed in Forest Home Gene
terry, Milwaukee, Is nearly ready for ship
ment. Its cost is 5000, and will require
twenty fiat cars to transport it.
LEE Eng, the Acknowledged celestial who
runs the Elm street laundry, enjoys the
distinction of being the first Chinese laborer
in Vermont to make application to the col
lector of internal revenue for a certificate of
residence under the Geary act " Charley" "
made such an application to Deputy Col
lectOr Forbes last week, gave the descrip.
ton of himself required by the United
States government and a photograph of
himself to accompany it. Colonel Forbes
states that there are at present twenty
seven Chinese laborers in Vermont, ma
jority of whom have signifed their inten-
tion of complying with the law.
THE early evening suburban train for
Barre over the Montpelier x Wells River
railroad last Thursday came near carrying a
corpse part Of the way. A man from North
Barre named Duffy, who, judging from his
appearance, has spent good deal more
liquors, was walking up on the track and
attempted to go over the trestle near Dodge
bridge ahead of the train. He fell when
part way across, but fortunately was outside
the rails and did not roll off the ties into the
river below. The train was stopped and
the man was taken to Barre in decidedly
dazed condition.
lingham of Waterbury, in 1891, at the age of
ninety-two, and admitted to the bar in
1898, John j. Deavitt of St. Albans has been
the oldest lawyer in Vermont. He was adj
mitted to the bar in Franklin county in
1881, where he has since practiced, ex-
cept the years of 1886 and 1887, when
he was in the office of his nephew,
I. j. Deavtt, in this county. The
last jury case he argued and won was in the
Washington county court in 1887. Since
then his business, on account of his feeble
health, has been confined to Office practice.
He is now eighty-tive years of age.
ONE sure indication of spring is the gangs
of street loafers that infest the corners at
the head of State street, whose only object
in life seems to be to make remarks about
ladies who are passing and to expectorate
tobacco juice in dangerous proximity to
their dresses. A lady was noticed last Mon
day who was attempting to put some letters
in the box at this corner, and it was neCes-
sary for her to request two of these loafers
to stand aside before she could get near
enough the box to deposit her letters. A
lively raid among these tired individuals
by the police would be cordially upheld by
all classes of citizens except the loafers
themselves,
THE editorial matter in the Burlington
Earth and the F'drmerS' AdCocdte is generally
identical, inasmuch as one man is able to
hold down the editors chair in both papers
These contemporaries last week had an edi.
torial squib eXtolling the Houston treat
ment for the liquor habit which their editor
had a perfect right to do, but he will be
called on soon to give the day of the month
in which the Keeley treatment was some
time ago shown by the NelO York Herald tc
be a humbug" The Herald has been no
ticeable for its championship OF the Kelley
treatment for drunkenness, and those most
interested in the institute at Montpelier dc
not propose to let the statement of Editor
\ Barrett pass unnoticed.
L. E HoBBs of Worcester has white leg
horn hen, which, like the white old her
with yellow legs, lays her master many
eggs" and many of them are of very unusua
size. Her latest achievement was the pro
duction of an egg whose shortest circum
ference is seven inches, longest nine inches
and whose weight is five ounces. 1t is a re
publican hen, Mckinley bill hen, and sht
is proceeding with the production of eggs il
the full confidence that democratic admin
/
change the tariff laws. This biddy, we be
lieve, is an advocate of very sensible re
form in some branches of domestic trade
selling eggs by weight rather than by tn,
dozen, for example. And she is right.
FRED ARNOLD of Bethel chairman of tn,
house committee on education, and Rev, |
p. Booth of Northfield, Rev. l.. II. Elliot o
Waterbury and j. f. Mead of Randolph
members of that committee, met State
Superintendent NJ. S. Stone at the EXchang
Hotel last Friday for the purpose of discuss
| ing the bill drawn by that committee whlcl
! became what is now known as the new
school law. The question as TO what tn
| trainers of the bill understood should b
| done with the public money was fully dis
cussed and those present were unanimou
| in the opinion that it was intended that
| should belong to the school districts to d
with az they see fit. The members of til
committee will soon issue a circular whc
will make this matter plain and send t
! every school district in the state.
L. w. d. QUINN, lola, Grimes county
| Texas, writes: "On the 9th day of May
1864, picked up on the battlefield OF tn
Wilderness, Va, Testament and Psalms
| the property of Jas. G. Heron, Compan
G, Fifth VT Vol, presented by his sister
Mary c. Heron. | would like to delive
the book TO some of the family, and you, b
publishing this, can assist me in doing so,
| FLORENCE, widow OF the late Charle
Huntington, died last Thursday of cor
sumption and heart trouble after distress
ing fitness of several months, aged thirty
five years. She leaves one son, Lewis. He
funeral was held last Friday afternoon d
! three o'clock from her late home on Ceda
street, Rev. j. IL. Weeks officiating, aud tn
body was deposited in the tomb at Gree
Mount cemetery. 1t will be buried besid
that of her husband.
EVER since the drowning of Robbie Bes
last week Tuesday, the most strenuous q
forts to find his body have been unsucces
ful. Up to Saturday night the large amour
of ice in the river greatly impeded the worl
With the exception of that i'll the mil
ponds, this nearly all went out early SUI
day morning, and it is feared the body WI
carried along with it, Stimulated by Il
reward of $50 offered by the seectmen
the town and the additional 5000 offered
Mr.. Best for the recovery of the body,
well as by common humanity, lars
number of people in boats went out la
, Sunday and the river was thorough
, dragged for several miles below where Il
, little fellow fell in. The search is still ke
up, and the exertions to find the body wi
not be relaxed so long as there is the sligl
est prospect of success.
The differences of opinion in regard
, sending Rev. T. p Frost of Brooklyn,
Y, to the First Methodist church at Bal
more, Md, have all been settled and NJ