The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-09

Prayer was offered by Rev. DR.. Norman
Seaver. An insurance case from Benning-
ton county occupied most of the day.
| Among the prominent members of the bar
outside of Washington county present were
j. X. Darling of Chelsea, Kittridge Haskins
| OF Bratteboro, Willard harrington and II.
G. Royce of st. Albans, w. b. G. Stickney
OF Bethel Hon. j. X. Batchelder and o. NJ.
Barber of Arlington, George L. Stow of
Chelsea and F. ID. Hale Of Lunenburgh.
The V. NJ s. boys defeated the Thetford
Academy boys yesterday afternoon. The
battery of the visitors was extra and the
team did good work. The home nine
showed the best work of the season. The
feature of the game was the batting of NJ.
Alexander and r. Standish. The game was
won in the last inning by the excellent bat
ting by the home team. The umpiring by
! II. III. Deavitt was satisfactory to both sides.
| The score by innings:
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MARY HowE-LAvIN requires no introduce
ton TO Montpelier audience She has
sung here on several occasions and always
to assemblies the largest in number and
best in quality that any talent, musical or
dramatic, has ever drawn to the opera
house. The concert announced for Mon
day evening, May n, will again call out the
! lovers of music and the admirers of Yer
monts brilliant singer frem all the region of
in extent of the highest critical authority,
and unstinted in their words of praise,
might be published, but the simple fact that
Mary Howe is coming again is all the peo-
pie desire to know. They will be at the
opera house to greet her.
ALTHOUGH the work at the testing station
will not be completed before June /,
through the courtesy of Superintendent
Fletcher the WATCHMAN reporter is enabled
to give this week some figures as to the
amount of work done thus far this year
that are of general interest. About 10000
samples, representing some 4, 600, 600 pounds
of sugar, have already been tested, and in
| the vicinity of LOCO samples are expected
before the season closes. So far as volume
of business is concerned, these figures are
about the same as last year, but the quality
of the sugar has been much better. Mr.
Fletcher is authority for the statement,
which is verified by the samples that have
| passed through the station this season, that
whatever the sugar bounty may or may not
| have done, it surely has had a beneficial
effect upon the farmers of Vermont in i'm
proving the quality of the sugar manufac-
tured
WHAT the outcome of the Patterson case
would be was the universal theme of con-
versation from the time the case was given
to the jury, Saturday noon, until they were
discharged disagreed Monday noon. The
jury stood eight to four in favor of Mrs.
Patterson on the first ballot Saturday after
noon, and so remained until Monday morn
ing when two of the four went over to the
ma jority. Mr. Hammett of East Montpelier
and Mr.. Bulkley of Moretown stood firm in
their original belief that the alleged mar
riage never took place, and final disagree
ment was the result. During the two
weeks of the trial the attendance Of specta-
tors was very large, aud the final result
was awaited with intense interest. Mrs.
Patterson is a member of Christ Church and
of the local society of Kings Daughters,
and the lady members of those organizations
showed their sympathy for her by attend
ing the trial in large numbers.
The movement that has been on foot for
some time among the horsemen Of Barre and
Montpelier to lease or purchase the old
state Playground on the farm of Samuel
Smith, to be used as training quarters and
| for summer trotting meets, bids fair to be
failure because of the apathy shown by the
| business men of Montpelier and those who
ought to take the most interest in the mat
ter. The cost of renting the grounds and
fitting them up in proper manner would
be in the vicinity of $1,000. OF which Barre
horsemen agree to raise Sl,5OO or S2.OO0
The grounds can be rented for $500 per year,
or purchased for $4,000, with ten-years'
option of purchase price of $1,000. Now
that the Granite City trotting park at
Barre is closed, it is most opportune time
for opening trotting park at Montpelier,
which would undoubtedly prove in the end
a financial success, and it is to be regretted
that so little local interest is taken in the
project.
METEOROLOGICAL record for month of
April at Northfeld station: Mean barom-
eter, 80 040; highest, 30430, on the Both
lowest, 29 $50, on the 1st; mean tempera-
ture, 43o highest, 74o, on the 30th lowest,
150, on the 3D.; greatest daily range, 2S' on
the 30th; least daily range, 30, on the I'd !;
mean temperature for this month in 1887,
35o; 1888, So; 1889, 43o; 1890, 39o 1891, Az;
OnD NaNfnN -
ture for eight years, 39o; prevailing direc-
tion of wind, north; movement of wind,
7,4S3 miles; maximum velocity of wind,
36 miles north on the 9TH total precipita-
tion, 80 inches; number of days on which
.0l or more of precipitation fell, 10; total
precipitation for this month Gn incheal in
1887, 3 81; 1888, 2,S7; 1889, 10; 1896 90 ooS
1891, 2 Al 1892 A; 1898, 1853; 1894 132;
average precipitation for this month in eight
years, SO inches; excess during month,
l:O2 inches; since January l, 5.15 inches
clear days, II; partly cloudy days, 6; cloudy
days, IL; date of frost, 20th
THE advance agent of Bartholomew's s
Equine Paradox obtained permission of e.
NJ Irish to use the bil-boards on State
street owned by him, and in return MIR.
Irish was given four complimentary tickets
TO the show, on which was Stamped, good
first night only" Mr. Irish gave Law yer
George Holden one of these tickets, which
he did not attempt TO use until the second
night, when he was refused admission on it,
A threat of a lawsuit did not intimidate the
burly doorkeeper, and Mr.. Holden did not
see the show The next day Deputy Sheriff
futile interviewed the manager at Barre
with writ, which caused him TO hasten to
Montpelier, pay all costs, and appease
Squire Hoden's righteous wrath with So
note. 1t is gratifying TO record this sum
mary turning down of the naughty and
overbearing spirit shown by the manage
ment OF the concern, and Mr.. Holden is
surely an even So ahead for the best part of
the show from which he was excluded was
ON the bill boards that started the rumpus.
THE Knights Templar of Mt. Zion Com
mandery attended Christ Church in body
last Sunday afternoon al three O'Clock to
celebrate the Festival of the Ascension.
The service was choral. Rev A. n. Lewis
! preached an Ascension sermon from the
| text, And IL came to pass, while he
blessed them, he was parted from them,
and carried up into heaven" Before the
sermon he gave an account of the organ
ization of the Knights Templar in the
eleventh century, their suppression by