The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-03-21

great credit for this achievement. Old
Randolph has given younger and more
pushing communities an object lesson
in enterprise displayed under very dis
couraging conditions.
MANY correspondents send items in
regard to the present maple sugar sea.
son. To sum them all up, the farmers
are now extremely busy gathering the
nectar of the sugar maple, the run of
the past week having been a good one.
1t is the general opinion, however, that
the season will be short one; yet as
in elections one cannot always tell who
is elected till the returns are all in,
80 it cannot be foretold with GER
tainty how much sugar will be made.
This prognostigation of short season
applies to sugar places favorably stu
ated as to warmth, and has no applica-
ton to such towns as Walden. In that
town, when the railroad reached the
present station, hundreds of people
gathered, July 4, to celebrate the event,
and novel feature was the serving of
maple sugar on snow. 1t is not af-
firmed that the sugar was made in July,
but the snow was found in sufficient
quantity in secluded hooks.
THERE be six Richmonds in the
field for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
and the returns are not all in yet.
There may be sixty by the time the
convention meets. The Essen County
Herald has formally declared the can.
didacy of Colonel Mansur, and the
Lyndonville Journal that of Hon. B.
F. Lincoln. Mr.. Lincoln has had a
successful business career, and has
earned the reputation that honor, in
tegrity, ability and sagacity, with a
well-ordered and virtuous life, endow
a man. He was for four years a SEN
ator from Caledonia county, and with
pleasure the WATCHMAN bears testi-
mony to his intelligence and practical
Judgment as legislator and his single
ness of purpose in his public service.
Mr.. Lincoln is man of the people,
worthy and competent to be lieutenant.
governor, and we are inclined to give
full credence to the Journals averment
that he is candidate at the behest of
his friends, not by his own self-seeking
What paper is to speak for the men of
Windsor county-for Arms, Brown,
Perkins, ct al ? Or will they all forego
their rivalries and unite their follow
ings on the man from Pomfret-not
him of oleo fame, the perennial Tink-
ham, but that bright and useful mem
Der OF the farming guild, Hon. H. w.
Vail? That would be sensible thing
to do, and by this sign Windsor county
might conquer the cohorts of Essex and
Caledonia. -
THE developments in the Pollard
Breckenridge suit, now on trial at
Washington, disclose chapter in the
private life of an eminent public man
that is simply appalling for its villainy
and its story of frightful wrong done a
young and impressonable school girl,
prolonged through nearly ten years of
her existence and terminating in heart
less desertiOn. The arch criminal is a
man who succeeded to political honors
once borne by Henry Clay, who inherits
name famous in the later history OF
1he nation, and who is a representative
of the bluest blood that courses in the
veins of Kentucky's aristocracy. He
has called around him to defend hin
the best legal ability that wealth ant
social and political prestige can com
mand. The evidence for the defense
is not yet in, but it is difficult to SCI
what possible answer can be made t,
the testimony for the plaintiff and o
the plaintiff herself, which the defens
has not been able to break down or t.
seriously weaken by cross-examination
The resources of legal skill and talen
may be equal to the task of contrivin
line of successful defense for the EN-
inent libertine, but in the larger coul
of public opinion he is already adjudge
a culprit of the blacklist cbaracter-an
from that judgment there can be no al
peal For him hell has no sufficieI
torment. The story of his victim, sil
ming but besieged and assailed wi,
temptation till she surrendered, SHINE
against with ain of unspeakable emo
nifty, has awakened the liveliest publ
interest. Judgment will BIO temper'
with pity and with sorrow that one
gifted should be led to ruin 80 fearfr