The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-25

stones, markers, posts, or, in fact anything
in the line of cemetery work. Weston &
Smith, No % Main street, Montpelier
INTENDING purchasers of fine furniture
or carpets at reasonable prices will do well
to read the advertisement of w. +. Colby
of Barre on this page. Mr.. Colby easily
holds the best class OF custom of Barre and
vicinity in the lines of goods he handles.
BENJAMIN DALEY is sole agent at Mont
pelier for the sale of the celebrated ID. & II.
Lackawanna coal. This coal is fresh
mined and is shipped and received from
the mines all rail. He also carries in stock
Sugar Loaf Lehigh and franklin Goals.
Quality guaranteed.
If you visit Boston any time this spring,
do not fail to see the Napoleon Bona
parte" bedstead on exhibition at Paine's
furniture warerooms, As Canal street. 1t Is
a most interesting sight. as it represents the
famous bed of Napoleon in the palace of the
Tuilleries. 1t is offered for sale at $500.
AN acciuent policy giving indemnity for
partial, as well as total, disablement, at as
low cost as is charged by any tirst-class
company, is now furnished by A. @. Brown
& Son, who represent the only company
writing this liberal policy. We invite in
vestigation, as we know 1t excels any policy
now issued by any company.
PENSIONS of S6 to $12 month are paid
soldiers, rich or poor, with slight disabilities,
contracted in or out of service, under Act
June 27, 1890. Those now pensioned under
this act can complete any suspended de,
layed or rejected claim under the old law,
and receive the arrears Widows entitled
without regard to cause of soldiers death.
No charge unless successful. Address,
T. j. Deavitt, Montpelier, vt.
Miss n. e. BEWARE has recovered from
her recent Illness and will reopen her rooms
in the opera house block, and, in connection,
one in Barre, when she will introduce her
French modelling system. She will reduce
her former prices to suit the present times.
Wool SUITS IS; silk, 49, tea gowns and
cotton dresses, S5 to 81. She has engaged
one of the first sleeve makers and waist
trimmers in Boston. Seamless waist or
French bias, if required Suit bonnets and
hats made to order.
BATES BROTHERS will present their grand
revival of the ever-popular comic trick pan
tomime, Humpty Dumpty, at Blanchard
opera house next Friday evening. The
production is full and overflowing with
singing and dancing novelties, and is with
out doubt the funniest show that will be
here this season. The clown is alone a
whole show in himself The company car
ries nearly a carload of trick scenery; also
performing donkeys, goats and pigs. The
Clown Band will appear at noon.
THE Washington Publishing Company OF
Washington, d C., has just issued an inter
esting and sketchy little volume, entitled
The Show at Washington" There is not
dull line in it, nor paragraph which is
not fresh, bright and sparkling. The book
is chatty and personal. The ways of the
president and his family, the members Of
the cabinet, the supreme court, the senate
house, and diplomatic corps, all come in
for ncisive and discriminating treatment
Price, in paper, thirty-hve cents lin substan
tal cloth binding, 81.
BARTHoLoMEw's wonderful horses at the
opera house next Monday and Tuesday
evenings, and Tuesday afternoon matinee
! The Philadelphia Times of December 49,
1893, says of them: 1t would be hard tC
believe, unless the facts were convincingly
before them, that the intelligence of the horse
could be developed to an extent shown in
| Professor Bartholomew Equine Paradox
at the National. The exhibition is truly
paradox in that all the presumptions ar,
against it, and yet it's true. For horses tC
act like children to go through the pro
ceedings of school, of trial in court, an(
similar episodes with the earnestness and
making due allowances, understanding sup
posed to be the sole privilege of humanity
would be apt to the majority to be put dowl
as either improbable or impossible. Ye
these are only comparatively slight feats O
the many wonderful things performed b,
these educated animals"