The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-25

nave Deen necessary to Hood the building
with water.
JENNIE, wife of Brock s. Flint, died last
Monday morning of commissions Mrs
Flint was daughter of A. f. Tracy of
Chelsea, and came to Montpelier two years
and half ago, where her husband has
position with the Montpelier Hardware
Company. She had made many warm friends
during her stay in town who deeply grieve
at her early death. Brief services were held
at her late home on East State street on
Tuesday morning, Rev. DR.. Norman Seaver
officiating, and the body was taken to
Chelsea, where the funeral was held that
afternoon,. conducted by Rev. b. B. Sher-
man, her former pastor The burial was in
the cemetery at Chelsea.
THE carload of western cattle that was
received yesterday by II. c.. Holmes for
Smith Brothers OF Barre will probably be
followed by others. A carload also arrived
on the same train for j. M. Seaver of Will
Jamestown. They left Chicago on Sunday
evening and arrived at Montpelier early
Tuesday morning in prime condition They
were shipped in cars that enabled those in
charge to feed and water without unload
ing. The consignees claim that, with the
prices charged by Swift & Co. and Armour
* Co. for dressed beef, the beef can be
shipped here alive at great saving. They
are confident that shipments of beef on the
hoof from Chicago will be regular thing
in future. These two carloads were an ex-
pertinent that has proved very satisfactory.
THROUGH the exertions of Senator Proc
tor and Congressman Grout, the bill pen
sioning Mary Brown of Berlin has been
pushed and finally passed This is one of
very few such bills that have become laws
Mrs: Brown is over eighty years old and
has been dependent upon charity for sup
port. Her case Is a peculiar one. Her son,
when he entered the service, was the sole
support of his widowed mother. At the
ia a txiHn oh,
prevented Mrs. Brown from drawing de-
pendent mothers pension under the exist
ing law. The sons widow soon married
again and never has drawn a pension as a
soldiers widow, 1t was necessary to get
private pension bill through congress before
Mrs. Brown could draw the pension she Is
entitled to, and both General Grout and
Senator Proctor gave the matter their per-
sonal attention.
In a sermon preached at Burlington last
Sunday evening on " Protecting the Sa-
LOOMS" Rev. T. G. Thompson, the Meth
odlst pastor, il he is correctly reported
expressed his dstrust of the Kelley Cure
and of the work of charity for drunkards,
" because the voters are making candidates
for both thousand times as rapidly" The
logic OF the reverend gentleman is, to saw
the least, obscure, and he reminds us of tenn
perance lecturers we have heard talk on
temperance by the hour, who had no ex-
perimental knowledge of their subject, and
knew nothing, except by observation, of
the evils OF intemperance. Burlington has
within its limits many graduates of the
Kelley Institutes at Montpelier and Rut.
land, who, it is safe to say, will not en-
dorse Mr.. Thompson's views, and men
everywhere who have been redeemed from
slavery worse than death by means of the
Kelley Cure will feel like suggesting to this
clergyman that he may be mistaken in his
views, and that before he condemns it from
the pulpit, he investigate a subject about
which he evidently knows very little
THE chief of the weather bureau directs
the publication of the following data, com.
piled from the record of observations for
the month OF August, taken at Northfield
station for period OF seven years. 1t is
believed that the facts thus set forth will
prove of interest to the public, as we'll as
the special student, showing as they do the
average and extreme conditions of the more
important meteorological elements and the
range within which such variations may be
expected to keep during any corresponding
month: Mean or normal temperature, $50;
warmest August that Of 1892, with an aver
age OF 65'; coldest August, that of 1887, with
an average OF 6O'; highest temperature dur
ing any August, 80, on the 10Th, 1898: low
est temperature during any August, 36o, on
the 18th, 1890 and 1893; average date on
which first "killing " frost occurred lin
autumn), none; average date on which last
killing frost occurred lin spring. none
average precipitation for the month, 65
inches; average number OF days with .01 Of
an inch more, IA; greatest monthly precip-
ltatlon, 6. .4S inches, in 1875; least monthly
preclpltation, I ,04 inches, in 1859; greatest
amount OF precipitation recorded in any
twenty-four consecutive hours 96 inches.
on 22d and 23d Of August, 1880; no snow.
fall recorded in twenty-four consec-
utive hours (record extending to winter of
1SS4-5 only; average number OF cloudless
days, 7; average number of partly cloudless
days. 12i average number of cloudy days,
II; prevailing winds have been from the
south; highest velocity of the wind during
any August, AZ miles on the 10th, 1892.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, principal of the
normal and industrial institute for colored
people at Tuskegee, Ala, spoke last Sun.
day morning, at the Church Of the Messiah
in the interests OF that institution, and again
at Bethany Church in the evening. At the
latter service he was pleasantly introduced
by Rev. j. Edward Wright. Mr.. Wright
visited this institution five years ago, and
has personal knowledge of the good work
being done there, and of the confidence that
has been established in it. Mr.. Washington
spoke for about forty minutes, giving a
sound and intensely interesting exposition
OF what education for the negro will do
he referred to his own course of study at
Hampton, Va, in which he was assisted
by General Armstrong, and of the opening
oil the institution at Tuskegee thirteen
years ago, with one teacher and thirty stu
dents. 1t aow has 700 students of an aver
age age OF eighteen and one-half wears,
about equally divided as to sex. This
school Is not denominational, but religious
teaching IL male prominent, and industrial
training is made speciality The students
are all taught some trade, thus combining
thoroughly practical training and educa-
tion Mr.. Washington spoke of the woeful
moral condition of the colored people of the
South, and eloquently endorsed such a
practical education as they receive at Tus.
kegee as the best solution of the race prob
lem that to-day confronts the country. His
forceful address reused a deep interest in
his hearers in the work in which he is en-
gagged, and was revelation to many of its
great possibilities In a brief speech. Rev.
DR.. Seaver, the pastor of Bethany Church,
endorsed what the speaker had said, and
asked for collection, which met with
generous response.
DAVID MCDONALD, for many years a
prominent business man of Montpelier, disd
last Thursday morning at his home in
Swanton, aged seventy-three years. The
immediate cause of his death was lung and
heart trouble He has been gradually fail
ing since last Christmas, although able to
go out until about ten days before his death.
Mrs. George n. Gourey of Montpelier, his
daughter, was with him and tenderly cared