The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-08-08


last Saturday from Block Island, where
they have been for the past four weeks.
Mrs. Harlow was somewhat benefited by
her stay there.
REV. LOUIS II. BUcKsHoRN Of Meadville,
Penn, who is spending the summer at Mid
desex, preached at the Church of the Mes
siah last Sunday in the absence of Rev. j.
Edward Wright.
PETER HERNoN was arraigned before
Justice G. N. Barber at Barre yesterday
charged with an assault on Frank /. Dun
ham near the electric light station several
weeks ago. He pleaded guilty and took an
appeal to county court.
THE Central Vermont campmeeting opens
at Northheld next Monday and continues
till Saturday. Quite a delegation from
Trinity Church will be in attendance and
occupy the Montpelier cottage.
THE Mountain King" Of the Barre rail-
road, got off the track at the quarry of E.
l. Smith in Barre last week, receiving in
iuries that necesstated sending it to the
sheds at Montpelier for repairs.
THE Ldndu,arb, published at White River
Junction, was so well pleased with the re-
cent write-up in the WArCHMAN of the
state fish hatchery at ROXbury that it
copied it entire last week for the benefit of
its readers.
JUDGE II. w LYFoRD and wife of Warren
were in town several days last week. They
went to Peaks Island, Me-, on Friday, ac-
companied by Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Temple
ton of East Montpelier, for a stay of two or
three weeks
MASS was celebrated at st. Augustines
Church at seven o'clock last Sunday morn
ing to enable Rev. w j. OSuilivan to take
the newspaper train for Burlington, where
he assisted in the ceremony of the transla-
ton of the chains of St. Peter.
Miss EDNA A. BRIGHT, recently lady
-, - oI IN II
has been engaged as preceptress and
teacher of elocution at Vermont Methodist
Seminary for the coming year. Miss Emma
Dana will have charge of the art studio
The time between Boston and Chicago of
the fast express train leaving Montpelier
daily at six p. NJ. has been shortened one
hour and twenty minutes. Passengers leav-
ing Montpelier on this train now arrive in
Chicago at 9:10 the next evening, only
twenty-seven hours EN- route.
AN Advocate Of Temperance " is again
reminded that our waste basket is capa-
cious and into it go all anonymous letters.
The ranch on Berlin side of which he COM
| plains may be a nuisance; and if he had
signed his name to his complaint, the mat
ter would have been investigated.
! QUARrERMAsTER SERGEANT GEORGE NJ.
| Goss and four men leave for Brattleboro
| next Friday to put up the mess tent, cook
house, etc, for the muster next week.
Company E of Barre will mess with Com
pany II this year. Company III will leave
Montpelier on special train next Monday
morning at 80.
FRED McCRILLIs, whose tragic death at
Woodsvlle is told in the South Ryegate and
West Randolph correspondence, had many
friends in Montpelier who were deeply
| grieved at the fatal accident that befell him.
He was at the Exchange Hotel last Wednes.
day night, and was one OF the crew of the
excursion train to Weirs, Thursday.
THE bill giving Mary Brown of Berlin a
pension was amended betf.e its passage
requiring testimony, satisfactory to the sec
retary Of the interior, showing the cause OF
the soldiers death to have been contracted
| in the United States service. There is
many slip betwixt the cup and lip" in
obtaining pensions under this administra
ton.
CHESTER NJ. LADD, the gentleman from
| Worcester in the legislature of 1892, me-
with painful accident last Monday morn
ing. He was running a hatcher in his mill
and in some way his right hand caught il
the machine, lacerating it terribly. DR.. g
e. Chandler was called and found it neces
sary to amputate all the fingers close up t
the palm.
WHILE "Uncle william" Chaplin wa
eloquently seconding the nomination o
Thomas b. Stevens for senator, in the re
publican county convention last Thursday
henry Nyt Vi GdTTt was StlLbu WIN q llU o
epilepsy and the proceedings were tempo
rarily interrupted. Mr. Nye was carried Il
the Exchange Hotel, where DR.. ID. G Keml
attended to him.
DURING the heavy storms last Thursda,
afternoon, lightning struck the telegraph
wires in the Central Vermont station. Tn
electrical fluid melted gas pipe in the eel
lar, igniting the gas and starting an incip
lent contlagration. An alarm was rung il
from box 49, but the flames had been extin
gushed by the hose at the station befor
the department arrived.
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT BALDWIN
Superintendent of Telegraph Magiff, Super
intendent of Motive Power Fuller an
General Auditor Reynolds, of the Centra
Vermont railroad came to Montpelier las
Friday on the st. Lawrence" They ha
as guests General Superintendent Ewing o
the Fitchburg railroad and friend. Afte
spending the afternoon in Montpelier, tn
party returned to st. Albans.
THE weather last Thursday morning wa
anything but promising for eXcursionists, bu
about fifty from Montpelier went to Weirs
and about that number to Ausabe Chasm
: The Weirs party was favored with a dc
lightful day, but the steady rain on LAX
Champlain and in the chasm sadly intel
fered with the pleasure of those who wen
, that way Barre and Willamstown cor
tributed four hundred to the latter crowd.
excursion tickets to Queen City Park, Bui
lington, next Saturday for 81 30 from Mon
pelier and return. Robert Ingersol LEI
, lures there that day on "The Liberty {
T Man, Woman and Child" He also Lee
lures at the park on Sunday and Monda
afternoons Parties desiring to remain a
the park till August IA can do so by payin
? fifty cents additional for the extension
the time of their excursion tickets.
THE Woman's Auxiliary TO the Keele,
League gave the first of series of MONTH
, entertainments in the league rooms las
Friday evening. The programme include
songs by Miss Eta Hunt, recitations b
Misses Eula Cassavant and Anna Mayo an
, Major j. l.. Elder, and brief remarks by W
A. Lord, j. G.. Wing, DR.. o. l.. Watson, I
l.. Cassavant, and DIR. f. II. s. White, tn
Institute physician. The attendance wa
good, and the entertainment was most Ell
, joyable.
: EDsoN o. CHENEY died yesterday morI
ing OF consumption at his home in Cady
: Falls, where he las been for severe
= months. For the past five years Mr.. Chene
= has been in the employ of Marvin x She
, burne, where he won a large circle
A friends. He was thrty-eight years old an
/. unmarried. Mr., Cheney was member {