The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-12-25
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only twelve ounces. Mr.. Hobbs has good
reason to believe that his hens are some
| what eccentric.
ALFRED Il. FoRrKS was given a private
hearing on Tuesday before Judge Smile on
the charge OF feloniously assauting the
little daughter OF Joseph W. Jerome
States Attorney Stanton appeared for the
state. The court ruled that the state did
not make out a case Of felonious assault
but found Forten guilty of a simple assault
and fined him 800. He was unable to
raise the amount and is in Jail.
AT the regular meeting of Thomas Wildey
Encampment Of Odd Fellows, held last Fri.
day evening", the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: Chief patri-
arch, o. G. Harris; high priest, s. W.
Corse; senior warden Edward Baker;
junior warden, @. III Perkins; scribe, II. E.
Smith; treasurer, ID. w. Dudley. These
with the appointed officers, will be installed
| at the first meeting OF the new year, Friday
January 3.
COURT ETHAN ALLEN, Foresters OF Amer.
lea, held its annual meeting last Thursday
evening and elected the following officers
for the year ensuing: Chief ranger, K. E.
Sweeney; sub chief ranger, John Crimmins /;
treasurer, Jonn O'Neil financial secretary,
M. Ryle; recording secretary, II. j. Pereau /;
s. W., Michael OSullivan; j. W., Jer emiah
Calender; s. B., John Sexton; j. B., George
st. John; trustee and past chief ranger, W.
III. Campbell.
AT the Church of the Messiah the chill
dren are to have Christmas entertainment
this evening. They will enjoy games, ETC.,
in the vestry from six to half past seven
O'Clock, then they, with their older friends,
will be entertained in the church by Rev.
j, X. Farrow of Plainfield, who will show
them many instructive and amusing pic
lures, by the aid OF his powerful stereopti.
con, and will tell and illustrate the story of
" The Match Girl of London"
AT the annual meeting OF Brooks Post,
G. A. R., the following officers were elected
for the year ensuing: Commander, William
Canning; senior vice.commander, N. G.
Peck; junior vice.commander, w. w.
Noyes;, chaplain, Orrin Daley; surgeon, G.
W. Kidder officer of the day, e. W. Law
son; officer of the guard, Robert Cook
quartermaster, Fl. B. Wedge. These, with
the appointed officers, will be installed on
Tuesday evening, january.
A SPECIAL Christmas vespsr service will
bs given at the Chu ,ch of the Messiah next
Sunday evening at seven o'clock, when
the following selections will be rendered :
Holy Night" male voices; "King all
Glorious" Barnby; 1.-THE Holy Child +"
lsoprano solol. Shelley; The Babe of
Bethlehem" Marston; Nazareth " (bari-
tone solo and chorus), Gounod. The regular
choir will be assisted by Miss Julia Gross,
soprano, DR.. A B. Bsbee, baritone, and
w. s. Smith, basso
MRS. ANDREW HoDGDEN died last Wednes-
day, at her home on School street. of neural
gia OF the heart, aged sixty eight years. She
leaves husband and three daughters-Mrs
II. ID. Dewey, Mrs. c. S. Whittier and Miss
Dora e. Hodgden. She was a faithful wife
and a loving mother. Her life was rounded
and full, the memory of which remains as a
precious heritage to those left behind. Her
funeral was held last Friday afternoon from
her late home, Rev. Dr. Norman Seaver
officiating. and the hurial N Craap
Mount Cemetery
K. Q. KEECH, agent for Johnson's Uni.
versal Cy clopedia, was in the city last week
delivering the eighth and final volume OF
that valuable work. This volume sustains
the high opinion of the quality of the work
Subscribers had formed from examination
of the volumes previously delivered. A
special feature OF the cyclopedia throughout
is the remarkable clearness of its maps.
For one who has strained his eyes and puz.
zled his wits in deciphering localities on the
obscure, confusing maps that often accom-
pany works OF reference, this feature of this
work is particularly grateful. A topic OF
special interest to Vermonters in the vol
ume just delivered is Vermont" by Pro.
lessor Perkins of the University Of YER
mont, The article is comprehensive, rea-
sonably full in the various heads under
which the information is arranged, and
closes with list OF the governors of the
state.
The following data, compiled from the
weather bureau records at Mortified, cover
the month of January for the past eight
years, and should prove of value and interest
in anticipating the more important meteoro.
logical elements and the range within which
such variations may be expected to keep
for the coming month of January: Tenn
perature - mean or normal, 16o. warmest
month, that Of 1889, with an average of 24o:
coolest month, that OF 1893, with an average
OF 60; highest temperature, Go, on Jan
uary 2, 1880; lowest temperature, 26o, on
January a. 1893; average date If first
killing frost in autumn, September 81 aver
age date OF last killing frost in spring, May
16. Precipitation Grain and melted SNOWY
Average for the month, II inches; average
number OF days with .01 of an inch or
more, IA; greatest monthly precipitation,
4 SO inches, in 1888; least monthly precipita,
ton, 70 inches, in 1885, greatest amount OF
precipitation recorded in any twenty -four
consecutive hours, 200 inches, on January
%, 1885, greatest amount of snowfall
recorded in any twenty-four consecutive
hours (record extending to winter of 1S87-SS
only, % inches, on January % and 26, 1888.
Clouds and weather average number of
clear days, 3; partly cloudy days, H. cloudy
days, 10. Wind-The prevailing winds have
been from the south; highest velocity, "a
miles. from the west, on January Is, 1890.
Mr.. NEWELL PAINE has recently added
some eight hundred volumes to the large
selection from his fathers library which
was sent several weeks ago to the Kellogg
Hubbard Library, making a total of over
sixteen hundred volumes from this source.
The collection includes twenty two bound
volumes of The London Art journal; Dick
eson's American Numismatcal Manual ian
illustrated quarto); DeCourcy and Shea's
History of the Catholic Church in the
United States; a volume of .Lloyds Reg.
lister; Guillemin's The Heavens; The
Worlds Columbian Exposition Qllustrated);
Amiel's journal; variety of works on
Household Economy; biographies of Moody
and Sankey, Frederick Douglass, Henry
W. Grady, U. S. Grant, Plus TX, John
Bright and Queen Victoria; novels from the
pens of Auerbach, Sue, Disraeli, Gable, Mrs.
Craik and George Eliot; histories by Hume,
Smollett, Green, Bonnechose, Alison, and
! others; works on religious themes by Glad
stone, Froude, Paley, Haweis. Keble, Man
sci, Bishop Brooks, Washington GLADDEN.,
Moses Ballou, Archbishop Spalding and
Cardinal Newman; and tbs poems of Byron,
Tennyson, Mrs. Browning, Coeridge, Hood,
Pope, Jean Ingelow, Bayard Taylor,
Holmes and Longfellow; besides great
variety OF other works, of which lack of
anaca for bids tha mantion NOW The trua.