The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-21

a jury trial, 1t was held before Judge
Smile and a jury Monday afternoon, w. A. .
Lord appearing for the state, and f. l..
Laird for the respondent, who was acquitted
THE new residence Of G e. Mills on Col
lege street, under the superintendence Of e.
E. Hills, builder, Is rapidly approaching COM
| pletion. The site IL one of the finest in the
city. The house is Of modern style, with
| spacious verandas and a carriage porch
| The inside finish Is TO be in whitewood, ash
and oak
EUGENE CARUsI was arrested last wednes.
day by Constable Dawley, charged with
assault on Mrs. Harry Bartolli near the
/ electric light station. Carusi skipped to
Barre but was found there by an officer
and arragned before j. III. Lucia as Justice
He was found guilty, fined S10,51 and
| placed under $500 bonds to keep the peace.
A COMPANY of FIVE coored male singers
from Atlanta University gave delightful
concert at Bethany Church last Monday
evening In explaining the work in which
they are engaged, Professor Webster, who
accompanied them, paid tender and elo-
quent tribute to Rev. j. III. Hincks, under
whom all the singers OF the evening had
studied and labored.
THE annual Sunday school picnic Of
Christ Church will be held to-day at Mar
wins woods. The scholars, teachers and
their friends will meet at the Montpelier
q Wells River depot at g. As A. NJ. Train
| leaves at ten o'clock. Donations of money
for necessary expenses and eatables may be
sent to the rector at the depot. Parishion-
ers and friends invited.
On and after August % each holder OF a
card will be permitted to withdraw two
books from the Montpelier Public Library
at one time, provided that only one of the
books shall be fiction. The trustees have
in preparation slips for distribution, sug-
ttw.. - 4.s. l.
jects for assistance to patrons Of the library
in making the best use Of the books.
Mr.. FRANK N. SMITH, who represented
Waterbury in the legislature of 1894, and
the longtime town clerk of that town, was
| last Monday elected treasurer of the Cap
ital Savings Bank and Trust Company.
| The directors of this institution are to be
congratulated on securing the services Of
Mr.. Smith for this responsible position, the
duties Of which he has already assumed.
THE Jack Harkaway company passed
through Montpelier yesterday on their way
to Barre, where they played last evening,
They carry sixty.foot carlo ad of scenery,
the opera house this evening. The COM
pany returned from Barre after the enter
tainment last evening, and will have the en-
tire day to prepare for to-night's perform
| ance.
THE employees at the Office Of the Yer
| mOuC MUTUAL II lT6 insurance company nave
challenged the force at the National Life
Office to game of baseball, to be played
on Seminary campus next Saturday after
noon. The challenge has been accepted.
Did space permit, the challenge and accept
ance would be published in full. They
show the possibilities OF the English Ian.
gusge in very entertaining manner
T. W. wooD has assured Rev. W. j
O'Sullivan, pastor of St. Augustines g
Church, that during his trip abroad, next
summer, he will copy Murillo's celebrated
painting, The Lady OF the Rosary" and
present it to st. Augustine Church. Father
O'Sullivan announced this to his congrega-
ton last Sunday, and the generosity Of Mr.
Wood is highly appreciated both by pastor
and people.
JAMES O. HOUGHTON has presented to the
Montpelier Public Library valuable col.
lection OF theological works, some two hun
dred and twenty volumes in all, from the
private library OF his father, the late Rev
James Clay Houghton, who during the
last few years of his life, was pastor OF the
Congregational church at Chelsea, Vt. This
important collection will be placed in the
rooms of the library during the presen,
week.
BUT little business was transacted at the
regular meeting OF the city council last
given permission to repair his house or
Winter street, and Aughtney Shambo tC
shingle his barn. The merry.go round
owned by A. Scampaui & Co., was licensed
for two weeks for S15. Several minor bills
were ordered paid, and the clerk was in
structed to remind delinquent Taxpayers o.
their obligations to the CITY,
ABOUT sixty members of Mount Zior
Commandery, Knights Templar, and theil
ladies', will leave Montpelier for Boston
next Monday morning at eight O'Clock, ovel
A anaoial 90 will ha prnuiIaS for hair !,
At Wells River hey will be joined by Pal
estine Commandery of St. Johnsbury and
Malta Commandery OF Newport. The
party will be given special train from
Woods lille, due to arrive in Boston about
four o'clock.
SHORTLY before his last illness, the lat,
Frederick j. Prentiss commissioned Mr.. T
W. Wood to paint portraits Of Mrs. Judge
Samuel Prentiss and DR.. Lamb, well
known character in the early days of Mont
pelier, which he was intending to presen
to the Vermont Historical Society. Mr.
Prentiss died before the work was accom-
plished, but his representatives have car
ried out his wishes, and these portraits
were hung last week in the rooms of the
society at the state house.
IT is amusing to notice how an item o.
general interest that gets started the rounds
OF the state press in ludicrous form will
travel from one newspaper to another with
out getting Strengthened. An amusing CASE
in point is at hand. Dispatches sent out
from Montpelier on the night of the open
ing Of the Wood Art Gallery gave the
title of one OF the most noted portraits as
ULYSSES Driving Polyphemus," when il
should have been "Ulysses Deriding Poly
phemus." The state press, almost without
exception, copied the absurd title, which, a,
the time of its first appearance, made the
genial artist shake with laughter.
THE Nashua Telegraph OF last week
brings the intelligence Of the death in tina,
city of Miss Bernice N. Phelps daughter oi
the late William Percy Phelps, who died in
Montpelier last November. Shortly after
the death Of Mr.. Phelps, Mrs. Phelps and
daughter went TO Nashua to reside Miss
Bernice was, for many years, a member OF
the Baptist Sunday school in Montpelier,
and her circle of friends both young and
old, was very large. Her untimely death
at the age Of fifteen years, brings sorrow to
very many hearts in the home of her birth
and girlhood. The sympathy of these
friends goes out in large measure to the
doubly afflicted mother.