The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-01-09

sensation and this paper was very gener.
ally commended for showing up Mr.. Ar
mold, the attorney for the Leslie E. Kelley
Company. JUDGING from all accounts, the
ofhcials OF the Green Mountain Keelov In
sutute Company who were here from
th mhalue, We're somewhat staggered when
they read the WATCHMAN, for they evi.
dently were Of the belief that no Vermont
newspaper would dare 70 say anything but
honey ed words OF a man of so much impor-
lance as the Texas lawyer had proclaimed
himself TO be. As a supposed retaliatorv
measure President Becher discharged the
stenographer AZ the Institute a few hours
AIter me WATCHMAN was out In Justice to
Mrs. Mutt, IL should be said that Z one of
me inside facts, published exclusively in
the WATCHMAN last week, or any of the
iacts, for that matter, were obtained from
her by the member Of the WATCHMAN
stan who wrote the article. Her discharge
mattere1 little to her, however, as it saved
her the necessity of resgning Saturday
night, a. she was intending to do, having
no desire 10 remain at the Institute under
the present management.
UNDER an evergreen marriage bell, in
the presence OF a fsw relatives and intimate
friends, George T. Archer and Miss Nellie
q. Colby were married last Wednesday
evening by Rev J. Edward Wright. at the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Colby, parents
OF the bride, on Barre street. The cere-
mOny was performed at halt past seven
The reception that followed was largely at
tended. The receiving party was co nposed
OF Nr. and Mrs. Colby and Mr. and Mrs.
Archer. Louis j. Hathaway and Henry
w. Cate acceptably performed the duties of
ushers, while the dining room was in
charge OF Misses Minnie j. Clark and Eva
j. Bancroft. Under the skilled hands Of
Mrs Harlow NJ S NTH and Mrs F. K
Hastings, the pleasant home Of Mr.. Colby
had been transformed into a bower of green
and towering plants There was no at
tempt at elaborate display, but everything
evinced the excellent taste OF the decora-
tors Ia one of the rooms upstairs a gen.
erous display of wedding gifts was seen, in.
cluding the useful the decorative, the
costly, and the ornamental. In the cen er
OF the table stood a handsome French
clock, the gift of the Young Peoples Fra
ternity of the Church Of the Messiah of
which Mr. and Mrs. Archer are members
The newly welded couple are to reside at
5S Barre str aet,
REV. L. L. BEEMAN the presiding elder,
conducted the services, administered the
sacrament, and preached at Trinity Church,
last Sunday morning. Mr.. Beeman took
for basis Of his remarks the word "Selab,"
50 often found in the Psalms, the meaning
of which is, pause and reflect, stop and con-
slider. This, the speaker said, is most APP
proprlate on the first Sunday of the new
year, one of the mlestones in life, and in
the history of the world. We ou yht to take
OIL lhNCnlOIy Vi Nudb we DIlUR INTO Ll6 new
year, an account of our spiritual stock in
trade, our forces and powers, and cas5 a
trial balance to see whether we have had
profit or losses during the past year. We
are all what we have made ourselves, and
our character is our stock in trade Unless
we bring in some new force, the future will
simply be development of the present.
1t the inventory shows lack Of moral for ce,
we need to lay hold on divine power that
we may have the necessary equipment for
building religious character Well in-
deed is it for us all on this first Sabbath of
the new year to find out where we are in
the voyage of life, and what is the course of
our bark. Some year will be our last.
Some OF us to-day are seeing the last fl st
s lnday of the new year that will ever shine
upon us in this life. II we knew that we
had only few more days or weeks to live,
what would be our thought and anxieiyl
In closing, Mr.. Beeman said: God grant
that we may all live thoughtfully, so that If
the summons comes to us before the year
closes we may safely drop anchor in the
heavenly harbor."
CHARLES DEF. BANCROFT, who is un-
questioned authority on all matters of this
kind, has furnished the WATCHMAN the fol-
lowing vital statistics for NJ )ntpelier, for
the year 1894: Whole number of deaths, 76
all but two occurring in the village. Sex
"a males, AZ females. Number of deaths
in each month-January, 10; February, 4;
March, z; April, o. May, 3; June, I; ; July, 4;
August, 10; September, s; October, II; No
vember, 8; December g. Diseases-con-
sumption, II; pneumonia, 9; ,apoplexy, Z;
heart disease, 7; cerebro-spinal meningitis,
6; dropsy, 4; infantile disease, 4; cholera in
fantum, 4; cancer, 3; blood poisoning 3;
tumor, 2; bright's disease, Q; typhoid fever,
2; old age, 2; various her causes and com.
pication of diseases, 9. Ages-under one
year, 13; between one and five, 3; five and
ten, ten and tifteen | fifteen and twenty,
3; twenty and twenty five, 8; twenty five
a I'd thirty, /; thirty and thirty. five, 4;
thirty-hve and forty, 4; forty and forty five,
7; forty five and fifty, 3; fifty and fifty five,
3; fifty five and sixty, 4; sixty and sixty
five, 8; sixty-five and seventy, q seventy
and seventy five, 8; seventy.h five and eighty,
2; eighty and eighty five, 8; eighty. five and
ninety, /; ninety and ninety-fve, 3. The
average age, forty years; average age of the
sixteen oldest (all over seventy eighty
years. Twenty five We're males and twenty
seven were females over twenty -one years
OF age. Eighteen We're husbands, II we're
wives, were widowers, and eight we're
widows Number OF deaths in 1898, 90;
average age, forty-tive years. Average
number of deaths yearly for the five pre-
vious years 102, the greater number occur
ring in 1S90--126. No deaths from diphtheri
have occurred during the past yo years.
In all of these statistics deaths occurring on
the Berlin side are not included.
IN the course of some Enthusiastically
fishing a newspaper / the country, the
Hardwick Gazette has the following; "And
as handy vehicle the newspaper has the
belt, the worlds record. People ride it
who couldn't keep on anything else, even
stone drag. They ride it at all times, under
all circumstances and for all purposes. A
brother injects his head through the door
and says: Ourchurchwillh ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Thursday Observation-Disclosures. Makemen-
tionofil'. Exeunt A sister piles on ths
load nicely worded note-jlst as the pa
per goes % presto the effect that . he
n 9 X tmeetingoftheroya yalbengals ocietywillbe
Observation-Disclosures ternoonthepublicarec 0 r
diallyinvitedpease seputthisnthepaper. And
It's done. A country newspaper wants 10.
cal items handed in, and is thankful for
them, even motto ss of society meetings, do
nations, and mass of other matter of no
general interest But If a newspaper is
willing to insert these latter, which are
really business notices, it has right to ask
that they be properly written out, ready to
set and handed in in time. Ninety-nne
out of every hundred notices given p lper
for publication have TO be revised, and in a
majority OF stances entirely Ie.w wr ten.
This is all labor of love on the part Of the
"a fitor whn 1naa q favor tvuioa ,xba, ba