The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-08-28

and the visitors were entertained in an in
formal way by local dealers.
REV FRANK E. WHITMAN, the former pas
tor at Berlin Corner, has applied for divorce
in the district court of Oklahoma Territory.
He alleges, says an Associated Press dis
patch, that his wife had an ungovernable
temper and would at times break up the
furniture and drive him from the house, and
that she left her home and neglected her
children to deliver lectures. In Vermont
the falsity of such allegations is too well
known to need denial. The course Mr.
Whitman has taken will surely kill any
sympathy for him among those to whom he
formerly ministered, and will lead good
many people to believe that the stories re-
ported about him at the time he skipped
were only too true. Mrs. Whitman has in
her possession letters received from Mr..
Whitman since leaving Berlin which very
cOnclusively prove the falsity of the state
ments set forth by him in the Oklahoma
court, and the guilt of other parties, which
letters she will use at her discretion.
If there is one man in Montpelier who
enjoys more than any other a joke on his
friends or fellow workmen, that man is
Robert VI. Whelan the good-natured Cen
tral Vermont engineer between Montpelier
junction and Barre. The other fellows
have their innings just now, however, and
they are making Rob's" life a burden.
Some time early last Sunday morning En-
gineer Whelan was ordered out to go to
Montpelier junction to meet one of the
Knights Templar specials that went through
the junction that night to bring to Montpe-
lier some passengers who wanted to stop
over at the capital. The faithful knight of the
lever obeyed orders and was at the juno
ton when the special arrived but the only
passenger for him was Luco Nicholas.
This relative of the King of Greece had a
special car from the Junction to Montpelier,
but the remarks of Conductor and Engineer
Whean regarding his distinguished passen-
ger would look horribly in cold type.
Fourth of July fireworks cut no ice beside
Roberts pyrotechnical vocal display on thai
occasion.
REPRESENTATIVE Of the WATERMAN
sent his card, Tuesday afternoon, to Justice
Harlan of the United States supreme court,
who is spending the summer at the Pavilion,
hoping to get his opinion of the political
situation in Kentucky, and what he thought
Colonel Bradley's chances are for electi on
as the republican governor OF that state.
Judge Harlan received the newspaper III an
very cordially and was perfectly willing to
converse in the charming manner charac-
teristic OF the man, on any subject in the
world except politics. He asserted that he
had practically been away from Kentucky
for seventeen years, and was no. posted on
th 3 situation there as are the men who are
on the ground, and, in any event, he very
properly thought it would not be in good
! form " for him to discuss for publication or
consent to be interviewed on the present
unsettled political situation in the Blue
| Grass State. Judge Harlan has faculty,
! however of dismissing a newspaper re-
porter, and sending him away in as happy
a frame of mind as though he had secured
column interview on the subject desired.
The largest granite cross ever cut in
Montpelier for private individual is now
nearing completion at the sheds of the
! Capital Granite Company. Ever since last
February Mr.. t. w. Eagan, the proprietor,
has had four expert workmen on the job,
and it will be ready for shipment about
! September l, The block of granite from
which this massive cross was cut weighed
| thrty.two tons in the rough, and will
weigh about twelve tons when finished.
| The height of this cross is twenty-one feet,
the distance across the arms six feet and
one inch, and it is two feet nine inches
square at the base The plinth that will
support the cross is seven feet and eight
inches square, and the bottom base is nine
feet square by four feet high The esti-
mated weight of the completed structure il
forty tons, and its estimated cost, set up in
the cemetery in Louisville, KY, its destina-
tion, is $4,000. The arms and body Of the
cross are beautifully carved in scroll work,
following closely the design. On one side
died February 20, 1882" AS a splendid
piece of workmanship, cut from the finest
granite this JOB is rarely equaled, and Mr.,
Eagan has reason TO be proud Of it.
WRITING from Saratoga Springs, o. ID.
Town, once a wellknown resident OF
| Washington county, says: have been a
subscriber To the WAToHMAN since 1861
and it is like letter from home each week.
| have sold nearly all of my landed inter-
ests in the West and have located with my
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