The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-03-27


termined champion of the cause Of charac-
ter b hiding in young men. 1t is rare for
young man to reside in locality f)r so
considerable period without making any
enemies, and yet creating permanent
place for himself as a potent factor for good
in the broad fields of muscle, morals and
Christianity. Universal regret will attend
the departure of Mr.. and Mrs. Spence, to-
gether with the best wishes of the commu-
nifty for happiness and success in their new
field of labor"
THE following data, compiled from the
weather bureau records At Northh5ld, cover
the period given the month OF April for
eight years, and should prove Of value and
interest in anticipating the more important
me geological elements, and the range
within which such variations may be ex.
pected to keep for the )ming month: Tenn
perature-Mean, or normal, 1872; warme 1t
month that of 1899, average 43o; coolest
month that of 1887, average $50; highest,
78o, April % and 81, 1891 lowest, 10, April
l, 1887; average date OF first killing frost in
autumn, September 81. Precipitation-Av-
eraye, 88 inches; average number OF days
with OF or more, IL; greatest monthly pre-.
cipitation, 3.37 inches, in 1887; least, 0 A
inches, in 1892 greatest amount OF preclp-
itation recorded in any twenty four con-
secutive hours, 100 inches, April 1929,
1887; greatest snowfall recorded in any
twenty.four consecutive hours (record ex.
tending to winter OF 1SS4-85 only, 6 inches
April 15, 1893 Misunderstanding number
OF clear days, 8; partly cloudy days, II;
cloudy days, IL. withdrawing winds
have been from the west: highest velocity,
4S miles from the southwest, April g. 1892.
The New York Sun OF Friday has the fol.
lowing: 1.-THE nother of Washington
Irving Bishop, the mind reader who died
some years ago, was summoned to the Har-
lem court yesterday TO explain why she
was taking care of some other persons
three weeks old baby without special per.
NIT to board babies. Mrs Bishop was in
troduced to Police Justice Weide as Lady
Lucas Langley Nicholas. It was explained
that that name and title were acquired
along with a husband about a year ago.
The husband is Nickola Pavtro vitch, a
Montpelier, Vt. He is described as a
gentleman of leisure. Mrs. Nicholas, who
seems to have taken her husbands Chris
tian name for last name, is living tempo.
rarily in fiat at 2,147 Fifth avenue, as she
expects to give benefit performance at the
Harlem Opera House Hall. The proceeds
will be bestowed on the Harlem churches, it
is said. The Gerry society was told about
the baby by Lady Nicholas neighbors, who
said that two other women, who received
much company, lived with Mrs. Pavtro
witch. Agent Gormley called on Friday
and was introduced to the baby" Lady
Pavtrovtch was able to satisfy the court
that the child was the daughter of an Aus
tran, that its mother had died. and that
she adopted it, rechristening it Austrica
Lucas Langley Nicholas, and therefore did
not come under the baby-farm law.
ONE "Col." Sillowaye was for short
| time, two years ago, compositor in the
WATCHMAN office. He claimed to be vet
eran of the late war, to have served at the
beginning of the rebellion as locomotive
engineer running out OF Washington, for
the go vernment then as engineer on gov.
eminent steamers, and finally on the staff
of General Mcclellan, where he acquired
the title Of colonel. He claimed to have
! served as locomotive engineer for two years
without compensation of any kind. When
| asked why he worked without pay, he said
he had nothing to do, didn't care for the
money, and so contributed his services,
though the government was paying en-
gineers 1925 month. Persons became in.
terested in the old man, who said he had an
application for pension on file at Wash
ington which seemed to be chung up" in
the department. Letters were written Sen
ator Proctor in the veterans behalf, but no
such man as the "colonel " could be found
anywhere on the rolls--a circumstance he
explained by saying that he had served un-
der fictitious name. The colonel's story
was finally discredited, and, after varied
| experience here, he left for "new fields and
pastures green" which he found in Boston.
In that city he has since figured conspicu-
| ously in romance and patent medicine adj
vertisements, posing as the savior of Lin
coin from capture by the rebels, and play
ing upon the patriotic sympathies of the
Hub in way that raised smile among his
old associates here. His impositons have
at length become known, and a pauper's
ticket hey ond the boundaries of Massachu
sets was procured for him. On condition
that he would 60 and stay away, he was re-
leased without prosecution.