The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-07
who Is well-known Montpelier gentleman,
vouches for the truth Of the narrative.

who is well-known Montpelier gentleman,
vouches for the truth Of the narrative,
HE appointments made by Sergeant-at-
Arms T. Q. Phinney are as follows: Door
keepers, y. W. Briggs OF Brandon, Martin
Shattuck of Eden, Dennis E. Nav of a..
Johnsbury, Orville G. Wheeler of Burine.
ton; messengers, Robert E. Clark of Island
Pond, Fred B. Chase Of Bradford, Harold
ID. Rugg OF Hartland, Leonard Mack of
vergennes, Paul r. Manchester OF Pawlet
Hugh III. Henry Of Chester, Carl Kelton OF
Montgomery, Joseph K. Farman OF Peru
clerk in the sergeant-at-arms' office, t. p
Adams of Swanton; clerk in the secretary
OF states office, Dan @. Webster of Brattle-
boro; governors messenger, Aaron Grout
OF Derby; Waterman, John L. futile OF
Montpelier. Tonight or tomorrow, Mr.
Phinney will decide who OF the doorkeep-
ers will be connected with the House and
who with the Senate. The larger of the
messenger boys will serve in the Senate
and the smaller ones in the House.
MAJOR JOHN II. MIMMs of St. Adams will
be the official reporter of the Senate this
year II ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Fisk does
what is expected of him. Mr.. Mimms has
been one of the reporters of the House for
several years and deserves promotion. The
House reporters, UNLESS signs fail, will be
Joseph w. Sault of st. Johnsbury and
Luther B. johnson of Randolph. Mr.. Sault
held the position two years ago and has
ability and experience. Mr.. johnson is the
Ne,os and will fill the position with credit.
1t is conceded that Fred A. Rowland of
Montpelier will be made clerk OF the House.
The candidates for secretary of the Senate
are A. g. Coolidge of Rutland, Max L.
Powell of Burlington and Carl G. Fletcher
of st. Adams.
BRADLEY G. NEWELL, the famous YER
mont Schlatter, from Nottingham, who is
member of this legislature, is said to have
given up healing, for the present at least.
Since his return from England, where he
went with the Ancient and Hon 1rable Ar
tillery OF Boston, he has lived quietly at his
home in the village Of Jacksonville. He
has recently bought steam launch, to be
placed on Sadawga Lake near Mr.. Newells
home. Mr.. Newell is reputed to have
cleared $4,000 in the year that he prac-
ticed the art OF healing. 1t is also said that
the object of his trip to England was to
cure his royal highness the Prince of
Wales, OF deafness, though whether he
cured him or not has never been told Per-
haps some enterprising newspaper reporter
OF the Capital may interview Mr.. Newell on
the subject.
OF the 245 members of the House, 221 were
born in Vermont in New York, eight;
Canada, six; New Hampshire, five; Massa-
chusetts, one; Michigan, one; England,
one; not reported two. Their occupations
are: Farmers, 1872; merchants, thirty eight;
manufacturers, ifteen lawyers, fifteen;
physicians, eight; millers, six; railroad
men, four; bankers, three; mechanics, two;
teachers, two; carpenters, three; one each,
retired merchant, town clerk butcher,
clerk in store, county clerk, hotel keeper,
market gardener, capitalist, auctioneer,
editor, healer, blacksmith, painter, minis
ter, civil engineer, superintendent, laborer.
Their religious preferences are: Congre-
gationalist, sixty-fve; Methodist, fifty
three; Liberal, or preference not stated,
forty; Universalist, thirty-two Baptist,
| twenty-nine, Episcopalian, nine; Roman
CATHOLIC, six; Advent, five; Unitarian,
three; Christian, two; Church of the Dis
ciples, one; Presbyterian two. According to
these figures, the farmers have majority of
nine over all other occupations and the
Congregationalists have a plurality of
twelve over the Methodists, the second in
the number of preferences
STORIES concerning w. Seward Webb
seem to be in order, and whether they are
true or not makes slight difference. Here
is one about his courtship. He was at the
time young surgeon in the Vanderbilt
Clinic Hospital, when one day little pa
She was sweet little girl, and DR.. Webb
spent many a half hour endeavoring TO
make her life happy. The little girl often
told the doctor of kind young lady who
brought her sweets nearly every day. The
doctor did not know it at the time, but the
little girl used to tell the A." kind young
lady" how good the doctor was to her.
One day the child had a very bad turn.
Her life hung by thread and the doctor
remained by her bedside for hours. While
thus occupied, the "kind young lady" en-
tered on her daily round of charitable work.
The little one opened her eyes and smiled.
:" This is the kind DOCTOR" she whispered.
Lila Vanderbilt held out her hand and
clasped that of the man who afterward be-
| came her husband. That meeting beside
the sick-bed of the pauper child was the
turning point in DR.. Webbs life. Lila Van
derbilt was in her teens then. 1t was a case
of love at first sight.
THE session that begins to-day if it
ends at the time fate has fixed as the ter
minus of the biennial legislative holiday
season, will be one of the shortest in the
calendar. 1t begins at the extreme limit in
October, the seventh of the month, and if
President Cleveland feels duly thankful for
the overthrow OF popocracy and names the
usual time for Thanksgiving, the last Thurs
day in November, the twenty-sixth, the
session will end on the morning of the
twenty fifth. The session will thus be
seven weeks long, during which there will
be seven Sundays. There will thus be
forty-two working days, or actually but
forty-one, as November 25-Wednesday-
will notcount, except on the legislative pay
roll. There will probably be an adjourn
ment from Friday, October 80, to Wednes-
day, November 4, on account of the national
election. Both Of these dates, as well as
those intervening, will be lost reducing
the number Of working days to thirty-six.
If there is the usual number of junkets and
adjournments this number may be reduced
to thirty. There will be need for the prac-
tice of wisdom and virtue" and the
constitutional opponents of these attributes
wi i need to emulate the example of the
busy bee" and diligently Improve each
shining hour"
Col CHARLES s. FORBES, OF the Vermonter,
will occupy his old quarters, room No. 5. at
the Pavilion, during the session The
| lAadQuartara of the VarmOnt McklQleV
Club, of which he is secretary, have been
established there, where the roll of men,
bership may be signed by all those DESTROYS
OF joining the club. There are at present
two hundred members, and it is proposed
to increase the number to one thousand.
Senator Reddeld Proctor is president OF the
club. Major Mckinley has sent fine life
like portrait of himself to Secretary Forbes,
which has been hung in the Pavilion office.
Accompanying the picture was letter, stat
ing that it was one of two in existence, and
that Mrs. Mckinley considered the photo
graph the best that has been taken OF her
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