The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-08

beholder and makes him long to see the
clever burlrsque repeated. The graceful
dancing and charming singing OF some Of
tn leading characters did much to keep
alive the interest. The popularity of this
merry and beautiful play is not hard to un-
derstand.
MRS. LAURA HURD PRENTIss, widow OF
the late Edward III Pfentiss died at her
HON, in Brooklyn, N. Y, Decem DER %,
ag eighty i've years. Her husband was a
son OF Senator aud Ju ge Samuel Prentiss,
and was born in Mon pelitr, December %,
1908. He was in business in Montpelier as
druggist until 1912. when he was ap
p lin ed clerk of the United States district
court for Vermont, position he held un ii
September 1859. H. moved to Brooklyn in
1865 and remained there until his death
some six years ago. Many of the Older
residents of Montpelier remember Mr.. and
Mrs. Prentiss. Their removal to another
city was universally regretted. Mrs. Prem.
tiss was endowed with admirable qualities
OF mind and heart, and was adapted, both
by ability and training, to fill an important
| place in society and the world. She was
| universally esteemed and respected where
ever she was known, and her memory will
| be- fragrant for long years to come.
REV. DR.. N. g. CLARK, secretary of the
American Board of Commissioners for For
egn Missions, died last Friday at his home
in West R"xbury Mass, aged seventy-one
years. DR.. Clark was the son of the late
Dr. Charles Clark of Montpelier, and a
brohsr of Mrs. j. V. Babcock, Mrs. s. j.
Y. Vail and Mrs. Calvin f. Fullerton. He
was born in Calais, January IS, 1926. He
wss graduate of the University of Yer.
mont and f the Theological School at An
dover, Mass and later was for twelve years
connected with the University of Vermont
as professor Of Latin and English Litera.
ture and as librarian. For the past thirty
years he has been prominently identified
with the American Board of Foreign Mis-
sions. Ills first wife was Miss Mary Reed,
daughter of the late Hezekiah Reed Of
Montpelier His second wife, who sur
wives him, was daughter of Rev. Isaac s..
Worcester of Auburndale, Mass. Funeral
services were held from his late home in
West Roxbury last Monday afternoon. The
body was brought to Montpelier on Tues.
| day, and the burial service will be held this
morning at half past ten from the residence
of j. V Babcock on East Liberty street.
THE University of Vermont Gee, Banjo
| and Mandolin Clubs will appear at Blanch-
ard Opera House next Monday evening
under the management of Thomas FL. Can
field, Jr. This is their first concert in
Montpelier for number of years, and it is
to be hoped that the boys may have no oc-
casion to mourn their appearance here be-
| cause of lack of support from the music
loving people If Montpelier and the many
friends of tn University in the city Mont
! pelier has sent many young men to the
! University of Vermont, and ought to gladly
show its appreciation of her student must
cal organizations. The clubs, this season,
present much better programme tn IN ever
before, OF college songs, medleys, quartettes,
solos, pleasing banjo pieces and artistic
mandolin selections. Mr.. Ray w. Huse OF
this city, who not only made" the clubs
his first year in college, but has become one
of the most reliable men upon them, will
accompany the clubs to Montpelier. His
excellent work upon the violin has elected
rnuph vprah1a from the
and elsewhere in every concert given this
year by the clubs.
ONE by one the pretty fictions OF history
are dissipated and nothing is left of comedy
romances but the meatless skeletons of a
few bony facts. The WATCHMAN recently
printed, as illustrating General Sherm an g
kissing propensities," an alleged Incl
dent in his reception at Montpelier juno.
ton, generation ago, when he was passing
through the town by way of the Vermont
Central. A cousin of the heroine Of the in
cident, native of Montpelier and well
known here, writes the editor: Seeing the
inclosed in your issue of December Is l de.
sire-although after so many years, it really
matters but little how one may be reported
to give you the incident relating to Mrs.
Greene as ii did occur. Colonel Jacob L..
Gre. ne (who was on General Custer's staff
not Sherman's) settled, after the close OF
thu wa, in Pittsfed, Mass, and, with his
wife formerly Miss Annette M. Humphrey,
was visiting relatives in Montpelier at the
time of General Sherman's passing over the
Vermont Central road. Colonel Greene
and wife went to the Junction and, with
many others, surged past the General for a
handshake. AS Mrs. Greene, who was an
unusually tall lady, approached and took
one flor he used both) of General Sherman
extended h 4nds, he remarked, "A Green
Mountain Girl, l am sure!' Her reply came
quickly, Yes, sir, and soldiers wife,
when she passed directly on to make way
for those following, who possibly may have
been kissed by General Sherman"