The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-03-15

before Justice j. A. Burleigh, has been
again postponed until Thursday, March 81,
to await the result Of Murphy's injuries.
Murphy was reported little more com.
Portable this morning, but his physicians
still consider his case desperate one.
The hearing in the case against Randall
Blodgett for resisting an officer, that was
also to have been heard on Thursday at
Waterbury has been continued until
Thursday, March 16.
Writing from West Palm Beach, Florida,
under date of March 6, Frank e. Howe,
formerly editor Of the RECORD says;
Everything is nice and summary down
here. The mercury has not been below $50
here but no damage was done except to
bananas and they were not killed. Orange
trees, even those in blossom were not hurt
| particle and pineapples which are very
delicate were only touched in exposed
spots. Some tomato plants were killed but
were Immediately reset and the crop will
only be delayed a little. I have picked
tomatoes within a week from vines that
were not covered at the time of the frost
and were not hurt"
Brief mention was made in the RECORD
Tuesday evening of the death Of Ella Swift,
wife of John w. Peck, which occurred
Tuesday afternoon at her home on Vine
street. Mrs. Peck has been i'll for the past
two years Her disease developed into con-
sumption which ended her life. She was
born in Wolcott forty-three years ago. She
leaves a husband, one son, two brothers,
Swift of Blackstone, Mass, and one sister,
Augusta M. Swift OF Stoneham, Mass.
Mrs. Peck had borne her sufferings for
the past two years with patience and resig.
nation. Always cheerful, she forgot, in a
measure her own Affections in her unselfish
care for others. She leaves a wide circle OF
friends who sincerely mourn her death.
Funeral services were held from her late
hume at two o'clock Thursday afternoon,
Rev. Andrew Gillies officiating.
The persons who stole Miss E. Maud
Crossett's pocket book on Monday after
noon, at the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation building, and which contained S22
tents, minus $40, returned. The purse was
taken by two little girls, who afterward
went to Barre and spent $40 for knick-
knacks, and upon returning to this city,
threw the purse, containing the remainder
OF the money, behind the door OF the Barre
street entrance to the Hyde building, where
it remained unnoticed until this morning
One OF the girls told her mother about
what she had done, the mothers suspicious
having been aroused by her child possess
| ing 30 many new articles, and she recov.
cred the purse and handed it over to Spe-
cial Officer Whittier, who has the case in
charge. Mr.. Whittier and the principal in
the affair went to Barre Thursday afternoon
| where an attempt was made to exchange
the articles purchased by the girls for the
money, in order that Miss Crossett may not
be the loser by the incident. As YET IL is
undecided whether or not any legal action
will be taken against the girls.
Street Commissioner Roberts points to
the items in the cost Of the permanent roads
built under his supervision during the past
year that appear on page fifty-two of the
annual report just published. From those
| figures 1t appears that the labor, the one
item in the aggregate cost for which he, the
commissioner, is directly responsible, is
S3,098.4 The remainder, so, 142 80, repre-
sents raw material and freight, which was
contracted for and supplied to him by the
city council. Mr.. Roberts finds a DISPOSE
ton some where to hold him personally re-
sponsible for the large cost OF road repairs
and road building. In theory, he is the
hired man OF the city council and obeys its
| orders, but there is belief more or less
prevalent that he runs things" in the road
department, and the city council takes its
orders from the street commissioners Hence
the disposition TO hold him responsible for
the size of the road bill and the ADM nistra-
ton of street affairs in general. But the
city council Is primarily responsible for all
contracts aud orders, and IL its members are
or have been, "bossed' by the street COM
missioner they are responsible for that, too.