The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-06-06

formally entered up to date, are L. Bart
Cross, Montpelier; q. s. Stanton. Roxbury;
X. #. Drenan, Woodbury.; W. II. Morse,
Barre city. Woodbury. will determine at
its caucus, our correspondent AYERS, wheth-
er the town will seek the senatorship or
the Office Of assistant judge.
The electric car leaving Barre at 615
Sunday evening was derailed at the cross
ing Just above Dodge bridge, by the break
ing Of the fange' The twenty-five passen
gers on the car were considerably shaken
up, but no one was injured and the car kept
right side mp. Another electric was sent
from the car barn after q short delay, on
which the passengers were brought to
Montpelier
On Wednesday evening and all day
Thursday, June 10 and ID, meetings will be
held in the Evangelical church. Rev.
Joshua Gill, presiding elder of the Boston
district Of the New England Conference of
the Evangelical association will be present
The quarterly conference will be held
either Wednesday or Thursday evening.
All come ON Thursday and bring your
lunch. Free coffee will be served.
w. A. Shaw, observer at the Northfeld
signal station, furnishes the following me-
theological summary for the month of May
just closed; Mean temperature, 800; high
est temperature, 88o. May ID, lowest tenn.
perature, 900, May H. total precipitation,
lOO luCi ohi pT6VHllluR ulT6CIlOu OI Wluub,
south; total movement of wind 241 inches;
maximum velocity OF wind, "A miles an
hour. May 10, number OF clear days, 4;
pretty cloudy days, ID; cloudy days, IA.
The following meteorological data, for the
month of June covering period OF thirteen
years, is furnished by W. A. Shaw OBJ
server at the Northtield signal station:
Mean or normal temperature, $50; warmest
month, in 1895. with an average of 66o; cold
est month, in 1896, with an average OF 60o;
highest temperature, 92o, June IL, 1892;
lowest temperature, 800. June 3, 1891 and
June 7, 1894; average precipitation, 3,16
inches; greatest monthly precitation, II
inches, in 1888; least monthly precipitation,
1.60 inches, in 1899; greatest amount Of pre-
cipitation in any consecutive twenty-four
hours, 1,58 inches, June and 10, 1897; pre-
vailing direction of wind, south; highest
velocity of wind, 40 miles an hour, June 8,
1898; average number OF clear days, g.;
partly cloudy days, IA; cloudy days, 10.
Dan G. Field and family returned to this
city Friday evening from Waterbury, Conn.
Mr. Field recently sold his personal effects
in this city and went to Waterbury to run
the Arlington hotel. Upon arriving there
he found that his purchase had been grossly
misrepresented to him on the occasion Of
his first visit there and that he was not get
ting by long ways what he supposed he
had purchased. During his stay at the hotel
on his first visit, he saw guests turned away
nightly because Of lack of room to accom-
modate. This proved to be q game to sell
the house as the guests were nothing but
dummies used for the occasion. Other
matters after this sort were discovered upon
his going there to settle and the deal has
been declared off. Mr.. Field is to secure a
tenement here and resume housekeeping
He has as yet no plans as to what line OF
business he will engage in.
The civil suit OF the Montpelier and Wells
River railroad against q. Macchai OF Barre,
to recover freight charges on car load of
granite, was tried in city court Friday af.
ternoon before Judge M. e. Smile. j. P.
Lamson appeared for the plaintiff and j.
w. Gordon for the defendant. Judgment
was rendered for the plaintiff to recover
S57 freight charges, damages, interest and
costs. The defence claimed that the freight
charges should have been paid at West
Seneca, N. Y. This is a prepaid station,
and plaintiffs would not forward the gran
| ite unless the charges were guaranteed by
the defendant, the shipper. When the
freight arrived at West Seneca the defend
ants agent there had failed in business
and the charges were never paid. Hence
| the suit.