Vermont Watchman and State Journal from Montpelier, Vermont • 1

ThosLWood The Vermont Watchman. VOL. MONTPELIER, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1890. NUMBER 52. THE VERMONT WATCHMAN.

PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY The Watchman Publishing Company At Montpelier, Vt. ARTHUR Vt. General Editor. T. H.

HOSKINS, M. Vt. Agricultural Editor." a year; $1.00 for six months; fifty cents for three months. FoR publishing obituary notices five cents a line will henceforth be charged those who are subscribers to this paper. To all others, ten cents a line.

cost hear publishing these notices is considerable their increasing length and number compels us to charge our subscribers a rate that is merely nominal. THE PUBLISHERS. Clubbing List. The following offers are for the benefit only of subscribers to this paper who pay all arrearages and a year's subscription in advance. One or more of the publications may be ordered, but the money for each, at the club rate, must invariably accompany the order.

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THE Home Market Bulletin is a tariff publication, devoted to the idea its name implies. It is published by the Home Market Club of Boston of which Colonel Albert Clarke is secretary. THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL is one of the brightest, most popular and cheapest publications of its kind in the United States. Its list of contributors and its plans for the ensuing year will leave it without a rival in interest and attractiveness. We commend it to the attention of the ladies of the WATCHMAN family.

LIPPINCOTT in the list above holds a unique rank among the monthlies of the country. A story, complete in itself strong, original, piquant, wholesome-opens each number. Once acquainted with its merits and charms, we belie ve it would be the last of the periodicals one would feel disposed to relinquish. FOR the benefit of our mercurial subscribers-and we assume that they all love fun-we have added "Judge's Monthly Magazine of Fun" to our clubbing list. Not all fun-lovers can afford to pay ten cents a copy for Judge or Puck.

Our arrangements enable subscribers to procure the monthly edition of Judge at a merely nominal price. THE Cosmopolitan is one of the brightest, most varied and best edited of the magazines. It is the cheapest high-class illustrated monthly in the pages, by ablest writers, with over 1,200 illustrations by clever artists, at a cost to subscribers to this paper of only $1.60, which is below the cost of production. This price enly to new subscribers to the magazine. IN connection with this paper one or more of the following city weeklies will be furmished for FORTY-FIVE CENTS each: New York Tribune, New York Mail and Express, Boston Journal, Boston Advertiser.

Payment must be strictly in advance, both for this paper and the city journals, and for a full year. This offer is restricted, by the elty publishers, to the Vermont subscribers to this paper. Frank LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY has recently come under a new management and proprietorship that of W. J. Arkell and Russell B.

Harrison. The paper has been vastly improved, and has taken long strides to the front. It now claims to be by all odds the most widely circulated journal of its character in the United States. It is in every sense a paper for the household, in which men, women and children find abundant sources of delight. NOTICE the fact that we are offering the Mirror and Farmer (publishers' price $1.00) and the Cottage Hearth (publishers' price $1.50) at the merely nominal rate of FIFTY CENTS each.

The former 88 a farmers' paper, the latter as a household journal, are popular publications. The Home-Maker, an elegant monthly edited by Marion Harland, a recognized authority in household mattors, dood Housekeeping, a fortnightly of unrivaled excellence, and Home Magazine, edited by Mrs. General Logan, are also recommended to favorable attention. THE AMERICAN ECONOMIST is now added to our clubbing list. It is published weekly by The American Protective Tariff League, and the student of the great economic questions of the day will find the Economist a very valuable acquisition.

We heartily commend it to the attention of our readers who desire to become well informed, to procure all the facts of the practical working of the protective tariff. It is conducted by practical men, who are themselves a part of the great industrial interests of this country. See advertisement, page eight. Business Mere Mention. HOLIDAY goods at cost at Aller's.

A LINE of felt hats at fifty cents at the Misses Fisk. CHRISTMAS goods at Webster's. See their advertisement. NOVELTIES in silverware, and lots of them, at A. G.

Stone's. HEAVY WRAPPING PAPER for sale cheap at the WATCHMAN office. THE "tell-tale" bottle is the latest novelty. It is on sale at Bixby's. ORDERS by mail for job printing promptly filled at the WATCHMAN office.

A LONG wind Waterbury, sent by mail on receipt of $2.50, by A. G. Stone. BIXBY has a fine line of ladies' and gentlemen's pocket-books and card-cases. WORLD SOAP is pure, solid soap.

It will not wash away with a few times' using. PROGRAMMES of all kinds, wedding cards and invitations at the WATCHMAN job office. BIXBY has a full line of the best Christmas goods to be found in Boston and New York. You had better get the boy a watch at G. Stone's.

Six dollars will do it in good shape. EvERYTHING that ought to be found in a first-class drug-store is now on sale at Bixby's. READ the clearance sale of dry goods advertised by L. P. Gleason on the eighth page.

WHEATLEY is selling new towels at from ten cents to $1 apiece. His stock is large and well selected. SATIN ribbons Nos. 7 and 9 marked down for the holiday trade at the Misses Fisk, 27 State street. To LET- A good tenement on Hubbard street for a small family.

Inquire at Marvin Sherburne's. Chamois vests and suits for ladies and gentlemen are one of the many lines of useful articles on sale at Bixby's. SILK and linen handkerchiefs, gentlemen's mufflers, ladies' plush cloaks, on sale in great variety at Wheatley's. GET a policy covering loss by wind-storm, tornadoes, cyclones or hurricanes, of A. C.

Brown Son, at a very small cost. PEOPLE desiring a good paint for buildings, at low prices, are referred to the advertisement of the Patrons' Paint Works. WE have the largest and best stock of nice candies for this Christmas that we ever had. Fresh goods, just made. C.

11. CROSS SON. Keep out the cold by using Dodge's weather strips. Orders by mail promptly attended to. E.

E. Dodge, Montpelier, Vt. IT is important that parties not owning any real estate should insure their personal property with A. C. Brown Son, where they are sure of getting lowest rates.

Ar Bixby's you will find toilet sets, triplicate mirrors, Japanese and celluloid goods, Ricksecker's cologne, toilet water and extracts, Lubin's perfumes in bulk, cut glass bottles, etc. DID you know that you could get a policy with A. C. Brown Son on your dwellinghouse at about one-half the rate you have been paying? That is what they guarantee they will do. SOLDIERS, soldiers' widows and dependent relatives, entitled to pensions under the new pension law, should send to T.

J. Deavitt, Montpelier, for a circular containing the law in full. PHILLIPS LUCAS have in stock a fine line of Rogers Brothers' knives and forks. Silverware of all kinds, in tasteful designs, is offered for the holiday trade. Call in and look at their stock.

THE January number of Harper's Magazine, now on sale at Long's book-store, contains the beginning of a novel by the popular writer, Charles Egbert Craddock, entitled "In the Stranger People's 'Country." A WATCH is, and always will be, one of the best Christmas presents. Phillips Lucas have all kinds, at almost any price. The celebrated quick-train Rockford is selling well. It is the best time-keeper in the world. Never be led to purchase a cheap bookcase.

It is money wasted. Go yourself or send to Paine's Furniture Company, 48 Canal street, Boston, where you can purchase a large bookcase, finely made and handsome in appearance, as low as $10. A CURE or no pay is what the proprietors of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery guarantee to those who use that wonderful medicine for any blood taint or humors, eruptions, pimples, bletches, scrofulous sores or swellings. Money returned if it don't benefit or cure.

GEORGE A. AINSWORTH, Barre and Will iamstown, dealer in pianos, organs and sewing-machines. Competition in quality and prices of goods challenged. Satisfaction guaranteed. Barre headquarters, Perley Chandler's jewelry-store, 73 North Main street.

Correspondence promptly attended to. Inspection of goods cordially invited. N. sells for $35 a vibrating shuttle sewing machine which the manufacturers guarantee 88 being "the best that can be made." HOLIDAY goods at cost at Aller's. full line, including diamonds from $10 upwards; friendship riugs, new designa; pearl rings; plain gold wedding rings nice for Christmas gifts Phillips Lucas', Montpelier, Vt.

BARNARD, SUMNER Co. this week refer all inquirers to Idle Hour for particulars a respecting their unrivaled stock of goods. If you have not a copy of the publication, write the firm for one. Sent free to any address. HALF-RATE tickets will be sold from Montpelier and intermediate stations to the Stanley lecture in Burlington on January 14th.

Tickets for the lecture will be placed on sale next Saturday at Long's book-store. Secure seats early. A SPLENDID chance to buy very desirable goods at way-down prices is offered by L. P. Gleason the Montpelier dry goods dealers.

No similar chance has ever been offered in this region. It will last but a few days. Improve it. "First come, first served." THE Vermont Savings Investment Company is issuing the second series of savings bonds, amounting to $50,000.00. Five per cent is allowed on funds six months or longer.

Six per cent on five-year bonds. Trustees, A. Johonnott, F. L. Eaton and Fred Blanchard.

No bank can give better security than the bonds. WE PUBLISH WITH Dear Sir: If I ever have occasion to use paint again I certainly shall give O. W. Ingersoll my order, as I consider his paint by far the best among the many paints I have used. Fraternally yours, A.

H. Cobb, Fulton county, Ohio." See advertisement of Patrons' Paint Editor. WHEN YOU CAN GET policies in the old ETNA, NORTH AMERICA, HOME, HARTFORD and PHENIX of HARTFORD, the five LARGEST American companies without exception, and ALL in my agency and all of which will write your dwelling house at $6 per $1,000 for five yearswhat better? HARLAN W. KEMP. THERE are many veterans who have claims for pensions pending that would do well to consult James E.

Curran, Montpelier, who has had over six years' experience as a special examiner and is thoroughly familiar with all the laws and rulings of the department. He makes increase and rejected claims a specialty. Advice free. EYE AND SKIN OINTMENT. A certain cure for chronic sore eyes, tetter, salt-rheum, scald head, old chronic sores, fever sores, eczema, itch, prairie scratches, sore nipples and piles.

It is cooling and soothing. Hundreds of cases have been cured by it after all other treatment had failed. It is put up in twenty-five and fifty cent boxes. For sale by C. Blakely.

THOMAS T. FARRELL of Waterbury, a veteran of the Fourth Vermont Volunteers, who has been successful for the last two or three years in obtaining pensions for the old soldiers, would say to his old comrades that he is always ready with advice and information free. No charge until pension is procured. The making of affidavits and papers in claim and pension cases pending before any of the departments at Washington is a specialty. THE prospectus of the New York Herald has appeared in the advertising columns of the WATCHMAN, and the Herald (weekly) is in our clubbing list.

The Herald as a collector and purveyor of news is unquestionably at the head of not only the American press, but the press of the entire world. Its editorial writing is characterized by vigor, piquancy and brilliancy, by fidelity to facts and fairness in discussion. To be well and fully informed, one needs to read the Herald. THE Connecticut General Life Insurance Company had made 3,095 western loans, amounting to $2,148,800, up to May 1, 1890. Of this number 893 have been paid, amount ing to $959,413.

The total number of foreclosures have been seventeen, on which they have realized a profit by subsequent sale of $2,973.80, a showing which it is extremely doubtful if can be truthfully made of an equal amount of business in New England. The Pierre Savings Bank keeps a carefullyselected guarantee assortment on sale at 60 Main street, Montpelier, by its vicepresident, A. O. Cummins. THE Atlantic Monthly makes some changes in its January number from the customary arrangement.

The department known as "Books of the Month" is replaced by a more extended Comment on New Books." The Contributor's Club" is also enlarged in range and extent, and forms a new department at the end of the magazine. These changes are doubtless due to the presence of the new editor in the Atlantic sanctum. Harvard University is well represented in, the number, articles being given by three writers conwrites on "Hegel," Professor Shaler on nected with the college. Dr. Josiah ah Royce "Individualism in Education," and Professor Adolphe Cohn has a paper on Boulangism and the Re valuable papers, by men specially equipped to write them.

THE laws of health are taught in the schools; but not in a way to be of much practical benefit, and are never illustrated by living examples, which in many cases might easily be done. If some scholar who had just contracted a cold was brought before the school, so that all could hear the dry, loud cough aud know its significance; see the thin, white coating on the tongue, and later, as the cold developed, see the profuse watery expectoration and thin watery discharge from the nose, not one of them would ever forget what the first symptoms of a cold were. The scholar should then be given Chamberlain's Cough Remedy freely, that all might see that even a severe cold could be cured in one or two days, or at least greatly mitigated, when toms appear. This remedy is famous for properly treated, as soon as the first sympits cures of coughs, colds and croup. It is made especially for this diseases and is the most prompt and most reliable medicine known for the purpose.

Fifty-cent for sale by C. Blakely. Montpelier and Vicinity. C. R.

DEWEY of Boston is at home for the holidays. CYRUS R. BAGLEY has received an increased pension. NED BAILEY is at home from PhillipsAndover Academy. H.

H. SCRIBNER is suffering from a severe attack of rheumatism. DEPUTY -SHERIFF D. W. DUDLEY has had a telephone placed in the jail.

MISS J. ADDIN TROMBLEE is teaching in the grammar school at Haverbill, N. H. CHAUNCEY, S. a month SHONIO and has $280 been back granted pay.

a DR. WATSON of West Topsham has moved into the Charles H. Heath house on Barre street. GEORGE E. DUMAS of Waterbury has been granted a patent for "a parchmentlined butter box.

THE dancing-school at the Pavilion opened on last week Wednesday with a large attendance. MRI. F. H. has received $5,000 as insurance from the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company.

A NEW saw -mill outfit, consisting of an engine, boiler, has been received by the Lane Manufacturing Company. THE Ladies' Aid Society of Trinity church held a sociable at the home of Mra. W. A. Stowell on last week Friday evening.

THE new lodge of Foresters initiated thirteen new members and received fifteen applications last week Thursday night. THE Bethany Christian Endeavor Society had sociable at the home of Rev. G. W. Gallagher ou last week Thursday evening.

HON. P. K. GLEED of Morrisville, the new commissioner of state taxes, was in town last week on business connected with his office. REv.

WALTER DOLE of Barre preached the Church of the Messiah last Sunday morning. There was no service in the evening. THE Eiffel tower and windmill in the window of Webster's store are attracting much attention. So, too, are the living pictures." THE next meeting of the Bethany reading club will be held at the residence of Mrs. A.

J. Howe on Loomis street, next Tuesday afternoon. COLONEL CARL N. BANCROFT, chief clerk in the pension office at Columbus, Ohio, and a brother-in-law of the late Hon, E. P.

Walton, is in town. THE Woman's Christian Temperance Union will meet next Tuesday, half-past three o'clock P. with Mrs. George B. B.

Denny, State street. THE Foreign Missionary Society of Trinity church will meet at the home of 0. J. Copeland, No. 1 Putnam street, Friday afternoon at three o'clock.

THE officers of Mt. Zion Commandery, are to be installed Friday four o'clock. The banquet will be at six, after which degrees will be worked. J. V.

MORROW was before Justice Smilie on Wednesday of last week for breach of the peace. He pleaded not guilty, and the case was continued to the 29th instant. MI MELISSA WILSON died at the home of Conans Blakely on Friday night of last week, at the age of seventy-five years. The funeral occurred on Monday afternoon. DoN'T forget the Foresters' ball and promenade at the Pavilion, New Year's eve, December 31.

They guarantee a good time to everybody that comes and a good supper. THE Chautauqua class will hold its Christmas meeting with Mrs. A. D. Farwell next Friday afternoon at two o'clock.

Christmas selections, music, will be the order of the day. THE Union School closed its fall term on Friday for a two weeks' vacation. Several of the teachers are out of town for a part or the whole of the time. Miss Freeman is at Lebanon and Concord, N. H.

ON and after December 28 the general delivery and carrier windows at the postoffice will be open on Sunday from nine to ten in the morning, instead of from twelve to one in the afternoon, as formerly. MISS ENSIGN was called to her home at Mechanicsville, N. on last week Thursday by an accident to her brother, who was thrown from a carriage and rendered unconscious for a time. He will probably recover. POSTMASTER MORSE, who has returned from Washington, has about finished preparations for moving into the new government building by January 1.

Edward P. Richardson has been engaged as janitor of the building. THE attention of the teachers of Washington county and all friends education is called to the announcement of Supervisor Booth on page eight. The institute should be fully attended. Let every teacher arrange to be present.

THE post-office will be open Thursday from eight to ten in the morning and from four to six in the afternoon. Messrs. Brown and Miller will one general delivery at about eight in the morning, and collections will be made as usual. ELMER A. BAIRD of Waitsfield is the editor-in-chief of the High School Review, published at Lowell, Mass.

It is one of the best school publications we have seen. Mr. Baird will graduate at the Lowell High School this year. GENERAL STEPHEN THOMAS camp, Sons of Veterans, elected the following officers on Friday, lieutenant, evening: D. L.

Captain, Sanders; E. J. Fallon; second lieutenant, Thomas Dewey; camp council, A. G. Eaton, C.

A. Smith and O. D. Clark. C.

publican T. was WALTER in of town the St. Thursday, Johnsbury billing Rethe place for Stanley's lecture at Burlington, January 14. Mr. Stanley appears in Vermont under the auspices of a number of young men of St.

Johnsbury, for whom Mr. Walter is manager. THOMAS WILDEY encampment has elected the following officers: William A. Taylor, C. Frank E.

Smith, H. W. H. Mansfield, S. Charles O.

Foster, D. W. Dudley, O. R. Bagley, J.

W. They will be installed next week Friday evening. E. J. ENNIS appeared again before Justice Smilie on last week Wednesday, charged with stealing a sealskin sacque, and, waiving examination, he was ordered to give bail of $600.

Unable to secure that amount, he was committed to jail, but later he was released on $400 bail. THE sociable and sale at the Church of the Messiah, last week Thursday afternoon and evening, was quite successful, the total receipts being $119.63. The vote to decide to whom the telephone offered by A. C. Brown shall go this year was quite close, Mrs.

N. C. Tabor having seventy-nine votes and Mrs. J. Q.

Adams seventy-two. It was decided to continue the competition at the next soclable. STANNARD lodge, New England Order of Protection, elected the following officers last week Tuesday evening: Thomas J. Keegan, warden; Albert H. Brown, vicewarden; E.

Towner, secretary; Daniel S. Wheatley, F. Charles F. Buswell, treasurer; Fred H. Perry, chaplain; C.

A. Lang, guide; William Blanchard, guardian; J. R. Blackall, sentinel; Charles H. Shipman, trustee for three years.

THE Central Vermont Poultry Association held a meeting at the Union house Friday afternoon, but without transacting much business, an adjournment was made to yesterday afternoon, when it was decided to hold the exhibition on January 20-24. The following were added to the board of directors: C. F. Wheeler of Burlington, George White of St. Albans, H.

B. Daniels of St. Johnsbury, A. A. Halladay of Bellows Falls and C.

C. nine of South Randolph. A donation co mittee consisting of E. E. Sanders, Geor, Blair and Orrin Daley, was appointed.

THE german given at the Pavilion, last night, by the friends of Mr. George A. Viles was one of the pleasantest social affairs that ever occurred in Montpelier. It was led by Mr. J.

G. Brown, and Mrs. George W. Reed and Mrs. H.

A. Huse were the matrons. Twenty-four couples danced the figures and gave and received favors. The Howard Opera- orchestra of Burlington played very acceptably, and supper was served. It was fitting that the departure of Mr.

Viles should be attended by this compliment, as he has been foremost in the social festivities of the young people of Montpelier since he came here. He will be greatly missed in future events of this nature. Mr. Viles starts in his art studies with the best wishes of a host of friends. It is due him to say that he has shown a taste and ability in the use of the pencil and brush that are quite unusual and give promise of a highly honorable and successful career.

He goes to his home at Weston, to-day, and don Monday he will begin work at the art school. THE Christmas services at the different churches promise to be fully as interesting as in any previous year. At Christ church the following programme of music will be rendered on Christmas morning: Christmas anthem in Buck; Venite," in Greene; Te in Eb, Buck; Jubilate," in Bb, Buck; the twenty-first hymn, Warren; "Kyrie Van Vleit; Gloria Tibi," Van Vleitt; the twenty-fourth hymn, Gilbert; The Marvelous Story," Marston. In the afternoon at four o'clock the Sundayschool will render the full choral service, with five carols. The morning programme will be repeated Sunday morning.

At Bethany church there will be a tree and other attractions for the children on Thursday evening. Among the selections of music be rendered in the morning will be the following: A New King," Nibelung; Bethany, Combs; carol, Marston. In the evening there will be a children's service conducted entirely by members of the Sunday school, at which Stella Crandall will sing a solo. The decorations will surpass those of any previous year. The Sunday-school of the Church of the Messiah will have its Christmas exercises this evening at seven o'clock.

There will be a tree and other exercises. The following programme will be given Sunday morning: Prelude, Pastoral Symphony," Handel; carol, Holy Night," arranged by Learned, alto, tenor and two basses; And There Were Shepherds," Vincent, soprano solo and quartet; He Shall Feed His Flock," Handel, alto solo; While Shepherds Watched," baritone obligato and quartet; Nazareth," Gounod; postlude, Haydn. The regular choir will be assisted by Miss Mary A. Phinney, alto, and Dr. A.

B. Bisbee, baritone. There will be a service for children in the evening at seven. Trinity church will have a very interesting entertainment Christmas evening at seven o'clock. The cantata "Kriss Kringle" will be presented by the children, and there will also be a tree.

On Sunday morning the pastor will preach a Christmas sermon and there will be special music. The Baptist church listened to a Christmas sermon by the pastor last Sunday on "The Wonderful Christ." There will be exercises at New Year's instead of Christmas. IT was in a heavy snow-storm that the wedding of Miss Edith M. Bradley, daughter of Mrs. M.

W. Bradley, and Mr. G. Edwin Alden of Fort Payne, occurred at Christ church last week Thursday morning at ten o'clock. A better day could not have been chosen, for, while the storm did not interfere in the least with the pleasure and convenience of those attending, it gave a charming picturesqueness to the whole event.

The was decorated with rare marriage the bell of white pinks, while the font young couple standing beneath a was covered with ivy flowers, and potted plants and ferns were present in profusion. Bunches of pinks adorned the pews in which the guests sat. The bridal party entered to the music of a march composed for the occasion by Mr. W. A.

Briggs, who presided at the organ. The party consisted of the ushers-Messrs. Lamb of Burlington and McCuen of Montpelier -the maid-ofhonor, Miss Lena of Burlington, the groomsman, Mr. Lyman Allen of Burlington, and the bride and her brother, Mr. W.

A. Bradley of Spring City, Tenn. The party was met at the altar by the groom, and the beautiful Episcopal service was performed by Rev. Dr. J.

Isham Bliss of Burlington, assisted by Rev. J. C. Flanders, the bride being given away by her brother. Miss Bradley wore a dress of white crepe and embroidered mousseline de soie front.

Her veil was fastened with lilies of the valley, and at her throat was a beautiful moonstone pendant, set with diamonds, the gift of the groom. In her hand she carried a white, ivory-bound prayer-book. Miss Lane, the maid of honor, wore a pink India silk and carried white roses. At the conclusion of the ceremony the bridal chorus of Lohengrin was played by Mr. Briggs, and the company went immediately to the Pavilion, where the wedding breakfast was served.

About forty friends and relatives at sat the down center to of the of tastefully-decorated which was a tables, large bunch of pinks or roses. Guests were present from Burlington and Boston. The gifts included many handsome pieces cut glass, gold and silver, and Royal Worcestershire, Doulton and Haviland ware, books, etc. Mr. and Mrs.

Alden were accompanied to the Junction by about twenty friends, who showered them with rice and good wishes as they took the noon train for Boston. They will take an extended trip through the South, after which they are te make their home in Fort Payne. Hon. E. P.

Walton Dead. Hon. Eliakim Persons Walton, who had been ill for a long time, died early last week Friday morning at his home in Montpelier. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at two o'clock, Rev. G.

W. Gallagher conducting the services, in which President M. H. Buckham of the University of Vermont assisted. Mr.

Gallagher in his remarks referred especially to Mr. Walton's home and church life, while President Buckham spoke of his public career in warm and generous words of commendation. The choir of Bethany church rendered Asleep in Jesus in a very impresgive manner. The floral offerings consisted of a pillow from Mr. Frank O.

Field of St. Louis, with the word Father" in immortelles, an ivy wreath with rose buds from Mr. and Mrs. G. G.

Benedict of Burlington, an ivy cross from Mrs. Walton, and cut flowers from Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin of Fair Haven, Mrs. Joseph Howes, Mrs.

C. A. Best and others. The pall-bearers were Colonel E. P.

Jew. ett, Rev. C. S. Smith, Hon.

Joseph Poland, Hon. John A. Page, Dr. H. S.

Boardman, and Mr. George W.Scott, and the bearers were Messrs. E. D. Blackwell, H.

A. Huse, A. J. Howe and Hiram Carleton. The remains were placed in the tomb at Green Mount cemetery.

Especially comforting to the bereaved relatives are the many messages of sympathy which have been received from friends of the deceased. Among these was one from Senator Morrill, who said: Mr. Walton was my much esteemed, life-long friend, and his decease oppresses me with grief. I tender you my heartfelt sympathy." Rev. Howard F.

Hill said: Our most tender remembrances and most earnest prayers for your loved household." For these and other similar expressions and for the kind and loving assistance which friends and neighbors have given Mrs. Walton during her husband's long illness, the bereaved wife is most grateful. A large number of old residents and a number from other places were present at the funeral. Mr. Walton was born in Montpelier, February 17, 1812, and was the oldest son of General Ezekiel Parker Walton.

Spending his boyhood in Montpelier, he fitted for college at the Washington County Grammar School. He did not enter college, however, but, on the completion of his academic training, he began the study of law in the office of Samuel and Samuel B. Prentiss, at the time when Judge Prentiss was in the United States senate. It was in this office that he gained an extensive and thorough knowledge of national politics, as well as a sufficient grasp of the elements of law. But it was in his father's printing office that he obtained the greater part of his education.

From a very early age, when he was so small that he had to stand in a chair to reach the "case," he worked in vacations and at odd moments at the printer's trade. In 1826-7 he spent a year in Essex, N. where he edited and printed his first newspaper, a single issue of the Essex County Republican. The story is, that the editor and publisher were away, and had made arrangements for omitting one number of the paper. Mr.

Walton, however, set up matter enough, partly written and partly composed at the case, to fill the paper. Taking proofs, he submitted them to General Henry H. Ross, then a member of congress. General Ross read the and then went to the office, his face wreathed with smiles, and putting both hands the boy's shoulders said: Print it, boy! Print it!" From this time on, Mr. Walton devoted himself chiefly to the newspaper business.

On becoming of age, in 1833, he became a partner with his father in the publication of the Vermont Watchman and State Gazette, and the newspaper and printing departments were henceforth in the hands of the younger Walton. In 1855 the paper, which had become the Watchman and State Journal, passed exclusively into his hands, where it remained until sold to the Messrs. Poland in 1868. During all this time and for many years afterwards Mr. Walton was editor of Walton's Vermont Register." The 46 Vermont Capitol," published in 1857, consisted principally of his reports, and volume two of the collections of the Vermont Historical Society was edited by bim, as were also the eight volumes of the "Records of the Gov.

ernor and Council," together with documents touching the early history of the state. Mr. Walton was not an officeseeker, but on many occasions office sought him. In 1853 he was elected as the representative of Montpelier in the legislature. In 1856 he was urged by Senator Foot and others to become a candidate for congress in the first district.

He reluctantly consented, was elected and served three terms, after which he refused another election. In 1870 he was the delegate from Montpelier to the constitutional convention, and from 1874 to 1878 he was a senator from Washington county. The honorary degree of master of arts was conferred upon him by the University of Vermont and Middlebury College. He was president of the Publishers and Editors' Association of Vermont from its formation until 1881, and he was also president of the Vermont Historical Society for many years. Mr.

Walton made numerous addresses and speeches on anniversary and other occasions. He did the state a signal service by correcting the congressional apportionment of 1860, 80 that Vermont retained three members of the house instead of having her delegation reduced to two. The apportionment bill had passed both houses, when Mr. Walton, who had examined the subject carefully, represented to Senator Collamer that it violated the constitution and did injustice to eight states, including Vermont. Under the lead of Collamer, a supplementary bill was passed by which the eight states received an additional representative.

In 1870 the same injustice was done these states. Again Mr. Walton straightened the matter out, Senators Edmunds and Thurman putting through an amendment to the house bill which corrected its defects. His letter to Senator Edmunds on this subject in 1872 was printed by order of the senate. Mr.

Walton married, on June 6, 1836, Sarah Sophia, daughter of Hon. Joseph Howes of Montpelier, who died on September 3, 1880. On October 19, 1882, he married Mrs. Clara Field of Columbus, Ohio, who survives him. It is a hard matter to say in the WATCHMAN, which before the days of impersonal journalism was for more than a third of a century the alter ego of Mr.

Walton, the things that its long-time editor deserves to have said of him. The New York Tribune bears, on every copy printed, the words Founded by Horace Greeley." The main life-work of each these men was to make firm the foundation of a newspaper that in its field should be a power for good and in each issue to wield that power. They were like types of American citizenship. The true editor knows, even if is not troubled about, many things; he must be myriad-minded." Mr. Walton so knew, and was so minded.

To his fellow members of congress he came to be known as their walking encyclopedia." 10 And not only with his townsmen but very largely with men of intelligence all over the state, when the thing unknown but knowable eluded search and research, Ask Mr. Waiton 11 brought it to light. To men who knew him, whatever may be here said must seem, as it is, the merest gleaning, remembering as they do what was the full harvest of his life. The man was the main thing. The positions he held in societies, in the state and in the nation were mere circumstance, showing that his fellowmen knew somewhat what the man and wherein he would be of help to them.

His education, founded in the old-fashioned New England schools. and in the old-fashioned New England ways, rounded at the printing case and in the editor's chair, and deepened by acquaintance with affairs and men of affairs, was greater than any university or college combined or sole could give--and all was crowned by the faith the old England church. The result was a knowledgeable man-one who, if he did all knowledge to be his province, knew more of its varied fields than his fellows, and, best of all, character, so that he was integer vita scelerisque purus." There was in him the simplicity of strength, of directness and of charm. He had respect for humanity and sympathy with his fellow mankind -and he knew his kind and liked it and was liked by it from the printer's devil to Abraham Lincoln. And that great name calls to mind the fact that Mr.

Walton's service in congress covered the organization, outbreak and greatest rise to bad eminence of the slaveholders' rebellion; and, knowing its spirit, its methods and its results, it is little wonder that towards it and its promoters his kindly spirit took on other than its wonted forms of thought and feeling. He loved his own state, but his love for it was subject to a greater loyalty and love for the whole Union, and those who sought to destroy it were the enemies to whom he was an enemy. He did well his work in business, society, community, state and nation. To enlarge upon it would be to go into infinity of detail, of all which the summing up would be, well done." He worked in many fields and with persistent industry-and it is the sum of all on which judgment is made. To have lived an entire life like his in one' community, is to have given that community the education that comes by contact with, and observance of, a man able, simple, upright, pure.

His town and his state will be the better for their memory of him. There must remain unexpressed the yet kinder thoughts and feelings that move his personal friends as they keep his memory green-and those yet deeper in his church and in his family, and no man had more in church and family his home and life's supreme content. Ir you have a job of printing of any kind send to the WATCHMAN office..