Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-15
STATE ITEMS.

children in Bennington.
ST. ALBANs BUTTER MARKET.-On |
Tuesday, only 29l tubs we're shipped at
25 to 80 cents, and no cheese was offered. |
There have been Is deaths in Cabot
the past year, the oldest 50 years, and
the youngest II years of age. Two have
been brought here from other towns for
interment.
PATENTS. following Vermont pat
ents have been issued for the week end
ing Dec. 10, 1871:
Abijah Whitney Hall, Mortified, for
combined friction and ratchet clutch.
Milton Sessions and David Murray,
of St Adams, for car-axle box.
FATAL ACcIDENT.-Another sad and
fatal accident occurred at Perkinsville.
Mr.. Warren Piper, very estimable
young man, about % years of age, was
instantly killed on Thursday, while
chopping in the woods, by tree falling
upon him. This is the second fatal ac-
cident in Perkinsville in less than two
weeks.
A Bridgewater farmer has invented
an alarm clock which promises to eclipse
anything now in use. A roost is ar
ranged in the corner of room for a
young bantam rooster, whose melodious
notes are sure to wake the adjacent
sleepers IF the first crow does not &C
complish its object, Banty, quite accom-
modating, repeats it.
Cabot Village narrowly escaped a con-
fagration on the Sd inst, at about 10 a.
m. Smoke was discovered issuing from
the roof of Union Block Upon exam
nation it was found to be in the parti-
ton of the third story, and probably had
caught from defect in the chimney. It
being thus early discovered saved the
village a great calamity.
The last Star thus notices the new
snow pillow of the ?. & o.: An extra
large snow pillow intended for use on the
?. & 0. R. R., while passing the station
at So. Newbury over the Passumpsic
line, took away the platform to the de-
pot. Snow plows are good thing in
their place, but when they pillow out rail
road stations are rather acting out of
their proper sphere of usefulness.
Albert P Jackson, a young married
man of West Topsham, was brought to
grief few days since, by being detected
in embezzlement of goods from his EN-.
-ployers, H. H. Hatch & Co., of Straf-
ford. He has settled with his employ
ers by delivering up to them the goods
and securing to them the payment of
$1,075.
SERIOUS ACoIDENT.-W While the pupils
of Miss Belle D. Horizons school in Stock
bridge, were recently having their noon
ing, Miss Nora Pierce put some apple
seeds on her eye lid for another young
lady to name. While she was naming
them, pointing to each seed with a pen
knife, young man gave her head a push
from behind, driving the blade half its
length into the cavity of the eye. The
doctor is in hopes be can save the eye.
NARROW EsCApE-The Keen Repub
lican says that on Wednesday morning O
last week, two little fellows of five or SIX
years attempted to cross the railroad
track on Main street, just before an APP
preaching train was being backed acros
the street They were seen and called
on to go back, but turning, both slipped
down just on the track A scramble 70
dear life barely saved them by few
inches, the wheels passed beyond then
before the train could be stopped.
The trial Of John A. Ring, for tn
murder of Thompson, at Bristol, result
ed, on Saturday, in a verdict of man
slaughter, much to the disgust of larg
audience who were expecting an acquit
tai, especially as the judge charged tn
jury strongly in favor of the prisoner
Ring testified that Thompson had seve
raj times threatened his life, and attack
: ed him on the occasion when he ring,
? stabbed him with fatal result.
The cattle train from the north du
at Bellows Falls, Monday evening, me
with quite an accident about two mile
above that place, owing to a broken raj
,, Nineteen cars were thrown off the tract
! and three of them, with their content
badly smashed, killing from 100 to &c
sheep and many cattle, besides injurir
many more. A brakeman was bad
wounded in the leg. The debris W;
g promptly removed, and the trains we
> running as usual on Tuesday.
J The house and horse-barn belongil
+ to Horace Lamb, near West Randolp
/ were entirely consumed by fire on Sund;
IS last together with nearly all their co
Re tents. The fire caught in the roof, pro
e ably from defect in chimney
!, The family had all gone to church, e
;e cept a cripple brother of Mr. Lamb
S, who was in his room up stairs, and
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