Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-29
STATE ITEMS.

of Stamford. was destroyed by an incen-
diary fire last week. Loss, $4,000; in
sured for $4,000.
Ezra Luffkin. of Bristol was badly
hurt recently, by being struck in the
face by the binder of load of logs be
was hauling.
While driving load Of wood down
Bald mountain, in Ferrisburgh, week be-
fore last, Edward Starksboro was instant
ly killed, in consequence of his load up
setting, he being struck on his breast
with stake.
A hog whose weight was 887 lbs.
dressed, raised by John Mexican, Esq,
of Essex Junction, Vermont, was lately
purchased by VIVA. F. Smith. ESQ, Of
Lancaster, n. H. 1t was of the Chester
White breed, nineteen months old.
A valuable COW belonging to Widow
Fisher, Of Highgate Centre, was found
dead in the stable recently, and John
Smith, of that place, lost three of his
best ones by strangulation, the floor of
the stable having broken away.
Saturday before last city physician
attempted to remove an ovarian tumor
Mrs. George Prescott, of Lyndon, had
been suffering with for year past. The
operation was abandoned as being i'm
possible, and the patient bled to death
in few hours
Recently the explosion of blast on
the Montpelier and Wells River railroad,
at Wells River, threw a stone weighing
100 pounds on to the roof of Durant &
Adams paper mill, which it broke
through and lodged on the second floor,
with no other damage than making an
ugly looking hole.
The coat of William Ide, employed in
Morris chair factory, White River vii
lage, and aged "a years, caught on a
shaft while he was adjusting belt one
morning recently. All his clothing,
even to his boots, was torn off his body,
and he was severely bruised more or less
all over his person. Beside this, he sus-
tanned partial dislocation of his left
knee, the fracture Of bone above the
knee, the breaking of both bones of the
right leg about half way between the
knee and the ankle, the arteries being
ruptured so as to necessitate the amputa-
ton of the limb, and the calf of one leg
and the heel were so badly injured as to
render them gangrenous. Except he
have "a good constitution, he will not
stand under all that.
The marriage of Frank H. Bascom,
Esq, the enterprising druggist at Mid
dlebury, and Miss Jennie ellison, of
South Royalton, revives the memories of
some interesting facts. The grandfather
of the bride was John Woodbury., of
Bethel, who died in Wisconsin last sum-
mer, and who was one of the committee
who just 80 years ago first hired Rev.
Kittredge Haven. of Shoreham, grand
father of the bridegroom, and now so
years of age, to preach at Bethel, for the
then weak but now strong Universalist
Society there. The mothers of both
bride and bridegroom were born in Beth
ell, and this marriage by the successor Of
the grandfather of Mr. Bascom took
place on the same day that ~ years be-
fore the parents of the bridegroom were
married
GRAND LODGE OF l. o. OF G. T. OF
EERMoNT-The following are the off
GERS for the year ensuing.
G.. W. G. John B. Mead, of Ran
dolph.
G. W. Counsellor-T E. Brownell, o
Bennington.
G. W. V. T.-Mrs. S. A. Case, o
Castleton.
G. W. Secretary-Rev. H. ?. Gushing
of East Burke.
G. W. Treasmer-C. g. Sergeant, o
Corinth.
G. W. Assistant Secretary-Elli
Cushing Finney, of Burke.
G. W. Chaplin-Rev. E. Folsom, o
Barnard.
G. W. Marshall. g. Mason, o
,, Rutland
G. w. Messenger-H. G. HARDWOOD
! of Bennington.
, G. w. |. G.-Julia Brigham, Of
G. W. 0. G-John W. Carpenter, c
-, Johnson.
S Two young men, one a Mr.. Bradbury
of Yergennes, and the other, Mr. Fields
of Ferrisburg, skated across the LAX
from Charlotte to Essex, n. T., Wedne'
e day of last week. When returnin!
: Bradbury gave out before reaching She
$ burn Point, being unable to proceed flu
!, Their. Fields started to procure a teal
Il for him. TO avoid freezing, Bradbur
struggled to the shore, and by great e
n fort he made his way to the Barnes far
i house. He alleges that he was refuse
admittance both at the house and at tt
barn, and, having become exhausted,
> sank down unconscious near by, whe
I the hired man found him. The latte
l. being refused admittance with him
h the house, carried him to the Van Ne
70 House, in Burlington, where he w
~ we'll cared for. His feet were bad
J. frozen, and he was thoroughly chile
with the cold. The story of the refus
A. to admit him at the Barnes farm hou
g. is denied, however. and Pdtrit
Thomas Hale, who lived at Waterfo
Us upper village 90 years ago, was one
:, the most absent minded men ever know
T.. On one occasion he made barrel
:. beer, which he put into his. cellar
OF work. His wife, the next day, disco
cred it leaking, and in attempting
Id drive in the Spite it flew out, when S
w. pressed her hand against the hole to sa
the beer. She gave the alarm, and H;
came running to the rescue, but not fin
&c ing the plug said he ''would slip do
IS. to the store and make one and slip rig