Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-12-02
STATE NEWS.


West Randolph. Monday of last week,
by taking arsenic.
A fendish attempt was made to smash |
train on the Rutland railroad Novem-
Der 18th, by placing huge bowlder on
the track near Chester.
st. Adams butter market, Tuesday, |
Nov. 26.-Common to fair, 20 to 25c;
medium to good. % to SOC; choice, 30 |
to &c; selections, 33c.
Sunday evening of last week, one of
the lights in the Methodist church at |
Lunenburg exploded, injuring the clothes
of several persons, but doing no serious
damage
A young man who went west from
Danbury few months ago has sent only
one letter home It came Friday. 1t
said: ..Send me wig And his fond
parents dom know whether he is seal ped
or married
Mr. Alpheus G.. Hubbard of East
Brookfeld, has colt one year old. which
weighs $50 lbs. The colt was sired by
the Green Mountain Tiger, owned by
Frank Hemenway. of Chelsea. Who
beats this p Watchman
The young lady that had the very at
tractive clerk on Main street, lin her
eye," so long, has concluded to trade
him out for nice farm on the Hoosic
road, which exactly fills her eye. Lucky
young farmer, prepare to meet thy charm
er.-Bennington Banner.
The Montpelier Daily Journal says:
.'Threc of the Vermont newspapers state
the expense of repairing the State House
quitting in iron and brick foors) was
S1S,l79.29. This is great error-too
large sum by $4,000. The expense
of repairs was $8,179.l9, as per report
of the Sergeant-at-Arms.
Neighbor Stone, of the Coledontan,
and his wife left town Tuesday morning
for an overland trip to California. We
heartily wish them pleasant time and
safe return The Cdledonsdn will be
conducted by A. G. Chadwick, during
| Mr.. Stones absence. Farmer.
The work of laying the iron on the
Montpelier & Wells River railroad com.
menced November 81 at the Montpelier
end of the line, and is now down from
the bridge to quite distance above
Main street James G. French drove
the first spike, and Joel Foster, Jr., the
second.
About o'clock week ago last Fri
day morning three tenement house, in
St. Adams, belonging to NJ. G. Ovitt
was burned. The property was valued
at $500; insured for $4,000. Byron
Haws. one of the fremen, was seriously
injured by a falling chimney, and lies il
critical condition.
A man named O'Keefe committed al
assault on Mr. Burbee, overseer fo
Hall g. Jones, of Bennington, recently
He threw a stone which hit Burbee oil
, the head, knocking him senseless, anc
, inficting frightful wound. The grounc
for complaint was that he had been re
, | fused leave of absence
!, st. Johnsbury is excited over cas-
of small pox. Horace, son of Hull Cur
tbs, of that place, had been at work il
Boston, and after the fire came home
S He was soon taken i'll, and physician
e declared his disease to be small poz
1 His residence is quite isolated, so tier
q is little probability that others have bee
exposed.
pelier, says the Aryus, maEes sumo di
-" closures erich, rare, and racy," affordin
y material for a Woodruff & Clafflin So
It of journal that would create sensatio
v in the community never before equallet
; 1t shows that some men with long fac,
y and Deacon ways had better read an
&c heed the 9TH chapter of Proverbs.
Moses Randall of Townshend, has
$ fine, intelligent dog, who, if he had Il
re faculty of speech, might tell us som
W thing about what he knows of coons.-
: Last week, he helped his master to tai
! seven in one night. Another night Il
- same week, not being much of time f;
y coons, he got only three What his tot
lie number of victims for the week was, v
x are not informed.
d The Rutland Herald of Monday CO.
N tains blunt announcement that the e.
10 itorial connection of Henry Clark, ESQ
: with that paper ceased on Saturday,
10 Mr.. Clark has been an able and valuab
( member of the editorial fraternity. al
n his sudden retirement from the Hera
1T will be much regretted. Albert H. tn
PC tie, the publisher of the paper, is no
the managing editor.
10 The best tobacco we ever saw grow
in Vermont is some raised this year
10 Robert Lee, of Berlin, some of the leav
y being four feet five inches long. aft
or being dried, and very soft, silky, al
10 lustrous, with flavor rarely equalt
= anywhere This shows what color
Greeley man can do even in Vernon
+ Robert having stood by what he deem
F. right, regardless of pressure and ev'
Up abuse.-Argus.
~ One of our musical amateurs, says t
he Bennington Banner, finding that t
ut '.bottom board of his fiddle had 9
is cracked, and applied to musical &c
i tleman advised him to ''put it to soak
and we regret to record the fact that t
70 violinists followed his advice. All o
at readers who realize that wood and 81
DIS and catgut make a fiddle, can imagi
in the deplorable condition of that instr
- ment the following morning.
re The snow storm last week was ratt
ed too much for the farmers who had L
completed their haying and they We
obliged to suspend operations for tin