Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-01
STATE ITEMS.
The Stowe Journal has been..purchased
bv Mr.. A. n. Merchant of Champlain.

The Stowe Journal has been.purchaSed
by Mr.. A. n Merchant of Champaign
y. Y.
The Irish ladies of st. Johnshurv pre-
sented the ST. Patrick Society with a
beautiful flag.
The fair of the Chittenden county Ag-
ricultural Society is to be held at Essex
Junction Sep. 10Th, | lth, 18th and 9th,
1872.
Willie Counter damned his finger at
Lyndonville and they were amputated.
A few days after he died of spinal men
nights, resulting from the injury.
Seth II. Hewitt of Pittsford, aged 81,
fell under a circular saw on the 2lst,
and was instantly killed, his head being
nearly severed from the body.
Olive Wright of Hancock, aged so
years, died recently in consequence of
injuries received by being knocked down
by cattle which were fighting in the
barnyard.
A little girl, daughter of Seneca Dick
ey, living near the line between Brad
ford and Newburv, fell into tub of hot
water last week. and was so badly scald-
ed that she died.
The Bellows Falls Clothes Pin Co.,
have just got under good way, having
put in machinery got up expressly for
the manufacture of Balls patent Clothes
pins.
At the American House, in st. Adams,
man went to bed with lighted pipe
about his clothes, which set fire to the
building, and it narrowly escaped being
consumed.
Twenty of the most substantial and
energetic citizens of Shoreham have
bought the hotel in the village, with the
purpose to have it kept in the interest
of temperance.
The ladies of the NJ E. Church in
Brandon realized about 5000 from their
fair held Feb. 9th and 26th. They
propose to secure new lighting appara-
tus for the church.
The town of Bridgewater owes S33,-
GOO, and at late meeting refused to
raise a sufficient sum the present year
to even pay the interest. The grand
list of the town is about $4,000.
North Dorset was disturbed recently
by rumbling and Earring which the PEG
pie thought to be an earthquake which,
however, proved only the fall of some
large rocks to the valley below.
A steam saw mill of Field Brothers
at Bolton, was burned last Monday night,
March 25tb. Loss about $1,000; no
insurance. They will build again i'm
mediately. The eugine and boiler were
not materially injured.
The 18th of last March there was
blowing done in Alburgh, and a year ago
to-day (2O) the ice was out of the lake.
Now the snow in some places is nine feet
deep, and the ice three feet thick and no
signs of thaw.
A Hardwick man recently undertook
to thaw out two hundred feet of lead
pipe by pouring hot water into a large
well. If he continues his labors until
warm weather the desired result will
probably be attained.
Thursday of last week George Hub
bard, of Rochester, caught an eagle in a
steel trap that measured feet inches
from tip to tip of its wings, and weigh
ed Is lbs. When captured it was feed
ing on a goose it had killed
George Ross, brakeman, was struck
by bridge on the back of his head, near
Bartonsville, last week Monday night.
He lay insensible on the top of the car
till the train reached Bellows Falls,
when he was discovered.
A youthful couple, Harry Merchant
and Clara McKillips, of Bradford, wish
ing to surprise their parents, made a
short visit to New Hampshire, and, it is
said, were married last week. The bride
is about fourteen years of age.
There was little unpleasantness at
Mortified last Saturday, when ''cock
O the walk fighting man was whipped
by a lame one. The vanquished had
his eyes draped in mourning, and pants
badly torn by two dogs. who tore away
at them while his opponent punched him
about the head.-Aryus.
On Wednesday, February DIST, Mrs.
Charles Ames of Lunenburg, in closing
window damned the flesh off from her
little finger, and caught cold in it. Med
ical advice was taken and it was decid.
ed to amputate the finger, but too late
to save her life, the soreness having pass.
ed all over her body. She died on the
4th inst
FIRE AT DANBY.-PosT OFFICE BURN
ED.-The store and contents of William
Pierce, of Dandy were destroyed by fire
Friday morning, the odd The store
was also occupied as the post office, and
it is understood that the mail matter
was consumed. The origin of the fire i,
yet unknown. The loss will exceed
$4,000, and the insurance is $4,000.
William Wallace of Eden, residing
on the Branch road leading to Elder
Mills, committed suicide by hanging. OF
Sunday last. A heavy ring logging
chain was used. He was suspended
from the high beam of his barn. H,
was not considered insane but fora Ions
time had appeared respondent. He wa
somewhat over 40 years of age.
Mrs. Thomas NJ. Clemens, of Wells
committed suicide by strangulation Oh
Saturday night the 18th inst. She hat
previously made attempts to take he
own life, both by hanging and starving
herself. By the use of two handker
chiefs, one tied around her neck and TIL,
other around the bed-post, she succeed
ed in choking herself to DEATH Her hus
r,on1 III Al