Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-07-22
ALBANY.

ALBANY.
Lorenzo Davis has sold his farm
MIR. Williams aud contemplates 60
Nest in the fall.
\ most pitiable object passed through
own the other day in the shape of
10y man electioneering for Greeley
ook forward with sorry anticipation
Shedding many similar sad result
olitical delusion between this and
18th of March, 1873.
AYERS FLAT, p. @.
he annual gathering of Good Tenn
IS and temperance people of STAN
d, Compton and Orleans Counties,
a basket picnic, &C., at Ayers Flat,
be held Aug. 9, 1872. Senator
terson, from New Hampshire will be
orator of the day. Further partic-
rs in due time. Comm.
BARTON.
aides See Skinner & Drew's new
ertisement. They have a new kind
orset-best kind you ever saw.
is useless to undertake to arrest the
ing sun, or lock up the burning at
phere, but you can get good cool
* of OTTAWA" for five cents, at
IONS.
wash-out at Massawippi lake last
nesday night delayed the 1887 and
p:l8 express trains so that they did
get through until the next morning.
Instruction train went up with a
of reconstruction fellows who worked
light to fix up the damage done.
owls Ford at the Landing, has a
Pr which at the age of 10 months,
ghed $50 pounds 1t is of the Ken
y short-horn breed, introduced into
section by Mr.. Clevelend, of Coven-
There may be better ones, but Mr..
would like to see them.
squad of about fifty Passumpsic
ell and pick-ax fellows are at work
gravel train, drawing dirt and
pping it off alongside the track in
village. They are going to raise
grade few inches for three miles
Fards the Landing. The grade along
fe is the hardest on the road, being
,ut 120 feet to the mile, and it often
opens with heavy freight, that they
obliged to split and take half the
in up and then 90 back for the rest.
Some young sprouts in our village,
nulated with little of sthe real old
II, one night last week while the
8 express was standing at the depot,
used themselves by slapping some Of
passengers in the face, who had put
r heads out of the windows to see
BIT they could see. This will never
mister -; 1t don't speak we'll fol-
good name of the place, and if you
ctice it much, you might slap the
Png customer sometime who would
E pains to get off the train, run you
IN, and give you just what you would
erve-a first-class warming-up, minus
sugar.
70 less than dozen persons in thi
age sick with dysentery. Charles ]
Ord and o. V. Joslyn each lost
d last week, that of Mr.. Ufford's bur
on Thursday, and that of Mr.. Jos
S on Saturday. A child of Henri,
yer, which died of the same disease
st. Johnsbury, was also brough
he Landing for burial last Thursday
indications are that there is goin,
be good deal of sickness this sum
Look out for it and take care q
rself, and your children.
Ir. Thomas o. May, now 70 years 9
was born and has lived in the tow
Barton longer than any other mar
eept David S. Abbott, who came int
world three weeks in advance of Nj
and consequently has been snug
in among the hills here three week
ger Both were born under littl
be of bark in the year 1898, an
ton is the best town they ever live
also the meanest. Mr.. May has
arkably good memory, and it is quit
resting to hear the old man tell no
fngs amt now as they used to wa
p" We believe Mr.. May is capab
writing some rich things on the il
BY Of this town, and we mean to a
him one of these fine mornings an
if he won't come down with a co
b or two. In fact we learn that
already written the history of IL
IN, and that the manuscript is no
Ehe hands of Mrs. Hemenway, who h;
eady published two volumes of IL
tory of Vt, by counties and town
expects to publish two volumes mo
complete the history of the State
Y weak-backs and slim-shanks kno
precious little of the amount
lrage, perseverance, grit and bac
ne, required to live and accumuIa
the days of these puritanic robustel
DO had to fight the indians, wrest
tn the black bear, dodge the catamou
d carry their grist on their backs.
mill twenty miles away over rocl
ads and bridgeless streams, guided