Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-08
WHEELOCK.
STATE ITEMS.

churches in Vermont as reported Octo-
Der, 1871, is $3.50.
A fire in Pownal Centre, on Tuesday
night, destroyed store and dwelling
house with their contents. Partially in
sured in the Vermont Mutual. Loss,
$4,000.
There is now living in Williston, a
lady aged eighty -four years, and strong
healthy woman for that age, who has had
thirty-three children Of her own. She
has been three times married.
A freight train ON the Passumpsic
road was thrown from the track at Pas
sumpsic on Saturday week by a broken
rail- and the rolling stock was somewhat
injured.s
Miss Edna Owen, of Bethel, aged eleven
years, has just completed bed-quilt
composed of three thousand and fifty-six
pieces. The work has been executed
during eight months.
Patrick Gallery, of Perkinsville, was
killed instantly on Monday, December
18th, while at work in one of the soap
stone quarries by the falling of a large
piece of frozen dirt, breaking his neck
and back
The town of Woodbury. has twenty two
natural ponds, varying in size from a
few acres to several hundred and there
is not stream of water runs into the
town. 1t is doubtful if there is another
town in the state that can say as much !;
if there is, we would like to hear from
them.
The heavy pigs are not all that is large
this year. Luther Wells, of Fletcher,
has .'Black Diamond colt, one year
old last June, which weighs nine hund-
red and thirty pounds, is we'll proper
toned and has had no extra keeping.
AS no one can probably equal him, this
Diamond may be fairly set down as a
solitaire.
i On Christmas day, bloody affray
took place at East Arlington, in drink
ing saloon. Farwell and Lawrence,
keepers of the saloon, shot five persons,
two of whom have died since and two
more are mortally wounded. One of the
victims was Farwell's son, aged eight
years. The affair creates intense excite
ment. Farwell and Lawrence are under
arrest
A new potato is brewing in Dummer
ston, where John B. Butterfeld thinks
he has originated potato of superior
excellence and merit. Two years ago hi
planted the seeds from seed ball of tn,
excelsior" potato. The result was on
potato, which this year, planted, ha
yielded at the rate of five hundred bush
els per acre; specimens of which weigh
twelve ounces.
Vernon is excited over the mysteriou
disappearance of colored man about s.
years of age, named Silas Green. HI
was last seen on Friday, December lst
Being quite feeble, it seems quite lin
probable that he could have gone far un
aided, but the surrounding neigh borhoo
has been ransacked without avail. @
course there are suspicious of foul play
but with what reason we are unable t
say. About fifty persons joined in tn
, search on Tuesday.
A daring highway robbery and al
tempt at murder recently occurred nea
Rochester, a young man named Grifi
who was returning home with the PR
ceeds of two loads of hay, being assaile
and plundered by two men whom h
, permitted to ride upon his team. H
! received several terrible scalp wounc
from hammer, but is not fatally injured
The robbers have been identified ;
William Harvey and John Moran, an
e have been held for trial.
There was ''slight onpleasantness
among the boys developed at the Ne
Years Festival in West Berlin, Monda
evening Two Rowell boys and Hem
Reed pitched into a son of Mr. Currie
: beating and brusing him severely. Coz
d plant has been issued against the a
y sulting party by the town grand jurc
5 and they are held for trial. The assam
we learn was made outside of the churc
J. and when the congregation were n
e aware of what was going sn. The YOU
! folks should be taught better things, al
: doubtless will be ere this lesson endet
I A most melancholy case Of suici
= took place in the town Of Putnam
: Saturday morning last. Mrs. Thorn
Maxwell, lady esteemed by all W
ID knew her, arose quite early in the MOI
ID ing, went into her kitchen where, it
t. supposed, she fastened small str
B. around her neck, then stepping OF
R. chair she fastened the strap to hook
{; the wall overhead and deliberately hu
I'd herself. When found by some meml
D. of the family afterwards, she was gu
s.; dead. She had suffered from slig
alteration of mind, at times, for seve
ry months, but not enough to occasion g