Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-01

him In a bad spot, there being no stream
of water within mile. He and his
hired man went into the field near his
barn. cleared off the snow, and commenced
digging well with the wind blowing at
the rate of forty knots an hour and the
snow falling in small drifts. His forty
head of cattle must have waiter or die
They dug eleven feet and struck .'ile,"
drawed stone from stone fence, stoned
1t up, put in a pump, and now has wa
ter enough and some to spare.-Reporter.
Russell and Quimby of West Concord,
slaughtered fat COW few days since,
which they bought Of Asa Hubbard, mil
Ter, in the stomach of which they found
a wood screw an inch and a quarter long,
a piece of nail about the same length, a
sharp pointed piece of steel about three
fourths Of an inch long. two or three
pieces of the points Of mill-picks, and a
dozen small stones. 1t appears that
these had in no way injured the COW, Cor
she was in perfect health, and very fat
when slaughtered. These were probably
swept up at the grist mill and eaten in
the meal. Any one wishing to see these
articles can do so by calling at Wood
bury & Russell's store
Mrs. Polly Cole, an elderly lady of
South Wallingford, committed suicide
on tuesday, the 10Th, by taking arsenic.
as it is supposed there being a quantity
kept in the house, with which to poison
rats, and it has been missing since a
short time prior to her death.
She formerly resided with her son
Simon, but he recently changed his res
idence, leaving the old lady by herself
The Overseer of the Poor, within few
days called upon her to render aid. if
necessary, and. in the course of CONVEX
sation, she said she had something in
her pocket that would keep her from
ever going to the poor house.
The day before her death, she asked
a boy of one of the neighbors to come
over and help her the next day. Upon
going to the house, in the morning, he
found her sick in bed and complaining
of extreme thirst. At her request he
procured water of which she drank free
ly. The boy called in the neighbors,
who did all in their power to relieve her,
but without avail She continued to
grow weaker through the day, complain
ing of intense thirst, until about 5 m.
when she expired in terrible agony
Rutland Herald
BRAVE PHOTOGRAPHERS IN SEARCH
OF FROST VIEws-Ihe Argus and Pa
triot of Montpelier, gives an interesting
account of the perils and sufferings of a
Vermont photographer and two assist
ants who braved the perils and terrors
of Mounts Mansfield and Cancels Hump
in February for the purpose of obtaining
views of the frost tracery. They made
their way to Camel's Hump, dragging
their chemicals, apparatus and food on
handsied. Their supply of food gave
out shortly after arriving at their desti-
nation, and for thirty-slx hours they ate
nothing. But they were brave and de-
termined, and carried away some fine
views of Jack Frost's beautiful work.
They afterward assembled Mount Mans
field At the Ravine House they
found the snow fifteen feet deep, and
were an hour and half travelling
half a mile. lhe'wind was so terrific
that one of the party was carried a dis
lance of fifteen rods by sudden gust
At the summit they again had to battle
with old Boreas, but finally made the
descent after succeeding in taking some
good views. Two of the party froze
their ears, feet and hands.
The STATE CoNvENTIoN.-the St AL
| bans Messenger thus comments on the
call for the State Convention
This State Convention is to be an i'm
portant one, because the crisis is impor-
tant The voice Of Vermont will 90 far
towards influencing the course of many
radical Republicans, who, we are conf
dent, are now reckoning without their
host We hope, and we doubt not, that
no doubling man, no disgruntled man,
no anti-Grant man, will be elected to
represent the Green Mountain State,
On the other hand, it is equally peril
nent to hope that no federal office holder
will be selected. The movement wants
to be purely of the people. Let patri-
otto men attend to this and see that ev-
cry town is represented.