Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-04-29
STATE ITEMS.

Butter shipment Tuesday ll45 tubs.
Geo. Francis Train lectured at Rut-
land Saturday evening, to about 800
persons.
Gen. Wells was confirmed by the Sen
ate on Tuesday the 23d inst, as Collec-
tor of Customs for Vermont.
No old butter offered at St. Adams
last week. Spring diaries % to Soc;
extra lots, 81 to 34c. No cheese offer
ing
The Woodstock Age says: ave un-
derstand that a party of woodchucks
have leased the Woodstock railroad for
a term of years. "
The wife of Mortified man left
hot pie in the chair he sat down in. An
alarm of fire was raised, and that man
does not sit down much these days.
The Acorn is to be the next ven
ture in the newspaper way in Woodstock.
There are seven papers printed in that
village; eight printing presses, and five
offices.
A travelling agent for gas burners re-
quested the pastor of church at Bur-
lington, to recommend his burners from
the pulpit to the congregation. Modest
agent.
John C. Miller, breakman on the
Grand Trunk railroad, fell from car
at Bethel, Me-, Thursday, and was in
stantly killed. Both legs and an arm
were severed, and his skull fearfully
crushed.
Gen. Stannard lost his arm in battle
at Fort Harrison, one of the defences
some ten or twelve miles from Richmond,
and not at Gettysburg as stated by the
Montpelier correspondent of the Boston
Journal.
Lyman Powers of Lyndon recently
thought he would take drink of black
berry wine, and succeeded in getting
down two or three swallows of ink. 1t
came very near blotting him out of ex-
, istence.
The Age, Woodstock, says: "Many
state papers, and papers out of the state,
say we have the small pox here. 1t is
an able bodied lie. We have no such
thing and he must be scabby rascal
/ who started such report.
The other day Mr.. Arthur Stevens, Of
Norwich, saw knot of crows around
some object near his barn. Taking the
old fashioned fowling- piece he sent the
contents among them, and eleven waited
; patiently for him to come and pick then
up.
A fine trotting mare, recently sold by
= Canaan man to a party in Boston, fol
$4,000, was raised by hand from tn,
age of three days, and was so petted a
, to have been suffered to go into ever,
room Of the house. The animal woult
go up and DOWN stairs easily.
A destructive fire occurred in Middle
bury Wednesday evening, the 18th inst
The fire broke out in Hammond's pape
mill, valued at $40, 900, which was en-
! tirely destroyed. Insured for SlS,5OC
Several other buildings and large 10
of lumber were also burned.
W. C. Drew. of West Concord, upo
going into his bedroom the other night
found that his hired man had made th
mistake of getting into his bed. ane
5. judging from appearances, Mrs. Dire
), had mistaken the hired man for her hui
st band, everything seeming to be quie
Henry Kathan of Putney, while Gu
fd ting large beech tree for woed, foun
$, near the center of the first log, whic
IN measured nearly Is inches through,
live frog. The tree was perfectly SCUM,
en- and the frog must have been in I'll
d. place where it was found nearly
e, years.
w The house and barn of Joseph G. Fl.
re of East Putney, were totally destroys
ho by fire, Tuesday the 10th, with sever
hundred dollars worth of personal pro