Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-03-04

Chelsea on the 18th, continuing 20 or
80 seconds.
Ephraim Rand hung himself in the
wash-room of the Douglasshouse at Bran
don week ago last Thursday morning.
The cause of the act is unknown.
A sad mortality has occurred in lit
tie village in Braintree. Four out of
nine of the male residents-heads of
families-have died since last June
three of them within two months
J. B. Blanchard of st. Adams, was
arraigned on a charge of bigamy last
Saturday afternoon. He admitted that
he had two wives and was charged to
have nine.
Two lads were lately arraigned before
Justice Roswell Atwood, at Monkton,
and fined S. and costs each, for disturb
ing prayer meeting by whispering and
laughing.
Andrew Warden was seen the other
day at Wells River driving his horse
with the bits out He said he noticed
his horse held uncommonly hard, but
supposed the boys had fed it rather
high.
Merite Newhall of Kirby, has a COW
% years old next spring that has had 20
calves and is now with calf. She has
been farrow but one year. She is of the
Durham breed, and appears good for a
number of years.
On Saturday the l eth, inst. the dwell
ing of William Crosier of Warren, was
destroyed by fire, with all its contents,
the fire originating in the chambers.
Loss $1,000, and insured in the Vermont
Mutual for $3.50.
A genuine ghost story is rife among
the laborers in the railroad cut in John
son where a man was recently killed.
One Frenchman saw the apparition of
his departed friend, which so frightened
him that he actually tainted
AS the two sons of J. B. Sutton of
Sheldon were splitting kindling wood re-
Gently, the ak flew from the hand Of the
one who was splitting, and struck the
other fair in the face, cutting his nose
completely through.
Some of the pedestrians on Church
street recently. smiled gently to see a
certain ancient maiden lady carrying
clasped in front of her piece of sheet
music, on which in conspicuous letters
was the legend, what are the men
about ?''-Bwlington Free Press. =,
An agent for Wheeler and Wilson
sewing machines attempted to bully and
threaten Rutland woman into buying
machine, when she took to the wo-
mans weapon, the broomstick, and be-
labored him till he was glad to get away
alive.
The first bridge on the Rutland rail,
road south of Whiting station, was
burned Wednesday, the 28th, soon after
the passage of the freight train for thi;
place, and is supposed to have taken fire
from sparks from the engine Of thai
train.
Horace H. Dyer, Esq, had deposited
in the safe of Mr. H. E. Adams, Govern.
ment bonds to the amount of $4,000
which were missing after the fire, Hc
advertises in another column a reward
of 81, 900 for the recovery of the bono
and apprehension of the thief.-Rut
land Herald,
The jewelry store of George Simpson
in Burlington. was entered by burgla'
Sunday night. He packed about $1,000
worth of jewelry in valise and wa
about to make off, when clerk entered
the front door. The burglar DASHED
through the back window, and in hi
fall dropped the valise, He was hotl..
pursued by the police, but made his es
cape.
NJ. G. Emery, an insurance agent o
Fest Wallingford, was arrested on We'd
nesday for forgery, in altering not
from 500 5000. He claims that h
made the alteration without dishones
intent. He paid the note before it wa
due. At an examination held on Wed
nesday the Justice held him to bail IL
the sum of one thousand dollars, on ;
charge of forgery. w 1e'-s
A man named Haynes was very, bad
" frozen at North Pownal recently, hi
: hands and feet having to be amputated
He had been to rum hole in New York
Just over the line, and after becoming
intoxicated he started for home, a hal
mile distant He was found the mex
morning, insensible. The inhabitant
of North Pownal have given the rum
seller notice to leave the vicinity, a
this is the seventh man that has eithe
| lost his life or been MANNED through hi
instrumentality.
On Friday evening an unknown MAJ
applied at the Station House in Burling
ton, for food and lodging which wer
furnished him, and about l o'clock h
was discovered, lying upon the floor Q
his cell, dead The cause of his deaf
was evidently epilepsy, and he had az
, parently been in several New York hos
pitfalls. On the fly leaf of his pocket
book was the name, Henry Lamprecht
, Glenham, Duchess county, New York.
In another place, the name was spelle
Lambert" His remains have sine
been identified by his wife, who lives
| Plattsburg, and he was at the time o
e his way to join her.
Four thousand dollars bushel fc
! potatoes is somewhat above our markt
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