Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-08-05
STATE ITEMS.

Cornwall is great in producing onions.
1t is estimated that more than 10000 |
bushels will be raised to send to market.
Messrs. Esty & Co., of Brattleboro,
have recently given the sum of $4,000
toward a seminary for the education of
c,lored ladies at Raleigh, N. C.
Two well-known citizens of johnson,
both Justices of the Peace, had a fight |
the other day, and were SO fierce. about
it that the neighbors had to interfere
and part them. The whole town is in
a hubbub about the affair.
A son of George Chaffee, of Montpel.
Ter, thirteen years old, fell from the
beams of the barn to the floor, striking
on an iron bolt and injuring him so
that he died the 22d inst. He lived
about week after the accident.
Saturday of week before last, as Mr..
James Brock of Springfield, was loading
hay on the Kimball farm, the horse
started suddenly and threw him over
backwards. He struck the ground on
his head and shoulders, dislocating his
neck, and survived the accident about
half an hour. nd g
James Blood, youngest son of Joel
Blood, for long time resident of
Montpelier, was killed on the railroad,
the Goth. He was knocked off the train
in going through bridge on the Yer
mont Valley railroad. How many lives
have got to be sacrificed before the rail
roads will be required to build their
bridges higher? '@'ae
A New York paper Of recent date
reports the finding of the body of man
named Cady, Vermonter, near Grand
Island, Nebraska. The man had been
murdered and robbed. From the de-
scription it is believed that the murder
ed man was Lafayette Cady. late of
Fairfax, who went to Nebraska few
months ago.
David Sheehan, night section man
on the Rutland railroad, was found dead
on the morning of July 3Oth, on the
road bed, between Cuttingsville and
East Wallingford When found he was
lying between the rails, with severe
wound in the neck, and had apparently
been struck by a passing locomotive,
knocked down and killed. He was un-
married and leaves widowed mother.
A boy of fifteen, named Tillson, liv.
ing in Underhill, swallowed beechnut
about two years and a half ago, which
passed into his lungs and could not be
extricated. A month ago he caught q
severe cold. coughed very much and
raised phlegm freely. Last Monday q
sudden call brought the family from the
breakfast table, to his bedside. BLOOD
was flowing from his lungs, and pres
emily up came the nut swallowed so Ions
!. before. Itywas very little changed il
appearance the kernel seeming about a.
sound as fresh nut. ft.a +
At the Republican County Convention
Of Washington county, holden at Mont
pelier, on, the 81 ult., Hon. John Greg
! DRY presided, and the following tickle
, was nominated:
SENAToRs.-Heman Carpenter o
Mortified, and Clark King of Eas
Montpelier, .4
| ASSISTANT JUDGEs.-James H.. Hold
| en- of Middlesex, and VIM B. circuit Q
) Roxbury..
1 JUDGE oE PRoBArE.-Harvey Tide
: eff Barre.
S STATES ATToRNEY.-Wm.P P. Dilling
ham of Waterbury.
, SHERIFF.-H. W. Lyford of Warren
: HIGH BAILIFF.-J. n. Fisher of Cabot
: III The nomination of Horace Greeley b
the Democracy will take the string GU
!, of the campaign in the South, if it doe
nothing more. Democratic Greeley me
will be in no position to criticise or cer
|, sure Republicans because of their prir
ciples as they have been in the habitc
: doing. Neither can they drive men OF
;. of the country for reading the New Yor
Tribune. We are glad Greeley is til
opposition candidate for the Presidenc,
:. and earnestly hope that every Democr;
in the land will not only subscribe ft
! the Tribune, but supply themselves wit
back files of the same, beginning as f;
: back as they like.
lie Hon. Thomas D. Stiles, a Democrat