Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-02-26
STATE ITEMS.

& Co. of Brattleboro manufactured and
seld 63l cottage organs,
The farmers of Windsor and Cornish
talk Of running milk car form Windsor
to Boston the coming season.
The sum of 400 dollars has been
raised in Bennington for the prosecution
Of all the vendors Of liquor in that town.
Vershire, at a town meeting held last
Saturday, voted tc bond in aid of the
railroad, to the amount of $23, 200.
There was but one dissenting vote.
DIR. Howard of Vershire offers to put
one mile of the road in readiness for
the rails, as his part toward building
the West Fairlee railroad.
George L. Mussey of Rutland, one of
the parties engaged in the alleged swind-
ling of the farmers at Stockbridge and
elsewhere, was tarred and feathered at
Ludlow last week Tuesday.
Vermont is represented in the Nation
al Agricultural Convention in Washing
ton, by Hon. Justin S. Morrill,, Hon. W.
G. Smith, Henry Clark, Crosby Miller,
N. R. Stafford, Peter Collier and O. S.
Bliss.
The Portland and Odgensburg rail
road will build depot, round house,
and turn table in Swanton early in the
spring, They intend to have cars run
ming from that place to Sheldon for pas
sengers and freight by the first of July.
Reuben Dickett of Springfield, being
tired of life, took three-fourths of an
ounce of laudnum one night recently,
but was surprised to wake up alive tow
ard morning, and took an other dose, but
all in vain-he still lives.
Some Anticipated weather wise Yer
monter predicts for 1872 large freshets
He says for half a century great freshets
have occurred every ten years. In 1922,
'32, '42, 80, '62 the floods were very
disastrous, and he concludes there will
be great foods in 1872.
SERIOUS AcCIDENT.-Joseph Fayett,
the engineer in the employ of Ross &
Forbes, was seriously if not fatally in
jured by the bursting of the throttle valve
of the engine at Lincoln Iron Works
in Rutland, Monday morning.
Willard Graves, former resident of
Guilford, offers the town, provided it
will accept it, a parcel of land lying 20
miles south of Chicago, and valued at
Sll, 900, and $4,000 in cash, for. the
purpose of establishing school and IL
brary.
The morning passenger train is tardy
nearly every day of late in consequence
of irregularities of the Grand Trunk.
Doing business with this road must try
the nerves of railroad men who are as
prompt and particular as the Passumpsic
men have the reputation of being
Union.
Last monday night the school house
on Starksboro' Hill was visited by a
young miscreant named John NJ Fuller
who having threatened to break up the
school, split bottle of skunk essence
upon the floor, and scented the house SC
as to prevent its use for school purposes
for some time.
BETHEL AND RUTLAND R. R.-Says
the Springfield Republican; There is
agitation again for railroad over the
mountains, or rather through the noun.
tains, from Rutland to Bethel on the
Vermont Central Gov. Smith is Ger
tainly in favor of it, and if Smith be fol-
it, who shall be against it?
James L. and Albert L. Briggs, nine
and eleven years of age respectively
sons of Mr.. James A. Briggs of Bridg
water, assisted by an industrious pail
of yearling stears, have hauled sixty
spruce mill logs distance of one-hal
mile, during the winter, loading and un
loading without assistance. They hav,
not deserted their job yet, but are still
busily at work.
The Field Marble Company at Eas
Dorset, had pair of heavy horses
weighing twenty-six hundred, 90 owe
the dump at the Blue Ridge quarry, tn,
other day One of them went down
distance of one hundred and the othe
one hundred and seventy-fve feet, an,
it took forty men five hours to get
road to them and haul them out Oh
planks. Strange to say, no bones wer
broken, and the prospect is fair TO
their recovery from the effects of thei
perilous descent.
Parker Adams of Mortified thinks b.
can show as good draught horse as i
generally SEEN And as an example
says, that sometime last week he dreV
with his stallion, William Penn, loa
of wood from beyond the Center to thi
village, during the trip rising two shar
hills, and the load weighed, excludin
weight of sled, 1900 pounds. He think
for stallion, that without thoroug
training. can 'trot his 2.45," it is N
bad showing.
James Ferguson of Barnet, 100 yeaI
and five months old, died on Sunday
Feb +. That day he was about tn
house. and the day previous was appal
antly as we'll as ever When 100 veal
old he went to st. Johnsbury and wa
well received. He was Scotchma
and had been in this country since Ii
tie boy, and remembered when this ell
tire section was almost wilderness
Formerly he used to be engaged in man
law suits, and when the courts wei
held here he was always ION hand"
attend to some case. Whether he leave
any children, we cannot say.-,Star.
UNAMIABLE.-A letter from Mon
, pelier to the Woman's Journal, mora
ICES as follows =
Vermont is the same yesterday and
: day, and it seems as if it would be TO