Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-01-15

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THE ARLINGTON TRAGEDY.-The court
of inquiry in reference to the recent ia
tai shooting ARRAY at East Arlington, has
closed its labors, the justice holding
Sherrod Farwell and Franklin Lawrence
guilty of willful murder declining to al
low them the benefit of bail. They
were taken to Bennington and committed
to Jail. where they will await the action
of the grand jury, which will be in ses-
sion at Manchester, in June, in connec-
ton with the next term of the Benning-
ton Court. The complaint, on which |
they are held, charges them with the
murder of Maloney, alone. No action
has been taken, as yet with reference to
the shooting of John Hanna, which has
since resulted fatally, OF of Frank Buck
and Edward Rafferty,. Both Buck and
Rafferty, are rapidly improving and are
neither of them confined to the house.
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The assassination of James Fisk,
Jr., and the ceremonies attendant up
on his burial have formed almost the
only topic of thought and CONVERSE
ton in Brattleboro, during the past
week. Inasmuch as here his first am
bilious schemes had their birth and
development, it was fitting that our
beautiful cemetery should furnish a
resting piece for his remains. Not
since the death of Lincoln has an
event of similar nature occurred
which has called forth so universal
feeling of sympathy from the commu-
nifty. Not that the faults in the char
acter Of the deceased are overlooked
in contemplating his virtues; but that
one so we'll known in our midst, who
had raised himself solely by the force
of his own genius to so great height
Of power should fall by the assassin's
blow-this it is that calls forth the
tear of sympathy and echoes the cry
of justice to the foul perpetlator.-
Vermont Pboenir.
Says a correspondent of the Burling-
ton Free Press: Swanton is somewhat
excited, but not more so than some 9TH
er towns over the purchase, by the
Messrs. Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury,
Bradley Barlow of st. Adams, and Col.
Jewett of Swanton, of seven hundred
acres Of land lying between Swanton
Falls and the lake. The price paid is
about $4,000. The distance from Swan
ton village to the lake is one mile, and
it is beautiful for situation as well as in
the quality of the land 1t is now a
certainty that the Portland and Ogdens-
burg railroad will be soon extended to
the lake, and wharf built for. the ac-
commodation of boats. A surveyor is
now locating the road, and soundings
have been taken for the wharf. All this
looks we'll for Swanton, and proves that
the Portland and Ogdensburg railroad is
going to be one of the institutions of the
State not wholly in the interest of St.
Adams. Since the Fairbanks Company
gave us the hand on the route termina-
ting at Swanton, they have turned Meth
, er to the right hand nor left, but have
proved their character so long sustained
as incorruptible men. The efforts to turn
: the Portland and Ogdensburg railroad
have been gigantic (since it became a
, certainty but have availed nothing
Swanton believes in Fairbanks & Co.
PISTOLS AND wHIsKEY.-On Monday
, evening there occurred in Windsor village
, what we have never before been called
- upon to record, viz: a pitiful exhibition
of pistols and whiskey in close connec-
tion with each other-pistols in the
hands of females and whiskey in the
stomach and brains of men. In tie
e early part of the evening the attention
: of citizens was called to the firing of {
/ pistol in the street, and on inquiry, il
e was found to proceed from the hand O
; young woman, upon some provocatiol
e from masculines Later in the evening
:. another report was heard from anothe
:, female hand, near the town hall. A
: the story comes to US, it appears that ;
} woman passing up the common hill
toward the town hall, in pursuit of he
% husband for aid in the care of sicl
# child, was grossly insulted and assaile'
&c by a drunken man, whom she leveled t
! the ground with her blows, and warne
!, that, if he did not desist, she would shoe
5 him. The crazy fellow pursued hel
N and she fired, without harm to him, an
20 made her way to her husband. AS the
" left to return, the assailant was pointe
IS out by the woman, and he received
re pretty thorough "threshing" from he
indignant husband Itwas found, after
ward, that friends had led the intox:
. Gated man home, and committed him
~ the care of his wife. When sober he
y peaceable industrious man, but whe
~ intoxicated, he is-what he is.
y What do these things signify, an
who are blame worthy for these facts
= Is there class of women among us tina
D for any reason, go armed with conceale
" deadly weapons ? Is it not safe for ladi'