Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-10


here Friday night, and from half a doz-
en- barrels upward of liquors were con-
fscated. More is coming.
A raid was made on the Temperance
Hotel at ST. Johnsbury Center last week,
and quantity of liquor found concealed
in tool chest in shed. Bro. Lyford
pays $50.
Jack Hull got little s'muddled'' Fri
day night, and when the police under
took to lead him away he resisted. He
was locked up over night and released
in the morning His father threatening
suit for false imprisonment he was re-
arrested
At the Temperance Convention gen.
tleman spoke of lady % in an adjoin-
ing town who had sold $50 worth of
''tanglefoot' in one day, and not much
of day for tanglefoot either. Com
menting on this, man in this village
says he has sold in St. Johnsbury, in one
day, $l6O worth of the "critter," 500
Of which was profit. How is this for
sober, temperate st. Johnsbury.
Who WoN.-A week ago last Sunday
couple came to the Avenue House, in
timating that they intended to get mar
ried Monday morning but certain par
ties about thought that they would like
to witness wedding, so they were in
duced to agree to take each other for
better or for worse npon certain condi-
tons: to wit, that the petitioners pay
all bills. A justice was procured,
prayers read, (hardly canonical, we
reckon,) and the twain became one
flesh, by the authority of the state of
Vermont. The joyous couple tarried to
enjoy the sumptuous provisions of the
Avenue House for three or four days, and
the contracting parties paid all bills.
even to the dressing of the brides. hair.
We did not intend to refer to the affair,
but it has such a funny postscript to it,
we will just say Gas common report al
leges) that the parties married with so
much dignity and circumspection, were
not precisely like newly laid eggs-they
had been married already for months.
And now comes the question, which of
the two contracting parties won-the
spruce gum parties from the forests Of
Victory, or certain exceedingly bright
chaps about the Avenue House. On
which side is Victory, says the Caledo-
MAN.
TROY.
The measles are raging somewhat in
the south part of the town.
W. F. Badger who has been employ.
ed by the Steam Mill Company, as en-
gineer, for the last ten years, has gone t.
Greensboro, to take charge of the steam
mill there
G. P. Stevens & Co., sold to Johr
Young, pair of working oxen tina
weighed $3.50 pounds. They had beer
in the yoke drawing lumber every day
except Sundays, for the past tire,
months Who beats this.
WES7,FIELD.
The oyster supper at the Hall for tn,
benefit of Rev. D. Connell was quite vel
attended. The evening was beautiful
and few could resist the temptation t,
come out. The hall was filled to its ut
most capacity with young, old, anc
middle-aged and all seemed to EMO,
themselves, especially when attendin!
to requirements of the inner man. Tn
> amount collected was about $50.
There will be a temperance lecture il
the Congregational Church on Wednes
day eve. 18th inst, by E. S. Davis Q
New Hampshire. All who feel an in
> terest in the cause of temperance are ez
5 pected to come out and hear him.
o. c. Miller a few days ago receive
two letters, one mailed in Middleton
" Conn.,, April 5, 1870, being two year.
ten months and twenty days on the road
= the other mailed in Lyndon, Vt,
= Feb. 1871, nearly two years ago.
IS WE.S7,AORE.
u LYMAN J. Brown has rented hous
III of Sinclair Felch and moved his fami1
70 into it.
Harry Cheney has made contract
, get out twelve hundred dollars worth
:, croquet mallet handles. He has got
machinery to running and turns the
: out in hurry,
n Mr.. j. G. Orne was returning hor
n. from Barton one evening not long sin
y. and attempted to cross from the outl
NJ of Willoughby Lake. to Mill Brook, d
ba lance of one mile. AS it was snowi
ID rapidly, he became bewildered and dro
ID around the lake for nearly two hours
or kind Of circle, when the storm abat
~ enough so he discovered the lights FRI
* Mr.. Cheney's tavern, and was enabl
nv to reach home in safety.
-, 2. S.-As Mr.. Orne is one of o
e strongest temperance men, we shall
u obliged to lay it all to the blindi
at snow.
ty LYNDON
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