Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-01-06
STATE NEWS.

a few days ago, and twelve of them have
died.
Hugh John Brown of Bakersfield
was SO seriously injured by the fall of
shed, on the 18th ult. as to cause his
death, which occurred on the 22d.
Horace Edwards, young man en-
ployed in the PHOENIX office, died sud-
denly while sitting in his chair on Sun
day, from congestion.
Lake Champlain is entirely frozen
over, it being the earliest closing on rec
ord A table of dates of the freezing
over of the Lake for fifty seven years
shows that but four times in that period
has the whole Lake closed earlier than
the 18th of January.
Tuesday evening of last week a daugh-
ter of Oscar George, of Chester, was Sc
verely burned, by stumbling over a
threshold with kerosene lamp. Her
hair was burned to the scalp, both eyes
nearly destroyed, and her face and hands
one perfect blister.
The town Of Goshen, Addison county,
has population of three hundred and
thirty three. OF these. twenty-five are
over seventy years DID, and forty-one
over sixty. How many towns can SHOW
a greater per cent of "aged people than
Goshen?
Two lads from Middlebury. engaged
in driving flock of sheep for Mr.. NJ. I.
Shackett, from Addison to Vergennes,
on Monday last, had their feet badly
frozen. The feet of one of the boys was
so bad that those who saw them fear he
will lose them. The other boy had his
toes frozen.
Solomon-the man who aU0s Tor was
not robbed) between ST. Johnsbury and
Danville, some weeks since, has been
discharged from an arrest upon the
charge of fraud. He pays 90 per cent.
on the dollar-25 in cash, and notes for
% payable in eight months, guaranteed
by DR. Woodward, of Danville. He
owed some $1,000, and the question now
is, who has been robbed?
A ll-year-old miss named Houghton,
who has received no instruction in dane
ing. has been mystifying Londonderry
She goes into kind of trance, during
which she trips it for hours with no ap-
parent effort Of the will, and with no
sense of WEAKNESS, and the movement
being described as graceful and perfect.
Miss Luna E. Edison. niece of Gov
ernor Converse, died on the morning of
the 25th, after weeks illness, from a
cold, ETC., contracted about the time of
Mrs. Converse's death, week ago. Her
age was SO years. Miss Edison was
highly esteemed by all who knew her.
She. and her mother, who has the SYM
pathy of the community in her double
affection, had resided with.the Governor
at Woodstock for many years.
William Curtis alias Samuel Lucas,
who stole horse in Windsor last fall
and did other improper things, and was
nabbed in Cambridge, n Y, last week.
was lodged in Woodstock jail. Then
came communication from Bennington
saying that he was wanted there to an
swer to a charge of burglary committed
in 1861. and so Curtis Lucas was ship
ped to that hospitable place, in spite Of
the thermometer.
A remarkable case was the death Of
three sisters in Brattleboro These sis
tiers have long lived together, and were
highly respected in the circle in which
, they moved. The first death was thai
of Mrs. S. A. Smiley, which occurred OIL
the 2lst day of November This lady
was the youngest of the trio, being 56
years of age. Her disease was infama
ton of the bowels. On Tuesday, Dec
) II. Mrs. A. N. Smith, the oldest, aget
SO, died of lung fever, and ere her re
mains had scarcely been deposited il
the churchyard, the third, and only re
naming one of the sisters. Miss Ellel
S. Ranger, aged SO, died on the 2Otl
inst. of typhoid fever.
Martin Griswold, farmer residin:
at the North Village, Springfield hun!
himself on Saturday last. He did hi
chores in the morning, went into thu
: house, warmed himself, and then wen
: out into the barn and committed tn,
fearful deed After he had been absen
about an hour his wife sent some LITTLE
boys in search of him, thinking he nigh
have met with some accident. The
found him as described, and gave tn
alarm, when help was procured and h
was cut down, but life was extinct. HI
was about 20 years of age, and severa
reasons were assigned to the rash act
Quite little breeze seems to hav
accompanied the cold at Ludlow, Christ
mas eve. Report has it that the wine
} took up a cutter of Isaac Wadleigh, tina
, he had laid up under stone wall
carried it over the wall, which certainl,
= was some four feet high. and broke tn,
shafts off, though braced with iron.-
7 Both runners were broken, one shoe tori
off, and the dashboard and back crushed
in. Nothing remained but a few bot
tom boards and one side Of the enter
The sleigh remains were scattered fift,
rods.
Tuesday morning of last week tn
; Missisquoi Valley Hotel in Sheldon, wa
burned, with most of its contents, ant
a shed and ice house attached thereto
e The fife originated in room back o
E the kitchen, and spread rapidly, maxim!
it almost impossible to save anything
The house was owned by G. H. Wheele
c and wife, of ST. Adams, he having pur
0 chased it of his brother, A. c. Wheeler
q who occupied it at the time of the fire
!, The total loss Of house and furniture
estimated at $4,000, with an insuranc
of about $8,400
On the night of Nov. 10, horse wa
stolen from the pasture of Harry Church
0 i'll of Goshen, taken to FerrysburgI
# and there sold. One day last week, J
/ n. Wetmore, constable of Goshen, sut