Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-01-13
ST4TE NEWS.


mon to fair 10 to 20 cents; medium to
good 20 to 25 and choice lots 80 cents;
Not much activity because of the cold
weather.
The town of Castleton experienced on
Friday night last, one of the most terrific
thunder storms ever known In that To-
cality.
1t was "a gentleman from the rural
district" who went into Montpelier
drug store last week, and wanted bot
tie Of Mrs. Soothlow's Winsling Slyr'p.'
Evidently he does not walk with the sla-
dies.
A meeting of the State board of agr1-
culture will be held at Woodstock, in
connection with the annual meeting of |
the Windsor County Agricultural Soci-
ETY., the 10th and 18th
While Henry Hoodley and wife of
Berkshire were visiting at Franklin the
other day, their infant child fell from a
lounge into pail of scalding water and
was fatally burned.
Saturday. of week before last a man
named Barnhart, in the employ of the
Vermont Central railroad, got badly
crushed while Stacking cars at the
depot in Brattleboro.
Frank P. Brown absconded from Brad
ford Friday of week before last, leaving
several creditors behind him. When
last heard from he was en- rout for Chi
cago, humming the tune ''Do they miss
me at home %
A chap at Woodstock, whom the boys
call 'Chataeugay' had little unpleas-
antness with Joe Bumblebee week before
last. The former skedaddled, and the
authorities got 5000 out Of Bumblebee.
A Castleton family who could not con-
veniently move on May day, started out
recently, with their household goods and
chattels around stove in full blast, the
pipe running up some 10 feet into the
air, making everything pleasant for
20 miles ride
Mr.. Harris Kendall, respectable cit
izen, about forty years of age, shot him
self at Felchville, Vt, on Friday, Janu-
airy 3. Some months ago his wife died,
leaving him childless and alone. Since
her death he has been melancholy and
frequently has said he wished he was
with her in the graveyard. The ball
entered just above the heart. No cause
is assigned for the fatal deed except de-
ranged mind from the death of his wife.
The Portland and Ogdensburgh rail
road has reached Morrisvlllc, and the
road bed is ready for the iron to Hyde
Park, the probable terminus of the road
for the winter, which will be reached in
a few days. When completed to this
point, about sixty miles will be in OPP
Grafton, and the grade work on the re-
naming distance in Vermont so far ad-
vanced as to make the completion of the
} Vermont division an easy job another
year.
A lady visitor at a paper mill in Ben
, nington, short time since, was suffici-
emily energetic in her laughter, while
standing by the engine where rags
are ground into pulp, to eject a plate
full of teeth into the machine Imme-
r date effort was made to rescue the val
r liable article, but it could not be re-
covered. Finally when found, nothing
but the gold plate remained, the porce-
lain substitute for the fair worries had
b Como to inoroaro the stock in trade of the
t manufacturer.
S On Saturday night the wheelwright
r shop of Hiram Weaver, near the bridge
at Fairfax, was destroyed by fire under
, circumstances so suspicious that the cit
= liens caused the arrest of Weaver on the
d charge of incendiarism. He procured
f bail, but for some reason best known t.
o himself he committed suicide, Sunday
|, night, by hanging. 1t is understood
that there was an insurance of $4,000 OF
> the building and stock.
Moses Whitehill and Scott Darling
, were logging on Groton lower pond weel
before last, when one yoke of their cattle
e broke through the ice Another pail
S was brought to the rescue, which soor
4 Jared the same fate The remaining
a pair was brought up to pull out the 9th
!. er two yoke, and as they were breaking
= through, the owners pulled the Inch pill
a and saved one of them Five were ther
n in the water, one of which was drowned
# and the others saved only by the great
est eXertions.
t Tuesday night of last week Dunbar
Hoyt, and John Brooks, of St. ,Johnsbury
Center, became intoxicated, and, after al
u hours carousal on Railroad street, they
: started for home, but soon tipped over
j. and the horse broke loose from the sleigh
4 and ran on Hoyt followed along, bu
:, Brooks, imagining he had retired for tn,
-" night, lay still in the snow. He wa
: discovered by some one passing tina
l. way, who succeeded in getting him t.
r the Avenue House but he could not b.
l. induced to stop, saying his wife would
sit up for him He brought up how
: ever, in East St. Johnsbury, further from
q home than when he started for it. Tn
7, next morning he took the train for home
: The house of Mr. Erastus Smith, il
h the town of Washington, four miles mort
l. of Chelsea, was burned on Wednesday
l. Mr. Smith and Martin Spiller, his hire
man, were at Chelsea attending court
; There were six persons in the house a
+ the time the fire was discovered, eatin
a dinner. Nothing was saved except
l. sewing machine, bureau and bed
II There were four hundred bushels of pc
!, tatoes in the cellar, and about one-hal
= of them were taken out the next da
more or less damaged by heat and colo
: some being baked and others frozen
Is Mr.. Smith estimates his loss at 500
G, over the insurance, which is $500 o
ne house, furniture and clothing.