Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-11-17
STATE NEWS.
Two cases of small pox at Morrisville

The recent races at Rutland did not |
pay. They were badly managed.
There are sixty three homeopathic
physicians in the State.
Burlington was shaken by two earth
quakes on Tuesday night.
The Rutland Herald says gold is found
in paying quantities in localities near
Rutland, and also at the mines in Ply
mouth.
The butter market at st. Adams,
Tuesday, was dull and declining, with
prices ranging from twenty to thirty five
cents.
When travelling in Vermont, if you
meet stranger it is safe to ask him !:
''Whose patent churn are you selling?"
Mr.. Curtis Parsons of North Montpe-
lier, was seriously injured in that place,
on Thursday last, by circular saw.
His head was savagely cut.
Castleton boasts of cat that is a no.
ted trout fisher She dives into the wa
ter and brings up her fnny prey in the
most approved manner.
The St. Johnsbury Caledonsan saws
the unfavorable rumors concerning the
financial standing of the Fairbanks
Scale Company, are wholly unfounded.
A lad in Chester, Is years of age,
stole several thousand dollars from his
father a few days ago, and ran away,
but was caught at Bellows Falls.
The boiler used for loading gravel,
at SALISBURY Station. burst Tuesday
morning, killing Samuel Brown of Chat
ham, New York, fatally scalding his
brother, and severely injuring many 9TH
ers.
At the annual meeting of the State
Board of Education, 1t was voted that
the Teachers Institute shouA, hereafter,
be held during three days only, instead
of five days, as heretofore.
1t is said that the Mayor of the old
est city in Vermont pays a premium of
two cents each for rat-tails to keep on
| file. He must have something to place
in the archives.
J. W. Barnard of Springfield, Vt,
who went with the party of teachers on
their European tour last summer, is
writing book about it, entitled: ga
Yankee in Europe, or Trip with the
Educators.
Sullivan Gould of Peru, is in Jail at
Manchester, for attempting to shoot
John Byard. He asked to see the gun
of the latter, who was out hunting, and
after taking it attempted to discharge it
at Byard, but it failed to go off.
No teacher ignorant of hygienic laws,
and especially of ventilation and the
means by which the sight is preserved
and impaired, is, in the opinion of the
Chittenden County Teachers Associa-
ton, qualified for his or her position.
| A baby show was held recently at the
house of Mrs. Charles Town, Bellows
Falls. Twenty-Five of the little inno-
cents were present, ranging in age from
five weeks to twenty months, and behav-
ed in an unexceptionable manner.
| William Steele, resident of Butland,
was arrested on Friday, for maltreatine
his niece, young lady of eighteen, who
lives with him. 1t seems that he SC
shockingly pounded her over the head
the evening previous, that she fed fol
refuge to the neighbors.
Joseph Kicker of Groton, narrowly es.
capped being run over by the cars Tues
day evening of last week. He was walk
ing on the track, seemingly unconscious
Of dansor, --hor, tiv engine 0ame wItn1r
six inches of him before it could be stop
ped.
The UNITED Idiots is the name o.
an amateur musical association existin.
in ''Scallywag Centre and Skunk
Misery two interesting villages in tn
town of Corinth. 1t was organized 70
serenading purposes, and their principa
instruments are horns and tin pans.
The Montpelier Journal says tn
grand list for the present year shows al
; increase in the value of real estate owe
last year of S560,6S5: decrease in tn
; value of personal property of Sl99,613
reduction of the number of polls Q
l 303; an increase in the number of dog
S of 697. Good for the CANNES
: Two boys named Willie ard jaime
$ Cowan of Shelburne, aged seven and tie
years, killed large eagle, on the 3ls
ult. They found him feeding on carrie
;. and as he did not take to fight, perhar
o despising their youth, the boys attacke
u him with clubs. His wings measure
: seven feet four inches from tip to tip.
= The Burlington Free Press remarks
= 'It is the opinion of good judges tn;
the money panic in Burlington amour
to less than did the horse disease OF
year ago, and it will in all probabili
result in fewer fatal cases. There
greater stir upon the streets, and bu
e. mess is very much Gvelier now than
was them
Mrs. James Pike, aged "a years, cor
mitted suicide, by hanging upon Il
IN staircase Of her home IN Gouldsville.
ID Wednesday morning of last week. VIII,
ct found, she was lying on her back, up
,e the staircase, quite dead, with 70
around her neck. attached in some ma
70 ner to the banister above. 1t is suppc
u ed that in sudden fit of derangeme
k, she determined to kill herself, and fix
d. the rope as stated, and threw or slid hi
70 self down the stairs. Mrs. Pike enjoy
= remarkably good health for a person
~ her age, performing the housework fol-
rs family of three persons, and on t
ut morning of her decease prepared brea
Oh fast and put the house in order as usu
IL Forty years ago she made similar
- tempt upon her life, but was discover
ad and cut down before life was extinct.
' LEARNING BOILED DowN.-They hs
u learned man in Sheffield. His name
nd Drown. Talking with a man who
m haan Wact a short time haforo he ;no,,