Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-17
SITE NEINS.

Aibelho Oit uSS0NeJ'
Barre is to have National Bank.
with 100000 capital
Lead ore has been discovered on the
farm of Robert Garland, on the eastern
shore of Isle la Motto.
The Burlington sulphur spring is
pronounced failure
Wednesday of last week James W.
Coffrin, of Groton, caught trout IN
Groton Pond that weighed IA lbs.
If any youth can saw more than liz
logs in the woods, with cross cut saw,
without assistance, then he can beat Jo
seph Provancher, of Plainfeld, but not
otherwise.
The chair shop between Ludlow and
Proctorsville was burned Saturday morn
ing of week before last Part of the
machinery and two or three hundred
bushels of corn were consumed
A fast Bostonian having read of a
horse at Island Pond which trotted in
ZIG, made all possible haste to pur-
chase this match for Dexter, but on his
arrival at the Pond he was informed
that the distance trotted was only
quarter of a mile.
A chapel has been fitted up in the
State Prison at Windsor, and service has
been held in it the last two Sundays.
The Bennington jail breaker, Sam Lu-
cas-, has been identified at Warrensburg,
N. Y, where he is in jail, having been
arrested there for stealing horse and
sleigh.
A young man named McCarty, whose
parents reside in Vershire, was recently
burned to death in a boarding house in
New York
Bennington has house that is sup
posed to be haunted by ghost of a wom-
an anxious to revenge herself ON one of
the tenants who jll-treated her during
| life.
VIM G. Doane Of Johnson has just
been appointed deputy sheriff for La
MOLE county for the thirteenth year.
His father, Joseph Doane, held the same
office twenty-one years. ''Sheriffing'
seems to run in the blood.
A new building is to be built at the
Brattleboro State Insane Asylum, which
will be devoted to patients of the worst
class, the use of the rooms on the lower
floor for patients will be abandoned, and
by another season all the buildings will
| he bnatad with ctoan,
At Lyndon one Tobey paid the state
S. for the fun of drinking whisky and
reeling about the streets, and G. D. Whit
comb paid $50 for the privilege of sell
ing him the liquor.
Judge John A. Jameson of Chicago
Supremg Court, native of Irasburgh
has been compelled tc suspend work OF
account Of ill-health, and is spending tn,
winter in Royalton.
Stephen Manchester of Barnet cam
near being run over by the cars on tn
23d ult. He was walking on the track
and, being deaf, did not hear the whis
tie of an approaching train, but the ia
of the train, just as the engine reache,
him warned him of the danger in tim
to escape.
A Brattleboro lover of the ardent, pro
cures Ills beverage by obtaining two bot
ties just alike and filling one with water
Going to the vender he has the empt
one filled, and says he will pay on tn
morrow. The seller. already havin
enough of his credit, demands the bottl
and contents, but is surprised next da
when he finds the bottle only contains
pint of water.
big Joe, y workman at Fairbanks
scale works, enjoys good, sound teeth,
2 tough jaw and stiff neck. The othe
day he accepted a S. challenge to lift
, barrel of flour with his teeth. The fou
, was rolled OUT Joe tied string aroun
| it, stuck his teeth into the string, carrie
. the barrel of -four about rod, and wor
f He is now ready to put up money o
, moving ton of pig iron on wheelbal
row on the ground.
Rev. Robert Southgate, formerly pa
4 tor of the Cong. churches at Woodstock
f Wethersield, Conn, Ipswich, Mass, an
r lately of that at Hartford Vt, died
: appoplexy in Woodstock, Thursday,
: the residence of his son-in-law Edwar
| Dana.
a Joseph Raymond, of Highgate Cente
: had wonderful escape from instal
death Wednesday of last week. II
sides of a we'll in which he was at wol
caved in, burying him under mass
t earth and stones. After digging f;
f three hours he was found by his felloy
: workmen unhurt, the stones having fall
en- in such a way as to relieve him fro
L the pressure of the debris.
Sunday night of last week Hiram A,
: ans, of Vergennes, hitched his horse
e post in the rear of the Franklin Hou
n and when he was ready to return HON
n the animal was nowhere to be SEEM
! Tuesday the missing property was heal
u of in Shelburne, and the next day it VI
, returned home. with robe, blankets al
j cushions just as he left them. Consi
It ering the distance travelled, the dificu
+ ty in turning out when meeting tear
etc, it was curious circumstance.
We learn that man at Lyndonvil
! who goes by the name of Capt. Wilbu
/ received box by express. marked ..
It 0. d., and a bill of $50 to pay on
e Now it 50 happened the Capt was sho
: of funds and could not pay the little b
SO. as to get possession of the much co
/ eted box and also claimed that the pa
ties agreed to send it express paid. II
It express agent wrote to New York in re
% erence to the matter but could find not
! ing of the parties from which the CAY
u claimed the box came and so he open
the box and found it to contain, sa
dust ! 1t was too bad the Capt. coul
not raise the wind and take the box,
n as to have suffered to the full extent f
his attempted counterfeit money schem