Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-10-27
STATE NEWN.

Vermont, died IN Romeo, Michigan,
Oct 9th, aged So years.
A Middlebury girl visiting in Rut-
land, rode home on horseback. Thursday
of last week. distance of 81 miles
without leaving the saddle
|. j. Warren of Fairfield. planted
single Norway oat in hill of corn, and
the product was twenty stalks each with
full head of oats.
Mr.. Chas. D. Lane Of Cornwall, VT,
recently sold $50 sheep for $4,000. |
They were of the finest quality and des-
tined for the California market.
The change of gauge on the Grand
Trunk Railway of Canada was compile
ted Monday over the entire line, and
trains have resumed their regular trips.
Abra Holbrook of Towashend, was
severely injured on the 18th inst, by
falling from an apple tree while picking
apples on the farm of A. A. Mason.
Charles Berry, an unmarried man Of
so, cut his throat at Bethel, Sunday
morning, because he couldn't get over
the death of his father, last spring.
Philo Baker, man supported by the
town of Sheldon, was run over and kill
ed on the Missisquoi railroad, near Cor
dens corner, by the up train Tuesday
afternoon of last week.
H. F Wilcox, of Bennington, has
fat turnip raised on his premises. that
weighs IL lbs. and measures feet Ii
inches in circumference. Can anybody
turnup its equal
| A white squirrel is a very great nov
city. Last week Geo. A. Putnam of
Marshfeld, sent US one killed in that
town. and all who saw it say they never
saw its like before.-Argus
A young man named King, of Brad
! ford, disappeared from Dunbar, N. H.,
where he was employed. because some
one told him the sheriff was searching
for him, and it is thought he was either
scared to death or has killed himself
There is one young lady in Woodford
that claims to have had forty-one beaux
by ..actual count during the last ten
years, and yet she comes out with the
startling announcement, .I'm good for
morel" State papers please copy.
The officers Reunion will be held at
Brattleboro this week Wednesday. All
Vt. railroads will carry for fare one way
and the citizens of Brattleboro will do
the most possible to make the affair
pleasant.
Senator Edmunds has arrived home
from Europe. He was in Washington
on Monday and started for Vermont that
evening. Judge Poland and other Con-
gressmen arrived in Washington on
Monday.
The Burlington Free Press denies the
report that Kilburn & Gates furniture
factory will be closed this winter. but
says that owing to the hard times will
, run on three-quarters time. They en-
ploy LOO men.
A raspberry bush in the garden of
Geo. L. Williams of Williamstown, the
10th day of Oct, had on it well devel-
; oped fruit, some almost ripe, and in
= every stage from that down to those yet
q in blossom. The same day the daugh-
ter of AFRO Durkee of BrookfelJ, picked
a lot of fully ripe and excellent favored
raspberries. a very unusual thing for so
, late in the season.
S The large new barn and sheds attach
e ed owned by William Wellington Of
West Randolph, were consumed by fire
Tuesday night of last week. The en-
. tire hay and grain crop, two horses, five
: cows. three hogs, and all the wagons and
farming tools, were burned, the fire be.
ing discovered too late to save anything
There was only small insurance.
# Last Wednesday it was just one hund
: red years since Ethan Allen and Baker
went through Wallingford with one
hundred men afterwards called by the
< New York officials the Bennington
S Mob'') to drive off the ..Durhamites,
f as the first settlers of Clarendon were
called. At that time Justice Spencer fec
the State. Two years later Justice Ben
e jamiu Hough received the '.beech SEAL
d that terrible fogging that nearly COS
Is him his life.
e. The railroad station at Lyndon wa
j. entered by thieves Saturday night th,
J 18th. and the money drawer pried opel
and contents taken, amounting to som,
l twenty dollars or more. Although i
d was done the same night.as the burglar,
e, at St. Johnsbury, some think it was b,
n different parties. At any rate differ
ent tool was used in opening the drawe
: from that used at the Bakery. The burg
1t larry at Lyndon was committed SOM
b three hours or more before the one a
k st. Johnsbury, which looks as though i
may have been done by the same gang
-Caledonion.
The daring burglaries that have beel
u committed in this vicinity of late, ough
N to lead to more caution in regard to tn
4 safe deposit of money and other valua
l. bles. Fortunately, in one respect a
\ least, there is but little money in tn
= country. 1t has been proved to salts
s faction that DO safe is burglar proof
S. and that the only safe way is to watcl
ID the safe, and keep it where no gang 0
as thieves can work upon it without dis
turbing its owner All strangers tina
= are stopping in villages. if they have n
ne business, should be looked upon wit
ur suspicion, they may be angels that al
as do not wish to entertain. A little eau
ar ton may pevrent much stealing.
d, The annual meeting of the Vernon
Nv and Canada Railroad Company was hel
= at White River Junction Oct. 9Th
e. About 200 stockholders were present
n. and the feeling seemed to be nearly a
or one way. After short debate the stock
as holders proceeded to ballot for Directors
and Mr.. Saltonstall of Boston, for th
committee appointed at an informs