Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-08-11
STATE NEWS,

| dress at the Lamollle County fair, Sept.
18th.
Oliver Ne. Clifford and wife, and
son Of Capt. Davis, were injured by be-
ing thrown from wagon in Danville
few days since.
Geo. Wells of CRANKY, a man IS years
old, was found dead in his house on the
30th. He lived alone, and died sud-
denly as it IS supposed.
Jerry Drew found one of his valuable
horses in pasture at Passumpsic with
hind leg broken in two places, Wednes-
day morning. He had to be killed.
The butter market in st. Adams last
Tuesday was active, and there was
another slight advance in the price-28
to 90c. being paid for good to prime
lots, and 32c. for selected
The hay crop is proving fully an av-
erage; the grain crop is good-oats
never better-corn looks well, and pota-
toes give promise of surprising all the
other fruits Of the ground. Caledomian.
Miss Maggie Poole of Essex Junction,
while visiting with some friends in
Cambridge, was thrown from horse she
was riding Friday of week before last,
breaking her collar bone and otherwise
injuring her.
Saturday afternoon of week before
last the house near Weeks mills in Vic
tory, owned by Mr.. Calkins, of Little
ton, N. H.. was burned. The fire was
caused by the burning out of the chin
ney. No insurance.
/ Geo. A. Gates, of the last graduating
class of Dartmouth College, and son of
the late Hubbard Gates of this town.
takes the principalship of Morrisville
academy, at $1,000 year. Mr.. Gates
is one of the young men st. Johnsbury
may feel proud Of Caledonian.
J Mr.. Livingstone's large oxen, which
he bought in June 1862, have gained
, nearly eleven hundred pounds in weight,
and now turn the scale at little short
Of five thousand pounds If there is a
better pair of cattle in the state we
should like to see them. Catedonaa'a.
John Moore, 10 years old, who has
| been visiting at Stephen Woodlands. in
| West Danville, during the season, fell
from load of hay, Saturday afternoon
of week before last, and stuck pitch.
fork in his head, producing serious
: wound.
$ George Abbott, Of Bridgewateri COM
$ mitted suicide Wednesday morning Of
n last week, by hanging. No cause is
known for the act, although he had late
ly been subject to depression of spirits
He was Al years of age, and leaves {
It wife and seven children.
+: James H. Tracy, of Woodstock, com
a mitted suicide, Wednesday of last week
. by taking strychnine. He lived witt
: his father, with whom he had som
trouble in regard to the sale of a horse
d and so adjusted the matter by takin
'cold pizen."
d Mrs. George Burroughs, of Hartford
with child, was riding beside of tn
river in that place week before las
u when the horse became unmanageabl
and backed the carriage into the rive
lg Mrs. Burroughs chung TO her child an
succeeded IN getting hold of the Wagon
and the horse drew them out of the We
~ ter.
The marble quarries of Rutland al
ps sEl ase eSp Ssyksg d ~ d66 woTEns
y The aggregate production is about 4O(
- 900 cubic feet per annum, and the stor
;, is principally of the simple white or V;
a. riegated kind, of an exceedingly del
Z cate texture and purity of whitenes
er The annual sales amount to over mi
lion of dollars.
IT'S A party of young ladies and gentl
- men of East Arlington were out ridin
- recently, when the gentlemen propose
getting the ladies some birch, and g
out of their team, leaving it in the
fer charge While absent. the ladies pic
Sc ed up the ribbons" and attempted
err ''run it on their own hook but not b
;s ing experts at the business, only su
: ceeded in overturning the wagon. o.
W young lady, Miss Stakeholder, was S
is rionsly injured, and the others escap
po- with but slight injuries. The wag
rt- was pretty effectually smashed.
ne Three small parties left the dept
r. Monday, at | l o'clock, for a rustifc
- ton. One of 10 persons for Mag
In. Lake; another of dozen for Sagins
ing river, and another of half dozen t
DIV Prince Edwards Island, N. B., Abe
The Hastings, George May, W. ?. Smit
Henry Ide, Geo. D. Randall and [
'os Perkins make up the last party, and
airy tend to be absent about three weel
ms, The Saginaw party embraces L. G. p
ex- ter. L. NJ. Howard, A. E. Rankin, G,
ooa L. Bradley, Engineer Mitchell, and
dies enough to make up party of
oer persons, all bent on good time. Calec
nat One of the most careless, and inext
Will sable accidents that we ever heard
fter happened in Lexington, VT, one d
md last week. The facts are about as t
oe lows: Charles Bracket was raking b
u on his meadow with horse rake, a
H. wishing to water his horse drove h
rive into the river to let him drink. I
check rein was hitched up and he {
not want to get off from the rake to ,
felt hitch it, so undertook to drive the a
oct NAL in far enough to drink without /,
: checking Not knowing the depth
~ the water, the horse with rake and n
silk soon got in beyond his depth.
NOR horse was drowned, and the man bar
ing. escaped the same fate, by the timely
- rival of assistance. His foot caught
nv the rake and he was unable to extric
himself. When found his head '
lage just above the water. The horse
e at longed to Alfred Loyerln, and was
- ued at S15O.-Esser Go. Herald
t to Mr. Cook from Mass. was in So
i Barton this week, and meeting n
named Haden from Albany express