Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-05-05
Local News.
ALBANY.


ALBANY.
HE railroad items last week, vii
nd villages should have read val
Id valleys, respectively.
understand property sold well at
LAWS auction: cows going at $40
few sheep and their lambs as
s is $1,000
great many cows are dying in this
this spring. Martin Jerome has
lost one, and Orville Comstock,
The East village, two fine ones.
BARTON.
came near getting black eye the
b day, just because we asked a man
much sugar he had made"
thur, a six years old sou of Lewis
b cock. broke his right leg near the
|Ast Thursday, by falling from a
reaching from Mosman dry-house
to a car which he was helping load
chair stuff.
easles hold out we'll. They take
of grown persons as well as the
lren. and are said to go extremely
We hear of one person who-as
story goes-has had them three times
is now afraid of having them some
,. Nearly or quite half of the schol-
bf the school in this village are
I'm" at present. One person,-Mrs.
seler-has died with them.
j. F. w. Baldwin, Esq, has been
1inted superintendent of schools in
place, Of Rev. Mr. Malcolm, who
ed to Massachusetts a week ago.
Baldwin is an old and experienced
bl teacher, and during the short time
has been in this town has mani
u enough public spirit to create the
ression that he is a frst-rate fellow,
BILE of filling most any position. So
purse he will make popular Supt.
r. Il. W. Drew is making things
"a around his new premises. Fixing
and painting, both inside and out,
ing new shingles upon both house
barn, taking limbs from the trees
Sticking up the yard, so that one
Id hardly know the place. H. f.
bbury-M1. Drew's right hand neigh
lis also painting all round, and Geo.
Denness and Edward Barnard are
ng the same thing. Somebody says
Y will be some heavy failures to re-
around here, soon.
en-. w. w. Grout, G. H. Dwinell and
ers who accompanied them to Chica-
some six weeks since, have returned
an addition to their weight of about
bund per week. This seems to indi-
that the climate "agrees" with them,
they certainly are much pleased
h the country, although the weather
cold and cloudy nearly the whole o.
+ stay. To go and look over Chica
and see the acres Of solid stone an(
buildings that have been erected
be the fire, one can scarcely believ'
own eyes so they say. Western
PIX and enterprise is surely nearl,
lal to that in some portions of New
gland, not many miles away.
EGGs.-Postmaster Rawson has hel
Itch the other morning rewarded he
ner for good keeping by depositinI
her nest. an egg which in weight lack
a trife of a quarter of a pound
Rawson has several varieties of tn
Icy kind of fowls, and believes tina
fn keeping pays,-as also doe
Barney and Charley Robinson, Die
inner and others in this village WI
Re "heneries" Of the real fancy stool
sell eggs-for setting-at Sl.50 pr
zen. But the biggest egg of IL
Ison" comes from a goose owned /
bse Alden, of Irasburgh. She ha
S spring, made herself the most po
lr bird of the yard, by making a lar!
lmber of eggs, the last of which we
tier than the first, the Oath one mea
ing 8 l-2 by IL l2 inches, and weig
b III ounces,-as much as seven lar;
hs eggs We would MT be afraid
* our best hat against a five ce
Zee, that there is no goose in the sta
at can ego her an ounce better" al
n the heat. We have, however,
r office, an egg which measures II
IA IL inches; but it came fro
Ppth America, and is supposed to
& work of an Ostrich.
BARTON LANDING.
Active operations are beginning at
hnding, upon the new school hou
be building committee are A. D. NJ
ews, G. E. Joslyn and Daniel Skim
no says they won't have a good sch
use? 1t is expected to be ready
fall school, to have spaci
II, and to be in every essential par
pr, modern.
CRAFTSBURY.
On the 18th ult., Mrs. r. NJ. Sm
eeived blow upon her head, viii
time, rendered her insensible, wi
tempting to extricate pair of ru
ay horses, which had become fright
| while standing in front of her