Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-04-14

elegant carriage for children, which is
to be sent to the Vienna exhibition
This company employs about 100 hands,
and has capital stock of $4,000.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin makes
the tantallzing statement that the milk
put into Sc, 900 worth of Vermont cheese
would have brought $4,000 if properly
diluted and we'll skinned and sold in
Boston,
H. 2. Alden, master of transportation
on the Passumpsic railroad, has resign
ed his position-to take effect the first
of May. It seems strange for the Pas
sumpsic road to part with an Alden-the
two brothers having served it SO faith
fully for so many years. H. P. has been
connected with it for Is years.
At Richmond, Monday, the market
was quite active for butter; sales for
good, 80 to 40 cents; choice, 40 to 43
cents. At ST. Albans there was dull
market, and prices unchanged from last
week 50 to 39 cents for medium to
good, and 40 to 45 cents for choice and
selected.
1t is reported that the smallpox has
broken out in the Freewill Baptist school
at Waterbury Centre. One of the schol-
ars has died of the disease, which was,
at first supposed to be the measles -
AS number of scholars visited their
school mate, and were thus exposed to
the smallpox, the school has been closed.
The Holyoke Company have bought
the stumpage of the whole town of Lew
is, paying two dollars for spruce and
five dollars for pine. The trade is es-
timated at S250,000. They have their
own time to clear it up. This is land
owned by the Sumner estate, and the
wife of Hon. B. HI. Steele is half owner.
Among those who persisted in the
wreck of the Atlantic, an account of
which was given last week, were G. NJ.
Fisher, Counselor-at-law, and wife. Mr..
Fisher was formerly partner of F. E.
Woodbridge, Esq, of Vergennes. Mrs
Fisher was daughter of William Y.
Ripley, Esq, of Rutland, and sister of
Mrs. Julia G. R. Dorr, and of Generals
William 7. W. and Edward FL Ripley.
Capt. Nathan Fay, of Richmond. died
last Sunday, aged 50 years, after hav-
ing been in poor health about a year r
He had always been considered one of
the best men in town, and has held from
time to time many positions of public
trust. He represented the town in 829
and 1880, and again in 1914 and 1916.
and been one of the Selectmen twenty
years, most of the time first Selectman.
He has also been Justice of the Peace
for some 80 years.
We understand that not less than ff-
ty thousand dollars will probably be ex-
pended by Col. N. I. Sprague, of Bran
don, in charging the present extensive
works of the scale company, and adding
new machinery. The works are driven
to their utmost capacity. Orders from
California, Japan, and distant countries
are on their books, which help increase
the widespread reputation and sale of
these popular scales.
Prof Peter Collier, Professor of Chem
istry in the University of Vermont and
State Agricultural College, and Secre.
tary of the State Board of Agriculture,
who has been rendered the honorable and
unsought for appointment as one of the
seven scientific men to represent the
United States at the Vienna Exhibition,
received his commission and passports
on Saturday, and will probably sail on
his mission sometime next month.
. The lumber company at McIndoe's
Falls have commenced the erection of a
new mill at Mount Tom, Northampton
Mass, which will be supplied with logs
from Vermont. The mill is 50xl0C
feet, and will contain two board saws
two power edgers, two lath mills, plan
ers, single mill, etc. 1t will be driv
en- by two hundred horse power steam
engine, with six large boilers. 1t vii
be completed about the first of August
This company now have in the rivel
about 100000 feet of logs. nearly
half of which will be foated down Il
this new mill, while the mill at McIn
does Falls will do its usual amount o
business, and cut out from eight to tel
million feet.
On the first day of April, Silas Stone
telegraph operator at Danville, received
: a dispatch from st Johnsbury, to L. E
Plant and signed by Adam Goodsell-
The message stated that the person an
,, dressed had left his trauak in St. Johns
bury, and wished to know if he desire,
it forwarded. Mr.. Stone made du
haste to hunt up the man and to get hi
5 reply. He showed the dispatch to sew
: eral and inquired if they knew such per
$ son, but received no satisfactory intelli
gence. He was about to give up the in
6 quiry when he CHANGED to meet Aaro
+ Smith, the landlord, and applied to hir
= for information. Smith read and re
read the message, and scratched his hea
for information, and cogitated, "Phant
S -"Mr. Plant" III. b. Plant" :
: "Lef his trunk-"Adam GoodseH"-
S And then came pause, and then nor
scratching when Smith finally comprt
4 hended the state of affairs, and explain
2 ed as follows: IAN elephant has le
r his trunk, and this dispatch is "a dal
: good SELL for an April fool, and here 20
are racing about the village to find IN
Plant He had scarcely finished h
q explanation when Stone and his dispatc
i were out of sight, hunting for an obscul
J hole where he might pass the rest of Il
+ day unmolested.-Umion
The Hon. Thomas Waterman, of job
= son, now in his 93d year, is undoubte
t. ly one of the oldest Masons living
e Vermont. He married the great gram
Ie daughter of Captain Hall, who lived
y the 18th century, who, when his daug
e. ter was married, placed her upon Of
b. side of the balance, and upon the 9th