Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-03-24
.SplYE VIEWS.

The annual fair OF the Vermont State
Agricultural Society is definitely locat-
ed at Rutland. for the next three years.
Williamstown is the banner town of
the State for snow The total fall the
present winter thus far amounts to I3l
inches, or over ten feet.
Rev. N. Cyr of Rutland has been APP
pointed district secretary for New Eng
land of the American and Foreign BIZ
bic Society.
Guy Warren, of Fletcher, assaulted his
sister in shameful manner, recently,
obliging her to seek refuge at neigh
boris. She was badly beaten and cover
ed with blood.
The Richford Sentinel In chronicling
the fact that the village has now five
physicians within its borders, inquiries
if it is not time to organize the GENE
terry association incorporated by the last
legislature.
Hon. Geo. ". Grandy of Vergennes
has been appointed, by the President,
national bank examiner for Vermont, in
place of Asa R. Camp of Stowe, who de-
clined further service.
A few days ago young man about
eighteen years of age, son of Mr.. Peter
Farnsworth, of Addison, went to bed at
9 o'clock apparently as well as usual
At ten o'clock his mother had occasion
to 60 to his room for something, when
she found him dead.
A quantity of greasy rags which had
been deposited in the rear of the block
owned by James G. Dunn, of Rutland
ignited spontaneously last week Monday
and serious confederation was barely
escaped.
A young lady left Vergennes for parts
unknown. last week, leaving unpaid
| bills at several of the stores, and he
own grandmother mourner to the tune o
! $50 or such a matter
Nathan Wetherbee of Kirby, agct
about rs years, died suddenly in hi
chair on Tuesday morning of last week
at s o'clock. On Monday he worked il
the mill as usual, and the next morning
at the breakfast table, feeling unwell
moved back. and died in about an hour
He was never sick day, or had doc
tor in his life.
A soldier of the old 4th vt. Regimen
relates an anecdote of Gen. Brooks a
the battle of Sharpsburgh. When tn
general was struck in the cheek by
ball that knocked out two of his teeth
one of the men asked him if he was woun
ed. ''No. sir, | had tooth pulled.
said the old man-and he never left tn
field TIL after dark.
Erastus Baldwin, of Wells River, re
sides in a dangerous locality, being nea
the blasting ledge in operation there
Friday of week before last rock weigh
ing $50 pounds was thrown through tn
roof, breaking a bedstead, and lodgin
on pile of books: and still anothe
through door. More recently one weigh
ing a ton struck within foot of the hous,
I. B. Kelley, foreman of one of th
marble quarries at west Rutland. has b.
come a violent and dangerous mania
He attacked DR.. Cochrane, his medic;
adviser, striking him in the face an
causing blood to flow freely. Kelle
was put in the Rutland jail, from whent
after being placed in a straight JACKIE
he was removed to the residence of h
father-in- law
Arthur J. Belden, of Somerset, recen
ly drove team of horses through Il
deep snow until they stopped from e,
haustion, then left them upon the roa
reeking with perspiration, and went I
a neighboring house for the night !
the morning he was so enraged at fin
ing one of them dead that he terminate
, the sufferings of the other by stabbir
it with his pocket-knifc.
Christopher Carter, who ran his ba
several years ago, for larceny in Worce
ter county, Mass, has been discover,
in Vermont, where he has been success
: fully stealing horses and sending the
} down to his former confederates for sal
t Officer Bacon of Worcester arrested hil
t and on Monday he began to explain
6 the Vermont courts why he borrowed
e much horsefesh.
: About o'clock last Saturday evenil
David Garrick. Waterman for Shepar
Davis, & Co.. of Burlington, found
bright, healthy, male child on the ste
e of their Office, with written request
o have him left at the Home if not wante
: He was labeled, willie, born Janua
e Is, 1872" and still remains in Carried
|, possession.
Joseph Morrill,, of Canterbury, N. I
;, took carload of apples to st. Johl
r. bury depot recently, and just before {
. ing to dinner he handed Charles Tin
= ham, the clerk. the amount of the freie
! bill. On his return Mr.. Tinkham han
ed back $40, he having been overps
that amount. AS a recognition of
Il honesty Mr. Morrill, ordered barrel
J. apples to be wheeled into the COUNT
l. room for Mr.. Tinkham's especial bene
;, it evincing commendable dispositi
y all around
n Large numbers of the Masons of |
+ Connecticut river valley assembled
is the Junction House. White River Ju
y ton, Friday evening, to form an org;
c. ization for social purposes. The
% lowing officers were chosen Preside
Col J, w. Robinson, commander of S
livan Commandery of Claremont; tire
,r urer, Wilson Britton of Hartland Y
= executive committee, G. S. Hamilton
~ Lebanon, George F. Bean of Concord !;
ne FL. P. Goodrich of Lebanon.
The bilge-water published Burling
G Fitness attacks Rev. l.. H. Stone, a
u in substance, accuses him of false /
m fences in palming himself off as Ag
is of the State Temperance Society W
he is not. What does this mean
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