Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-06-30

ravages of a potato bug. very similar In
its look to the famous Colorado destroy
er.
A drunken man in one of the cells in
the Rutland Jail, Saturday night, wrote
on the wall, "Jug not, that We be not
jagged.
There is woman in Ryegate who has
lately produced pair of twin Lambs
We never knew an instance of the kind
before, although it may have happened.
Mr.. Lamb is a proud man.-EIchange
C. NJ. Robbins, of Hancock, says the
bears in his section have recently feast
ed upon nine of his best sheep. By
placing steel traps in his pasture, he
has been fortunate in catching two of
the thieves.
During the shower Monday night Of
last week, the lightning struck within a
few feet of the barn of William Cum
mings, in Berlin, making hole in the
ground just as if a large bar had been
driven into it.
B. H. Campbell, Moderator in school
meeting in District No. 8, in Warren,
was brought before Justice Lyford re-
Gently, and fined $40 and costs, for u.s.
ing profane language and otherwise dis
turbing the meeting
The piekpockets were quite active on
| the exhibition grounds at st. Adams.
during Barnum's show. A Mr.. Barton,
Of Enosburgh, lost 500 in money, Mr..
House Of the same town was relieved of
a gold watch, and several others were
deprecated upon.
/ About noon on Saturday last, Mrs.
Samuel Howard, of Randolph Center,
bnrst blood vessel and dropped to the
floor, where she died within five minutes.
She had long been in poor health, but
was feeling better when this sudden
summons came.
A lady and gentleman. enjoying a
quiet stroll in the woods in Woodford,
lately, were altogether put out of their
meditative frame of mind by a sudden
encounter with two huge BEARS A hasty
retreat was all that saved them from be-
ing made peal Of.
Thursday of last week the dead body
of a woman was found floating in Con-
necticut river, near Brattleboro 1t was
believed to be that of Mrs. J. S. Hunt,
Of Westminster, who disappeared from
. her home the 18th of May, while labor
ing under temporary insanity.
Last Saturday night tie store of B.
A. Rogers in Walden, was entered and
two suits of clothes, $40 in cash and
some other things taken therefrom.
Suspicion rests upon a young man by
the name of Virgins, who has disap-
peared with his fathers team. officers
are in pursuit of the thief-Reporter.
Mr.. Almond H. Walker. residing in
West Lebanon, N. H., and employed in
Wood, Martin & Co.'S, saw-mill al
White River Junction, while tending g
circular saw a week ago last Thursday
: slipped in such manner as to throw
, his hand on the saw. entirely severing i
I from his arm.
+ John Kane, bright, intelligent boy
) ten years of age, only son of Patricl
Kane, was drowned in Montpelier vii
lage, last Tuesday. 1t appears that he
!. with several companions, was in swim
' ming at the mouth of North Branch
, when he got in beyond his depth, ant
: before assistance reached him, it was to,
: late.
On Saturday night June 2lst, vii
e liam Nugent, a section man on the rail
i road, was gathering ties on hand ca
f at Middlebury, when he was struck OIL
y the breast by the revolving crank. Fl
was knocked from the car, and struck
y rail, breaking his neck. He had bee
IS employed by the road upwards of twent
e years.
: Friday last Willie Bruce, bright bu
e incorrigible twelve years old lad, fol-
St merly from Roxbury, was up before Jus
tice Robinson on complaint for vagran
cy. The vagrancy was Sd fully estah
d lished that Willie received ticket t
e the Reform School at Waterbury, goo
d till he arrives at the age of twenty-on
"a years-Freemoa.
d Three of the boys who perpetrate
the outrage of killing the horse of Rev
Mr. Ferguson, of Essex, and badly in
jured that of John Severance, of Co
chester, Monday of last week, were sut
sequently arrested and put into jai
u Their names are Burke, Murray, an
ID Pilka, the youngest being nine and th
e oldest not over IA years old.
III The drouth has become very severe i
lie this section, and extraordinary for s
&c early in the season. Twice within Fl
teen years it has been nearly if not quit
. as severe but we think not in Jun
IN Grass is very light, and farmers are res
a ing their hopes on second crop if raj
of comes in season for that Gardens al
b as ashes, all kinds of crops are SUFFERING
= and hay already commands fancy fl
e ures.- Belloaos Falls Times.
Vermont boys took three out of Il
~ six prizes awarded to the Seniors an
ILL Juniors at Dartmouth, on Tuesday
nd week before last. The first prize was
bv English composition, and given to A
= fred S. Hall, of West Westminster, f
~ an essay on the Penal Element in Law
x the second prize to Emory H. Jones,
n Windham, for an essay on the Histol
nv cal Value of Dante. Of the Lockwo
VS. prizes given to members, one was awar
:, ed to John B. Richardson, Of Vershil
w. writing on Self-reliance as on Eleme
re- of Success.
A young lady who has been teachi
- school in Guildhall the past year, VIII
a'- returning to this village from the Teae
'aes ers' Institute at Guildhall last wet
m exhibited signs of insanity and beft
by reaching her destination became insa