Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-09-22
STATE NEWS,

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ling cars at Wells River.
Standish's tannery at Woodstock was
destroyed by fire on Wednesday morn
ing last. Loss $4,000, and one half
insured
Mr.. E. D. Griffin. of Burke. says he
is going into the peanut business. He
planted some this year which are set
ting quite thickly.
J. B. Cool of Wheelock, has a very
prolific sheep, she having brought him
8 lambs within the past two years, 4 at
BIRTH
Postmaster William Mobbs, of st.
George, now weighs over four hundred
pounds, and still continues to discharge
his arduous official duties.
The contract for furnishing the slate
for the new government buildings at
Washington D. c., has been awarded to
the Eagle company of Hydeville.
John O'Hara, of Sheffield. has the
most apples of any man in that town,
and his plum trees will probably give
him fifty bushels of plums.
The Gates school house near Gassetts
station, in Chester, was burned early
Wednesday morning last week. Suppos-
ed to be the work Of an incendiary.
Mrs. L. Dodge, of Cambridge, fell
down stairs on the 31st ult.. and receiv-
ed injuries about the head which caused
her death the following Wednesday.
frankie, little son of Oliver Farm
ham, of Shoreham, was kicked in the
abdomen by horse around which he
was playing, two weeks ago, and died
in about two hours afterward
A Passumpsic railroad employee
named Cavanaugh was run over while
walking the track near White River
Junction, last Tuesday morning, and
had both legs cut off. beside being 9TH
erwise In ured.
A new weekly newspaper is to be
| published in Burlington, commencing
January LIST next, to be called the EVER
mont Statesman The publisher is to
be Mr.. Charles Pomeroy Button.
The parties who run the snake 'side
show on the fair grounds at Rutland,
lost their big snake last Friday. Satur-
day morning his snakeship was discov-
cred curled up under the table in Floral
Hall.
A wildcat found its way to North
Hyde Park few days ago. and was
freed in pine on Ferry St. but the
brave hunters who followed it there
three in number, dare not shoot at it, so
it departed in peace.
A precocious St. Adams infant of fv'
summers asked his big brother to put hi
toe on a chair, that he might cut it Of
with his hatehet. His big brother jok
ingly complied, when the little rasca
deliberately chopped it off.
| The st. Adams butter market Tues
day was active, and there was an ad
vance in prices on all the better grades
Common to fair, 20 to &c.. medium t
good, 26 to Soc. choice. 81 and 32c.
selected, 81 and 35c. But few small
lots sold at the latter figure.
Among the victims of pickpockets a
tie fair at Rutland last Friday, was 81
os Ray. of Orwell. who lost gold waite
for which he paid 500, and Emm
Wilson and Mrs. Stickney of Shorehan
who lost their pocket books containing
considerable amount of money.
If you want richness the last Norri;
vile Citizen furnishes it. Earle tall
ing about babies as if he was an exper
Just imagine A. A. Earle in that role
a man whose name will run out unle;
some one else perpetuates it for him !
argus and Patriot.
At last accounts McLane, who sh,
) himself August 81, at East Haven, W;
alive and apparently getting better; an
some think he will get well in spite
the doctors theory to the contrary.
has transpired that there was no lo7
affair connected with this tragedy, ar
| there is no way to account for it on
that he had been drinking.
The Vermont Horse Stock Compar
: have twenty-one horses, valued in Il
aggregate at 100000. They are mai
q ly Hambletonians, and one of them
e valued at $4,000, while another
5 worth $4,000. For beauty and actic
several of these horses will meet wi
few competitors in New England
On Monday last, Mr. Ward Knapp
I East Lyndon arose at the usual time
y the morning, built his fire and sat dow
). in chair, and soon, without warnin
. fell to the floor in an apopletic fit.
remained unconscious till about Z o'clo
in the evening, when he expired.
had been feeble for a few days. N
Knapp was about 70 years of age.
On Friday morning last Jerry DIR,
h of St Johnsbury, introduced himself
st Mrs. Colby in a way that surprised h
$. He had just unloaded a load of h;
- strapped the binding pole upon the wa
on, and in attempting to turn round
d front of Mrs. Colby's shop the hor'
d backed furiously, and ran the p
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v delivered hasty address, using phra
- not proper to be repeated in religic
= paper.-Uniom.
;, A family known as Randall at Sw;
ton, and as Patterson, at Lawren
g Mass, have been getting into trouble
e- the latter place E. Fl. Drew, of La
ce renee, and N. w. Jordan of Boston, W
h robbed of their gold watches, some '
liable trinkets, and $500 in mon
which they had deposited in a boat no
~ while they took a boat ride. Two you
: of this Randall ALIAS Patterson fam
" we're suspected of breaking in, and
SO ing the thieving. They left, but W
'ul followed, and last week Wednesday "
oe overtaken at St. Adams, where t
q were arrested, with one of the watcI
$24 in money, and other evidences
ne. guilt on them. The whole family be