Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-12-01
STATE NEWS.

Castleton has just got up a lottery to
raise funds to build a new road.
The Rutland weekly Herald celebrates
its 90th birthday the coming winter
Foot passengers are crossing Lake
Champlain. on the ice, at Grown Point
and Ticonderoga.
The wooden mills lately burned at
Cavendish, it is understood, will not be
rebuilt by the present owners.
Middlebury thinks summer is going
fast. Middlebury has eighteen inches
of snow as foundation for her belief.
Vermont sent more cattle to the Bos-
ton cattle market week before last than
all the other New England States put
together.
G. NJ. Chase, ESQ.,, editor of the Lyn-
don Union, has been dangerously sick
at Baxter Springs, Kansas, but is now
convalescent.
Two hundred and twenty seven differ
ent persons have been committed to
prison, at the Rutland jail, for the year
ending October 1st, 1878.
Butter sold at ST. Adams, Tuesday, at
prices varying from twenty to thirty five
cents. The cheese market was dull, only
/ seventy-seven boxes being shipped.
Over twenty-six tons of poultry were
shipped from West Randolph on We'd
nesday and Thursday of week before
/ 1oot hoe;loo &xpo tl,oo lool, ~
other produce.
A young married man of Brattleboro,
concluding that rum has killed thou
sands, poured II gallons of prime bran
dy into the river, and, with lawyer as
a witness, and uprolled eyeballs, swore
off forever
Diptheria of the most virulent type
has appeared in Rutland county. OF
seven cases in three families in Castle
ton, five proved fatal, some within {
very short time after seizure.
Mr.. Jedd Gull, one of the proprietor
of the Douglass House, in Brandon
with his family, left town quite myster
ously one night week before last, leaving
his partner, Mr.. Barber, in bad pre-
dicament, and his creditors in the lurch
1t is expected that at the Forthcoming
December term of the Caledonia cour
the grand jury will be summoned, il
special session, to investigate and &C
upon the many alleged criminals nov
confined in the ST. Johnsbury Jail.
A ''native'' belonging in Goshen Cor
who "kum eout to see the keers," wa
rolled over several times by the COW
catcher of locomotive on the Montpel
Ter and Wells River railroad toward tn
Summit, exclaimed as he crawled Out
'Go to HI with yer old steam-engine
l din't kun to Plainfeld to be mashe
by the keers!" Ahem Argus
The Brattleboro post office was entere
by burglars, last Monday evening, an
the vault which contained nearly all {
the Office valuables, was completed
cleared of its contents, including stamps
money-order funds and registered letter
, About $1,000 in stamps and from $40
to $500 in cash we're taken. Every e
fort is being made to capture the villain
; who were evidently experts, but as "
3 no clew has been obtained to their wher
abouts. Part of their tools were obtaine
. from blacksmith shop in the villag
f During Mrs. Tlivermore's lecture
Springfield, the other night, she spoil
with considerable severity of tight la
iug aHg Hbe0rsests Il young fbi9 had lady IN Il
!, gallery with great difficulty and mut
perseverance, burst her corset string
and drawing them forth, knotted the
e together, and tossing them to some your
q gentlemen near by, remarked, "Her
boys, you can have these to play cat
cradle with"
q Senator Edmonds has started f
Washington, and on the morning of h
departure the st. Adams AdUertis
published the following concerning h
f position OH the Cuban troubles: "N
S are glad to say he goes back thorough
, disguised with the absurd war talk
the last ten days. Filibusters, fugiti,
= Cubans, healthy fellows who have file
Brooklyn boarding houses for five yea
: with the warlike smoke of their cigarette
and shrill cheers for the beautiful isl
whose freedom they would win wi
drawer and better blood than their ow
y will get no help or sympathy from hi
in their effort to embroil us in Cub;
: war"
On Monday, Nov oath, the Montpe
y Ter & Wells River railroad began to II
e regular trains over its entire thirty Gig
J. miles. This route passes through Groto
r Marshfeld, Plainfeld and East Montpt
, Ter, besides opening up an avenue to Il
market for many thousands of acres
: heavy timber. Steam mills are alreaC
e in operation along its line, and hundre
) of men engaged in numbering. Takil
in connection with the Boston, CONGO
& Montreal railroad along Lake Wi
= nipesaukee, this new route is the shol
n est between Boston and Montpelie
Burlington, St. Adams and Ogdensburg
During summer travel it will take near
d seventy-fve miles from the distance
S tween the White Mountains and Sarato,
IS via Lake Champlain and Lake George.
: Last Wednesday morning. about ha
/. past one o'clock, the wooden factor
: owned by Mr.. J. J.. Whipple, in Cave
" dish village, was discovered to- be
le fire. Fortunately for the surroundi
lie buildings there was no wind, while qui
" a body of snow had fallen during t
/, night and was still falling. which impe
:. ed somewhat the spread of the fam,
" Despite, however, the utmost exertic
e of the many who soon gathered, t
G. stone building was entirely consumed
about four hours time. A few goo
were saved from the burning buildin
,e while much was destroyed. Both t
It building and its contents were fully