Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-10-06
Local News.
ALBANY.

ALBANH.
T. P. Skinner has bought nice addi-
on to his farm of twenty acres of
oodland, of Milo Stiles paying twenty
We dollars per acre. EhTf
James Vance has sold his horse ''Gen-
raj Grant" to Mr.. Merrill from Boston
|rmerly of Irasburgh. Mr.. Vance is
kry successful in raising valuable
hrses.
J. G. Dow has lately taken about 400
tile from Canada.
BARTON.
E. S. Locke sells twenty COWS at auc-
bn, Thursday, Oct. 9. See advertise
ent and bills.
We see by Nebraska paper that Mr..
P. Gage is still engaged in the Sab
lth School work, and is meeting with
iccess. He was lately chosen Presi-
ent of Sabbath School organization
Fremont. IA 8 Z
Nye's horse which was killed ON the
ilroad last week, instead of getting
rough the pasture fence upon the track
ent through a gap from NOW field,
hitch it was the duty of the company to
eep up.
SERIOUS AccIDENT.-Chas. f. Percival,
Gme very near being fatally injured last
riday, while he was engaged in removing
is furniture from the fair ground. He
baded load of it into lumber wagon,
nd started for home, when the horse be-
anne frightened at the sound of rattling
mong the furniture, kicked and ran.
marley was hit by the horses heels and
un over by the wagon. When picked
ip he was senseless, and he remained SO
or some time; after being carried home
le revived, but was sadly deranged dur
ng the day. He has since improved ra-
bidly. and it is hoped, will be all right
gain as soon as the wounds and bruises
zeal up.
The house lately purchased by Justice
IVoodman, is being reftted into tene-
nent in the upper story. A new piazza
being added, and its general appear
nee is being improved.
A. A. Earle, well known to the news.
aper readers of this county, delights In
letting a drive on some of his brother
editors, and thereby bares his bosom tt
he attacks of the Press generally. w
blink in the article from the Union
opied below, he receives pretty tell
hg wound. To appreciate the joke full
y, it is necessary to know that Geo
Iodgden is an eccentric vagabond tina
vanders about ST. Johnsbury, not bein
ute fool, nor much else.
"Geo. Hodgden reports grand tim
bn the fair ground. 80. yes, says he
lit was fuss rate show. | seed tw
ba-a-rs, boorilla. and Brother Earle
fuss rate show" Sylvester, one {
Earle's admirers. asked George whic
was the best looking, Earle or the gorl'
la. Don't know" said George ''loo
some alike; but the boorilla could d
more things than Earle can" Georg
is firm believer in the Darwinian the
pry, but, when studying the connectin
inks, is apt to get confused. Whe
asked which way he should start in e
ing from the gorilla to Earle, he repl
ed: DON know, 'zactly-have to thin
that over" George is not of kind
commit himself hastily, and in doubtf
asses takes time to deliberate"
Whether the late temperance agitatiC
ad anything to do with the queit al
rder that reigned, during the Fair
apt, let those say who know. We sa
marked difference between July 4
nd Oct. lst g. I'd, and accounted for
by the less amount of rum used ON t
after occasion.
The leaves are being rapidly shak
own, and the chilly atmosphere war
ls of the near approach of long whit
Forty five years ago Samuel Chamb
lin, built in this village a two ste
puse, "a, x 81 feet, with ell and she
so large barn, and finished both
pod style, furnishing all the ma teri
aigging the cellar, and putting une
he underpinning, for the sum of 81, O(
He says he made good job of it at IL
price. He paid SO. per thousand
is lumber, hired his foreman for
per day and his common help for rs
Not very extensive repairs on the sa
buildings during the present season Ii
cost 81 900, but ''times hav chang
Sheriff Nye, extemporized prison
which to in-car- cerate those who und
took to disturb the public peace, dur
the time of the Fair, by the use of a
car. Those who lodged in the car "
more sober, if not more wise when Sc
liberty.
Mrs. Little, wife of Capt. R. H.
tie, died in this place last Wednesc
She was an estimable lady, and m