Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-05-25
State Ne,cs.


| Centre with two tongues and two lower
Jaws. 1t is needless to remark that IL
was of the ..female' persuasion.
| The boom of the mill of A. 0. Brain
erd of Riehford, broke away last week,
carrying away million feet of logs
and the river bank of Union Block was
badly damaged.
Henry Hudson, who shot Eemuel
Streeter of Castleton, on the I'd inst,
has been held for trial for an assault
with intent to kill He was ordered to
give bail in the sum of $1,000, and IN
| default thereof was remanded to jail.
III. O. Brown of Castleton. will begin
the manufacture of slate pencils at Rut-
land, next week, opening his factory
with machinery that will turn out fifteen
or twenty thousand a day, and expecting
soon to double the plumber.
Butter took tumble at the st. Al
bans market last Tuesday, the decline
being from three to FIVE cents per pound
for the higher grades, as compared with
last weeks quotations, Fair to good, 20
to 26 cents /; choice, 90 to ~ Z; selec-
tons, %. No cheese offered
Colonel Keller opened the Mt. Mans
field house, at Stowe, the 9TH of May,
and is making preparations for large
company of summer visitors. The prlc
es for rooms in this popular house have
been reduced, hence a larger company
than usual is expected.
The pocket book containing $1,000.
lost by Solomon Norton of Huntington.
between that town and Richmond, was
found by five years old boy of John
Gilman, and restored to the owner. The
wealthy Mr.. Norton rewarded him with
whole dollar
Mr.. Putnam of Rochester recently lost
5 sheep. From appearances he supposed
it to be the work of Bruln. Alarm was
given, the towns people turned out en-
masse and before noon the game was
bagged. He was fat fellow and would
weigh 800 pounds.
Generals Sheridan and Hancock have
, positively promised to be present at the
, reunion of Vermont soldiers, which will
take place in Burlington the last week
IN August. General Mcdowell will also
5 be present, and. there is hope of seeing
: Gems Burnside and Doubleday.
The Springfield Republican says : L
! Governor Converse keeps on pardonine
convicted rum sellers in Vermont, anC
the people of Burlington are kept OIL
: short allowance of grog, the temperance
: question is likely to be pretty lively ii
"a the next campaign in that state.
Charles Harlow of South Reading, OIL
Tuesday of last week, went into Allel
l. Green's shop. and for the fun of tn
e thing asked the operator Of circula
- saw to allow him to try the machine, t
:" which request consent was given. Th
1t result of the experiment to Harlow wa
lie the instant loss of all the fingers and
Or part of the thumb of one hand.
to The most expressive word in regar
vs to the late cold weather was uttered b
frog, which crawled from his mudd
Nv bed, where he had reposed for or
~ months. We saw him as he scramble
as upon cake of ice, and took a look {
IS. his gloomy surroundings and heard hin
: in his gutteral tone, say SHE'LL" as /
;, plunged into the mud again Union.
:, Lewis Godette, a lad of about eigh
III cen years. recently stole a watch an
ed some clothing from the house of Augu
re- tus Daniels in Salisbury, but was arres
s.. ed in Pittsford, the articles reeovere
y and he was placed under $500 bonds
=, appear for trial at the next term of I'll
Ill County Court in default of which
lly was committed to Middlebury Jail.
eat young man by the name of Do,
be- committed an outrage on a young gi
is named Baird, fifteen years of age, I
: Gently, in Chittenden. In the struggl
II the girl was so much injured that h
life is despaired of by the physician
Dow was an inmate of Rutland Jail Ia
es- summer, on the charge of a similar g
ed sault at the house of. a Mr.. Preston
n; Mendon.
Mrs. Michael Carmody of West R,
III land, an insane woman, who escap
from her home last week Wednesda
in was found on Saturday in ChippenhoC
md When discovered she ran away, but
WI, party of men soon captured her. S
Ma was thinly clad, but had well endur
led the chilly nights. She had been kind
all fed by all to whom she applied for foC
sat Her disappearance caused much excl
last ment IN that vicinity, and large bar
the have secured the surrounding country
i0fe On Monday morning, Mrs Geol
IN IA Jones' living in Lunenburgh. commit
anu suicide by drowning. She had been
iu {: feeble health for about month and Y
-. II much depressed in spirits at her con
w: vi ton and prospects. She went down i
loai the cellar at the house and threw b
wy self into the eistern there, where she 7
' az drowned. The location of the cist
,' .ll9 and her position preclude the idea t
'u-N the drowning was the result of an az
= = dent, which was the first and natu
1"'i supposition.
The dwelling house and barns of "
lace Stevens in Bloomfield, were bur
of about noon, Friday. Two adopted G
rates dren of Mr.. Stevens, aged three and
edit respectively, were asleep in the n
where the fire originated and peris
- in the flames. Mrs. Stevens was the
Jug ly person beside the children in
than house at the time. Hearing one of IL
IN as cry out she opened the door, but
: in met by the smoke and flames and C
~, PEELED to turn back Four oxen,
.ne horses, and two hogs were burned In
uiiar barns. The loss is about $4,000, v
glad but small insurance.
mimi About two months since Mr.. He
that s. Cook of this village, was suddenl,
lould 49, gu WIN oilndness IN his right
yards or,,an - - - ei40i' ~ restore