Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-16
State No1sS.

IOOO up Yoo,bop'
Mr. Hills proprietor of the hotel at
Waterbury, announces that he shall sell
no more liquor
An old woman named Green was ia
tally injured by falling down stairs at
Bennington, few days ago.
An athletic fellow has been running
sled-line on the ice across Lake Cham
plain at Fort Kent. He wears skates
and draws the sled. which will hold four
passengers comfortably seated
An addition of over one hundred books
has Just been made to the library of the
Vermont State Prison. They are care
fully handled and eagerly read by the
convicts.
The Rev. William Murphy of Rutland
has been raised to the dignity of priest
hood by the lord bishop of Montreal,
and is assigned to the duties ofassistant
priest in the cathedral at Burlington.
Two sisters residing within six miles
of each other near Bennington. Vt, have
not seen each other for about thirty
years There is not and never has been
any i'll feeling between them, but it has
'jest happened SO.
The Sentinel says: 1.-The people of
East Franklin and West Berkshire are
about commencing to raise money for
the connecting link between the Lamoille
Valley and the Missisquol County juno
ton Railway, viz: between Sheldon and
Frelighsburg via East Franklin
Monday night of last week Jacob
Decker left Swanton Falls, and Friday
morning his dead body was found in the
MiSsissquoi river, just below the falls at
Highgate, the superstition being that he
got into the stream while attempting to
cross on the ice, which was unsafe
During the temporary absence of Jesse
Bailey and sister, of Fletcher, recently
three young men, named Orlando and
Wellington Warren, and one Learned,
Of Fairfax, entered their house and help
ed themselves to what they liked of the
contents Of the pantry, and scattered
things about the rooms promiscuously.
Augustus Sanborn of St. Johnsbury
has sold a patent on a swivel pillow of
his invention to Massachusetts COM
pany, of which F. T. Holbrook is part
ner, retaining royalty on plows sold.
The manufacture of the Holbrook plow
will cease, the Sanborn taking its place.
In the House Thursday, sharp strug-
gle took place over the franking privi-
lege, which resulted in the defeat of
that measure by vote of Ill to 112.
This was the Butler bill, and the result
probably ends all attempts to restore
the privilege for this session.
Mr.. Norman Henry, of Rutland, has
for some years been occasionally troub-
led by bunch or swelling on his leg,
the cause of which he had always been
unable to discover. A few days ago he
opened his leg below the knee, and ex-
tracted a piece of glass, an inch wide,
which had worked from his hip down,
since fifteen years ago, when he crawled
through d window and received several
pieces in his hip, all of which, he had
supposed, had been extracted,
George H. Bigelow, one of the editors
of the Burlington Free Press, having
heard on Monday night that some of his
political opponents had stated that he
had offered colored man money for his
vote, went out upon the street and
charged the aceusers with lying, where
upon II. G. Willard, assistant superin-
tendent of streets and strong democrat
pitched into him, striking him heavy
blow on the forehead, and was only pre-
vented from further hurting him by the
bystanders.
Frank French, aged 20 years, son Of
Stillman French Of Pomfret, met with a
sad accident while cunning a day OF
two since. lie was resting with his
arms across the muzzle of his gun, when
it was discharged, crushing one arm,
which has been amputated, and tearing
out the inside of the other hand. leaving
his thumb and little finger. His face
and head were also somewhat injured
Col. John R. Lewis, who lost his right
arm at the Wilderness while in command
OF the 9TH Vermont, is now in success
full business at Waukee, Dallas county,
Iowa. about fifteen miles west of Des
MONIES, on the Des Moines Valley rail-
road. Col. Lewis is associated in bust
ness with his old comrade, regiment.
and brigade commander, Gen. L. A.
Grant, who founded the town of Waukee
several years ago, and who has acquired
handsome property in his various bust
ness adventures since the war.
Vermont has one representative in
congress of whom she has especial reason
to be proud. We would not see him
displaced, lawyer though he be, by the
tirst farmer in the state. We refer to
Hon. G. W. Willard, the cleanest, most
independent, wisest and most far-seeipe
statesman that New England has among
her delegates in the representatives
hall III Washington. His recent speech
upon the franking privilege is said to
nave been the best made upon that ques-
ton. Mr.. Willard is a statesman of
the old school, and as Jefersonian and
Washlngtonian ideas are coming into
fashion again, the Farmers Movement,
such men are sure to be appreciated.
and to find their proper places in the
direction Of our national affairs.-Ver-
mont Farmer
A few days since as Hiram Hatba-
ways hired man was fishing for perch
OFT st. Adams Point. he discovered a
short distance from him an unusual com
motion IN the water Of crack in the
Ice. Armed with an axe he fastened
to the spot, and to his establishment he
discovered huge Sturgeon that had
come up to the surface, probably to tell
the frepchman that he could not catch
MN with a hook. The man says 81 have a
better implement than that and dis
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