Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-07-06
state Ne,Us.


Hosea Vaughan Of Woodstock, fel
down cellar on the 9th. fracturing hi
skull, and died the next day.
An inmate of the insane asylum a
Brattleboro. takes daily walk of from
Is to % miles. imagining himself a horse
1t has become necessary to keep
watch around James Fisk's grave. tc
prevent vandals from stealing flower:
and other ornaments.
Samuel Robinson of Shrewsbury, was
killed while drawing timber in the woods
Thursday of week before last. by his
horse becoming frightened.
| The first rattlesnake ever seen in Wa
terville, Lamoille County. was killed
there June 81, by Daniel F. Maurice.
He had but one rattle.
The second Annual Fair of the La
noble Valley Fair Ground company,
will be held on their new fair ground at
| Morrisville, on the 10th and 18th of
September.
Wednesday of week before last, Wash
ington Goodell and wife of Readsboro,
were each fined S. and costs. for cruelty
whipping their daughter Minnie, four
teen years old.
Thaline Bleau, a little girl of Ben
ningtoD, eight years of age, fell under a
loaded wagon week ago last Thursday.
The wheels passed over her head, crush
ing it and killing her instantly.
A grape-shot, probably fired during
the Revolution, was found, the other
day, in the heart of tree twenty inches
in diameter, near the spot at Center
Rutland, where the old fort stood
E. Barringer of Woodstock a marble
worker in E. P. Archibald's employ,
about % years old, was drowned in the
Quechee river on Saturday, willie bath
ing, probably being disabled BY cramps.
The Franklin County, VT, Union Re-
publican Convention at Sheldon, nomin-
ated Albert Clarke of the St. Adams
Messenger, anti-railroad candidate, by
vote 81 to %, for the State Senate.
Butter at ST. Adams last Tuesday,
was dull and prices lower. Common to
fair, 20 to % cents medium to good.
"a to 20 cents choice, 26 and q cts. !;
selections, % cents.
The Bennington Free Press is proud
and happy in the possession of a small
crocodile, two centipedes, two tarantulas,
a horned frog, q big Louisiana grass
hopper, a sword fish, and other pretty
little pets. No fighting editor is needed
in that office.
A man named William Preston COM
mitted suicide by hanging, at North
Bennington, Saturday. The cause Of
his self-destruction was mental aberra-
ton, from which he had suffered for
years, having twice before attempted the
same deed. He leaves wife and mother.
Seven convicts have been received at
the Vermont State Prison within the
last ten days, being mostly young men
from sixteen to thirty years old. Four
have recently been discharged by ter
mination of their sentence. The entire
number of inmates is now 1913 females.
A workman on the railroad at Rich
ford, named John Preston, an English
man, while out In a boat near Brainerd S
pier, Sunday, fell into the river but got
back into the boat, undressed, plunged
into the water and was drowned. He
was intoxicated, and three bottles filled
with liquor were found with his clothing.
Week before last vicious bull at.
tackled George Stevens of Williamstown
who seized the animal by the horns, but
instead of controlling it was thrown over
the fence, getting some of his ribs bro
ken. His wife, who saw the ARRAY, was
so frightened that she was thrown into
premature travail, and gave birth Il
triplets.
A Vermont girl from Woodstock
named Fairbanks, who was teaching a
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, stood waiting
for team to take her to ride, recently
but seeing it drive by, she remarked
that she guessed they were not going tt
stop for her, and then went through ;
room, took razor, and going into an
other room, cut her throat from ear II
| ear.
The General Convention of Congrega
tlonal Ministers and Churches of Yer
t mont, has accepted the bequest of tn,
subscription list and goodwill of tn,
Vermont Chronicle, made IN the las
will and testament Of the proprietor, tn,
late Lyman j. Mclndoe, with the condi
tons attached thereto. By the term
OF the will, therefore, the proprietorshi,
; OF the Vermont Chronicle viii pass t,
that body on the first day of Jan. 1876
: The Rutland Globe advocates the eel
ebration of the American centennial b,
the dedication of the Vermont Stat
; House. still standing at Rutland, anc
the Oldest public building in the State
as an antiquarian museum The build
, ing was formerly used by the Legisla
ture and the courts and there are me,
still living who remember the old pla,
OF Its rooms. Several articles for til,
: proposed museum have already been of
, fered.
John S. Wright, senior member of tn
Boston firm of J. s. & E. Wright, com
mission merchants, died last Monday
{ aged sc. AIR. Wright was of an Of,
colonial family, but was born at Plain
held, Vt, one of l3 children of DR.. Eb
. enezer Wright, distinguished physi
clan. In early life he was associated j,
business at Thetford, VT, with Georg
> Peabody, the great banker. The firm
e In Boston to which he belonged ha
0 sometimes done business of SIS. 900.
/ 600 year. He leaves property estimat
ed at S2,000,000.
= Squire Daniel Knowlton of Taftsyille
was buried under difficulties, the othe
: day. The sexton dug his grave an,
:, charged So for the job. but the friend
: demurred, whereupon the sexton locke,