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


worldwide reputation by saving men
from graves beneath the briny deep.
Mrs. Ida Wakefield, of this town de-
serves praise for the heroism displayed
on the 18th inst, in resuing the life of
Lewis Young, a boy IA years old, from
the middle of swollen stream above
N. G. Hoyt's mill.
CANADA.
Coaticcok and Bradford have licensed
liquor-sellers this year.
Three children of Mr.. Peter King of
Stanbridge, got a blowing up the other
day, while fooling with package of
gunpowder. All were seriously burned,
but it is thought they will recover.
In drunken brawl, at Sutton, on
the 4th inst, a Canadian Frenchman,
named Morse, assaulted his wife with
club, causing injuries which it is thought
will prove fatal. He is in custody.
Mr. S. W. Joslyn, miller at Fitch Bay,
slipped and fell the other day, and had
an arm caught and mangled in the cog
wheels Of some machinery. A thumb
was also severed from one of his hands.
The season of accidents on bad ice is
in full force. The other day a sleigh and
two horses with three persons, went I'M
der the ice at Quebec and at St. Atha-
uase, a man named Etiennne Jette with
horse and sleigh, disappeared in the
same fashion
Saturday evening last, several young
people from Massawippi started to 60
to North Hatley on the ice, to attend a
concert there. The weather was stormy
when they started, and they had not
proceeded far upon the Lake, when the
storm of snow became so dense and the
darkness so great, that they were lost,
and unable to form any correct idea of
the direction in which they should tray
ell !; they were in wagons, and while
they conceived that the ice was safe and
sound out from shore, they were aware
that in the vicinity of the entrance of
streams it was unsafe, thus they were
sensible of their dangerous situation,
while they wandered nearly two hours
during this time they met some French
men with a pair of horses and sled,
whom they hailed to enquire their way.
but the FreDchmen were also lost and
could give them no direction to a land
ing place. At length the party came
to a point under the mountain which
some Of them recognized, and from
which they obtained an idea of their di-
rection home, where they arrived safely
in due time thankful to have escaped
from dangers which threatened them.
That portion of the lake where they
were, IS not more than a mile wide, the
Railway train passed along its east shore
while the party were upon the ice. yet
so thick was the air from falling snow
they could not ascertain whereabouts OF
the lake they then were From thi;
comparatively trifing incident we -car
form some faint conception of the peril
of the traveller upon some of the vas
prairies of the west during the storms O
winter, and wonder that greater number
do not perish from being lost thereon
Staaastead Journal
ST URY.
Some of Fairbankses workmen took ;
dog and went into their grist mill las
Wednesday, and in few minutes cam
out with 10 dead rats, their total weigh
5 being 30 pounds We think this sufi
{. cient refutation of the newspaper storie
! of dizziness of business at the seal
| WI No. OCUtttOttCN.
> ]. o. Dodge, of St. Johnsbury, Will
q returning from Littleton, N. H.. on Tues
l. day, with team belonging to VIM. N
q Randall, drove little too near one sid
S of bridge in Waterford, when the plank
not being fastened down, tipped up, let
ting team and man off into the stream
S killing the horse almost instantly, inju,
: ing Mr.. Dodge considerably and ruinin
? the sleigh. The horse was one that Nh
Randall paid $500 for last fall.-Fa,
r naer.
g SUTTON
K Silas Roundy lately drew for the {
e & c. Steam Mill Company with four OK
- en- on one sled, six spruce trees some
$ them over 60 feet long, which scale
1887 feet. The weight of this loa
O would have been over 10000 nounde