Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-08-03
Local News.
GENERAL.

and return: Newport. Sl.50; Coventry,
e. 30 Barton Landing, s1O0 Barton,
50 cents; West Burke. SOC; Lyndon,
10e Children under IA years of age,
half Of the above rates. The P. & o.
Road. viii carry for fare one way, chill |
dreu under Il, quarter fare.
BARTON.
Butter, 25 81.
Grange meeting next Saturday even
ne at 7 O. clock.
See advertisement of St. Johnsbury
Academy in another column.
As business has increased in the hair
dressing line, our barber has found it
necessary to employ an assistant, and
PATRONS wiz not be obliged to wait so
late evenings, in the future.
An exchange says that at Long Branch
many people turn out with their four in
hand The same thing takes place in
this village nearly every evening--four in
hand-four aces.
The temperance meeting was we'll at
tended, and addressed by Rev. A. A.
Smith of Irasburgh. The address was
excellent, and one man remarked In our
hearing, that it was ''the best temper
ance speech he had heard for ten years"
One day last week 0wny Hawkins
moved nine acres of stout grass in five
hours. His machine is new Model
Buckeye" Owny says had he known
the Genera" was timing him he could
have made 40 minutes better, and when
any one beats this he will try and see
what he can do.
Fred Fields saw a ghost last Friday
night on the bottom of the hotel stairs.
It had on hat, one stocking and shirt
tap. Fred's face turned cherry red, and
he vent up stairs as though the devil
was after him. If Fred don't turn over
new leaf he will see more ghosts be-
fore many weeks.
We understand that w. f. Robinson
has sold his stock of goods to Gilbert
Ellis, his present clerk. and Jack Ellis.
50 long employed by Mr.. Taft, of Sutton.
The Ellis boys have each learned the
mercantile profession" of honorable
and sagaeiOus business men, and will
combine good knowledge of their bust
ness with disposition to please and
satisfy their patrons. Remember that
attention to business, honesty and print
ers Ink, insure trade and business.
The occasion for the enjoyment of
rich intellectual treat, and a pleasant
ride to LyndOnville, that is to be so
cheaply afforded one week from next
thursday, ought to be enjoyed by every
person who is able to attend the basket
picnic. Each of the Sunday schools
Will 90 and committee will be appoint
ed to look after such children as are not
attended by parents. If any child has
not the requisite means to 60, he will
be provided for by applying to either Of
the sabbath school superintendent.
there is no man or woman here that
will regret the day spent, if he go and
listen to the speeches of the men who
Will address the people on that day.
One or two of our estimable Bartonio1
housewives viii doubtless profit by thi:
excellent receipt for making a simple
Indian meal pudding: Take one Indiar
neal and wrap it up nicely in two-year
aayarn stocking with darned hole il
Tie heel. Drop it head-foremOst int
@urteen gallons of boiling water, anc
Sur vigorously with an ancient slipper
sole for some thirty or forty hours, til
gets stiff enough and sweet enough {
'uu a somerset out of its stocking-lee
Dress it with melted tallow and beeswaz
seasoned with Onion-juice and extract d
Oarnyard, garnish with hard-boiled, de
'1yea hen-fruit. and few delicatel
scrambled pig-tails, and serve hot to you
srum0llng husband. He'll never grow
again.
Last sunday night, just as the su
vas getting into MS little bed. on th
'u0'e Of Crystal lake, might have bee
,''u an enraged and burly female. wit
NC IN her eye, Oaths upon her tongue
-Iu revenge in her elenched fists, ''goin
y, one Of her sistren In manner thu
@''sa the air with screams, HAIR and ca
'" A minute after, the same lady {!
gnu have been seen pacing up an
The railroad track with capture
'1'sF-iall in one hand, the other han
gagged In sending rocks at man
wat attempting to come shore
,-s man retreated to the other side
80 water, and skeedaddled up thrOug
~' Heids. But the pale-faeed beaut
Us not thus to he outwitted, and 81
moved up the trail like a hound upt
~sers track. And she caught hir
"" and led him back to his roOst, al
VO"d Of passers-by had stopped
The eonquering shero come III
4use OF all this connection, was . ma
~ man going boating with wOma
~'' his wife, and the wife was mad b