Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-01-19
STATE NEWS.

The tower of the new Congregational
Church at Bennington is to be $50 feet
high.
Butter, at the St Adams market,
Tuesday. was sold at prices varying
from thirty to forty cents
A. W. Godfrey, of Waterbury Center
in fit of insanity, attempted suicide by
hanging.
A three years old child of Harry
Strong, of Brattleboro, fell into pail of
boiling water. Friday, and was fearfully
burned.
A convention of the landlords IN Yer
mont is proposed to be held at either
Montpelier or St Adams, to consider
the best method of checkmating prohi-
bition
Mrs. Hugh O'Donnell. formerly of
Lyndon. has been keeping disrepntable
house for some time past at Wells River,
but two weeks ago she promised the
authorities, who called upon her better
fashions.
An eight years old son of Mrs. Bar
ton. of Vergennes. was crushed to death
in HawIey's lumber yard last Saturday,
by the Sliding of one pile of lumber
against another.
John Gorham, of Kirby, while draw
ing wood week before last. was thrown
from the load. striking his head against
stone and receiving injuries which in
duced brain fever.
Ne doubt the story of the COW that
jumped over the moon induced a COW be-
longing to Noah 5. Folsom, of Sheffield,
to climb up the stairs and jump over
the high beams of his barn.
The sixteenth legislature of the State
of Minnesota contains sixteen natives Of
Vermont-nine senators and seven rep
resentatives One-ninth the entire leg
islature are Green Mountain Boys.
A West Hartford correspondent writes
1.-The rivers, and all large streams in
this portion of Vermont. are clear of ice
for the second time this winter-an
almost unparelled occurrence.
L I. Abel, of Fairfax, plowed one
and a half acres of stubble land, on New
Years day, and found little frost to i'm
pede his work John johnson, an en-
terprising farmer of Essex, engaged in
the same diversion during the past week.
.Sugaring off in January from fresh
ly flown sap is not usual in Vermont,
| yet Mr. Ira Snow, of Montpelier, has
this year done just that, getting good
yield of sap from naples he tapped last
Friday Jan. 18th.
Mr. A. n Merchant. of the Burling-
ton Democrat, announces a new evening
daily paper in that city. The paper
will. of course, be democratic in politics,
and the publisher promises that it shall
be live, up to the times daily in every
respect
Clark Moore went to Charles Morse's,
in Plainfeld, Jan. 9. with his oxen. and
they broke up half acre of greensward,
it blowing as freely as May. the ground
being entirely free from frost. Rarely
has this been done in Vermont in JAN
uary.
A sad accident occurred on Saturday
afternoon last at J. n. Haveley's saw
mill, in Vergennes. A lad by the name
of Barton. about eight years old, was
gathering pitch from some pine logs,
when a pile of boards fell on him. The
accident was not seen by any one, and
he was dead when found.
E. A. Parks of Lyndon has dairy Of
10 half Attorney cows, one of which is
less than two years old. He informs
the Union that he has sold 1858 lbs
of butter for 81, 1917. 45 or $40. SO pei
COW. He does not count in the milk
and butter used in his family. He also
made $50 pounds of cheese and sold SIX
veal calves for S57.
H. A. Gilbert of Barnet, has a doc
and cat which appear very fond of each
other. The other day Mrs. G. placed
before them. what We presume was the
remains of Charles Sylvester's dinner
There being no meat, they went for the
bones. The cat undertook to swallow
the breast bone of the chicken, getting
: one prong or fork down its throat, leav
{ ing the other outside. The cat made
an effort to get it out, but failed. where
upon the dog stepped forward, took hold
of the bone carefully with his teeth, anc
pulled it out. This was seen by an ey,
7 witness
e The prospect seems now fair that in
few years salmon fishing will becom
one of the common sports of this North
ern region. Thirty five thousand sal
T mon babies, one month old, were turned
y loose into the Missisquoi river and it
1 tributaries on the 26th ult. by order 0
the United States Fish Commissioner
These fish were Matched from spawl
brought from California last October. a
: Charleston, n. H., by Mr.. Stone. !,
n Cold Spring Trout Ponds They wer
+ very lively, and seemed to enjoy the en-
> largementof their borders greatly. Par
OF them were placed IN Kelly brook nca
H1ghgate, and part of them in Hunger
$ ford brook, both emptying into the Mis-
e sisquoi. The temperature of the wate
0 averaged 80 degrees Fahrenheit.-Argu
; 1t is reported that Bethel youn,
3 man. named Barnes, has come to grief
; he being captured one night last wee
:. by Simon Coy, Esq, while engaged i
= the highly laudable occupation of 5.peek
h ing into windows. There has bee
y some one seen at various times durin
: the fall looking into the windows 0
j different parties, about the TING the
were retiring for the night, and eonsid
cradle excitement has resulted. Perhap
the pceping has now received a check
u said Barnes being fined So and cost.
n making some SIS, for his little diversion
n curious fact in connection with III
; matter IS that in every case where