Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-02-02

as was eaten IN We ancient times. Admission 80 cts
each. Funds TO be used towards furnishing the new
church II is worthy object and will be a pleasant /
OCCASION. Gro.
Professor Nichols finishes his course
of lectures here to night They have
been very interesting and instructive. /
The house has been crowded every even
ing.
James Lewis lost 5000 horse last
Saturday. He hitched it to a tree in
the woods where he was at work. The
horse travelled round the tree until the
halter drew him up 50 that he was chok-
ed to death.
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Another weather change One man
reports the thermometer at his house,
this morning, 81 degrees below zero.
At our house the poker, pans. kettles,
stove-iron, pump-handle, door-knobs.
kindling-wood and other kitchen articles
too numerous 70 mention. were as cool as
could be expected in a winter as mild as
this. Even the birthstone on the match
e.. shuddered before it would burn and
the ice in the pals would snap before
it had even been looked at Boo-o!
All Main street was called to the win
dows last Tuesday afternoon to witness
the runaway of George Bickford's horses,
attached to a heavy lumber wagon.
The rafting over the frozen street, was
equal to the jogging Of an artillery train
over one of McClellan's corduroy roads
The run lasted about a minute and was
about mile in length. reaching to the
foot of the Leland hill, where the horses
stopped and waited for George to come
along and 90 a-foot up the hill. Loss,
one wagon body and four pairs of horse
shoes No insurance.
Another soldier gone. John W. Clarke
died in Barton, Wednesday, Jan. DIST,
1874, in the Both year of his age The
day he became 10 years old, he left hi:
home in Coventry, and proceeded to
Boston, where he enlisted in the 18th
Mass Ind't Battery, composed of six
twelve pound Napoleon brass guns. Capt
Tim. Pearson. commanding He was
ordered at once to New Orleans. where
he done garrison duty for some length
of time. in forts in the rear of the city
Lying in those low. damp. miasmatit
swamps, fit for and inhabited only BY
alligators and loathsome reptiles He
was created first Corporal when he frs
enlisted, having command of twelve mel
and charge of gun, which position b,
held eleven months. The ranks were s(
thinned by the fearful ravages of dis
ease, contracted by both horses and men
that soon there was not men enough t,
man the guns or horses to draw them
consequently the guns and few remain
ing men, were transferred to a transpor
plying on Lake Ponchartrain. Whilr
-erving on this boat, he net the frs
-Tgan lie knew. and saw the first and on
u familiar face while in the service
that of Ellis Stafford of Barton Land
ing, then serving in the commissar
department Capt. Pearson came HON
recruiting, and soon filed up their rank:
50 they were soon enabled to take th
field again. The new recruits receive
big bounties, and such as would pay th
Captain well for commissions were q,
en- them, and they were put right in owe
old boys who had served as Sergeant
and Corporals ever since enlistin,
Smarting under this insulting injustic
a dozen Of the old officers pulled off the
stripes, and went back into the ranks
privates, MIR. Clarke being one Of tt
number. They were then sent up tt
Mississippi river to Memphis, whe
they suffered inexpressibly from col
and scanty clothing it being in Il
winter, and rations were short Fro
that place they were ordered away
into the heart of Arkansas, then ba
again to New Orleans from there tn
embarked on board shaky old riy
boat. and proceeded to Pensacola, Flo
da. The sea was running high and t
numbering old scow came near foundt
ing with all on board. But what if
had To be sure, a dr0ver would 1
have trusted a lot of valuable horses
such craft, or merchant a cargo
goods; but they were only human
lngs in federal blue, which ought in
self to have commanded respect and &C
sideration but which was, seemingly
disgrace. From Pensacola they ma
shat memorable forced march to Seln
Alabama thence around in the rear
Mobile, to cooperate with the wa
forces. They muff1ed their axles. a
drew the guns into position by han
under cover of the night. But the II
became aware that something unus1
was going on in that quarter, and po
ed a perfect torrent of shot and sh
into the pine woods in which they W
at work. causing our boys to leave th
guns and seek the cover of the ire
But by persistent effort the work !
accomplished, and the morning dawn
yealed to the astonished gaze Of the T
el,, our forces fully entrenched. II
came the siege of Blakely that las
eight days. and resulted in the capt
Of Mobile Mr. Clarke was at his ?
during the whole time, as number