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

Waterbury. Dan Hardy was sent thence
in pursuit, and brought Sanborn back a
prisoner, to Morrisville. where Dodge
was waiting to convey him to Lowell. |
But Hardy, having evidently become
somewhat ..sprung." refused to give up
his prisoner, claiming the privilege of
carrying him to Lowell, himself 1t be-
ing hot day, he stopped at most of the
places where the cooling beverage is
kept, and when he arrived at Lowell, he
was so drunk he could not tell whether
he was the officer or the prisoner, and as
there were no returns made on the writ,
the court was unable to tell; but some
thing must be did, and as Sanborn was
the soberer of the two, concluded to put
him on trial, he thinking that according
to the best of his recollections, he was
the one arrested. 1t was soon ascertain
that he had only eighteen cents, so the
plaintiff concluded the cheapest way for
him to get out of the scrape was to let
the prisoner go-and he went Soon af-
ter, the sheriff began to sober off little,
and began to think it time to be looking
after his fee, but as there was nothing
charged on the writ. the court was una
BILE to settle with him. He was not So
Der enough to figure, but thought that
he had paid out $3.50 somewhere on the
route. But he was obliged to go back
without his pay, swearing however that
he would sue the town, the court or
somebody. Hardy, we learn, is minis
ter of the gospel when at home, but if
he is as good at preaching at home, as
he is at swearing when away, he must
create an awful sensation among sinners
SHEFFIELD
Reuben Gray, while leading some
colts to the pasture, June 20th, took the
precaution to wind the halter around one
of his arms, in order to more conven-
iently let down a pair of bars, when the
colts became frightened at some object
and ran away, throwing him down, break
ing an arm between the wrist and elbow,
and bruising him badly.
ST. JOHNSBURY.
We clip the following from the Gale
DOMAIN
Mr.. Cyrus Sergeant had green peas
from his garden, June 30.
Mr. R. O.. Goss fell from a staging
where he was at work shingling a barn in
Waterford last Wednesday, and broke
his neck.
For the last half of May, the amount
of freight delivered at the Fairbanks
scaleworks was two thousand three hun
bred and forty tons
A young man. born and brought up
within stones throw of one of our
churches. went off and got drunk last
week, so drunk that he fell out of the
wagon on Railroad street. and the owner
Of the team went and took it away from
him. Meanwhile his young wife lay
dying at home, and did die two days af-
forwards. On Monday evening, of this
week, a boy only twelve years old was
so drunk at Lyndon Corner that he had
to be carried home. He was first bun
died off into horsebarn, but he attract
: ed too much attention there, and some
one procured team and two men con.
veyed him home. If it was known that
such things were done in some heather
land, our people would send missionarie;
there; and they should.
We clip the following from the Gale
DOMAIN Miss Ellen NJ. Pierce, who
sailed from this country as missionary
to Aintab last February, has reached
her destination. As she is sister to Mrs
J. K. Colby of this place, and vel
known in this and Orleans county, th'
following extract of a letter from he
will be of interest
"Our slow and wearisome journeying
have come to an end at last and an
D really in Aintab. We reached Scande
e room on the 18th, and commenced GU
overland journey the next day. i foun,
it much less fatiguing than | anticipat
ed, although / had no just idea of tn
9 roughness of such mode of trayelin
| at this season of the year. When W
forded the first river, the water came u
to our stirrups, and the current was yer
strong. After this there was a constan
r succession of similar streams and a
e one time, as far as | could see, there az
! peared to be nothing but water MI
Perry asked if thought | was going t.
sea on horseback and it did seem niue
j. like it. But God has brought us safel
), through it all without the slightest az
t cident. If L am successful in learnin
% the language, / think I shall ENJOY til
work here very much Ny heart is MOI
Is and more filled with the Importance {
r missionary labor, and the great result
n arising from it. y
The Fourth was observed in the 70
5. lowing manner : From until in tt
N morning, the boys made the air hideol
e. by yelling, blowing horns, and explo'
# ing fre-crackers and torpedoes. Fro
:, 4 to A. NJ, all the bells in the villae
r were chimed.. At 9, the band assemble
a on Railroad street and discoursed patti
s, otto music. At 10 A. NJ, the Grange
0. formed in procession at Floral hall, al
ct marched to the speakers stand, whel
prayer was offered, the Declaration
Independence read, and the principl
= of the Patrons of Husbandry were d