Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-03-09
State NesCs.

! L. L. Ir0cU0r OF Talfiee, sewing lud-
chine agent has been sent to Jail to
await trial ON the charge of forgery.
The pet cat of the State lives in Or
well, measures three feet from tip to tip
is fifteen inches high and weighs 20
pounds.
tuesday evening of last week John
Carlisle, of Brandon, was found dead on
Park street, in that place. The cause
of his death is not known.
A three years old son of Charles Mullins
of Swanton, was fearfully cut in the
forehead Monday of last week, with an
axe in the hands of another small boy.
The Vermont Copper Mining Com
pany, at Vershire, are now employing
about four hundred men, They get out
about eight or nine hundred tons of ore
per month.
William H. Sturtevant of Burlington,
owner of the black gelding General, .
has offered to match any horse in New
England, for $4,000 a side, to trot
him next September.
The costly monument paid for by the
Equitable Life Insurance Company of
New York, and costing $4,000, will be
erected over the grave of Colonel James
Fisk, Jr., at Brattleboro, next decoration
day.
Mr.. Alonzo Saxton. wife and babe, of
eathersfeld, retired for the night re-
Gently, leaving a kerosene lamp burning
during the night they were awakened
by violent explosion, to find the bed
clothes on fire, which, with some effort
was extinguished.
There has recently been held large
railroad meeting at Canaan, Vt, of per-
sons of that and surrounding towns who
are interested in the extension of the
Boston, Concord & Montreal railroad
from its present terminus, at North STRAIT
ford, n. H., up the Connecticut valley,
through Colebrook to Canaan.
A truckman employed to carry off the
liquors seized at Rutland the other day
rather played it, on the officers He
IciC IoI pau - ulhIONH Will OHc IOdO VI
barrels, and in the night it was carried
back to the store from which it had been
taken. The truckman has been arrest
ed
A young man of Columbus, o., came
home one night, unexpectedly to find
his wife faithless, and taking away their
three-years old boy, left her forever Two
days after, the woman was wandering
around with her child's shoes in her hand,
searching for him under the snow and
in out-buildings. She is still insane.
Zimri Howard, of Hubbardston. while
at work in the woods, Wednesday of
last week, slipped, and fell over ice and
rock down an embankment, seventy feet
high. He was terribly.bruised, and his
lower jaw broken in three places. His
condiaon was at first considered extreme
ly critical, but he is now expected to
recover.
The small pox has broken out in West
Fairlee. Mr.. Eugene Kimball returned
from Canada few days ago and brought
with him this disease Every precau-
ton is taken by DR.. Niles, his physician
to prevent the spread of it. Disinfect-
ants of every kind and being used where
any nave Deen exposed, ana no INV =:
allowed to 60 out of the house or in but
his attendant physician.
Henry Mutt, a travelling salesman,
engaged board at a respectable boarding
house in St Johnsbury for himself and
wife, short time ago, but after the cou-
pie had been there few days a second
woman appeared on the scene, claiming
to be Nuts lawful wife, and he went
back to Boston with her, but in day or
two returned, took the first woman, and
went on his way rejoicing. f..
The first civilized settlement in YER
mont on the west side of the Green
Mountains was on Chimney Point. in
the southwest corner of the town of Ad-
olson. 1t was made by the French in
1'3l, the same year in which they built
ort Frederic, afterWard Crown Point.
and stone windmill which was built
and gdrrisoned there, constituted an ont
post Of that important fortress while in
possession of the French.
Vermont seems to be reaping all the
honors for the great inventions of the
past. 1t is now claimed that Thomas
Davenport, of Williamstown, was the
inventor of the application of magnetism
and electromagnetic as moving prin-
clple IN mechanics, for which he has OBJ
tanned patent February 20, 1882. In
1884 his model was put on exhibition
IN New York, and from it Prof Morse
got his first idea of the electric telegram.
The people ofBrldgport and vicinity
are quite elated over the prospects Of
hndlng coal deposit in the northeast
part OF the town. Mr. c. C. Miner
while blasting for a well recently. came
TO black rock, about ten feet below the
surface, which was thought first to be
black lead. But upon some SAMPLES
oeing shown Prof. Seeley, of MIddlebnrv
college, ne pronounced them to be coal
a Mr.. Lewis, from the coal regions of
pennsylvania, who has visited the prem-
lSes' says there is every indication Of a
coal deposit
Judge N, v. Bailey, Of St. Adams,
the railroad commissioner of the STATE
mas lately been called on by complain,
ants at 5 John8bury, to proceed against
the Passumpsic railroad for rnnn;ng
freight cars with doors at the end con
trary to the statute made at the Iaat
session e OF the Legislature. This style
VI car was formerly used on different
l 1oitaoS IN TINS section previous to the
enactment OF the law prohibiting the
same, and sail railroad companies have
abandoned the practice except the Pass |
uniPslc' The penalty, we understand
y eoo per day per car. The railroad
commissioner, We are informed, has tax
"a measures to stop the running of said
cars On that road, without resortino n |