Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-01-12
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Local News.
ORLEANS COUNTY TEMPERANCE
SOCIETY.

will be held at Barton Landing on We'd
nesday, Jan. 26th. commencing at 10
o'clock a. NJ. The forenoon will be de.
voted to the business of organization,
report of county commissioner, and re-
ports from different towns in the county
of the present aspect of the temperance
cause. At 2 o'clock, P. NJ. addresses
will be given by Rev. p. n. Granger,
agent of the State temperance society,
and others. The remainder of the SEES
sion will be devoted to discussions. Sc
lection Of officers, and the selection of
a candidate for county commissioner
Let every town in the county be repre-
sented. PER ORDER EXECUTIVE Cow.
ALBANY
The donation for Rev. Albert Watson,
on the ID inst. yielded net of 500.
Black river is brim full and running
oyer, at this writing. and still it comes.
Moses Lurue has bought of Alexander
Frasier, the portion of the Livingstone
farm below the road, fifty acres, for
sl700.
A four years old boy of E. L. Willis
fell into the brook one day last week and
would have been drowned but for some
school boys that happened to be near
The week of prayer was observed by
series of union services, alternately
between the houses at the West village.
with the exception of Thursday evening,
4 when it was at the Centre.
4. W. Eldridge, administrator, will
sell at public auction, at the dwelling
house of the late Patrick Flanagan.
Il miles from East Albany, on Tuesday
January %, commencing at 10 o'clock.
Al. W., cows, hay, grain, farming tools
&c. See bills.
SOUTH ALBANK
y. 5. Ames, has just completed his
\ residence, and now occupies it. May
his most sanguine expectations be real
lied in its enjoyment.
7 Marnoek, has gained his own, in
the handsome sum of about FIVE humid
red dollars. received very recently from
the L. 5. Government as back-pay due
him for service rendered to his country
in the late war of the rebellion. Ton
Is jubilant.
S. D. Graves of South Albany. sus.
tanned a severe loss by fire last Friday
might, the est inst. His barn and al
that it contained except the live stock
was destroyed; and his new house, tina
stands very near, barely escaped th,
rage of the fire fend, and this by din
of effort on the part of those present
who fought aud conquered; though i
was saved so as by fire." its beauty i
married and it is materially injured. be
inc blackened and charred on the end by
the outlapping tongue of fame. Tn
furniture suffered loss as a matter 0
course. being handled under the excite
ment of confagration panic. The
property was insured. Origin of tn
fire Is unknown.
BARTON.
Prof. Nichols will open course o
chronological Lectures here next Monda,
eEening.
Don't run the risk of getting you
buildings on fire, by letting your stow
pipe fill up with SCOT
Geo. B. Cass killed a hog last Wed
nesday, Jan. :, that dressed 578 pounds
Who, in this town, can beat this?
Mrs. Luke Cass, who lives with E.
Grow, went to the back door last Wed
nesday morning, to empty basin of W;
ter, slipped and fell, breaking one of he
ribs.
Chase. of the Union. in his wande
Ings through St. Johnsbury last weel
lame across James Langdon, of Plymouth
who drove stage from MeIndOes to Ba
ton, from 1892 to 1886.
For many years Hi' Hill has bet
familiar name among those interests
in Vermont in stage mail contracts, al
also as a landlord at Barton and
Johnsbury. Near midnight, on the la
lay Of 1873. just as 1874 was about
BE ushered in, he died at his home
Waterford, of erysipelas, which h;
rOubled him for some time.
The year 1873 will long be remembe
d as one of the cold seasons, the nor
md being the prevailing wind for t
ear Snow fell 50 days in the yea
lie amount Of snowfall was about
eet. Rain fell 81 days in the yea
he warmest days were, June 26, p. 2
and September p, %, and 20. tt
'ldest days were Jan. %. 80. 81; No
3. 30, and Dec. LIST and I'd. II
mount Of snowfall in Nov. and De
Is over four feet, an unusual amou
r that season of the year.
The following is a record of the pr
aI-Ing wind for every day in each mon
~ the year 1873, carefully noted by
fereiyal, Of this village:
SOUTH. WEST. MORT
anuary, II DAYS 10 DAYS. 9 da
ebruary. N a.. :. 10 ;.