Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-05-18

/ tleb0r0 on Sunday. OF consumption.
John III. Whiteomb Of East Enosburgh,
has made this season from 1900 trees,
four tons of maple sugar.
The Iamoille valley has been having
some more failures among its business
men. among them being B. A. Calkins,
merchant at Cady's Falls. and J. Holmes,
carriage manufacturer at Johnson.
Twelve sheep belonging to Mr.. w. B
MeElroy of Middlesex. have brought
him twenty-five lambs this Spring. and
all but one are alive and doing well.
At East Fairfield, the dead body of
Ella Lee. a girl l 6 or II years of age,
was found few rods from the house,
where. as some of the members Of her
family say, she went after wood. Foul
play is suspected.
The Pomfret grangers are to plant
trees on Saturday, and three premiums
are to be given to the three persons who
shall set out the greatest number of for
est trees not less than nine feet high.
Thomas Talbot. the present acting
Governor of Massachusetts, is native
of Dandy. Vermont, of poor but respect
able parentage. and has acquired great
wealth in the manufacture of fiannels at
Biilerica.
Passengers leaving the Portland &
0gdensburg railroad at Walden Heights
for Cabot, Nav LIST. used snoW-shoes.
that being the only way they could trav-
Ell, the roads being blocked with snow
and impossible by team.
The most foolish burglar in Vermont
is James L. Blodgett. who went through
store at East Dorset. the other night.
and stole new suit of clothes, but left
behind his old buds, which contained
diary with his name written in it.
At the recent term of the county court
in Windham County, Mrs Minnie E.
Smith recovered five hundred dollars
damages against the hotel keeper in
Guilford Centre, for damages resulting
from selling Intoxicating liquors to her
husband and father
Warren Costello of Rutland, went to
Troy. New York, last week, where he
came near being feeced by couple of
sharpers. He got drunk and went to
saloon with his new-found friends, but
was locked up by an officer in time to
save his gold watch and money.
Patrick Calligan of Alburgh, an en-
ploye of the Central Vermont railroad,
while at work on the railroad bridge
near Georgia Station, May 1st, fell to
the river beneath, distance of seventy
feet, killing him outright. He was "a
years old, leaving wife and one child.
A young man named Martin Wake
field of Wolcott, has been missing since
Sunday. He had been heretofore con-
sidered ''out Of his head" and they
have been dragging the river for two or
three days, expecting tc find his body,
but as yet with no avail.
Joseph Lynde of Richmond. attempted
to commit suicide last Monday morning,
by hanging himself in his wood shed,
but was discovered By his wife, and cut
down before life was extinct. Derange-
ment of the system, occasioned " ina
billty to sleep, is supposed to have caus-
ed the act.
Ethel, six years old daughter of B.
III. Buddington of Bratt leboro, was
drowned Thursday of week before last,
by falling from an out-building down an
embankment forty feet high. into brook.
A little girl who was with her and also
fell IN, crawled out unaided, but badly
injured by striking the rocks in the fall.
DR.. James NJ. Aver, a native of Dan
vile, but for some years past resident
OF Buenos Ayers, South America, is ex-
peeted to arrive at New York with his
family, about the Goth of this month.
He has made arrangements to spend the
summer at Danyille Green. The doctor
has enjoyed large and lucrative prac-
tee at Buenos Ayres, which, together
with some very fortunate real estate
transactions, has placed him in quite af-
fluent circumstances
Among the many May day incidents
one that took place in Stowe is worthy
OF mention. A man and his wife, with
a horse and sleigh, went to a sugaring
OFF party some distance in the forest.
Returning they found snow drifts four
feet deep, and in attempting to pass
them the horse got down. and two men
at distance were called upon for as
sistance. They came with shovels. and
after much labor the team was extrica-
ted. Meantime the wife had to travel
half mile in snow two feet deep.
Wednesday night of last week, nine
stores IN Bennington we're entered. by
breaking panes Of glass in the windows,
and papers and small amounts of money
secured at nearly every place. Edward
Lynch was arrested, confessed the crime.
and implicated one Michael Grace. a bow
OF Is, who was also arrested. The
stores robbed were those of S. L. God
frey, L. L. Taft & Co., J. C. Norton. G.
3. slbley, S. E. Harris, McEowen & Co.
). ). Scott. the Bennington Manufactur-
ing company's store, and Roberts sa-
ioon- Grace has borne an unfavorable
reputation and undoubtedly was the
leader in the affair.
Mr. John Stiles died at his home near
Stiles Pond, in the edge of Waterford
on Monday, very suddenly. Mr.. Stiles
had not been In sound health for savar-
al years, but was rather better this
spring than usual After dinner Mon
gay ne went out and helped his son re-
par some fence, and returned to the
mouse ABOUT two O'Clock, remarking that
| ile hao severe pain in his side. He sat
do"n IN chair with his head resting
upon his hands when suddenly he
slaughtered back, and members Of the
,amiiy who were in the room going to
MS SIDE discovered that he was dead
physicians being called pronounced his
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