Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-01-12
STATE NEVIS.

this year. 200 bushels Of potatoes on
half acre of ground.
Oranges were organized in Castleton
and Rutland, last week, by Il, +. Jane
son of Irasburg. special deputy.
The officers of Independent Grange
Sheffield. were installed Jan. ), by 7. l.
Owen, Esq. master of Orleans Grange
The First National Bank of St. Johns
bury has declared u semi-annual dlvl-
dend of 8 per cent. payable january 10.
Five new convicts arrived at the States
Prison week before lasts from Middle
bury and . from St Johnsbury-thelr
sentences varying from , to 10 years.
Col. r. c. Benton. of St. Adams, is
mentioned among the candidates who
are anxious to succeed Mr.. Crane IN the
collectorship of this district. if any
change is made.
Henry Sidney of Orwell, while at
tempting to cross the ice at Chapman 5
Poiut got into an air-hole and was drown
ed. The body has not been recovered.
Jas. +. Colby of St. Johnsbury and
the class of ~, Dartmouth College, is
clerk of the House committee on the re-
vision of laws, of which Judge Poland
is chairman.
Mr.. J. l. Fisher, Of Chester, butcher
ed week before last bull which doubt
less was the largest ever killed IN YER
mont. The animal was 20 months and
20 days old, and dressed l006 lbs.
". B. Spencer of Bloomfield, slaugh-
tered two hogs last week which dressed
l,6ll pounds, the heaviest one dressing
954 pounds. This is the largest hog
story in the State this year.
The iron bridge on the Winooski Is
completed and the ears are now running
over it. 1t will stand secure IN future
from both food and fire.
ST. ALBANs BUTTER MARKET, January
6. Market firm, limited offerings
Common, 20 to soc; medium. % tc
| S5c; choice So to 3Se; selections, SC
to 4Oc Shipments l37 tubs.
A bear was surrounded and taken IL
Pomfret on the 2lst ult., weighing 42e
pounds. This is said to be the largest
| bear ever taken in Vermont Bruin haC
been rather mischievous among the neigh
boring sheep, and had killed fifteen o.
twenty of them.
Saturday morning. Jan. 5. the house
1 barns and hop house of Eben Douglas
of Hyde Park. were consumed by fire
together with 3 horses, sheep, ) hog
) calves The fire was oceasioned b,
the explosion of a lamp while fodderin!
in the morning. Total loss $500. in
sured for S1740.
Mrs Martha Delphy, of Lincoln, ha
this fall, on the Green Mountains. pull
ed one end of eross-cut saw to cut on
thousand spruce logs, when portion 0
the time the snow was two feet deep
The Middlebury Register says, ''lf
man only had a wife at each end Of til
, saw, logging would be an easy business.
The house and barn of Reuben Lewis
in Morrisville, were burned ON Monda
night of last week at about twelve O'Clock
The fire caught in the barn. and as Their
had been no light carried there thi
, winter, it looks as though the fire wa
not accidental. The loss IS about 81,
900. Insured for 1915. About $40
worth Of stuff was saved.
As Mr.. George Fletcher, of S. Wood
stock, with his wife and child of
months, were driving towards Taftsvillt
Jan. lst, they noticed when near th
house of Mr.. d. knowlton that the chill
was quite still and upon examinatio
: found that it was quite dead, havin
been smothered with wrappings. Til
is the second case of the kind in TIL
town during the winter.-Post
A young man by the name of Alwy
Meader, aged nineteen years, brok
through the Ice while skating. in Fe
t risburgh. last Friday, in company wit
n his younger brother and another DO,
and was drowned in about six feet
of water. The boys gave the alar
J, when he broke through, and made frui
S less efforts to rescue him. His Doc
O was recovered soon after, and was burit
on Sunday last.
Henry Hull. of Washington, aged !
years, was so injured, Monday of wet
> before last. that he had to have his lie
D, leg amputated just below the kne
,e The butt of falling tree struck Il
:. leg, and so badly crushed and mangl
" it that the limb could not be save
II The operation was performed Tuesd
N morning, by Dr. S. w. Goss, and t
limb dressed by Dr. C. NJ Chandler.
Montpelier.
One Frank Bailey, of Georgia, h
"a been arrested for being ..too much ma
re ried, During his short life Frank h
worked up considerable of a notoriet
,e AT the age of l6 years he was sent
al the Reform School at Waterbury 1
stealing horse. After serving out
term ne went to live with farmer. a
~ shortly after married Miss Hattie La
~ renee, who was at work at the sal
d place He left her after about thu
years OF married life. and without tror
ef ling himself to procure divorce
ay married. In the summer Of 1871. NJ
ng Mary Bushy, of st. Adams Bay, W
whom be lived about two years.
RS then ran away with a girl named Do
al, key, and remained till about two mont
ng ago, when he returned to live with
second wife, who had been support
ng with her two children during his
he sence. by her brothers. Hearing Il
,m he had another plan Of leaving, a
was trying TO induce a man to run az
,er with sister of the Booskey girl, he ,
N. arrested. and, in default Of $500 b;
av remanded to Jail to await trial.
up, A few days since in remarks in
ms senate, Mr.. Edmunds Of Vermont :
ne INTENDED TO vote for measure VIII
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