Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-02-09

The above were shortened from the
Express.
A correspondent of the Burlington
Democrat. signing himself Granger"
writing from Newport under date of Jan.
&c, says:
Here l am. and it is colder than
Greenland. There has been no sleighing
here for. several days The farmers
grange are creating considerable excite
ment among the old party relies in
this county. this winter. 1t is grange
in the hotels and stores. and it Is grange
between sermons and after sermons,
grange in the morning and grange in
the evening, and politicians talk in their
troubled sleep about that everlasting
grange movement 1t is said by some
of the politicians. that with a hundred
oranges in this State, each containing
from twenty-five to one hundred men,
bers, the farmers could control so many
town caucusses. elect their delegates,
smash up the slate now being made up
for the next Republican State Conven-
ton, and compel the Republican party
to support the man with a hoe, or bolt
The farmers are not politicians. 0, no
but they are now carefully at work, plac-
ing seam blast under the old party ma
chine. and when they touch it off. as
farmer Atkins says, stand from under
| Another excitement here is fast horses.
| The Dorman brothers have some very
good ones, but perhaps none as good as
old Red Cloud, and he may be remem-
bered at Burlington as the horse that
ran away on the ice, at the trot there
two years ago. Mr.. Brewster, of Black
Diamond fame. lives here, and has the
old horse yet. Chittenden county is we'll
represented in his stables His son, II.
I E. Brewster. returned to this place last
week. with FIVE horses, d morgan mare,
| owned by D. G.. French, of Jericho, that
can show better than 2:40, and four
Black Diamond colts, one owned by
Hon. A. o. Humphrey, one by A. Sher-
man, and two by Messrs NARROW. The
colts are from Underhill. Three of them
Dir. Brewster is ready to match against
three colts of any other horse in the
State, of the same age. | have seen
them all speeded, and one of them would
make it interesting for Mr.. Bacon's
Spruce. Arrangements are being made
for big trot here before long. The
people of Newport have the name of
managing affairs of this kind in a fair
and honorable way
We understand that A. &. Bowley.
who assaulted Mr. Stone, the school mas
ter, a week ago Friday, has settled for
the same, by paying Mr.. Stone $50 for
each blow, and that there were blows
enough to come to $500 In addition
to this he pays s25 fine and loses his of
fee as constable. Revenge, we suppose,
is sweet, but it sometimes makes "a fell
low feel mighty humble. don't it. Mr. B.
ST. JOHNSBURY.
Alden E. Martin, late merchandise
bookkeeper for E. & Z. Fairbanks & Co.
was arrested Jan. 80 on charge Of en-
bezzlcment. and placed under $1,000
bonds. Investigation shows that he has
helped himself to upwards of $780,
how far upwards is not yet ascertained.
One Burr, who keeps bowling alley,
&c, in Aliens block, was fined BY JUS
tice for illicit sale of liquor, some time
ago. and appealed to the county court.
| When the December session of that court
came on he was suddenly taken sick and
was confined to his bed until court was
over, when he again attended to his bust
ness until the 29th of January, when
the Coledomiaa stated that papers were
out, and if the sheriff did his duty, Burr
would lodge in Jail that night. Burn
was seized that evening with his conven-
lent sickness. and about | on the morn.
ing, his wife called up another party who
lived in the house, and asked him to 90
for doctor. for she feared he was dying,
but the neighbor knew Burr. and said to
her, We'll, let him die. then; he ain't
fit to live which Is about the sentiment
of the rest of the community Perhaps
a couple more items would finish him
if so, for goodness sake let's have them.
SUTTON.
Joseph Parker cut his foot severely,
week before last
WE.ST.NORE.
Quite a number of our citizens have
joined the grange lately organized at
Bloomington village
Considerable hay and straw is being
sold from this town this winter, W. L.
Morse sold 90 tons to J. ". Hall.
Morse is also preparing large quantity
Of stove wood which he intends to draw
to Barton, when thoroughly seasoned
Hendrick Twombly has rented his
farm on the west side Of the Lake. to
to Mr. Albee, and has moved his family
to East Charleston, where he is engaged
in teaming.
WESTFIELD.
On Tuesday the 9TH inst the friends
and neighbors Of Dir. Alfred Miller, to
the number of about fifty, made them a
surprise visit, On the occasion Of theiI
moving into their new house. The com.
pany seemed TO enjoy themselves very
we'll Mr.. Miller has very good and