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

session tuesday, the 90 INST, non. Asa
hel Peck, Chief Judge, presiding Hon.
Oirin Taylor and Horace ?. Jones, As
sistant Judges. After prayer by the
Rev. 4. A. Smith, Court was opened by
proclamation by Sheriff Dodge. The Ju-
rors being called. responded as follows f.:
Albany, n. NJ. Darling, c E. Rodgers ;
Barton, W. H. Martin. J. ". Hall /;
Bloomington, \. E. Dennison. \. NJ.
Pierce Charleston, z. Morey, r. Lathe;
Coventry, Isaac Hancock Craftsbury.
E. s. Gage. P. Randall Derby, P. Q.
Holt. H. Fairchild Glover, n. B. Da-
Wis n D. French Greensboro. J. Simp-
son. Jr. Holland, T. E. Ewens lras
burgh. Harlow Foss, H. C. Waller; Jay,
!. E. Chase Lowell, Edison Kinney
Morgan. \. c. Bailey Newport, Samu-
Ell Niles, johnson Miller: Salem, Nor
man Nye Troy, j. S. Mannel, S. ".
Brown Westfeld, J. D. Johnson; West
more, John Hunt
The first case tried was, A. Q. Evans
vs.. c. ". Smith. apt. Trial by jury.
An action of trover-Plea General ISSUE
This case is the one known as the ''little
black horse case. and is the same case
tried and reported once before, in which
the intelligent jury drew cuts to see
whether Plff. or Deft. should have their
verdict, and whose verdict for the Plff.
was set aside by the court Verdict for
Plf. to recover s81.33 damages and his
costs. circuit and Baldwin for Plf; J.
B. Robinson and r. c. Benton for Deft.
The second case tried was VIM. Bar
clay vs.. John Arthur This was an ac-
ton at Assumpsit to recover the amount
of note for So, dated April 10. 1870.
and payable with interest to the Plff on
demand. Plea Gen'i issue and notice
of special matter. Trial by jury. The
note was given by Deft. to one William
Hunter for threshing machine, which
Deft. claimed was the property of the
Est. of John Hunter, deceased, instead
Of said Vim. Hunter, and was transfer
red to the Plf by said VIM Hunter in
part payment of debts he was owing to
the Plf. The real Deft. in this suit was
the representative of John Hunters Est
as its Est. had agreed to indemnify the
Deft. if he would contest the title Of said
! Vim. Hunter to said machine in this suit
I The trial lasted two days and was well
and hard fought on both sides. The evil
dence was somewhat conflicting and :he
! display Of real or pretended memory on
/ the part of some of the witnesses, was
somewhat wonderful, to say the least,
relating as it did to declarations of par
ties made II or 10 years ago. Verdict
( for Deft. to recover his costs. Geo. Wa
ternan and H. H. Powers for Plff. /;
circuit & Baldwin for Deft.
The prospect now is that there will be
/ quite long term of court. The case of
/ James VS. Hodsden now on trial will
probably take up three or four days, and
there are several more cases that now
stand for trial by jury.
LOWELL.
/ Everything has been quiet in this VII
lage this winter. The young ladies
thought it rather dull, so proposed to
/ give the young gentlemen sleigh ride
on the evening of Feb. 3d. Nine ladies
/ got their teams and invited their gentle
men, and went four miles out of the vii
lage to the house of Mr.. Souther, where
they were received with a hearty vel
come. OF course>the gentlemen went in.
and most of the ladies took care of their
own teams. One of the young ladies
succeeded in tipping over, but soon pick
ed themselves up and reached their place
of destination. Another found there was
going to be one sighted, so she invited
two young men but one did not seem
inclined to go. She felt rather down.
hearted to get the mitten, but went on
with the other, thinking she would not
ask but one next time. They were in
terrupted between nine and ten, by a
knife and plate and lots of good things
to eat, so visiting was hushed for short
time. At eleven the ladies proceeded
to get their teams and started for home,
wishing them goodnight, and hoping
Mr. Souther's people enjoyed it as well
as they did. They REACHED home be-
tween twelve and one. One lady had to
90 about two miles with her gentleman,
and thought it rather lonesome to come
back alone, 80 two Of her friends propos-
ed to meet her part way, which was very
pleasant to all | have often heard il
remarked that the ladies nowadays did
not wait for an invitation and ] think
as those nine did, that if they did they
would not 60 very often, as has been the
case here this winter hope the young
gentlemen will not wait for the ladie:
to invite them again.-Cor.
LYEDONVILLE.
A Frenchman BY the name Of George
Raymo, while engaged in chopping Z
wood-road for Hall & Matthewson, wa.
instantly killed last Friday, Feb. g. HI
was chopping a tree upon which another
/ was lodged. when it fell unexpectedl,