Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-09-06
State Ne,cs.

alarmlngly on the increase in Rutland
County.
Hon. Daniel Needham of Boston, de-
livers the annual address at the State
Fair, September l6.
King Darling of Morrisville, has
tomato vine in his garden that stands
six feet two inches high.
A Young son of Martin Bullock of |
Woloott, fell into a swill-barrel, the 9TH
er day, and was barely saved from
drowning.
Mrs. A. w. King of Cabot, has red
monthly rose over six feet in hight,
which, at one time, last week, had l66
blossoms.
The button factory at Greysville. is
getting into operation. Ten hands are
now employed, and the force will soon
be increased.
They have new fence around the
Common at Hyde Park, and they say,
proudly, that cit would endure a Bax-
ter and Hoyt convention"
We are solemnly assured that sea-
serpent chased boat ashore on Lake
Memphremagog and then chewed it up
| (the boat the other days.. AtbanS
Messenger.
A four-months old child of w. SUIT
lift of Cambridge, Mass, was instantly
killed and Mr.. Sutliff badly injured at
Bellows Falls, one day last week, by
runaway team.
The residence of G. R. Lyon of High
gate, was visited by a tramp. the other
day, who discharged gun near the We
randall where Mrs. Lyon was sitting.
She hailed passing team, but by the
time help arrived fhe tramp had escaped.
An idiotic Frenchman who has lived
at the Rutland town farm for two or
three years, but has been missing sever
al days, was found lying senseless by
the road near the Ira town line, the 9TH
er day, having been bound with cord
and left there some days before, but by
whom it is not known.
Col. thurman Lamson, who died IN
Bennington, week before last, aged
more than eighty years, from forty to
fifty years ago, was the most celebrated
shot in America, and was the originator
of the present system of rifing guns, an
invention which revolutionized the con-
struction of that branch of firearms.
The st. Adams butter market. Tues
day, August 81, vas dull, and the quail
ity of butter offered was poor, owing to
the warm weather. We quote common
to fair at twelve, eighteen and twenty
cents fair to good, twenty-five to TWEEN
ty-ive cents selections, twenty-slx to
twenty-seven conts gilt edge, twenty
eight cents, and one lot sold for thirty
: cents per pound.
The recently-discovered gold and cop
per mine at Berkshire, which has been
bought by w. W. Chapman of Newbury-
port Mass mining fame, bids fair to
prove bonanza indeed, the ore being
l easily taken out and yielding $50 Of
Y gold to the ton and 80 per cent of cop.
per-ten times the average of the latter
in the most famous mines and four and
half of the former.
A badly intoxicated man, named Nc.
Gettrick of Willsboro, N Y, laid down
/ just below the old Rutland depot, al
Burlington. last Tuesday evening" with
his head on one Hail. The pilot of al
engine struck it, whirled him around
g and the wheels passed over his RICH
= foot, crushing it frightfully. He wa
=, taken up disappearing, swearing and at
.e tempting to walk. and subsequently tax
j en- to the poor-house. An examination
- showed only slight wound on his head
but it was found necessary to amputat
his right foot at the ankle joint.
The wife of Frank Cross of Royalton
does not like to take care of babies YER
h well, and will let one belonging to he
i cry for hours at time without doin
\ anything to check the noise, preferrin
" the enjoyment afforded her in her hus
OF bands saloon. The other day her hus
up band endeavored to persuade her t
a leave the saloon and tend to the child
of which was crying piteously, but she re
fused. At last he took her by the arr
NC for she purpose of leading her to wher
Ut the child was, but she raised such
zee storm about his head as to cause him I
o. desist from any such efforts. 1t is sal
n that Mrs. Cross has fits of ugliness tia
afford more amusement to the neighbol
'e' than circus.
'es The report that gold is found in Wol
OK cester can be relied upon as true. M
dy E. L. Hall, with two sons, is at preser
he experimenting there, and with some SUI
!. cess. He has secured nine farms G
" which to pursue his searches after Il
'm precious metal, and is just now opera
,h- ing upon the stream known as mini
Ras ter brook" He has built dam aero
ed the brook, and just below the dam he
- picking up gold at the rate, as he claim
'nu of twenty dollars per day. He is on
prospecting. but is confident that the
Mt. is gold to be found there in much larg
his quantities. This is decidedly encoura
., ing, and we congratulate our WOrcest
r. friends on the signs of return, on the
An- part, to a gold basis.
IN A mob of loafers set the authority
be- the State of Vermont at defiance, al
ave triumphed over the officers of the Ia
en- at Rutland, week ago last Saturd
night. A man was arrested for obstrut
'uA ing travel and taken to stable to ava
the a conveyance to be taken to Jail, VIII
re- the crowd gathered around the off,
me making such threats that the Office
la could do no other way than to reles
the prisoner. Officer Stearns received
Oy severe blow on the eye. The Herr
er a says; Things have come to pre-
,us- pass if our officers are to be defed In |
,act performance of their duty, and it is ii
lain $1,000 ooos,- 49, e. ,1a..I1 = - !.