Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-12-20
State Ne,cS.


10th. 1877.
The following sign is painted on
fence in the neighborhood of Rochester;
'.Kash paid for little HALVES not mourn |
to daze DID,"
Mrs. /. H. Ordway OF East Brook
field, had a tumor removed from her
breast, recently, which weighed nine
pounds.
The original charter of the Woodstock
railroad was granted in lS47. In 1879.
twenty-eIght years thereafter, the road
was completed and put in operation
Sam Scribner of Stowe. eloped from
that town. few days ago. and no clue
has vet been found of his whereabo bouts.
He leaves wife. two children and aged
parents.
Julia Rogers, a gushing Rutland dam
sci, was arrested. week ago last Sun
day. as she and number of male friends
were holding high carnival in barn.
Her friends escaped.
The first paper issued in the State
was The Vermont G0zette or Green
Mountain Post log 1t was published
in Westminster. ard appeared for the
| first time in 1871.
Governor Peck. seeing an old woman
in Jericho, saving wood, the other day.
stopped his horse. took off his coat and
sawed and split enough TO last her and
her aged husband for some time.
Z Col. A hoc Loft
had two cancers removed by Dr. Kings
ley of Rome, N. Y; one. about the size
of copper cent. was taken from his
cheek, and a smaller one from his neck.
Samuel Emery of Bethel, l6 years of
age. ran away from home. Monday of
week before last. and is supposed to have
taken sea voyoge. his inclinations hav-
ing tended in that direction for some
time.
Rev. H. ". Tilden. the bogus Baptist
minister has been arrested for big my.
and sent to Fayetteville Jail, pending
his examination Iilden has another
wife and child at Lewiston. Me. where
he was known as John n. Washburn.
The house and barns or Brine Fer n
in Guildhall. together with nearly their
entire contents. were burned ON Tues lay
night of week bef re last. The fire
caught from defective stove-pipe. and
was not discovered until too late to save
anything.
: The bears are getting to be quite ia
: mliar in Bolton. Several valulble sheep
have recently been killed by them. Flea
i, ger Stockwel had large buck killed.
recently. who by the appearance of the
ground. must have done some tall fight
ing before he succumbed to Bruin.
Monday evening of week before last
S three children arrived at Rutland, re-
e spectively eight, six and three years o.
. age, who came through direct by ex.
press from California. as far as jersey
City all alone. Their parents are dead
and they have been sent East to theil
: friends.
: In Rutland, large numbers of work
# men are out of employment. Many Q
J, them are chopping wood for thirty cent
a day and board. and good mechanic
= can't end work at all. In few days
u one hundred men are to be discharge,
n from the marble quarries at West kut
Fe land.
l. At Cambridge. Monday evening tn
NJ 22d, Anne Conway. aged 10 years. wa
:. fatally burned by the bursting of lam
~ which ignited her clothes. She survive
N the accident but "a hours when deaf
I'd relieved her sufferings One of tn
lie bOarders was severely burned in tryin
Il to save the girl.
~ A barn at Nashua. N. H., owned
e Capt. RI. b. Anterior, formerly of Cav
ie endish. and an officer in Vermont ree
Id iment. during the late civil war, WI
y. burned Wednesday night of week befor
ot last. 1t was doubtless an incendiar
at hire. as an attempt had been made
burn the same building some weeks b
an fore.
49, Sheriff Morrill, of St. Adams, had o
Ter casion to taxi two men to the insaI
all asylum at Brattleboro, recently, and
ire order to save trouble requested each
watch the other. His method was su
" cess. as they silently watched each 9th
ler through the whole route, and have CO
at tinued to do so in their new home.
arc Three voters in the north part of t
ing town of Ira, are compelled to 90 on
- pilgrimage of l8 miles to attend toy
meeting. The trip is from Ira into c;
Teton, thence to West Rutland, and tn
through Clarendon into Ira again. Tn
o". return by the same route. making in a
OF journey of about 80 miles. The oil
Dad est of these men has been this round |
inc more than 80 years. and has been ele
,os ed justice of the peace once in that tin
As 1t is said that George Miles. who
;o,. held for robbing the Barre bank, will
:, tried under law of the state passed
NJ 1864. which provides that if any tn
ANS or more persons, acting in concert, sh
up attempt to kill OF main, or wound a
.ach person. or to rob any person. corporal
or other community of any money
600 other property, or to burn. blow up,
loiy otherwise destroy any bank buildi
will store. factory. dwelling house or OF
8 at building, such person shall be deem
tbo guilty of felony, and an enemy of
- state. and shall suffer the penalty
ANU death for the same within the space
that ninety days next after such convictio
rom At prayer meeting in Alburgh. 3
Veeu young man sat listening to the exho
,tion tons and watching the girls, a g
and looking young lady, who sat just
90. front of HIM, reached back to whispe
'~ some one who sat beside him. aud
with unable to sit still with so much sw
ticut ness near his lips. gave her paroxy
r;nlr al kiss 1he vnnn,r Lady fnnnh No G.