Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-01-25
Stafe Nclrx.
Seven memuers Of the Massachusetts,
Legislature are natives of Vermont.
Echo Pond has not been known 50 low

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as now for twenty years.
The Psssumpsic Railroad has declared
a semi-annual dividend cfthree per cent.
payable the first Of February.
The Bond school house in West Fair
lee. was burned early on the morning OF
the 9th inst. No insurance.
The reform school will remain at Wa
terbury until December, when the prop
erty there IS to be sold and the proceeds
applied to reitting the property at Yer
gennes.
Terrence McCauley was frozen to death
at Rutland, week ago last Friday,
while attempting to make a short cut
across a meadow to his home on the Suth-
erland Falls road.
A. J. Beard of Chester. who had 26
turkeys killed by foxes, last fall, has al
ready killed Is foxes, and says he will
have a fox for every turkey killed, if it
takes him all winter
G. l.. Cutler IS the largest sheep own
er in Springfield. He usually winters
about 500, and has barn l45 by 90
feet where they are housed. Heowns 900
acres Of land, 800 Of which lays togeth-
er in body.
\ two story house at Eonda's lime
kilns in St. Adams. was totally destroy
ed by FIRE on Monday of week before
last Four families occupying the house
/ lost nearly all their household goods.
Loss on house about 1000 Insurance,
4 $1,000.
The Vergennes arsenal was formerly
+ the property of the United States gov
eminent. but on the removal of the mil
itary stores to Montpelier, the property
was sold to Mr.. John NJ. Dyer OF that
city. for $4,000; the original cost to
the government being $4,000.
There was one lucky man at Rutland
week before last, Mr. 5. Hayward. He
took out insurance policies amounting to
! $500. Thursday afternoon at clock,
and twelve hours later the property in
sured was in ashes.
Large focks of birds unknown in Ben
niugton are observed in that village this
winter. They are about the size of the
red breast robin, and are of brown
color fecked with red. They are quite
tame and many of them have been
caught. They are seen in focks of from
% to 200.
Widow Peter Powers is one of the
smart old ladies in Corinth, of which
there are several in that section. She is
now SO years of age, can read without
| glasses, has all her faculties unimpaired.
does her own work and thinks she can
out-work dozen such girls as grow up
nowadays.
The broad lake portion of Lake
Champlain closed January I6. The av-
erage time Of closing for sixty years is
January %; the earliest date Of closing
being January Z, 1868, and the latest
March +, 1919. In the years 1928. 1884,
1912 and 1850, the broad lake did not
close
On Tuesday evening last, daughter
Of \. ". Patch of Hinesbprgh, fifteen
and half years old, who has been dis
eased and weak in the body and mind,
IN some way came too near the light in
her room, so that her clothes took fire.
Her father was near. in an adjoining
room, and soon extinguished the flames,
but not till she was so burned SC that she
died IN about twenty-four hours.
Vergennes finds it difficult to express
its joy over the removal of the Reform
School to that city. Itwaylaid the train
bearing home the members of the legis-
lature from the southwestern counties Of
the state, and captured and feted large
number Of them. We understand there
was no reception at Waterbury when the
members returned home through that
place.
The State Fair will be held at Rut
land on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday, September Il, 10, Is and
II. At recent meeting Of the direc.
tors, James A Shedd of Burlington, was
appointed General Superintendent. Sam.
uel Evarts of Cornwall, Superintendent
Of Mechanics Hall, John Gregory Of
Mortified. Floral Hall, Henry Hayward
of Rutland, cattle, and Henry B. Kent
of Dorset, horses.
DR., James N, Knox of Essex juno
ton, we'll known physician and schol
ar, committed suicide on Friday evening
of week before last. He was born al
Tunbridge, and was about "a years old
He graduated at the university of Yer
mont IN 1919, and at the Castleton med
zeal school in 1851. among his class
mates in the former Institution being ]
Wilder May of Boston, and Judge Shaw
and Noyes. He had long been afflicted
with melancholy. which finally settled
into insanity, and on the night of hi
{ suicide he found sharp knife, while IL
a closet after his medicine, and plunged
1t into his heart.
On the arrival of the Governor anc
staff, and the members of the general as
: sembIy at Vergennes, two weeks ap
thursday, they were met by commit
tee consisting Of the most distinguished
citizens Of the old city-and severa
4 prominent people from Middlebury. in
E GLIDING ex-governor Stewart. The visi
q tors numbered two hundred and ninety
five, and sixty-eight teams were proyid
ed to tote" them about. The Vergenne
I fre department displayed themselve:
f the visitors dined at the expense of tn
. city, and then the Champlain arsena
+ grounds and buildings were looked over
after which the train was reloaded an
e all departed
: Daniel Posnett, all industrious Irisl
: man IN Fayston, has received tidine
e from the old country Of the death of
d relative, who has left him about fort
thousand dollars during his life. Nj
fosnett is 50 much attached to the hon
> OF his adoption that he declines to r,