Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-08-16
State Nescs.

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next week.
A large black bear was seen in Starks-
bOro. recently, but he successfully eluded
the hunters.
Burglars were busy in Burlington
Friday night. and visited Whitney's
store and Cabana's Grocery.
Dea. Sheldon Smith, of Bridport, has
recently given 5000 to aid in building
the Vermont Baptist Academy, at Sax
tons River.
DR.. Franklin Bond, of Cornwall. has
taken one hundred and twenty-five
pounds of strained honey from one hive
this summer
The P. & 0. mail agents have been
notified that their route from and after
the 18th of September will be from
Johnson to Portland.
The managers of the Orange County
Agricultural Society have decided to
give premiums for the best. handsomest
and smartest babies on exhibition.
The large lumber house of E. B. Ed
dy, of Burlington, is now engaged filling
single order for one million feet of
dressed lumber.
Some miners are at Hartland, Wind
sor county. looking for lead and silver
1t is said they have purchased two or
three claims, and will commence work
soon.
Since the price of Woodstock railroad
bonds was put at par. there have been
sold upwards of $4,000 of them, in
addition to what had been subscribed
for.
John Vaughan, of Pomfert, an old
man of respectable family, has been ar
rested and held IN $4,000 bonds for
trial, for setting fire tc the barns of E.
P. Skinner, of Windsor.
An engine passed through Rutland,
recently, built at the Taunton locomotive
works for the Little Rock and Fort Scott
railroad, bearing the name Judge
Poland"
William Nichols, of Richmond, aged
eighty-seven years, went to his barn to
tie bull up, on the Sd inst, and was
found soon after, having apparently been
killed on the spot.
Philip Town, of Gaysville, while
driving across the railroad track at
Bethel, on Monday of last week, was
struck by the cars and had his leg bro
ken, while his horse was instantly kill
ed and his wagon shattered.
Charles White, of Woodstock, recent
ly turned twenty-nine choice yearling
sheep into different pasture from where
they had been during the season, and
lost fourteen of them, it is supposed,
from poison of the weed known to many
as ''lamb kill
At West Rutland, recently. nearly
three hundred men gathered to witness
a dog-fght, but the dogs only played
with each other and could not be Undue
ed to fight showing that there was more
sense in two dogs than in three hundred
two-legged brutes.
Mr.. Jason o. johnson, of Norwich.
has harvested, this year, one hundred
and thirty bushels of strawberries, from
one and one-half acres of land. About
two-thirds of these berries were sent to
a small fruit dealer In Boston, who pro-
nounced them the best lot of strawber-
ries he had ever handled.
The St. Adams Butter Market. last
Tuesday, was quiet. We quote common
to fair at from eighteen to twenty cents
medium to good, twenty to twenty-five
cents; selections, twenty eight to twenty
nine cents; gilt edge. thirty cents. Sew
eral choice lots sold at thirty-one cents.
We heard of one lot sold for thirty-two
cents.
Peter Alphonsas, the Barre bank rob-
Der. was released on bail, Tuesday,
Charles H. Heath, his counsel becoming
his surety in $4,000, but was at once
arrested on four civil suits for damages
by the cashier and directors of the bank.
the total claims being over $4,000,
which will keep him in Jail for the
present.
Ziba Plumley, formerly of Shrews.
bury, died In state prison at Windsor.
the Sd. He was sentenced for life in
1869, on charge of manslaughter, the
murdered man being George Gilman.
Two OF his sons were sentenced at the
same time, one for manslaughter and
the other for murder. The first has
been pardoned out, and the latter still
is In prison, his sentence to be huno
being committed to state prison for life.
An effort was made last fall to secure
the pardon of Ziba Plumley.
In Bennington there are six knitting
mills; one large and profitable pottery ::
large machine shop, where heavy ma
chinery of complicated character is
manufactured mill, where a great
many Yankee notions, like double point
ed timed carpet tacks, wringing ma
chimes, ETC., are made; another large
factory, devoted to the making of water.
proof cloth I; and big mill, where thew
make paper from wood fiber. These
constitute part of the activities of this
place. Most of the knitting mills are
closed for month or two, but are conf.
dent OF running next winter.
The several towns in this county are
becoming infested with tramps, and not
unfrequently comes the report of an in.
suited family or an outrageous proceed.
\ ing at houses which they find unprotect
ed by their guardians. The latest per.
tormance of the villains is the attemnt
to waylay Judge Parker of Gilmore whiIt
passing through Worcester woods las
Saturday evening. who being unarmed
escaped by dashing his horse past them
1t is about time they were given to nm.
derstand that tramping don't pay in thi,
county .-NeaOsdealer.
i Miss Alice Haines. aged Is, died al
Cabot. Wednesday of week before last
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