Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-05-24

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Butter at ST. AlbaDs. last Tuesday:
Fair 70 good. Is to Is cents choice. 20
10 2l cents: selections. - cents
There have been seventy-two cases
and twenty eight deaths from the small
pox, in Burlington. during the past win
ter.
Ex-Gov. John W. Stewart Of Middle,
bury. has returned from Charleston. 5.
C., where be has been spending few
weeks
The town Of Goshen has voted 10 fine
any resident IS for every trout be
shall take from any Of the brooks ofthas
town for three years
George Stone Of Lunenhurg. dropped
dead on the 18th, while running to .
house that was on IRE. Heart disease
was supposed to be the cause
The father Of Charlie Ross was in
Rutland. q week ago last Saturday, on
his way to Montreal. it is said. where
be has another trace of his lost child.
Judge Barrett of Woodstock. denies
the petition for an injunction to prevent
the sale Of the Vermont and Canada
railroad TO the Central Vermont.
Two weeks ago last Friday. Andrew
Aiken had the palm of his thumb scoop
ed out. while at work on the moulding
machine in the furniture shop at Wells
Rirer.
The directors Of the Morrisyille fair
ground company. have voted to have =
horse trot on the 30th of June aud LIST
of July. at which $1,000 in purses will
be offered.
Winfield 5. Ralph. % years old, hung
himself at South Woodstock. week be-
fore last. No cause for the act is known,
but it is supposed that Spiritualism had
something TO do with it.
J. B, Taft's house at Bratleboro. was
burned by incendiaries. Sunday morn
ing. May Is. the family barely escaping
with their lives loss. $4,000 insured
for $1,000 in the Vermont Mutual.
Among the interesting relics of revo-
lutionary times exhibited at she Tieon-
deroga centennial. were an original or
der Of Ethan Allen in his own hand
writing and the muster-rol of his CON-
peny.
The latest thing out in the line of eel
ebration. is reunion on the grounds of
DR., Billiard Of New Haven. practieing
physician for fifty years, of about 1000
persons at whose birth he professionally
assisted.
The Troy Press says Hon. 7. W. Park
Of Bennington. is worth seventeen mil
lions Of dollars. and is the fourth man
IN point Of wealth. IN the country. His
new silver mines in California. are yield
ing fifteen thousand dollars per day.
A. NJ Clark of St Adams. has been
sent to Jail in default of $4,000, which.
by recent decree Of the United States
district court. he was ordered to account
for to his assignee IN bankruptcy, from
whom he had fraudulently seereted it.
T. " Billings. riding to Bethel, the
other day. with Billings. the old stage
driver, remarked that, II years ago this
season, he took the same ride with the
same driver, starting from the same
place, the Eagle hotel. and stopping at
the same, the Bethel house.
A young fellow from q neighbsring
town spanked Bethel damsel, was &C
| cepted. the day was fixed for the we'd
ding and they started for the parson.
but, just as they reached the house. the
fair one backed out and compelled her
swain to carry her home again.
A man named Ward. who had been
arrested for drunkenness and disorderly
conduct, jumped from freight train 60
ing at full speed between Peabody sta.
ton and Groton, a week ago last Thurs
day, while under the charge Of an off
Ger. and was recovered. the next morn
ing, uninjured BY his daring exploit.
Montpelier is talking of intrOducine
water from Berlin pond, three miles
from town and covering 200 acres, and
bonds to the amount Of $4,000 will b
issued If the project Is carried through
Should water be taken from this pond
Montpelier will have an inexhaustibl,
source Of supply and water system IN
equaled in New England
The commissioners for the town o
! Cambridge, have made the formal sub
scription for the town, In aid of the Bur
= hngton and Lamoille road. This com
: pletes the conditions asked for, and til,
, aid promised on the part Of the town
+ along the line The contracts will soor
Dc let and the construction will be Wig
| crOusIy pushed this summer.
] Last fall. twenty young men and wo
7 men Of Springfield. who wished employ
meut, associated themselves together
paid in small capital. hired work
0 shop and boarding house and begal
. manufacturing toys. table-mats and bas
kets- They laid aside one fourth Of thei
wages to accumulate as capital, and i
SIX months saved sI424 from their wag
z IS and $3.50 IN beard aud washing, max
z ing total saving Of sIS24 By this 81.
: TEN Of self-support-
Il George A. Putnam Of Marsh6eId. 6ud
ing rats rather thick for comfort, cor
eluded to try his luck at bagglng then
: As result. be bagged three at one tin
o and wishing to secure them for turtle
e use, he placed them in a tight box. mai
: ing down the cover. The next mornin
ne thought he would SINCE them and L
them loose % that they would prove
y warning TO all rats to depart He ouer
Z ed the box with great caution. and, b,
" hold, there was but one rat IN the DO,
aud that was the largest Of the tire
The TIP ends Of two tails told the stor-
q A ire, supposed to Be inceudiarr
i broke out in W. T. Ripley's brick oper
t house block at Rutland, Saturday mon
ing, May Is, and the building. whie
included not ONLY the ouera honse h,