Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-08-30

Mrs. Dexter Place of Morrisville. suf-
fered compound fracture of the right
leg. while attending camp-meeting.
The camp-meeting that was held at
Morrisville, week before last, was con-
sidered one of the most successful ever
held at that place.
The rail mill of the St Adams iron
and steel works has suspended indefn-
itely for lack of work, throwing l75 /
men out of employment.
The cattle disease is reported at Brat
tleboro. and Prof Cressy of the Amherst
(Mass.) agricultural college is investi-
eating. The infected cattle were brought
from Albany, n. Y.
1t has been suggested that represen-
tatives of every Vermont regiment that
served in the war of the rebellion should
form into corps to attend the centen-
NAL at Philadelphia.
Thomas Fisk of Rutland, has a sun
flower the stalk of which is seven feet
and two inches high and the largest
leaves two feet wide, while it is IA IL
inches across one of the blossoms.
A man married at East Granville, not
long ago, was so hard up that he had to
borrow a suit of clothes from his broth
er-in-law, while his father-in-law gave
him peck of beans with which to pay
the marriage fee.
Newbury is thronged with visitors
from all parts of the country, both ma
tives and foreigners, and big four-horse
teams filled with passengers, come to
visit the springs from all the neighbor-
ing towns.
A. Mrs. Donahue of Jacksonville, and
five children, were recently poisoned
from eating the milk of diseased cow.
Prompt medical aid saved the lives of
all except the youngest child, a year
and half old, which died after thirty
hours sickness.
The st. Adams butter market, last
Tuesday, was dull, and prices were
about two cents lower. Common to fair
sold at from fifteen to twenty cents; fair
to good, twenty to twenty three cents /;
choice, twenty-three to twenty-five; Sc
lections, twenty-seven to twenty-elght
cents.
A woman living about two miles and
a half from Rutland, when Coles circus
exhibited there, the other day, walked
in, leading three-year-old child and
carrying another, a year old, IN her
arms, walked back in the evening, and
on the next day gave birth to a fine
child, weighing 10 pounds.
Joe Fallon attended the circus at st.
Adams, Monday of week before last,
and while there was induced by a cou-
pie of sharpers to invest $50 on the
chance of drawing $3.50 gold watch. y
Joe did not draw the watch, so he drew
the attention of Deputy Sheriff Downing
to the swindle, and recovered his money.
On Tuesday of week before last, the
dead body of man was found in the
town of Newbury, in the water just be-
low Dodge's Falls. The body was evi
IDENTIFY that of man well advanced il
years, had been in the water severa
days and was badly decomposed. There
was nothing found on it by which i
could be identified.
The ST. Albaus Messenger unkiudl,
says: The bass and pickerel in LAX
George think of calling meeting to for
mally express their gratitude to Sell
Green for seventy thousand young trou
which he planted there. The trout ar
nearly all gone, and every little while
hungry pickerel puts his head out of tn
water to see if Seth is coming with more
Some Burlington scamp, having il
mind good joke upon the publishers 0
the Free Press and Sentinel, remarke,
that boys who wanted tickets of admis
sion to the great circus could get Their
by presenting live cat. or small dog
at either of the daily newspaper office
In the city, as the keepers of the mon
ster boa constructors connected with tn
caravan fed them entirely upon thes
animals. The "sell" worked .'accordin
to Hoyle," and on the morning of tn
show, both the Sentinel and the Ere
Press offices were thronged with smal
urchins, some with a cat under eac
arm, demanding their tickets, much t
the disgust of the dignifed managers
; the sheets.
Priest Parker and wife of West Cor
cord, were driving horse recently, an
leading another behind, when a do
frightened the horse behind, so that
jumped, striking his fore feet into tn
spokes of one of the hind wheels. Th
wagon was tipped over. and the horse j
the harness ran ten rods drawing Parl
er and his wife along upon the stop
road. snarled up in the wagon. Mr.
. Parker's hip and one shoulder were bat
, ly broken, and an injury was inficte
upon the spine which completely par
lyzed the body and lilnbs, and her r
covery is extremely doubtful. Park,
a was bruised somewhat, but not seriou
/ iy. The wagon was broken to pieces.
D The Burlington Sentinel has obtaine
D from United States District Clerk Sma
ley an explanation" of the money pai
by the Vermont Central railroad to hi
: and his father, Judge Smalley, the 70
I mer, ostensibly for services as passeng
agent at Montreal and for counsel fee
and the latter for services and mono
Y paid out in the Legislature. He admi
4 that he received the cash. and that
! was passenger agent at the same tin
that he was clerk of the United Stat
o court, but sees no improperly in thi
IS The money given to the judge, he say
is was for legal services in litigation
4 tween the Vermont Central and the v
and Canada on the one side and Il
Rutland and Burlington on the othe
re and there was no concealment in t
d transaction. He says nothing about 4
t, money paid out in the Legislature.