Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-02-08

his poor wife is Union.
Mrs. Alice B. Burke left here some
days since for San Francisco. where her
husband has been in business for some
months past. A dispatch just received
states that she arrived in California,
safely, on the seventh day after leaving
Boston. The trains made time notwith-
standing the snow in the mountains.
CANADA.
C. NJ. Connolly has been elected May
or of Lennoxville
Two persons died with small pox at
Richmond last week.
Competition at Richmond mas put the
price of -four down to FIVE dollars per
barrel
I. 2 Buck. of Lennoxville, has pur-
chased the Magog House at Sherbrooke,
for $4,000.
At st. Johns for three weeks ending
Feb. l. the thermometer ranged from
zero, to % degrees below.
The Grand Trunk Railway viii build
cOmmOdius passenger depot and new
freight sheds in St. Johns this spring
At the last Social of the Rock Island
and Derby Line ladies. fifty dollars was
voted for the benefit of the poor. a
good example.
Mr.. Hibbard Bowen, of Coaticook,
was struck by falling tree last Monday
and had his ankle so badly crushed that
amputation was necessary.
SUIcIDE-A man named J. L. Carl
ton. living in the vicinity of Smith
Mills. Stanstead. committed suicide last
Tuesday night by taking morphine.
Rather an unusual incident occurred
at the Canadian Meat and Produce Co.'S
works. SherbroOke. January %. Alex
Milue. the butcher. killed COW which
was in calf, and after the animal had
been dead some time, the calf was taken
out alive.
Some of the cheap oils of the United
States, says the Stanstead Journal. which
have been submitted to the test required
by the laws of Canada. are found to be
unsafe for use. Hereafter they will be
confscated when offered for sale. The
country has been flooded with an article
which has been sold as low as 10 cents
at Derby The fire test shows that it
will explode at IS Fahrenheit. which is
seventeen below the lawful standard
of the Internal revenue act of 1868.
QUEBEC, Feb. 2. Shortly after eight
o'clock tonight an avalanch of snow
from Cape Diamond CAME crushing down
on two-story wooden house. occupied
by family named Gibson. 1t complete
ly demolished the building. 6urying the
family, six in number, and child
named Hetherington in the ruins. UI
to IL o'clock 2. NJ. only the body Of Mr.
Gibson had been recovered. 1t is sup
posed the remainder are all dead
a farmer at Cherry River. Oxford
has discovered a new and sure killing
mouse trap. On one of those cold night
week before last, he left his ak. new
one, standing In the shed. In course o
the night Mr.. Mouse came along hunt
ing supper. and seeing the bright pol
ished steel glistning in the moonlight
thought it worthy of investigation. 6
he put his tongue TO the steel: when 10
Jack Frost laid hold Of it so firmly, tina
struggle as he would. get away be coul
not. and with wounded claws and bleed
! ing mouth. there he died No paten
on this trap.
y Down by Dot Orchard, is an orie
l. inal German sketch. originally perform
s ed with great success by the German en-
l. igrants. Messrs. German and Rome
le This song Is nicely arranged for. Il
le piano. First verse
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It vas down ia de orchard bv a tree
Dot you promised me for you'd he my wife !:
II But you let your Peoples interferr.
"a Dois-dc seTsist ding see in al ny life.
Vat have done TO you don't cant tell.
+ Bat never dos that you would treat 50;
Is IND now shust going 70 say farewell.
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* Oh Migai. Missl dent you. don't you %.
AT the conclusion Of this song is
really handsome waltz. which has a
OF ready become very popular Price 3
r. cents viii be sent to any address
70 the United States on receipt of price.
Dc F. ". Hellnick. music dealer and pu
u usher. 27s West Sixth Street. Cincil
natl. Ohio.
= The following patents were issued
: citizens Of the State of Vermont durir
l. the week ending January 26:
4. Grates-E- stimsOn. Montpelier.
: Ok Shoes. E. Dayis-Bradford
! Reported by Fitch & Fitch. counss
lcrs at Law and solicitors Of patents. n
81 Park Row. New York. through
=, H. Thompson. counsellor at law al
" corresponding solicitor at Irasburgh.
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