Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-02-08
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The Rutland Globe announces the Sc
rious Illness of Col. Charles H. Joyce.
D. Leonard of Fairhaven, has bought
the Brattleboro Record, ard will run 1t.
Eighteen divorces were granted in the
county of Rutland for the year ending
Dec. 81, 1874.
There was a decline in the butter
market. last Tuesday. The prices rang
ed from thirty to thirty-hve cents.
A new Baptist church IS to be erected
in bennington at a cost of S60,00o The
salary of the pastor. Rev. Mr Luther.
has been raised to $500.
Winooski can GO 70 the head on man.
ufacturing. Its WOODEN mill alone en-
plovs over five hundred and twenty op
eratives 10 all nearly nine hundred
people find employment throughout the
year. and receive. collectively, about
SO 600 per month.
4 survey has commenced on the Bur
liugton & Lamoille railway of direct
route from the north crossing IN Essex
to Jericho. by which it is expected that
a mile Of track can be saved. The route
will run by Essex Junction instead Of
Essex Center.
There IS to be State convention Of
the Christian temperance women of Yer
mont, at Montpelier Feb. Il. to COM
meuee at 8 o'clock. A n. All the chris
tian temperance women Of the State are
requested to attend this convention
without further notice.
Mr. John I. Drew OF Burlington, has
presented to the Walter n. Greene Indc
pendent Hose Company o magnificent
set of silver trumpets. They are now
on exhibition in the windows of hlessrs.
Brinsmaid & Hidreth. The recipients
are no doubt, very proud of the gift
Free Press.
Newbury Seminary still lives, and is
about to commence its Spring term with
the most fattering prospects. Extensive
repairs have recently been made upon
thes Seminary building and also upon the
boarding house A new library has been
commenced. and several hundred volumes
have already been secured by way of do
nation. 4 cabinet room has been fitted
up and several deposits made.
The seectmen of Rutland have offered
a reward for the discovery of the .parties
who furnished whiskey to Macaulay, the
man found frozen to death between Rut-
land and Sutherland Falls, on the 10Th
instant BY his death his wife and five
children become the wards of the town,
and by laws of the State the parties sell
ing him the liquor at that time. if known,
must bear the burden of their support
Airs. Lucy Kneeland Stearns. widow
of the late Paul Stearns of Reading.
died, Tuesday morning of last week. at
the residence of her son, Mr. Howstus
Stearns, where she had lived for the last
seventy two years. She was the sister
of the late Abner kneeland, founder Of
the Boston Investigator. She had nc
sympathy for her brothers views. and
was woman of high religious character
Her age was ninety-eight years and
three months
Mr Thomas T. Moore of West Bar
net, sold his farm to Charles Stuart o.
Stuart, Iowa; price paid, $1,000. Mr.
Stuart then made a gift of it to his broth
er, George II. Stuart, by giving him ;
deed Of Ii, receiving only in return Sc
of buildings valued at S300-making i
present of over $4,000. -Four year!
ago he bought $1,000 farm and gave
an older brother life lease of it. Dir
Stuart Is noted for many other generou.
acts to the poor.-Coiedontan.
The St.'Albans Messenger says: W.
are informed that man has been to on,
or more Of the selectmen, with reuues
that they prevent certain detectiv.
from watching too closely, or following
up clue against person suspected 0
connection with the murder of Miss Ball
1t has been suggested to US that ther,
should be 4 public meeting OF our citi
zenS to consider the expediency of prose
cutting the murder inquiry more activel,
, than OF late the authorities have apnear
ed inclined to do. 1t does seem 20 n
that something ought to be done in thi
direction. Who will move in the matter
Considerable excitement prevails con
corning the death of hIrs. Hogan, VIII,
lived in the edge of Chelsea near Tun
+ bridge. Her husband claims that on re
turning from the school house whithe
he had been to carry his children, OF
Friday morning of week before last h
found that she had committed suicid
by hanging. He took the body dow
and moved it to another part of tn
house before calling any assistance. Tn
head was found to be considerably brujs
cd. and many other circumstances hay
caused grave suspicious as to the man
: ner Of her death. The funeral occurre
T on Sunday, the body beng placed in til
tomb
The Reform School, in the new ten
poraFy building, IS now running in req
{ ular order. and all the arrangements fo
: Its accommodation are surprisingly CON
; piete. Under the roofs of the mai
q building and the wing, are the rooms. a
the oilcers, the school-rooms, the work
: shops, the cook room, the dininq-roou
y the bunk-room- the chapel, the watel
r tanks the steam,pipes for warming, an
S all me conveniences for the wants of tn
= school, as we'll as very much for comfor
Il viii be marvel to any one to SC
n what has been accomplished in SO shoI
"a d time he school is not only comfo,-
ably located for the year to come h,
Tor two, or even three years, if it shout
/ De needful to keep it here SO long.
te some Of those who voted to have II
rs school removed to Vergennes. will con
- now and look at it. they will be surpri
ca at the folly OF hastening the erectic
e o. a new building at that place for i
y, recommendation Hotchma5a.
n. a correspondent Of the Rutland Ga
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