Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-04-12
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New England fer the manufacture Of
maple sugar, having . record Of lSa
tons In one season
In digging for the water pipe in .
street in Burlington. few days since.
the frost was found to have penetrated
the ground to the depth Of niue feet.
Isaac Z. Houston. sort os good old
legislative patriarch from Victory, was
| hung in efigy II that town two years
ago. and has Just recovered $500 for it..
/ That's the kind Of hanging and that's
the kind of Victory.
The President has appointed David
/ I. Corbin. United States Attorney for
the district of South Carolina. Mr.. Cor
bin was originally from Grand Isle. VT.
and was captain in the Third Vermont
Volunteers during the war.
According to the Boston Journal re
cord of fires during the past month, the
loss by fire in New England amounts to
! S5l6.65o. OF this amount Vermont Is
credited with $4,000.
The house Of Col. George H. Merrill
of Rutland. superintendent of the Pas
sumpsic railroad. was entered BY bur
glars. on Tuesday last and $3.50 worth
of jewelry stolen. including a solitaire
diamond ring belonging to Mrs. Merrill.
The repair shops of the Southeastern
railway, at Richford, have been closed.
The superintendent office is also re-
moved. and several engineers, fremen
and other employees, who formerly made
that place their headquarters, viii do SO
no longer.
The st. Adams butter market, Tues
day, April 6, was about the same as the
preceding week. Common to fair, fifteen
to twenty cents medium to good. TWEEN
ty to twenty-five cents; selections. TWEEN
ty-six to twenty seven cents; fancy. TWEEN
ty-eight to thirty cents.
Two boys, fifteen years of age, named
Willie Sargent and Chester Coolidge,
went out hunting in Cambridge, on the
18th ult.. and killed bear with an axe.
The skin measured six feet and three
inches in length and four feet in width.
Elihu Norton Of Chelsea, 20 years of
age, recently attempted suicide by max
ing an incision in his chest with a pock-
ct knife, and thrusting in a sharpened
wire which he had previously prepared,
but which did not penetrate his heart
although thrust in so far that the doc
tors have been unable to recover it. He
will probably die.
A daughter Of Simon Carpenter of
CRANKY, aged about I years, fell from
the high beams of barn to the floor. a
distance of Il feet, on Wednesday of
week before last. striking on her head
and shoulders. She remained uncon-
seieus four hours. and when she revived
raised considerable blood. Her recovery
is considered doubtful.
Work on the repairs of the Hydepark
ourt'house has commenced. An addi-
ton OF twenty-five feet is to be built in
the rear Of the building. The court
room will be FIVE feet longer, and two
rooms placed in the rear of the bench
one for the accommodation of the petit
jury, and the other for the county libra
~ and ltigant parties.
Jack Dodge of johnson, while at work
IN the woods week before last. got a COM
pound and ceminuted fracture of his left
leg. A boy with him ran to the house
for assistance, where were only three IA
dies but they went to the woods, took
the man into sleigh and drew him
home by their own exertion, while the
boy went for surgeon with the horse.
DR.. Morgan attended him. Those ladies
did more good, by thar act. than they
could have done by lecturing on female
suffrage all their lives-Nersdealer.
On Tuesday evening last a fire was
discovered in the attic of the old Amer
lean house stand at Wells River. By
the strenuous efforts of the fremen. the
IRE was confined to the building, which.
however, was total loss The residence
OF Mrs Peach, adjacent, was saved. else
the congregational church, parsonage
and new school house. Just completed at
cost Of $4,000. must have succumbed
to the fire. The building burned was
owned by \. Forsyth. The loss on the
building Is $4,000. The insurance IS
not ascertained.
According to an act Of the legislature.
the grand list laws Of this state have
been compiled by Hon. George Nichols
Secretary of State, and makes a pampb.
let OF IS pages. By the act four copies
are lodged with each town clerk, to be
open Tor inspection at all times and for
the use Of the people; three of these
copies for the use of the listers while en-
gagged IN the duties Of that Office. This
compilation will be found of great value
and Will lead to a better UNDERSTANDING
q our listing laws. A similar compiIa-
ton OF existing school laws is being
made, IN accordance with an act passed
at the last session.
As further illustration Of the enter
Prise manifested on a certain telegrapl,
line not far from here, an operator in
CURED, last Tuesday morning. of the
head othce (where there Is a junction
with the Western Union) if they had
hearh anything from Connecticut The
response soon came back. Hkort d, ,,oz,
mean that Office or It's MANAGER he.
ing totally Oblivious that an imEortant
election had been held In Connecticut
the day before. and that the people were
ah1lously waiting for returns. We
should Judge that operator was just TT
ted Tor the bzett-end Of a telegraph line
-HydePork BersdeoLer.
a certain butchers man in ST. Adams
got up this morning and resolved he
wouldn't be fooled to-day-he wouldn't
As be was driving up Bank street with
some choice cuts for good patron. some
Arabs On the sidewalk shonted 80