Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1875-05-17

and about SIS IN clothing. to the Nam
sas sufferers,
At South SALISBURY. April "a, Mr..
Vim. b Mattison suddenly dropped
dead. He was in his S0tA year.
Noah BeyutOn. merchant at North
Welcost. has suspended payment. paying
his creditors % cents on dollar.
During the severe thunder storm Of
Saturday. night. May Sth. the lightning
struck barn belonging to n. 5, War
ner Of Sutherland Falls. and killed q
horse standing in an adjoining barn.
George E. Walker of Ludlow. has a
pair of bullet moulds in which his grand.
father run bullets at the battle Of Bunk
err Hill The moulds are brass. and
have four cavities in them. each Of = diff
/ ferent size.
A little girl Of Jas, COughlin's Of Ian
coin. in attempting to unite knot IN
her shoe. recently. struck her eye with
the point Of the scissors she was using
for that purpose. completely destroying
| the sight.
/ Some Rutland workmen. clearing away
the ruins Of the Center street IRE. the
/ 9th ult.. found a barrel of whlskey hu-
ried in the earth. A deputy sheriff took
/ charge Of ii. after 3 sharp tussle with
one Of the workmen.
The St. Adams butter market, Tues
day. May IL, was the same as the pre-
eeding week. with little offering. We
quote common to fair. fifteen to eighteen
cents: medium to good. twenty cents
selections. twenty-one cents gllt-edge.
twenty-five cents.
| A. w. Deming. the man recently found
dead on Bald mountain in Jamaica, is
now supposed to have been murdered by
William Ariin. Frenehman. There
were no marks Of violence. and. poison,
ing being suspected. the stomach has
been sent to Boston for analysis.
A package of gunpowder was found
near the gas works, last Monday after
noon. Numerous parties connect this
fact with the origin of the FIRE. tramp
having recently been expelled from the
gas works, who threatened direful ven-
genee therefor.-lNontpelier Journal.
There were four thousand seven humid
red and forty-seyen scales manufactured
at the Fairbanks scale works during the
month,of April. which is nine hundred
and seventy-seven more than during the
same time in 1874. The company are
now filing large order to be sent to
Moscow and ST. Petersburg, Russia
| Mrs. Peters of Bennington, was awak-
ened. one night Of week before last, by
finding man trying to steal some mon
ey from under her pillow but she fright
ened him off before he got it, and in his
haste he left one of his boots, which
identified him as John Higgins. former
boarder of hers. and he is now in Jail.
Business men were recently surprised
at the noble act of one Mr.. Flano. who
left the place several years since. owing
about SlO0. going to Massachusetts,.
There, BY industry and economy, he saw
cd enough of his wages. after supporting
large family, to cancel his Stowe debts
which he recently paid up like man
Charles o. Shattuck's wooden mill at
Danville. was burned on the 9Th, togeth-
er with dwelling houses and outbulld-
ings- The loss is over $4,000 Insur-
ed IN the Vermont Mutual for $1,000.
The lumber yard and saw mill of r.
Dearth. which stood near the factory,
: were also destroyed Loss, $4,000; nc
. insurance.
. J. d. Crouch, of the firm of Crouch
, Brothers of western Texas, visited Wood.
. stock, week before last. for the purpose
Of purchasing car load of fine wooded
sheep. He bought forty-iYe head from
the well known Gushing" flock now
. owned by Boynton and Johnson, and
! made up the balance Of the shipment
from the best focks in the county.
: Two weeks ago last Saturday. a small
3 hawk attempted to capture a canary
hanging in the window at Mrs. Elipha
: let Thomas at West Woodstock, and &C
tually broke through large pane o.
E glass and got into the room. and would
have got the bird. but Mrs. Thomas
. hearing the noise from another room
!. went in and rescued it. She captured
the hawk alive.
The Middlebury Register says: .'Sa
: Hsbury. it Is thought. is becoming viz
/ tuOus, and consequently happy. Sh,
has no physician, and of course there ar
but few deaths no liquor agency, ant
but little sickness no lawyer, and bu
very little litigation What the result
: viii be of having no minister in the vii
f lage has not yet appeared, on account o
0 the shortness Of the time since the las
one left"
Hon. Daniel kellogg of Brattleboro
died at his residence on Monday evenin,
Of last week, aged 81 years. Judge Kel
lOgg had for many years been . promi
nent citizen Of Vermont, having been |
: Judge Of the supreme court, Upite'
States District Attorney, Presidentia
ElectOr and represented his town ant
county IN the legislature at variou
e times He was uniformly respected an
e esteemed as an honest able and consci
: entious citizen and public officer, an
viii be much missed.
The grangers Of Western Vermont Al
sembled IN Bennington. May 4th- Stat
Agent Crosby occupied the morning ses
sion IN exhibiting his large line Of sam
> pies and price lists, and received numer
; Gus cash orders for goods In the after
: noon the meeting was addressed BY Hor
L Z. Cotton. Master Of the State Graugt
Lawrence Brainerd Of St. Adams, Stat
q Agent Crosby and Deputy Boyden. Th
! three gentlemen last named also address
: ed the meeting IN the evening. on th
educational. social, benevolent and fnar
cal features Of The o.rde- S. e.