Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-01-24
State NelcS.

600. just left her by an ancestor in
Prussia
The St Adams Messenger Is author
lied BY Mr. Barlow to say that he is not
a candidate for Mr. Hendees place, OF
any other place.
A son of F. Butler of Plymouth, four
years old. weighs one hundred pounds |
and can lift the same number of pounds /
be weighs. So says report,
There is nothing new relative to the |
proposed extra session of the Legislature.
Governor Peck has the matter under ad |
visement, and evidently does not intend |
to be hurried.
The Sovereigns have little store in
Brattleboro with a small capital, which,
however, they turned over SIX times
from October lst to January lst. The
directors have declared dividend of 10
per cent
1t is six years since there was fire
in ST. Johnsbury village. The people
of that thriving town believe, however,
that this cannot last forever, and they
are moving in the matter of water works
for the village.
At the st. Adams butter market, last
Tuesday, common to fair sold at from
fifteen to eighteen cents; good fall and
winter, twenty to twenty-five cents; fall
butter, twenty-eight to thirty cents; A
No /. fall, thirty-two cents per pound.
Nottingham has a silver excitement
J. W. Stratton. California miner for
| % years, having discovered deposit in
that town from which he has mined ore
that Melted $50 per ton. He and others
have taken life-lease Of three adjoining
Nottingham farms.
C. G. Pringle of Charlotte, has re-
Gently shipped some two tons of sections
and botanical specimens of New Eng
land trees, for the Centennial Exhibit
ton. Mr.. Pringle recently sent tum-
bier full of potato seeds to Europe, for
which he received $3.50.
Crossing Lake Champlain upon the
ice has become very dangerous from the
effects of the recent warm spell Sever
al persons have had narrow escapes from
watery graves, and two or three persons
are missing who are known to have start
ed across the lake several days ago.
The committee appointed by the citi-
zens of ST. Adams to frame plan for
suppressing iguor-selling has addressed
letter to the dealers in intoxicating
drinks" appealing to them to stop the
traffic, and warning them kindly but
| firmly of the penalties of the law il
/ they do not heed the warning.
9 DR.. McNab of Newbury, who for SO
t long a time practiced his profession al
Wells River, is still hale and strong fol-
one who has passed the verge of foul
score and ten years. He is still devoted
as strongly as ever to the interests O.
i medical science and is regular attend
= ant upon all the meetings of the frater
/ nifty to which he belongs.
? Arkansas still cherishes a strong re
. gard for Judge Poland, and the reason
, for 1t is thus assigned by the LITTLE
u Rock Gazette: "Never have we haC
'e such quiet and good order. The trafh
9e on the railroads has doubled, and new
IS lines are being opened the State scril
is at 20, and still crawling up; the bow
lie and revolver are getting out of fash
ion"
~ Judge Poland and A. W. Hastings
rs treasurer of the Vermont division of tn
ct Portland & Ogdensburg railroad, wer
ct at Lunenburgh, recently, looking afte
= town bonds which they claim as due th
road, according to a former contract
8 The selectmen refused to issue the bond
lie and as the corporation has fulfilled thei
DIS part of the contract, it remains to b
= seen how the affair will terminate.
on A lamp on a table in a hotel at Ber
o. nington, exploded recently. while u
y person was in the room, setting fire t
Ke the tablecloth, and then to the table i
nc self. The heat of the flames increase
he until it cracked open globe filed wit
water for gold fish, which was standin
upon the table. The water extinguisl
ar ed the flames and thus probably save
" the building from destruction.
,. MONTPELIER, Jan. 18.-A large nun
= Der of the stockholders of the Montp
W. lier and Wells River Railroad arrive
he in town at noon, to-day, and at tv
ed, o'clock, in the midst of a heavy rain, a
asst sembled before the town hall, expecti1
,oh to gain admission. but the door W
locked but meeting was held in Il
fe- open air, which was called to order
bic Judge Hall, who stated that tie Cha
de- eellor had so modified the injuneti'
ke that nothing could be done further TIL
to adjourn. Mr.. Willard then NOV
:, that the meeting adjourn until Februa
w. 10, at two o'clock, at the Wells Riv
IN, depot in Montpelier. The motion W
DOL put and unanimously carried.
nd, The Poultney Journal says: "a fl
,ile days since we found a good economist
a. the person of a young mechanic.
WIG lives in house of his own. for viii
W. he owes few hundred dollars. L
not earnings last year were $3.50; from th
sum he paid $50. interest on his indel
edness 800 of the principal, expend
re- $50 in repairs, and supported a FAM
has of four persons. He is every day at
DDS, work, has no fears Of what Mrs Grun
-; may say, but supports his family co
N fortably and we'll Here is an EXAM
an worthy of consideration by other you
- men. 1t is good example for all. a
aid all young or old would do well to p
ing tern from it. let their circumstances
a. what they may. We do not claim Il
all can live at the same expense t
gov young man does, but we claim that
ting should observe his habits of indus
the and economy"
re- Our readers viii remember that !
hing fall two barns in Woodbury., belong
to Gideon Burnham and A. L. Dug