Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-09-18

college is the largest that has entered
that institution for many years.
William Cooley's cheese factory, at
Waterbury Centre. was burned Monday
night. Loss. $4,000; insurance, $1,000.
Philip Nash, arrested in Burlington,
for stoning the republican procession,
has been held in two thousand dollars
for trial
Truman A. Roundy, an Independent
farmer, fifty years old. committed
suicide at Stockbridge Tuesday evening.
by hanging.
The wooden mills of A. G. Stewart &
Co., at Woodstock, are shut down, and
a large number of operatives thrown out
of employment.
The temperance revival in Bradford
is very successful, some four or FIVE
hundred persons having already signed
the pledge.
There are about a mile in length of
Central Vermont freigh cars on the
Portland and 0gdensburg railroad at
johnson, there being no business for
them.
All the Catholic children were remov-
ed from the graded school at Bennington
at the opening of the fall term though
no complaints of sectarianism have ever
been made
There is a suspicious fraud about the
failure of the Cooperative Industrial
Works, at Springfield, as stock not in
cluded in their statement is found. The
whole affair is to be investigated.
n. X. Bard, of Gouldsville, is confn-
ed to his bed, by reason of the amputa-
ton of his leg. necessitated by deceased
foot, resulting from a wound received
while in the army.
Vergennes is one of the quietest cit
les in Vermont. There has been no ar
rest made, and no row, for the past three
weeks. Where is the place, with the
same population, that can say the same
The hop and sugar house of William
R. Barrows in Rochester, caught fire the
other day, while drying hops, and was
entirely consumed. with eight hundred
pounds of hops. sugar tools, etc. Loss
$500. No insurance.
The Speakership of the House is al
ready talked about in the papers. TIT
Rutland Globe speaks we'll of ]. K
Batchelder of Arlington for that position
He is a lawyer and has served two terms
in the Legislature.
Chandler McNall. a young man from
Colchester, started for the Centennial
few weeks ago, but while stopping t
see the sights in New York, ''conf
{ dence" man borrowed fifty dollars c
him, and forgot to return it.
t OF Vermont'spne hundred and ninety
six Congregational churches. only sixty
:. four have settled pastors. The churc
membership is nineteen thousand, 81
hundred and seventeen, of whom or
S thousand, eight hundred and ten joine
S by profession, last year.
: There are now in the Rutland count
It Jail thirty-one persons awaiting trial fl
various crimes. This is greater nul
Der, we believe, than have ever bee
:" confined there before, at one time,
/ the history of the jail. not even excep
l. ing war times, when the number reach'
II about thirty.
re Two barns and shed, with some ff
tons of hay and six hundred bushels
threshed oats, belonging to John Whe:
8 on, in Barre, were burned on Wednesd
lie morning, during the absence of himst
el and wife. The neighbors saved t
ID house with difficulty The fire is su
: posed to be incendiary The loss is
" timated at $1,000; insured for $500.
BUTTER MARKET.-At the st. Alba
butter market, Tuesday, the attendaI
OF was good, with the market active, Fl
in and higher on choice lots. We qu
in common, sixteen to eighteen cent
70 good, nineteen to twenty-one cent
i choice. twenty-five to twenty-fOur cen
jim gilt edged, thirty to thirty-two cents
pa pound, with occasional lots selling at
Co. higher price. Straight diaries, wen
,eir five to twenty-seven cents per pound.
bile An exchange says that the receat
axis ported "tramp" outrage upon Mrs. I
,ta ry, of Hydepark, isn't chargeahe tc
tramp community at all. Perry
been in the habit of brutality heat
list, his wife, and she herself filled hermo
ON with stones and dirt and took the cf
9TH reform that made her insensible
oo the broken windows, and threasn
letters tucked under the doors. are "a
Is to the family themselves. Well,w
heir is the next sensation
AS George Goodrich, of Richio
-. was going home from the fair last hi
day night. in passing Mr. Babcck
aoie Jericho. an old man. he drove gal
that his wagon, breaking both axle-tres
the throwing him and the young lad v
the him out, seriously spraining the O
lady's ankle Mr.. Goodrich's wifi,
'.'le- Miss Bryant, of Richmond, werev
CITY, him, and they were all thrown
au- Miss Bryant was taken up inses
and carried to house in Essex.
mall hour after the accident she was U
scious.
Another tramp story The other
'euce ming, Miss Julia Emerson, of Vic
seem was driving through a piece of W
rican when tramp sprang into the road
cured called for her to stop. She pt
.onor braid upon the horse, when the IL
sprang for her, catching hold f
rres'' dress and the wagon seat. Miss E
/, he son struck him tremendous blova,
spain. the face with the whip and at tn
Minis moment the horse jumped, takig
hoa out of the tramp's reach. On @i
nav home she told her escape to her f,
could and they went back and found the r
fallen identifying him by the mark of th
across the face. Giving him