Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-09-25
State NesrS.

opened with sixty pupils.
The tax list of Vermont for 1876
shows that there are 1852 dogs in the
State.
Gov. Peck has pardOned Peter Neary,
who was convicted of arson at Rutland
in 1869.
One hundred teachers attended the
Teachers Institute at Montpelier week
before last
Barre boasts of four lawyers who do
not use prOfane language, tobacco, or
strOnsdrink in any form.
Ten thousand people attended the
State fair at St. Adams Wednesday.
The show of stock was very large.
Twenty-one car loads of passengers
bound for the Centennial passed through
St Adams in forty eight hours, recently.
The next quarterly convention of the
Vermont State Spiritualist Association
Will be held at Felchville, Sept 20, so
and Oct. l.
The grand jury of the September
term of the Orleans county court. now
in session at Irasburg h. have found 81
true bills.
The State Agricultural Society has
voted to pay the expenses of sending
car load of fifty of the best sheep in
Vermont to the Centennial.
The trial of Tatro, the Highgate muir
derer, will take place at the present term
of court. He has made no confession
since his first, and viii not say anything
about the murder.
SaxOn's River democrats claim vote,
at the late election, from q man who had
never ridden on or seen the railroad or
cars, and who had not been to the village
before for 80 years.
Patents have Just been issued to Jas
F. Ferguson of Essex, for refrigerators !;
| Off Abel of WOlcott, machines for
making shoe pegs; Jason W. Town Of
South Woodbury., manure wagons
At the Whitehall freman's muster, on
Monday, the Burlington boys, the Gar
ryowens, won the first prize-one humid
red dOllars-in the remarkable time Of
one minute and twenty-three seconds.
At a meeting of the old people in
Bradford, lately. there were fourteen
persons present, whose united ages were
eleven hundred and lightweight years
being an average of eighty-four years.
Notwithstanding the rain Moody ana
Sankey had large audience at Brattle
boro. Sunday before last. About l,20C
people gained admission to the hall, and
quite a number went away unable tt
get in.
Two children of Charles Ryle. o
Waits6eld, were at play in a cart body
Monday, when they aecidently tipped /
over. and one of them, aged five years
was caught under it and killed almos
instantly.
1t is expected that Rev. George n
Weber, d. D., pastor of the First Pres
byterian church of Troy, will soon re
sumo his old position as professor c
intellectual. and moral philosophy, a
Middlebury College.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stark Newell, grand
daughter of Maj. Gen. John Stark, tn
) hero of the battle of Bennington. die
at her sons residence In New York, O
Q Sunday before last, at the age of eight
FIVE years. One of her sisters still live
at the age of eighty three.
J Hartwell Powers, ESQ.,. of Ferrisburgl
who died recently, was born on the far
: where he died, and where he passed mo
r of the eighty-fOur years of his life. I
u was a soldier in the war of 1912, al
! represented his town in the general a
sembly in l947-8.
% A barn, corn house, hog house al
# sheep shed. belonging to the widow
? Joseph Varian. of POwnal, were total
r destroyed by fire the 10th instant. II
barn was full of hay and grain. A your
colt. farming tools. etc wore all burne
The loss is estimated at 5 200; no i
surance.
BUTTER MARKET.-The St. Alba
u butter market, Tuesday, was dull, wi
no change to note IN prices. COmm
&c sold at from sixteen to eighteen cent
~ good, eighteen to twenty cents; choic
twenty-One to twenty-four cents; g
" edged. twenty to thirty cents, accor
ing to quality.
ne In addition to the name of Govern
as Stewart In connection with the Speak,
o. ship this fall we have heard mention
those of Lieutenant Governor Burnh;
, Martin of Chelsea, J. T. Batchelder
Arlington. Fred E. Woodbridge of v
n gennes, Hugh Henry of Chester, and G
tn J. P. Ladd of Alburgh.
SIS The county fair held at Morrisvi
in week before last was successful in DO
of attendance and the quality Of the
! hibitiOn- 1t was quite economically r,
there being no agricultural horse tr
III nor balloon aseeesion, and the soci,
re- carry over quite a handsome sum
mt money to new account.
lie. The railroad wOod-sheds at Mil
ed were partly destroyed by FIRE Tuesd
If One-half was consumed. probably so
three hundred cords-covered by ms
VI ance- 1t is feared that the FIRE was
es- cendiary, and but for timely assista1
'rd of tre-engine from St. Adams
whole must have been destroyed
yes The largest catamount ever captu
N In the vicinity of Bennington has b
, q stuffed. and is on exhibition there.
was killed at Wardsboro' last Noveml
80 and Is being used as model by BartI
40 the artist, for his bronze catamo
which Is to surmount the Catamo
SO Tavern Monument at Bennington Cen
ep- The temperance wave, now spread