Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-05-01
State Ne,cS.

counterfeits on the bank OF burlington {
are in circulation in this vicinity. They
are five dollar bills. and are similar to
the counterfeits on the bank of New
Bedford. They are probably printed
from what is called slip plate.
A Young man, who said he came from
St. Louis, hired out to a farmer in Cav
endish, named A. J. Wilson. aud had
worked for him two weeks, when he ap-
propriated $50 in money, watch and
chain. and some articles of jewelry and
left. but was arrested at Bridgewater
and brought back to Cavendish.
The st. Adams butter market, Tues
day, April %, was dull, with a down.
ward tendency in prices. We quote COM
mon to fair at from fifteen to eighteen
cents fair to good. twenty to twenty
five cents good, twenty-five to twenty
eight cents; choice, twenty-eight to thir-
ty cents gilt edge, thirty to thirty-two
cents per pound.
The General Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church meets, to-day, at
Baltimore This is the legislative body
of the Methodist Church, and consists of
two lay delegates for each annual con-
ference, and ministerial delegate for
every forty-fve ministers and fraction of
two-thirds in each annual conference. 1t
holds its sessions five or six weeks.
A. J. Lane, ESQ.,, assignee of the bank
rupt estate of the Sturtevant Manufac-
turing Co. at Lebanon, N. H., has sold
to Mead, Mason & Co. of Concord, the
lumber, unfinished stock, etc., of the
Sturtevant Manufacturing Co. Mr.. Lane
has also leased the entire manufacturing
establishment to Mead. Mason & Co. for
a term of six months. They will open
the shops for work this week.
There has lately come into the pos
session of the state, by the gift of Hon.
B. H. Hall of Troy, N. Y. valuable
relic of the revolution. it is the orig
inal record of the inquisition held Mar.
Is, 1775, on the body of VIM. French,
the ''proto-martyr" of American liberty
the Vermonter whom liking George
the Third his Tory Crew did to death
when "Tha with Bawl his head shot
threw"
D Vermonters will recollect the contro-
: versy at the last regular session of the
Q Legislature over the Julian Scott histor-
ical painting, now in the State House
Now it is announced that New Jersey
has voted to employ Mr.. Scott to paint
!, an historical picture representing one Of
the battle scenes wherein their soldier;
. in the great rebellion were engaged, the
sum of ten thousand dollars being appro
'e prlated for this object.
I Tie St. Johnsbury Caledonia'a is In
IN formed that work will probably be re
i, sumed soon on the Lamoille Valley rail
"a road and the road completed this season
: As regards Contractor Hogan and hi
if anything. He did not intend to pa,
s., them laser than they earned it, but il
,ct some case he did, and they are OWN
him. he l. said to owe the farmer
'fe along the line,f the road some forty-fv
lrd thousand dollars,
has Mr.. Newton II. 0arling IF Grotor
had very narrow escat,. recently. Tn
r, circumstances in his case ">re vel, DC
III culiar. He had been to the village a.
is among other articles bought some r.,
ion der and shot. which he put IN the poo
ery home, and when opposite the residel
no. of t. B. Hall, he concluded he had smc
ed enough, and thoughtlessly put
III" pipe in the pocket containing the pc
It'll der and shot. Result-Darling unc,
and seious; coat in shreds, and other 2
tov. ments on fire.
,rry The building committee of the prop
10 ed new Vermont State Academy stah
out the grounds at Saxton's River +,
d. lage on Tuesday of last week, for one
ints the six buildings of the institution, a
arv foundations will be put in and work +;
- idly pushed on the building. so that
r. may be ready for occupancy by the
nat term. The buildings will all be of br
D, a and the second one will be erected NJ
ical year, when more funds are raised Abb
;nts $4,000 are secured for the first bui
ing. besides the 100000 fund, the
'i"s terest of which is to be used as sal;
lent for teachers.
act DIR. H. A Cutting of Lunenburgh,
lty, received from Kentucky one of the f
cky es that fell there about seven weeks a
oro also one from lrasburgh which was for
:, in cistern of rain water about th
Oii0 weeks ago. They are of the same S
TEL cies-whatever that species is-ab
three inches in length, white, eyel,
uos having markings in the form of sea
49, | NUhIah ot1A1inaI H. Io.- -
'ay' inch long. The hairs are white at e
Jr., end and black and larger in the mid,
lrne Fins are little tufts of hair. Fish q,
The fat They are entirely unlike any ifs
H. ever before described. though the M;
" moth Cave fishes are white and with
orlS- eyes They are quite oily as are
water fish. The doctor is investigat
rnor the matter and will report to the F
= MER when he reaches a conclusion
III Farmer.
P''- Crazy Cook, " the murderer of his
&C. In Hydepark, is possessed of religi
need mania, regarding himself as far in
tie vance of other Christian people and
rmlv cially endowed by the Holy Spirit
was expelled from the Methodist CHI
and afterwards placed in the Asylum
tho Brattleboro. He was not regarC
while here, as one who should be
nari' large, since he had threatened vengea
airs; upon those who brought him here
: hat son thought best to remove him and
,med mistake cost him his life. The ASA
80; was bound over, last Monday aftern
merry eordance with the facts Of the cssa
n re- is stated that be will be taken to
one Asylum at Brattleboro at once, and
the bis trial will probably be acquitted