Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-11-20

Nemphremagog. took out tour hun0re0
aud thirty-eight piekerel,
A bin was introduced in the Senate.
last Thursday. appropriating $4,000
for the building Of state work house,
Both branches Of the Legislature have
voted to adjourn on the 2sth. the House
accepting the Senate's amendment chang
ing the date from the l4th.
In 1880 there were 6fey-6ve commit
tails to the Vermont state prison, and in
1876 there were the same number, In
1909. the year Of opening the prison,
there were twenty-four eommittals. The
smallest number Of committals in any
year since the opening is that of lS47.
when it was only sixteen.
A MendOn man recently traded horses
nine times in one day, AT night he
found himself the pOssessor of the same
horse he started with in the morning.
forty-6ye dollars in money. a twenty-five
dollar watch. double barreled shotgun
and four bushels of potatoes-all the re
suit of his series of trades.
A despatch from Ottawa. Canada. dat
ed November 10. says: 1.-The depart
ment of militia has received information
from ST. Adams. that arms and ammu-
milton are being concentrated there by
Feuians. Major-General Smith is tax
ing every preeaution TO have volunteers
in readiness in case Of emergency"
Mr.. Fisk Of Brattleboro. has another
new invention which he is introducing.
q coutrivance for holding up the pole Of
a wagon. 1t consists of spiral spring
attached to the axletree and connected
with the pole. 1t leaves the pole free
to move in any direction, yet it bears no
weight upon the neck of the horses.
| The Senate did good work. last
Tuesday. in passing to its third residing,
by the strong vote of eighteen to eight,
the excellent bill giving females who are
property holders the right to vote in
school district meetings. Among the
grave Senators who favored the bill was
MIR. Mason of Bennington county. wis
made most original, forcible and en-
tertaining speech.
Though we hear less Of it now thar
formerly, the temperance movement IL
this state has by no means died out. W,
hear almost daily of the formation of re
! form clubs and the older ones hold thei
, numbers well-mueh better than man,
expected, even the rigors of a presiden
tial election failing to decimate thei
ranks Altogether the outlook is a YER
: favorable one
: Frank Benson's house and horse bar
f Of Stowe, were burned to the ground
last Monday night. The fire took in tn
milk-ro0m little before midnight, an
I was so far under way when it was di:
Il covered that it was impossible to chez
It 1t. They succeeded in saving the mos
0 Of their furniture and provisions, bu
=, about three hundred bushels of oat
= were burned. horse and several hog
Il Insured for one thousand dollars.
The prison has now about one hume
l. red and twenty couviets. one hundre
3 and ten Of whom labor regularly. Tn
IS labor was formerly let to contractors fC
,e seyenty-fv cents per dag. but has II
Gently earned for the State only thirt,
" FIVE cents per day. They work upO
Is shoes, from twelve TO fifteen hundre
he pairs being finished daily. For the pr
m duetion the cost of labor TO the contra
tors is fraction less than five cents p
pair. and the profits realized by the co
g tractors upon our prison labor is not f
ny from one hundred dollars daily.
Us A remarkable accident took place
at the works of the Brandon Kaolin al
a PANT Company, a week ago last Satu
st, day afternoon. party of miners. Ha
;, ~ Mcdonald, Lewis Stafford and Fral
: Moves, were at work mining ochre.
" distance of sixty feet from the sha
which is some seventy feet deep. tn
ell struck an old drift, when immediate
ro- there was an explosion of gas, viii
= burned Stafford severely. The otht
~ went down the shaft second time, a
ny upon approaching the old drift seeo
ut explosion took place, with report
be loud as cannon. and with such tol
as to blow the roof of of the buildi
which covers the shaft; volume
smoke and fame rushing up to a ct,
height. The men crawled to the SD
adj and climbed up the ladder, very bat
lay burned. Dr. A. I. Woodward was
hat mediately called and attended to the
bv relieving their great suffering.
A sudden gloom was cast over the
habitants of West Concord. a week
'er- last Friday morning. by the report t
to Moses Hill had hung himself. which
red port was true. Mr. Hill was somew
involved in the financial trouble ht
and it had caused him TO be very
spirited and appeared to affect his hes
n and mind TO some extent He got
from his bed before light. as usual.
went to his barn. MIXED and fed
-. stock, returned to the house, went
- his sleeping room, sat his light on
- stand and kissed his wife, and then v
back again to the barn. Mrs. Hill
somewhat alarmed at this. She a
-, and dressed herself as soon as posi-
and went to the barn and found
- hanging in the door. dead Mrs.
49, says it could not have been more {
: - two or three minutes from the time
left her before she found him. Mr..
- was 10 years old. one Of their most
81 spected citizens. honest aud kind-he
III ed His funeral was held at the Uni
"a salist church on the following Sun
Rev. T. E. Hcaly officiating. the Pc
showing their respect and sympathy
- filling the church to Its utmost capa
first, Sunday evening. Nov. II. as D.
opey ScrIven, conductor on the Central