Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-02-28
So Nc,rs.


Arthur Clement was dangerously in-
iarea by y falling tree. while at work
on the Burlington aud Lamoille railroad
company's wood lot at Pleasant Valley
(Cambridge). on the 18th inst
4 man named Grover. tivlng in Sud
bury. committed suicide. Sunday night
Of last week, by taking laudanum. He
was found dead in his house the follow
ing Monday morning.
The new Pavilion hotel at Montpelier
was opened by grand ball, last Tues
day evening. The house was filled with
guests from all parts of New England,
This house is said TO have few superior
ones in New England
At the St Adams butter market, last
Tuesday. common to fair sold from fit.
teen to eighteen cents good fall winter,
twenty to twenty FIVE cents; fall butter
twenty-eight to thirty cents, and 4 No.
l fall, thirty-two cents per pound
Taking advantage of the recent snow
fall, the BrattlebOro Daughters of BE
becca" are giving the sons of Isaac
sleigh-rides. 1t is to be hoped that
like Rebecca of old, they offer the gen
tlemen nothing stronger than water to
drink.
Col. f b. Sawyer of Hydepark, late
Clerk Of I.amoille county, is behind in
his accounts for quite large sum, some
of it being money drawn from the State
treasury for Court expenses. and the
balance fines collected and not paid
over.
The Vermont Academy is to be at
Saxon's River The S25, 900 toward the
building fund in addition to the Sl0,-
900 endowment fund, is now raised and
a building committee appointed, and the
work will probably begin at once or as
soon as spring opens,
1t is reported that a cancer which
made its appearance in the eye of Mr..
Edmund Nevins of Fletcher, SO affected
his head aud brain, as to cause his at.
tempt at suicide which resulted in his
death. The flow of blood relieved the
pressure on the brain and restored his
senses.
a correspondent at White River juno
ton, writes that young white lady, Is
years of age. of West Lebanon, \. H.,
eloped on the 2lst with colored gentle
man. She bought ticket at the June
ton for Windsor. where she met her col
ored beau. and from which place they
proceeded to Brattleboro, she purchasing
the tickets.
Considerable complaint exists among
the farmers living near the Nershirs
copper mines, in regard to the injurious
effects of the sulphur smoke upon vege-
tation and timber Mr.. Bugbee, about
half a mile away, claimed damage of the
company on this account and they have
bought his farm, paying therefor fifteen
hundred dollars
Soon after the night express train,
which leaves Burlington at 7:2O, had
passed Wallingford, on the Harlem ex-
tension railroad, last Wednesday night.
it struck broken rail, throwing the
train from the track, and precipitatlug
the Troy sleeping car down an embank
ment- The car took fire, and Mr.. Chas.
Bissell. proprietor of the Sherman House.
Chicago. Illinois, and his son, IA years
old, persisted in the flames.
The house of S. S. Watson of Winoos-
ki, was entered on Sunday evening, Feb.
20, ransacked and robbed of whatever
of value could be found, which, luckily,
was of small amount The robbers then
attempted to burn the buildings by
pouring kerosene oil on the floor, and
setting fire to it. The attempt was, hap
PLY, frustrated, and the fire extinguish
ed with but little damage. A young
man named Frank Jubell, about twenty
years of age, has been arrested.
The Rutland Globe, which has taste
for figures, has discovered that the cost
of the Judiciary and representing crime
IN Vermont has increased nearly eight
hundred per cent. in twenty seven years.
while at the same time our increase In
wealth has been only about fifty per
cent. The increase in convicted crimi-
mails was about twenty-four per cent.
while the increase in population was on
ly thirteen per cent This is not a very
pleasant showing, and when we add to
1t the fact that our courts fail to punish
rascals who are large enough to control
the election OF judges, we see the press
ing need of radical change in our iu-
dicial system.
On Saturday morning of week before
last, the engineer of the mixed train
from Bellows Falls, while nearing tie
railroad bridge at the Morris crossing in
Chester. discovered team there without
a driver. The train halted, and the
horse, valued high as trotter. was
found wedged in between the rails. dead.
In his efforts to extricate himself his
head had been reduced to a shapeless
mass. 1t is supposed that the team was
IN charge OF young man from Rocking
nam VINO was returning from mas
querade ball in an intoxicated condition
and while in that befuddled state. drove
on the railroad until the accident tool
place, when he abandoned the team.
George L. Stone, Superintendent of
the Mlssisquoi, Montreal & Vermont
Junction, and stanstead & Cbamblv
railroads, died at his residence. in 81
Adams. last Monday. aged nearly forty.
four years. Mr.. Stone was a native of
waterbury. and had heen in the coptin
uous. service Of the Vermonf Cent,
."enty-three years, at Mortified. Wa
Ierpury' Rouses Point and St. Adams
ne had worked himself up. by his in
uu''ry' sagaclty and honesty, from low
pace % the responsible position he oe-
cupied at the time of his death He
' va one o. the most popular gentlemen
connected with the road. and had bosts