Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-04-17
state Ne,cs.

Qleu on the II lust, Au uSt VhS "
redth year.
Gov. Peck has appointed Henry Clark
of Rutland. Vermons's historian at the
Centennial.
Senators Morrill, and Edmunds of VT,
voted for the confirmation of Mr. Dana
as minister to England.
Henry Ward Beecher is announced to
lecture at Brattleboro. the 10Th inst.
on 1.-The Wastes and Burdens of Life.
The President has nominated Almont |
Barnes, formerly of st. Adams, to be |
chief Of the Bureau of Statistics in the
Department of State.
DR.. McNab of Wells River, is now SO
years old, and steps off as light as a boy
of 20, making frequent journeys on the
cars, visiting patients, etc.
The Ludlow Wooden mills have run
full time, full help and full pay all win
ter. Over one hundred and sixty per-
sons find employment there.
The frame of the Peabody mill is now
nearly made. 1t contains 100000 feet
of twelve foot lumber. The size is l30x
80, and will be one of the best mills in
the State
1t costs as much IN this state to keep
a dog year as it would to take half
dozen good newspapers, We we never
knew family too poor to keep worth
less r.-Er.
Samuel Kaiser of Stowe, has quite
promising family of boys. There are
four of them, the oldest only two years
old. the second less than year. and the
two youngest two weeks old.
The Burlington Free Press is inform
ed that the checks given for land DANA
ges on the line of the Lamoille Valley
railroad, between Cambridge and john
son, have been returned protested.
C. F. Huntoon of Rutland, who has
passed the winter in California, has
started home on horseback, and will
probably reach home before the close of
the centennial year if he has good luck.
One of the cases still standing on the
docket of the Chittenden county court is
that of Isaac Nye vs.. Rutland and Bur-
lington railroad company, entered at the
September term of 1851, twenty-five
years ago.
Mr.. Charles B. Harris of St. Adams,
a shoemaker by trade, dropped dead, a
week ago last Friday, of heart disease.
He had been an opium eater up to two
years ago, since which time he has suf-
fered with harsh cough.
A week ago last Thursday morning
about 8 o'clock. Benjamin Richardson, q
well known citizen of st. Adams, sc
years of age, and father-in-law of B. f.
Rugg. dropped dead at the residence Of
Mr.. Rugg. Cause, apOplexy.
Governor Bagley of Michigan, urgei
every citizen of the state, in city or coun
try, who owns piece ground, no matter
how small, to plant tree in honor o
the centennial year. The advice is a
good for Vermont as Michigan.
: Uncle Daniel Curtis, postmaster a
: North Dorset, has received letter from
l the post-ofhee department, stating tina
a he has been longer in the service thai
b any other official in the employ of tina
r department. He is 81 years old.
q About sixty thousand land locke,
salmon eggs have been Matched for tn
State. at Frank Hale's fish ponds. 0
L the young fry, one thousand have bee
: sent to DIR. Gale of Brattleboro, for pond
i in that vicinity, two thousand to Col
: Morrison and others III Bennington, 70
ponds in that region. and five thousan
to ponds in Castleton. Sudbury and Hub
bardton.
II Mr. C. L. Reed has sold the Richfor
r Sentinel to Mr.. /. P. Bailey, wealth
IS farmer of that place Mr.. Reed propos
&c es to start paper at Enosburgh Falls
which will be called the Enosburg
&c Falls Express. The people of the Fall
J. are assisting in the matter and promis
( a plenty of advertising. Rev. Home
it White, rector of the Episcopal church {
Enosburgh Falls, is to be the editor.
e, At the St. Adams butter market, la
= Tuesday, the attendance was good, tt
receipts large, and the market activ
T" with prices shade lower than last weel
'h We quote new butter at from thirty
N th1rty-four cents, and gilt-edge at thi
be ty-fYe cents one or two diaries sold
av high as thirty-six cents, but the transa
- tions at thirty-fve and thirty-six cen
" per pound were hardly sufficient to nal
ng quotation.
y W. Y. Rogers. salesman for a Gig
ok house, was found dead on his bed
be Bishops Hotel, Montpelier. a week a
last Wednesday. He was partially U
dressed and had written a card ID viii
lS' he asked that telegram be sent to
lse A Durant, Claremont, n. H.. sayil
ut that he committed suicide A bottle
VIC choral was found 10 the room. Tie
"a ceased had been there several days, al
:, had been drinking freely.
~ 1t is reported that Miles, the Bal
lty bank robber, prior to being taken
a Windsor, week before last, offered to t
Nv what he knew about the safe burgla
q at Washington. D. c.. and how he ca
]. to be connected with it, if he could
o. granted pardon on his fourteen yea
Ok sentence for robbing the Barre ban
art His disclosure would make a great s,
a sation if he could state what he intim
70 ed that he could in regard to some pro
ineut names involved In it.
old People are cautioned against count
felt FIVE dollar bills of the Merchau
national bank Of New Bedford, Ma
en- The bill is well printed and on good
av- Per, and is calculated to deceive In
md perienced persons. One point is the
on ure Of Columbus which has not the sy
= metry of the genuine, the right thigh