Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-07-24
State NeaUS.

early date
A rich vein of silver ore has been
struck at Pittsfeld, and is worked by
New York parties.
Rev. VIM H. Lord, d. D., has been
pastor of the Bethany Congregational
church, at Montpelier. for thirty years.
The latest draft of the River and
Harbor Appropriation Bill gives Bur
lington $4,000, and Swanton $4,000.
Manufacturers are buying the new
clip of wool in Vermont for twenty-five
cents per pound. the lowest point reached
since the war
The annual fair of the Chittenden
County Agricultural Society will be
held on the grounds at Essex Junction
on the 9Th, 9TH and Sth of September
next.
During the months of April. May,
and June, $4,000 hogs went over the
Central Vermont Road, and 1850
head of cattle, making both cattle and
hogs, l03,360.
Mr.. l.. Mills Of st. Adams has Off
cred to give $1,000 towards the i'm
provment and decoration of the public
Park, if any person or number of per-
sons, will also donate $1,000.
Mrs. ]. Gregory Smith. manager of
the Ladies Centennial Committee for
the State, reports that she has raised
and sent to Philadelphia $4,000, and
has in her hands balance of $500.
The salaries of postmasters and clerks
in the higher grade of post offices
throughout Vermont, as well as other
sections of the country, were somewhat
reduced on the lst inst, by order of the
post Office department.
The Bennington Democrats held a rat
ifcation meeting the 18th, which was
addressed by Hon. C. n. Davenport,
Hon. A. B. Gardner and DIN Scott.
The two gentleman last named were
Liberal Republicans in 1872.
The streams and springs are lower
in Vermont than for many years, there
having been no continuous rains since
May. The reservoir that supplies Ran
dolph village, which is fed by springs,
is wholly insufficient to supply the
demand.
The large steam saw mill in Bruins
wick owned by D. H. g. I. G. Beattie, was
burned Sunday morning. July Is, about
o'clock, supposed to have been fired
by tramps. Insured for $1,000 by Bow
man and & Hopkins. Loss about S.
600.
Among the antiquities displayed al
Windsor, are Ethan Aliens gun, which
was left with smith to be repaired IL
IVY, and the wedding vest of Molly
Pitcher, which has decended to its pre-
sent owner from its former illustrOu
possessor.
The Vermont Dairmen's association
offers prize of a $50 refrigerator 70
the best report of experiments made thi
season in milk setting. Reports ma,
be sent to the secretary of the associa
ton, o. S. Bliss of Georgia, at any tim
before the first of January, 1877.
Tatro, the Highgate murderer, no1
occupies cell with the other prisoner
A in st. Albans Jail. He is allowed
e exercise in the corridor. He is greatl
n depressed in spirits and is religousl
inclined, but talks very little to his fe
low prisoners. He says he is reconcile
{ to his fate
'' Last Friday the village of LuneI
d burg was visited by one of the most s.
t. we're thunder showers of the season
"a The rain fell in torrents and the rollin
:. of the thunder was loud and almost i
~ cessant. At l.3O p. H.. the Congreg
y tionalist Church was struck by ligh
y ming, and seriously damaged.
s. Some boys who were swimming
Sunday discovered parts of skelet
O. protruding on the Vermont side of t
: Connecticut, near the mouth of VIII
~ River. On digging them out, the Dc
ST tors pronounced them the remains of
Re adult male, having extraordinary 10
,e, legs. No one living in the vicinity {
10 er heard of a person being burr
" there.
= There is natural ce-house at Oh
" tenden, where the ice remains the "
W. round. The place is a narrow goi
alf with rocky sides, extending down abe
vet twenty feet and arched overhead VI
,vo trees. Here an abundant quantity
solid ice can be fonnd during the b
test seasons of the year. At the upl
to end of the gorge is clear spring of '
ne, ter, from which the ice is formed
Of winter.
zen John O'ROuke, aged twenty-th
,no years, and formerly freight conduc
'"0 on the Vermont Central rail road, '
csc drowned while bathing in the Come
ian cut river at White River Junct
led Wednesday evening the 18th. He
var been very unwell with summer C,
-. plant, and was probably taken will
cps cholera eramp and sank i'll deep wa
OF Two other rail road men were with b
is but were unable to effect his recue.
BUTTER MARKET.-There was a s
yer, attendance at the st. Adams Blu
los market on Tuesday. The market
.;oh dull, with downward tendency,
- last weeks quotations were hardly
auu tanned. We quote good, at eight
hey cents choice, nineteen to twenty
lese cents; gilt edge, twenty-five to twel
Art three cents per pound. with occasions
inc a dairy selling at a higher price.
'"a' butter arriving there was in
ork, condition.
art NOrthfeld has bedquilt which
hat brought over in the Mayfower, and
the identical shovel that was used to b
tho ground for the first railroad in Verm,
- also harness 200 years old. Castl
-''' has wineglass over 200 years ole
vast silver pOrringer formerly the propert