Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-02-21
SIC NeWS.

in Rrattlehera, some days since.
Ii has finally been decided to hold
the next State Fair at St. Adams.
Mrs., John Parker Of ludlow, lately
caught piekerel Weighing u pounds,
This Is tsh story,
Hen, y. T, Sprague, .lr,. Of Brandon,
offers to erect suitable building for
Vermont at Philadelphia. provided the
state will accept and take care Of It,
Miss Laura A. daughter Of Axro Mel /
son Of Calais, recently finished bed
quilt containing 2,079 pieces. She Is
but seven years cid, yet the work Is
done quite we'll.
A brakeman on the Rensselaer, & Ss-
ratosa railroad. named Charles Hayner,
was killed at West Rutland. last Tues
day morning. BY the breaking Of a con-
Meeting rod.
The tenant house of Harry Clark,
west Of Berkshire Center, was burned
Wednesday night of week before last
with most Of the furniture. which be-
lOnged to Alonzo Jacobs.
]. d, Hatch. the notorious lobbyist Of
the Vermont Legislature. and the man
who paid 50 many lawyers retainer fees
for the Vermont Central railroad. is
nominated for Mayor of Burlington.
L. c. PraSAhas sold his farm in Cal
ais. 10 Mrs. Elsina Hawkins for Sl.o5o.
and bought the Aaron 6Oodell farm.
with six cows and dairy and sugar tools
of Abdiel Kent. for $4,000. also in Cal
ais.
There is great religious awakening in
Hartlaud. such as was never known be-
fore in its history. The whole cOmmu-
nifty seems moving towards the cross.
New ones come forward for prayers ev-
cry night
Perhaps the only widow Of revolu-
tionary soldier in this State. is Mrs. Sa-
rah Williams of Randolph. 90 years old.
whose husband was 50 years her senior.
/ She is in good health and still retains
her faculties.
/ The citizens of Burlington have sub
| scribed S5.729 in order to obtain the
location of the state fair at that place
this and two following years. Let them
have it. 1t viii be an expensive luxu-
ry at any price,
\. L. Sprague. Jr.. is figuring for no.
toriety and bringing his scales, the
Howe. into notice by offering to erect a
building at Philadelphia for Vermont
headquarters. If the governor viii adopt
the institution as child of Vermont.
At the St. Adams butter market
Tuesday. Feb. 10. common to fair sold
at from fifteen to eighteen cents; good
winter, twenty to twenty-five cents fall
butter. twenty-eight to thirty cents, anG
A No. l fall, thirty-twO cents per Id.
Thsmas I. Prentiss of Vermont, ha,
been United States Consul at the Sey
chelle Islands. wherever that is. and fo
his 81 800 in gold salary he collected
S155.65 in fees. That Consulate ha
been abolished by Congress.
We understand that the Central Yer
mont, the Vermont & Canada. and prob
: ably other roads in the state decline t
pay the state tax assessed upon them
by the last legislature, on the ground o
its neonstitutionality. This probably
means another big lawsuit.
A young man named Walter A. Dens
] more of Williamstown, committed sui
: eide by taking laudanum, week ag
last Friday. He obtained the drug Q
DR.. G. E. Lane. saying that it was for
sick neighbor. He died about 3 o'eloc
on the following Saturday morning.
The subject of a railroad from Water
f bury to Stowe is being agitated, an
e there is talk of bonding the latter tow
for fifty thousand dollars. 1t is though
that with that amount bonded, and VIII;
private subscriptions can be obtained
e the road will be sure to be built.
d A freight car containing large quar-
r tity Of nitro-glycerine was stopped ;
Leicester Junction. recently. to tai
more freight. While there the box,
with their terrible contents were tosse
d recklessly about. and the fact that Il
e nitro-glycerine was frozen is supposed
Y be all that prevented an explosion.
e While the Montreal express train
i the Central Vermont road was passiI
q through Milton Hollow, last Wednesda
some one threw several stones throug
, the car windows. one of which stru,
g. E. Sabray Of Providence, r. l.,
d the face, iDjuring him severely. II
IN guilty parties are being searched for.
Of The Fall Mountain paper mill comp
le ny at Bellows Falls, has been reorga
10 lied, with William A. Russell of La
:. renee, Mass, president, and s4OO,Ot
= capital. The company have three mi
E. and are building fourth to obtain roc
E. TO fill an order for Philadelphia fiji
" for three tons Of dry pulp paper a ye
~ for ten years.
q. A man named Mudgett, who lives
short distance south Of the village
NC Hydepark. had the misfortune to free
s. his feet 50 badly, that be has not be
s. able TO walk. Ii is now some sew
DO weeks or more since the accident ha
a Pened, and his helpless condition {
mands the deepest sympathy Of our p
ne ple.-NelcsdeoLeT
NC Daniel Casey, a school teacher in I
e. north part Of Sudbury. has been ARE
BY ed for cruelty beating little girl. 7
"a. girl now lies IN critical condition, a
!. the physician thinks the valves Of |
heart are ruptured. As the death Of {
en child would change the nature Of
at case. the authorities concluded to b,
&c Casey until March I'd. for examinati,
"a II is source Of congratulation Il
e. Vermont had one representative.
Id least. 10 congress who properly rep