Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-07-30
Local News.
ALBANY.


principal, comes highly recommended
nd the patrons of the school may rest
ssured that he will do the most possible
oward making the term useful and
profitable. The citizens of the village
viii assist by cheap board and rooms in
making it an object for those wishing to
lttend school to patronize this institution.
BARTON.
Last week was the hottest of the sea-
on.
G.. w. Bridgman wants one hundred
arge, spring chickens, and will pay
good prices for them.
The joiners are rapidly finishing the
annex" which Cheney Green is putting
lp, beside his hardware store.
]. w. Hall and o. D. Owen, mer-
chants, are buying and shipping to BOs.
ION not less than one ton of raspberries
daily.
These are dull times for local news,
md we hope our correspondents will take
extra pains to gather up all that will be
pf interest.
The most enthusiastic admirer of
og.day weather ought to be satisfied
with such weather as we have had since
the 25th of July.
The temporary embargo of freights
on the Western railroads caused quite
huctuatiOn in the prices of fresh meats
in the cities last week.
Those Barton Landing mechanics
who are finishing the Batchelder house
on the Flat, will have the same COM
pleted, at the present rate Of progress, in
q very short time.
On Saturday most Of the railroads
that had been disturbed by the mObs
and strikers we're running trains regu-
larly, and the great and costly strike
had ended very disastrOusly to the
strikers.
Mrs. Sarah B. Foster, wife of the late
David Foster of Irasburgh, and sister Of
Dea. Daniel Smith of Barton, died in
Elizabeth, N. j., July goth. She was
an exemplary Christian woman and well
known in this county.
This is the season in the year when
the screen door flies open with great
violence, and the excited matron of the
house is seen with soiled towel furi
Ously striking at the innocent fly that has
ventured across her threshold.
The potato crop promises to be very
heavy throughout all New England
except in a part of Massachusetts, anC
Connecticut. Farmers in this vicinit,
who are offered 40 cents per bushel a
digging time better close the contrac
at once.
A sidewalk will be built above high
water mark, from the bridge to tn
Methodist parsonage. This will be
great convenience to the residents o
Vark and Elm Streets. The Par
fSsters and others will have no excus
TSSSg across lots hereafter.
Corno rs narrow escape at LyndO
ALI "neN FIRE smouldercd and burne
inc "' IN the Chase block, not break
Had the fire once got past control, til
whole street, and the better part of tn
village would have been waste {
ashes.
Mr.. & Mrs. Lyman o. Cowles former
ly Of Albany, but now of Lowell Mass
are temporarily stopping at G. w. Bride
mans for the benefit Of Mr.. Cowlel
health, which is exceedingly poor. O
Friday last they received the sad new
of the death Of child which they lief
in Lowell when they came away. Mr.
COwles is very low with the cOnsumr
ton.
We will publish next week the his
torical address of Prof. Diman, delivers
In Rhode Island some days since, on th
capture of General Prescott, commando
OF the British forces, by Col. BartOr
LOT whom this town was named. Tbi
address will be of peculiar interest t
many Rhode Island people in the cOun
ty' and especially 50 to those who bav
pride in the town, and its illustriOu
namesake.
The effort that has been made 70 oh
tain such railroad fare, as will ensure
good attendance to the Bennington cele
oration from this vicinity, has, as vel
been unsuccessful but it is hoped tina
the railroad officials will get a prOpe
understanding of the situation, AM