Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-03-05
State Ne,Os.

OllVer Ayers, VINO dleQ OF dropSy, at
Burlington. on Monday morning, was
called the heaviest man in the state.
He weighed $50 pounds.
Prof Barbour and party of twelve
students Ct the University of Vermont
made the ascent of Mansfield mountain
on snow shoes the other day.
G. F. & c. H. Russell. lumber manu-
facturers at East Concord VT, have sus-
pended Their liabilities are estimated
$4,000 and assets $4,000.
The butter market at St. Adams this
week is repOrted dull, with quotations as
follows: Winter made butter, Is to 20 |
cents: Fall butter, % to % cents per
pound.
A little child of D. E. Hall of Brat
tleboro had narrow escape from death
q few days ago. servant, through mis-
take. giving it dose of laudanum in
stead of wormword.
Arrangements have been made for a
grand series of trotting races, to come
off on the ice at Burlington, March l3-
10, for which purses of 500 and $1,000
have been subscribed
The Vermont division of the P. g. o.
railroad is rapidly approaching compile
ton, and only seventeen miles of rail
remain to be laid. The grading will be
completed in three weeks.
County clerk, w. H. H. Kenfeld, of
Hyde Park, was seriously injured last
Wednesday, by slipping up" on the ice
and in trying to save himself from the
fall, he broke his right wrist.
Mr.. W. H. Hoyt, who went to Chica-
go number of years ago, poor boy
from New Haven, is now reputed to be
worth 5000. 900, and is one of the most
successful wholesale grocers in that city.
James Titus, day laborer at Wall
ingford, fell from window in Batchel-
lor & Sons factory on Tuesday
last, breaking both legs and receiving
other injuries which are likely to prove
fatal.
Mrs. Austin of Cambridge, an aged
widow living with her son, lately at
: tempted suicide by strangulation with a
cord. but was discovered by her daugh-
ter and saved, when life was almost
extinct.
! "s-nennas dispatch says james
= Baker aged IL, was accidently shot by
VIM. Gaunya, aged II. A ball from 8
4 small revolver entered his stomach ana
S could not be found. There are no hope.
of his recovery.
1t is reported that strike among the
locomotive engineers in the employ o.
l the q. V. R. R. is probable. This ru
n NOR may be founded npnn the fact tina
i an officer of the Brotherhood wac owe,
o the line few days since.
y F. D. Barton of Waltham recentl.
= lost a number of valuable ewes by tn
optat6g them f ina5 under gRs them r Pi9
to teen were killed outright and six {
al seven badly injured; loss about 81 900
to A tramp, whose name is unkowr
is broke into Frank Crary's house at Wa
- lingford while the family were at churc
~ Sunday, ransacking the building an
d. taking S24O which was hidden in
ne trunk. When the thief was arreste
er only $50 was found on his person.
We Senator Edmuuds will doubtless tai
be- a realizing sense of his degraded cond
Ns ton -, I~~toTIIIU 0vsv, 9,
Journal declares of him that '.he er
en- phatically represents the perfdio1
in principles of his pilgrim forefather
err, rock.rooted in hypocrisy, bigotry ar
20 fraud"
in Miss Mary N. Fletcher, founder
= the Fletcher Hospital at Burlington, h
v" recently given S25, 1000 more to that i
nd stitution. making the entire endowme
He which she has bestowed $4,000. Th
nd last gift is designed for the purchase
81, a lot of ground upon which the hospit
is to be erected.
- Vermont's historian, ex-Gov. Hig
ia' land Hall, has written an important a
ess dltion to the history of the Benningt
nd battle, as an addition to Vermont's ce
m. tennial literature, arranged from
Lo minutes of a-lifc-time and from authe
NO. tic accounts collected by himself, of pt
her sons present at the battle and fro
Jay contemporaneous history.
ia Office seekers are out at Montpeli
in full strength, the post off
,ue being the objective point There a
- no less than six candidates, five wi
petitions of about equal magnituC
er- The sixth man, in the opinion of mar
is has the inside, though without petite
,re- he being related to Congressman Joy
hat A course of twenty-five lectures
eal Veterinary Medicine will be delivered
r the main lecture room of the Medi,
VI College building, Burlington, by Pr
rty Noah Greasy, M. D., D. V. S., beg
) is ming at 2 p. m. on Thursday, March
the Two lectures will be given each d;
and on consecutive days, Sundays {
cepted. until the course is completed.
The wide awake business men
a''. Swanton are rapidly recovering from t
of affects of the last disastrous fires. Ne
and ly all have found temporary quartz
ari. and are now opening and selling h
goods. The insurance, we believe,
all settled up. An architect is engae
am on plans for large brick block. laid
600 for five stores Old the first floor, and o
nifty ces and public hall on the second flo
fed The custom house building, burned so
,oor weeks ago, will soon be ready for oc
'0"' pancy.
lary Rev. VIM. H. Lord of Montpeli
ac- who has been slowly improving for
re- past few days, is much worse, and
old little hope Of his recovery is now ent
;, tanned by his numerous friends.
u.s. Lord has been pastor of the First C
(. gregational Church there for more ii
twenty-five years, which is one of
le'e wealthiest and largest in the state.