Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-06-18
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

decided to postpone his visit to Vermont
until the month of August. in ouler to
participate in the Centennial anniver-
sary of the battle of Bennington.
On the 18th instant, at Bennington,
young man named Blow accidentally
shot two young ladies, his cousins, with
a gun which he believed to be unloaded.
1t is said that one of them is f,tally in
jured.
BUTTER MARKET.-At the S.. Albans
butter market, on Tuesday. the atten-
dance was good. Prices ranged as fol-
lows: Common. ten to twelve cents
good to choice, fifteen to eighteen cents
selections, twenty cents per pound.
Mrs. Taylor Parker, of Marshfeld
aged about thirty years, hung herself
with rope. on the 9th instant, in her
husbands barn. She was out of health
and low spirited. Two uncles and
brother have committed suicide before
her.
A fire broke out at Saxtons River
village June 9th. and Buttrfeld's block,
Warmers block, and large tenement
house were totally Destroyed. Loss
eight to ten thousand dollss, we'll COW
cred by insurance. Origin IF fire I'm
known.
A State exchange puts it thusly:-
.'These are the days when god hon.
est, ambitious men lean on heir hoe
handles, at the rate of Is cents an hour,
on the road. 1t is strange that men
will be perfectly honorable everywhere
else. but will cheat the highway"
Fred Murphy, John Murphy. and
Thomas Huddle, who we're arrested in
grain car, in the railroad yard at st.
Adams. three or four months ago, and
imprisoned for intoxication, were re-
leased Tuesday. on pardon from Gov.
Fairbanks. They belong in Canada.
Vermont is to have chance to 4quail"
Mr.. Martin G Everts, of Rutland, has
just received, by express, from Messina,
Sicily. lot of quails, which are to be
used to introduce this bird to Vermont
forests in the hopes that it will be a
valuable addition to the stock If game.
A dastardly attempt was made on
the night of the 9TH instant, to burn the
Estey saw-mill near Brattlehoro. by
placing lard pail filled with kerosene
just inside the door. The flame was
discovered after the pail had melted,
but before the green shavings had caught.
State Detective Joslyn, of H,lyoke,
Mass. arrested H enry Barlow at White
River Junction last Thursday, fol steal
ing team from William Warren, of
South Deerfeld. Mass. about the mid
die of last month. The team vas re.
covered at Putney where Barlov had
sold it.
Another fatal accident occurred al
the West Rutland quarries, thursday
Hugh Flanagan. employed in fhe quar-
ry of Clement, ellison g. Woodfn. slip
ped and fell from the top to the bottom
of the quarry, 100 feet below. He liveC
about half an hour. He leaves wifi
and nine children.
Ben Morgan. of South Woodstock
was almost instantly killed Monda,
night. In company with friend. Nor
gan was on the way home from Wind
sor, and when near Henry Walkers the,
drove out of the road and tipped over
with the above sad result. He leave
, wife and children.
Bennington is 70 nave daily Pern
during Centennial, week. Two edition
every day-mOrning and eveeG.bt be issq 4;
is good idea, and it should NEE wit
. substantial appreciation from the oeopl
D of the state, for they will have nobette
opportunity to get full records of al
centennial matters.
While Vermont does not claim Pres
: ident Hayes, Vice-President Wh'ele
: and Secretary of State Evarts as srici
: ly thermometers, yet it is rathe sin
q gular coincidence that the fathers. {
all three were natives of the Gree
; Mountain state. and that the twolatte
). taught school in their younger day
b within her borders.
n Pawlet has pretty good war racor(
e Seventy-three Revolutionary solliel
II settled in that town-6fty -four of Wo
attained the average age of eighty three
forty of its citizens took part ii I'll
1t war of 1912, and one hundred an
st seventy in the war of the rebellin.
st whom nineteen persisted in bate
= hospital. Several persons belonging
- that town also served in the Meica
'e war.
ne Nathaniel Emerson. of Chlse
W, seventy-one years old, has lived q ii
It. farm that he now occupies from b
he birth. This spring he dropped ar
h. planted corn on the same piece of gpur
~ on which he dropped corn for his fthe
1t sixty one years ago. He has potra
its of his grandmother, taken one huar
and twenty years ago. painted n
plate of copper and set in silver csc
About all the brooks in the stat, a
l., now posted, and unless the avca
mt fisherman can get pond, his ardr
;la fishing is somewhat dampened. Alo
- the notices put up are some queerpe
MS mems, of course, but if they sere
'p- purpose that is all that is necssal
/ a For instance, one Frenchman pets
;fe this notice. "If any man com f'
49, come hunt, come trap on this plce,
IN, is ten dollars loss for him."
'OU The St. Adams iron and steel Vol
er- are now running in full capacits a
let give employment to some two h,ndl
ec- and fifty men. Six car loads, anou
,tal ing to sixty tons per day, of iew pr
:. dled-head iron rails are being turf
0n out for the Central Vermont rslro
nal Over fifty tons of soft coal are rqui
full every twenty. four hours, when tie n
lew is in full opertion, as at this tim. 7
|, - new steel works are being putin, {