Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-05-14
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

one bone of his right arm.
Five Rutland marksmen have secured
ariAe range of 900 yards. and talk of
forming regular rifle club
Track is now being laid on the Bur-
liugton & Lamoille railroad at the rate
of three-auarters of mile a day.
Laura Williams and Charley Mack
recently trotted together one half mile
at the Essex Junction track, In l:l5.
Erastus Glidden of Waits River, re-
Gently attempted suicide by overdosiug
with saltpetre. He is not expected to
survive.
They tell big story about maple ]
tree in Tunbridge that furnished sap
enough this season to fill thirty seven
twelve-quart pans.
George w. Hubbard, formerly of
Cambridge. was lately shot and killed
at his home in Missouri, by an officer
who came to arrest his son for some Of
fence.
Two young men of Quechee, were poi
soned week before last by drinking cider
through lead pipe. The pipe had been
in the cider some time, the gents drink
ing frequently through it.
Rev. A. A. Baker. formerly pastor of
the Congregational church in Cornwall.
and for the past eleven years has been
preaching in the west, has settled at
East Hardwick.
Giles Jackson, an old and respected
citizen of Milton. fell down stairs on the
29th ult. His hurts do not appear to
be bad, but his system was SO shaken
that his recovery is matter of doubt
owing to his advanced age, 86 years.
Senator Edmunds has returned from
Florida. improved in health, and is re-
ported as being heartily in favor of CIV
ing the Presidents Southern policy a
fair trial. and is ready to defend it in
the Senate in case of its attack there.
A. patent has been granted to A. j.
Gustln of st Adams for an apparatus
for carrying railroad rails. and another
for carricr-rols for railroad rails to G..
D. Lease of Jacksonville, for car-coup.
ling; and to o. W. Davis of Waterbury
for churn.
Larkin G. Mead, the famous Vermont
sculptor, has been in Washington por
/. ticn of the past week, and is now gon,
. to Springfield to superintend the addi
ton of the army and navy groups to hi
Lincoln monument. He is cousin o
President Hayes.
: The wife of COL John B. Meade O
f Randolph. died of pneumonia on Sun
4 day, May 6, leaving an interesting fam
! lily to mourn her loss. Her maiden nam
was Orpha Carpenter. and she was
;. daughter of the late Elias Carpenter 9
j. Randolph. Her loss will be deeply fel
n among large circle of acquaintance.
i AT the St. Adams butter market, la;
d Tuesday, the attendance was good, wit
"a increased receipts and higher prices
We quote good at from fifteen to eigt
, teen cents, choice at nineteen to twenty
e. two cents, and selections at twenty thrs
S. cents per pound, with a higher priC
y paid for few well known diaries.
D. There is quite curiosity on the far
rs Of Hannibal Totman in Pomfret, in I'll
70 shape of a white woodchuck. which W;
:. caught last spring by his son under q
~ old barn. He was kept in cage ar
IN had become so tame that he would e
a. with the cats, but the door being acc
dentally left open he made his escal
and returned to his old haunts und
D the barn.
A Clarendon man, tired of life, W
nd in Wallingford. the other day, trying
!. get some one to put him out of mise
Va by knocking him in the head. Failil
Is in this he gave one of the boys ten cen
Id. and told him to get him the amount
he morphine that he might die easier. Sor
buckwheat -four was procured, and f
j, ing it up to resemble dose of poiso
'u- was taken to the would-be suicide, W
vs. by this time began to repent, and on t
no whole thought he would try life lit
ed longer, and went home sadder, if 4
al a wiser man.
The argus says:-Charlie, son
Charles A. Reed. Cashier of the MOI
JIG pelier National Bank, had a narrow +,
lss cape, the other day. In the absence
Sc. his parents, he went to the Cent
to freight depot, and just as train "
N starting he fell between two cars. fort
" nately rolling from instead of iowa
vas the track, as he struck. Jumping I
her though lying still was safest for hi
his head came just above the platfor
ell, the narrow space between the plank a
om cars being just wide enough for the 81
neck of the little fellow, so that he
."s off with just slight mark.
'eu Grant Kline. twelve-years old s
en- of Asa K. Kline. who lives about tn
to miles below Pawlet. was killed DUR
he the absence of his father and step-mo
= . er at funeral, Sunday, May 6.
leading out a colt to water, he fasten
ou' the rope of the halter around his boz
'on- and the frisky animal started, draggi
Ital him about fifty rods, over stone VIZ
he where hole was knocked in the b;
hot of his head, causing instant death, it
supposed. When found. the colt '
nu. standing by the side of the dead DO
ned which remained undetached.
Governor Fairbanks and G. M. Spa
est ding, Prison Director, with DR.. Furr
nan and Superintendent Spencer, visited
State Prison, last Tuesday. After
specting the various departments of
slon prison, call was made at John
ell, Phair's cell. His Excellency spent Sc
ID a time conversing with Phair, and seen
and to leave with favorable Impress
- The prison under Superintendent ST.
on Ger Is kept in perfect order, indicat
e Is thorough discipline in all DEPARTING
0 be The directors made many decided