Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-29
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

We SoV eniSS S'o'eio' ""U en0y dAC Oil
girls"
Rev. w. W. Atwater, editor of the
Vermont Witness, is reported very sick,
fears being entertained that he cannot
recover.
Transportation is reported very active
! on Lake Champlain this fall, calling
into service its full navy of steam,
sail and canal crafts.
The special committee of the State
! Agricultural Society on cattle disease
prevailing in the state will be called
together to consider some means for It's
suppression.
A Frenchman about twenty three
years of age, without family, was run
over by the cars and instantly killed at
Shelburn last Thursday morning. The
body was shockingly mangled.
The religious interest in Bennington
is reported as increasing and spreading
to the remote districts of the town, and
some of the cases of awakening are from
families several miles from the village.
At the st. Adams butter market,
Tuesday, common butter sold at from
twelve to fifteen cents, good to choice at
from eighteen to twenty five cents, and
selections at twenty-eight cents per
pound.
James E. Owens, of Fairfax, the
champion wrestler, challenges any man
in the world, regardless of size, weight
or strength, to wrestler, collar and elbow,
best two out of three falls, for from ST.
900 to $4,000.
| During the first nine months of the
present year there were sc failures in
this state, with the aggregate liabilities
of $472,4e3. For the corresponding
months, last year, the figures were 81
and S1,O3O,630.
Judge Asa Keyes of Brattleboro, is
said to be the oldest graduate of Dart
mouth college, having graduated in
1910. He is also one of the oldest
Masons in the state, his initiation dating
back to 1914.
. The Bellows Falls Times recommends
a convention of the friends of tax reform
at Montpelier, to deliberate on the sub.
ject, and appoint competent committees
t to prepare and mature bills to be pre-
e sented to the next legislature.
| The case of Asa Magoon, convicted
. for the murder of Streeter in Barre, Vt
came up before the County Supreme
Court at Montpelier, on Wednesday. 1
/. was ordered over to the general term o
: the State Supreme Court. which begin
It October 30th.
r James Crogin, who was convicted il
the Windham County Court. Septembe
term, 1878, of the crime of man -slaugh
ter, and sentenced to be imprisoned il
the state prison for the period of TEL
y years. was pardoned by the Governor o.
"a the Oath inst.
# Mrs. Lucy Robinson died suddenl
= at Rutland Saturday morning. Her sor
" Sylvester F. Paige, we'll known drug
c gist, went for an undertaken, and o
a his return was stricken with apoplex
d and died. The shock has also mad
rs Mrs Paige very i'll.
o A daring attempt was recently mad
to rob the national bank at Royalto
while the cashier was at dinner by for
ID ing open rear door and another or
It's which impeded progress. The would-t
ng robber obtained nothing. however, ;
ed the money had been locked up in
70 IN the City court at burlington IL.
:: Monday, John Baty was held to bail
III the sum of 500, on the charge of higl
en- way robbery; Henry Robear in the su
at of $1,000, for burglary, and a ma
,r- named Godett in the sum of $500 Fl
al stealing $50 worth of goods from Il
house of G. l.. Hart, on Jolly Gu
MS Camp.
a. The Vergennes Vermonter says IL
Is. Reform School is in healthy and pro
Dt- porous condition. There are 123 DO,
Is. and Is girls. The near presence
:. diphtheria-it has been raging fatal
% within mile of the grounds-has Il
ng to the observance of the most stringel
an sanitary rules, and the result has BET
sh very gratifying; thus far not one ca
be has occurred. There is one case of fe
- er, but the general health of the inmat
Sn is excellent.
'n' One day last week an old farmer, OF
ro- of Judge Poland's early associates fro
he Lamoil!e county, called at the St. John
NO bury House, and informed the propri
- ter that he was born and brought up
:. the same town with Judge Poland. II
ln- Judge afterwards cordially welcome
ms the old gentleman as one of the chuu
be of his boyhood, and told the prophet
to give him good dinner at Il
= Judges expense. When the O
- gentleman took his seat at Il
IN dinner table one of the girls laid bi
la of fare before him, which he prompt
MA handed back, with the remark, "Judy
sb Poland settles my BILL" The old ge
-, tleman must have thought he was du
wv ned pretty early in the programme.
~ Fairfax has a disgraceful scanda
YES with the village milliner. Louisa Coffe
SO and the doctor, A. G.. Brush, as primo
sly pals, the full facts of which were deve
,at oped last week, at the trial of the WON;
:. for shooting at the doctor on the evenil
a0- of the 18th inst. The doctor is a wi
cry dover, with grown-up children, wh
Iut after being intimate with Miss Golf
ba- under an engagement of marriage, ma
i'm ried younger woman, but continu
his visits to Miss Coffee, after making
oe' settlement with her to prevent ST
ing for breach of promise. Trouble arc
ow however, and the bad blood engender
abt ended in shower of rotten eggs up
"a her house. to avenge which she rush
: to the door and fired three shots from
re- revolver which the doctor thought we