Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-02-19
State Ne1CS.
March meeting. Tuesday, March 9Th.

years
The prisoners at Windsor prison turn
out between l,4O0 and 1900 pairs of
shoes daily.
Mr.. A. Comstock of South Burlington,
offers to shoot his gun against any other
gun in the State.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Perkins of Per-
kinsville, celebrated their golden we'd
ding, the other day.
Mrs. A. G. Welch of Williston, was
found dead in bed, last Tuesday morn
ing, from heart disease.
S. K. Berry of Bradford, fell down
while driving his team. last Tuesday,
and badly fractured his leg.
Henry S. Smiths children's carriage
shop at Guilford was burned last Mon
day loss $4,000, partly insured.
The Board of Agriculture hold meet
ings at East Calais on the Goth and 2lst,
at Stowe on the 22d and 23d of Feb.
1t is Vermont man who talks conf
IDENTIFY of having been to the Theological
Gardens, when he was in Philadelphia.
Vermont sent "A, O69 children to her
common schools last year, and the knowl-
edge each one got cost her on an average
few cents ever eight dollars.
The Citizen says: THE average
length of the Democratic face in Morris
vile is 81 inches. Average width four.
1t resembles Returning Board.
Two brothers named Barron of Ben
nington quarrelled, last Wednesday, and
one threw stone griddle at the other.
killing a child of the family standing
near.
Among the skating casualties at Win
ooski, are the following: One boy had
his leg broken, another had his head
split open, and third received a cut
fourteen inches long on his leg.
From the increase of polls on the
grand list of Vermont, from 1875 to
1876, the increase of the population of
the State must have been over 5000, as
the increase of polls has been 1880.
The running expenses of Bethany
church in Montpelier have been about
SIS, 900 year; of the Episcopal $4,000 ;
of the Unitarian S2.lOO; of the Metho-
dist $1,000; and the Baptist 1,O50.
Lphn Hastings, in the employ of Mo-
ses hastings OF oUanstead, p. O., fell
from scafOld to barn floor, Friday,
the 9th inst, striking on the side of his
head, and died from his Injuries the
next day.
The st. Adams butter market, last
Tuesday, was dull, with but few sales
buyers not wanting to purchase. Winter
made sold at from twenty to twenty.
7 three cents, and fall butter at from TWEEN
ty-hve to twenty-seven cents per pound
4 During the past month there has beer
unusual mortality among the old peopl,
of Jamaica. There have occurred sever
deaths of persons at the ages of eighty
one, eighty-one, ninety four, seventy
e eight, ninety-three, seventy-six and sew
enty-eight years.
: Governor Fairbanks has finally. unde
an act passed at the last session, ap
pointed as the new Superintendent o
e the State Prison, H. P. Spencer, for owe
y twenty years station agent at st. Johns
If bury. There has been warm contes
# for the place.
4 In Marlboro, eleven miles from Brat
. tleboro, it is said are living man ant
=" wife aged respectively 60 and lO3 years
They were married when the man was
r youth of 10 and the woman maiden q
~ 81. The woman had. when girl, bee
y courted by the father of the man VIII
W finally became and is now her husband
: Four Congregational churches hay
VI been organized in Weathersfeld sine
III the settlement of the town; two hay
t. been dropped and others are now unabl
pt to support pastor In 1910, the pol
= ulation was 2,082; now it is about
: 400. Such is the constant drain upo
'e Vermont towns by emigration.
u The goods in the 7. G. Phinney stol
Sc in Montpelier, were sold at auction wee
On before last, and bid off by Fred E. Smit
H. for $1,000. Mr.. Smith has turned ov
- the stock to Mr.. Phinney on commissio
~ and the latter is once more doing bus
10 ness. The creditors have nearly all CO.
its scented to take 20 cents on the dollar.
Nv Theobaud Baur has made match f
five hundred dollars side with NJ
Laughlin, and has covered forfeit p
up by Miller, whom he offers to wrest
for two thousand dollars or five hundr,
= dollars a side after six weeks from dat
: at any place he may name, either two o
H. of three or three out of five falls, CIR;
es- co-Roman style James Owens of Fai
lie field, has covered the forfeit of $50
sent by Martin, of Ypsilanti, Michiga
! BRATTLEBoRo, Feb. ia serio
{ fire visited the State Insane Asylum
is this place this morning, destroying
,at large brick horse barn, sheds, dry ROOF
M and laundry adjoining, with sleigh
,al carriages and farming implements, 20
7as bushels of potatoes, three tons of butt
ia and other supplies belonging to the
he stitution. Loss about $4,000; insur
al in the London, Liverpool and Globe, a
he Vermont Mutual companies. The ma
to- building, with its 800 patients, mario
,rv ly escaped.
ZEN MARY" said Hartland farmer
Re- his wife the other day, "the times +;
in dreadful hard, and to get dollar
en-. next to impossible. The children ne
md new boots and you need new hat. N
Ell l have been thinking we shall have
asst stop the JOURNAL, one year at least,
ate matter of economy John" S;
vas the wife, show much did you give
Ter my last years hat ?" six dollar
BILE was the reply. "Well,' continued
lot wife, "get me three dollar hat t
less year, and let the other three go to 7