Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-01
State Neux.


ad twenty fine sheep killed. recently.
4 The oldest person in Barnet is Mrs.
iusan Heath, who was SO last Sept.
A boy in Tunbridge died of excessive
Needing from the nose, before medical
lid could be obtained
At an auction In Chelsea. recently.
lows sold at $25 per head. and hay at
$1,000 per town.
No students in Middlebury college are
allowed to teach this winter, contrary to
the practice of many years.
Nahum Parker died in Middlebury,
the other day. in whose shop in that vii
lage Stephen A Douglas served his ap-
premiership.
1t is reported that the employees of
the Passumpsic railroad have had their
wages reduced ten per cent during the
winter.
Rutland had slight fire, the other
night, but as it was discovered before it
made much Roadway. it was extlnguish-
ed without much damage.
At the annual meeting of the State
Temperance Society at Burlington, on
Wednesday of week before last. Rev. NJ
H. Buckham was chosen President. and
W. W. Atwater, Secretary.
Miss Hattie Doubleday of South Roy
alton, attempted to commit suicide on
the llth inst. by taking large dose of
laudanum. The timely aid of physi-
clan prevented fatal effects.
: fSwanton is a fortunate town, having
mo town tax this year. The interest on
i the money willed to the town by R. l..
Barney, pays all town expenses, and
leaves balance in the treasury.
The Congregationalists at Chelsea,
held grand organ concert in the au-
dience room of the new church, Dec. 20.
1t was we'll attended. The proceeds
amounted to $40.
Jabez Corwln of Chelsea, a man aged
81 years. slipped and fell in the street
at North Tunbridge, Dec. II. and broke
the thigh bone near the hip joint. Ills
recovery is doubtful.
A son of J. H. Gerry of Cabot, three
years old, had his leg broken just above
! the ankle. on the evening Of the 10th
by the falling of his little sister, wh'
was carrying him across slippery spot
An exchange says: The season OF tn
/ wear has arrived when a man can take
ten cent skein of yarn to their minister
u donation, and exchange it for a two dol
lar supper.
! Mr. and Mrs Cloud Harvey of Barnet
were taken hu sn~f-;eO, f'ddE' Tue on
Il INST %s BY over 200 persons gathering a
their house TO remind them that it wa
the twentieth anniversary of their mar
riage.
Brattleboro's high school principal
Benjamin F Bingham. has taught 70
thirty-three consecutive years in Vt
first in his native town of Cornwall, the
at Rutland. and for fourteen years a
Brattleboro.
Mr.. Porter Benson of Clarendon, VIII
was thrown from a wagon on the 18th
has died of his injuries. He had repre-
sented Clarendon in the legislature. an
held other offices of trust and honor. H
leaves wife and Eve children.
The Central Vermont railroad are d.
ing a good thing, by putting in thos
safety switches. These are so arrange
that, in case the switch is misplaced, tt
train is brought back again, upon Il
main line
for stealing, who has been behaving vel
badly since his committal to the st. A
bans Jail, refusing food, breaking furn
ture and fighting his fellow prisoner
attempted to burn the Jail Wednesda
and is now locked up in a cell. +
! threatens to starve himself if not release
Hiram Lathrop of vershire. has raj
! ed this season. three thousand FIVE hun,
+. red bushels of potatoes, six hundred al
/, fifteen bushels of oats, two hundrt
bushels of corn, forty bushels of whea
! one hundred and FIVE bushels of Ind
wheat and about fifty tons of hay. +
! has lived on his farm sixty-three year
! and is said to be the oldest farmer
/. town.
! At the st. Adams butter market, la
: Tuesday, the attendance was slim. wi
: light receipts and unchanged prices. v
quote common at from sixteen to eig
; teen cents; God, nineteen to twent
! two cents choice. twenty three to tive
: ty-eight cents. and gilt edged at thir
|" cents per pound. with higher price f
b extra fall made butter.
e The Brattleboro Phenir learns tn
d prominent business men of Whiteha
y held meeting. week before last, al
pledged themselves to raise $4,000
that town for the Brattleboro and Whit
hall Railroad. One of the most favorat
I indications about this new enterprise
the fact that leading and experienc
capitalists are ready and willing to P
Y their money into it.
u The Rolling Mill at st. Adams,
:, though running only in the daytime,
! on i'll full blast and working right up
r full time. Nine rounds are run in t
II course of day. six being formerly t
Il amount rolled In the same time. Sew,
y, al orders are on hand and cheer
prospect of work for some time is be
out. There are at present some Gig
y hundred tons of rails to be rolled.
q The sale of the marble quarries a
I mills belonging to Clement & Sons
nc Rutland. was effected week before la
al the purchasers being the Rutland NJ
., BILE Company, IN which General H.
" Baxter is heavy stakeholder. l
ou price paid was four hundred aud TWEEN
lit five thousand dollars. This sale pro
on bly, ends several vexatiOus lawsuits
III tween the parties, and is, perhaps,
II largest transaction ever had in the sta