Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-05-28

Its. -. .. nIuuaD, W TlgnG anu al h0i'
with discussions on the same. Drs.
Blanchard. French. r. B. Skinner and
Rutherford will furnish reports. A full
attendance desired.
]. F. WRIGHT, Secretary.
NEWPORT CENTRE.
Mrs. McKinstry breaches at the
Baptist church next Sunday.
officer Bowley has captured the
notorious Alfred Bulls, and he has been
taken to Irasburgh Jail.
The Duffer family have sold their
village residence to widow Judkins-
Sidney Perkins has purchased a barn
from his father and moved it to his
farm-E. Bickford has bought the Ches-
ter Allen place of A. Brill for $3.50.
NORTH TROY.
Farm laborers are getting from $l2
to $40 per month for the season. Good
carpenters get So per day.
The Jay brooks are yielding their
customary amount of trout. One party
took III in one day recently.
Memorial day services will commence
at the Congregational church at p. m.
A. G. Stafford, Esq, of st. Adams will
deliver the address. Music by the North
Troy cOrnet band and singing will con-
stitute the exercises at the church, after
which the decoration of the graves.
Our correspondent sends US an account
of scandal which is agitating North
Troy. from which we condense the fol-
lowing: The Palladium having publish.
ed several attacks against young lady
in that village. which are said to
have been uncalled for, she re-
taliated by meeting Editor Hatch
in the street last Friday evening,
and after throwing cayenne pepper in
his face, which nearly blinded him, pro-
ceeded to give him sound horse-whip-
ping. and after throwing several eggs at
him, one of which hit him in the hack,
left him to pursue his homeward bound
| journey without further molestation.
STANSTEAD.
The Queens birthday was celebrated
by a band of rag mullins, and vas kept
as a general holiday.
Rev. Mr.. Scott, president of the
Quebec Conference, preached at the
Wesleyan church Sunday morning.
Rev. Mr. Macdonald will give a
lecture by request next Thursday even
ing at the Village Hall. Subject, the
! Turko- Russian war
CALEDONIA COHVTI.
The listers OF Danville report 1850
cows and about 1000 sheep in town.
An award of $500 against the town
of Danville has been made in favor of
]. G. Varnum and wife, who in July
last we're injured by their team breaking
through water course near their own
house.
ALT. Burnham of Sutton, having
finished his shingle business, will start
up his carding mill in few days.
Jacob Blake now 81 years of age is
on visit for Lynn, Mass, to his old
home and friends in Sutton. Mr.. Blake
is hale and hearty, but nearly blind,
There is still considerable talk" in
Sutton about the postofice and whether
the mails shall be received at the SUIT
ton or West Burke station. Some of
the boys are making sport over the mat
ter and have established a telegraph
.. S. mail route and post-ofice in the
village by ef6gy.
| On Tuesday morning of this week
Miss Emeline II. Green of this village
was found dead in her bed. She has
been in usual health up to the night
before. For many years Miss Green
has been subject to fits of very frequent
occurrence, and when occurring in bed
it has been noticed that she was most
frequently lying on her face. On
Tuesday morning she was found dead
with her face buried in her pillow and
1T is supposed she was smOthered. She
was 40 years old.-UniOn.
A daughter of Mrs. Cowdery, of tn,
Center, Is years old. who lives in this
village procured two ounces of chloro
form at druggists Wilcomb's on Tuesday
afternoon, and, on going to bed dranl
some or all of it. DR. Copeland wa
called about IL o'clock in the evenin,
and she was unconscious, and this
Thursday morning she lies in a precari
Gus state. The druggist questioned he
closely when she called for the chloro
form, and watched her motions closely
but discovered nothing out of place
She said she wanted it for an old lad.
to put into Union.
The next meeting of the Wheelocl
! Quarterly Meeting (Baptist will b
! held at No. Danville, commencing Ma
; 20.
. Mr.. Babcock, agent for tie st Johns
l bury Scale Company. was found in hi
e carriage at East Monkton, in state Q
/ Inconsistencies last Friday He seem