Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-08
state Necs.

ladder the other day. and was serlougly
injured.
Charles Smith, young man of Vic
tory, had his feet so badly frozen the
other day. that they were both amputa-
ted.
The Montpelier & Wells River tele
graph line is completed. and in operation
from Montpelier to Wells River.
A new argument in favor of hard
money. A farmer of Limerick, VT.
hung his waistcoat on a fence the other
day while he went to cut some poles.
and found. on bis return. that an OK
had chewed up bills to the amount Of |
two hundred dollars which were in one
of the pockets. Some silver coin which
was in the same pocket was tasted. but
Immediately spit out.
This item reads we'll, but where is
Limerick?1
The court has given a foreclosure to
the bondholders of the Montpelier and
Wells River Railroad, and the time of
redemption is about to expire. A Mont
pelier paper says that the road will
pass into the hands of the bondhelders
and they will organize new company
he lst of January, with a board of five
directors, who are to be Hon. Timothy
P Red6eld of Montpelier, S. S. Thomp-
son of Lyndon. W. H. H. Bingham of
Stowe. d. R. Sortwell of Cambridge,
Mass. and E. G. Sargent of Boston.
AS Frank Dec and wife. and Daniel
Lewis and wife, of Alburgh. were re-
Gently driving on the ice just north of
the Canada line, the suddenly broke
through the ice, and all but Dec were
precipitated into the water. Dec sprang
in and rescued his wife, and then sprang
in again and caught Mrs. Lewis by the
hair of the head just as she was sinking
the second time. 1t was a fearfully
cold day, and by the time he got ready
to assist his team out one of the horses
was so chilled thst is was impossible to
get it out.
The STATE PRIsoN.-The new board
of directors for the state prison have
been in Windsor looking over matters.
There are now one hundred and thirty
six inmates of the prison. including hive
or SIX who are there for safe keeping till
trial. Superintendent Bailey is still In
charge. no determination having yet
been arrived at as to the appointment
of superintendent. A change in the
diet of prisoners will give them wheat
, bread twice day instead of once. as
brown bread don't have the best effect
, upon their health. and Is no cheaper
eau.
While Charles N. Davenport was ex-
aiming one of the witnesses in the trial
of John Reeves before the Bennington
County Court, last Friday. circum-
stance leaked out which is said to have
: annoyed him and caused much laughter
: among the audience. The witness
james Fitzgerald, who, by his own con.
fession, was one of the gang of despera
does engaged in burning buildings AND
S other Outrages, last spring. swore thai
: Amos Aldrich, the 1iden elector, hac
drank with him in Reeves saloon anc
that he. himself. had treated the dis
tinguished gentleman in the same sa
loon.
Two young men from Island PonC
d went into Woodrow's saloon at Rocl
J. Island. Tuesday of last week. and called
. for raw oysters. David Woodrow, VIII
was in attendance produced the oyster
IN Il frozed condition, which did no
Is seem to please the customers Woodrow
l. then placed the oysters on or near tn
/ stove, when the young men made som
, remark which offended Woodrow, anC
Q he stepped into the back room and re
turned with large butcher knife. wit
&c which he assaulted the parties One 0
d, them caught the knife in his hand, re
% ceived a bad cut, a large piece of fees
being taken out of the hollow of tn
> hand. His fingers were also fearfully
D. cut.
~ The accident to the Montreal expires
c. train on the Rutland road near Pittsfor
ly Friday night, was a marvellous escape
4 The engine and three cars, with 40 pas
sengers, ran off the track. taking tn
'e bridge with them, aud falling 20 fee
er and breaking through the ice mass {
ly ruins; the engine turned an axact somel
Sc sault in the fall. but no one on the trai
~ received special injury. Capt. Ford {
, Montreal. who, with his wife, were tn
- only occupants of the sleeping car, wa
n bruised in the back; Conductor Z.
p Herrick's face was cut by glass by b.
u. ing thrown through a window; H I
:. Stevens of Rutland, sprained his arm
" while Mrs. W. J Chambers of Bingham
III ton, N. Y. escaped with scratched ea
ed and W. w. Dawley of Ludlow, Vt
is with scratched face.
to BRATTLEcoRo', VT. Jan. 2. Mis-
be Mary Birchard, supposed to have bee
he one of the victims of the Ashtabula no
= ror, was the daughter of Hon. Au>ti
:" Orchard of Fayetteville. Vt. and
ay cousin of Gov. Hayes. She left Brattl
n boro' on Thursday afternoon, accompal
he led by Mrs. Burdett of Erie, Pa e
On route to Elyria, Ohio, to obtain legac
:. which had been left her by Sardis Bi
10 chard. late of that place. 1t was hol
Ie- ed by her friends that she had stoppt
p. over at Erie, but dispatch receive
nd this evening fails to confirm this, ar
-os leaves but little doubt of her fate
appears that just before her departu
~ she had felt and expressed premonitic
Ia that something horrible was to happ,
ID. to some one of the family, and so stror
,or was her belief that many of the neig
&C bors were made acquainted with h
" feelings. The sad event cast "a gloo
elr over this entire community by who
ur she was universally esteemed Espet
ms ally does the sympathy of the commur
mr. ty 90 out to her aged parents. who,
mr. the advanced ages of "a are natural