Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-09-17
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

The grand list for 1877 is S9S.733,-
52l, and the list for State taxes, ST.
129,191.
It is now stated that the net loss to
the founders of the late Rutland Globe
will reach about $4,000. 1t was
started with a capital of $4,000.
Vermont and Canada railroad stock
Is selling in Boston at Is IL Passum-
psic, preferred, Sc Ogdensburg, %
8.
It is announced that the earnings of
the Vermont division of the Portland
and Ogdensburg railroad are now about
one thousand dollars day.
Thomas Cunningham, of St. Adams,
about % years of age, was run over by
freight train in the yard at one o'clock |
Saturday morning, and was terrible
mangled. He lived about four hours.
Victor Huxley of Hartford, 20 years
old, was drowned Sunday afternoon
while bathing just below the Sucker
City dam. He was a good swimmer
and it is supposed he was seized with
cramp.
The venerable John B. Hollenbeck,
Esq, Of Burlington, has been justice
of the peace in that city for thirty-one
years, and in that time has tried over
nine thousand cases-a record unequal
ed in the state, we believe.
Archibald Mcintyre, tanner, en-
ployed for the past few years by James
Hunton & Son of Shrewsbury, left his
home near Cuttingsville, Monday, the
Sd inst, and was found the following
Wednesday hanging to the limb of
tree, about eighty rods from the house.
George Eastman, of Topsham, recent
ly went to st. Johnsbury, and while
there passed off $40 bill, after he had
been told that it was worthless. After
starting for home an officer followed
him, and Eastman recovered the bill
after paying $25.
BUTTER MARKET-The st. Adams
butter market, Tuesday, was active, and
prices were higher for best grades
common butter is dull. We quote COM
mon at fifteen cents, good to choice at
sixteen to twenty three cents. and selec-
tons at twenty-five cents per pound.
A. Wilkins, Geo. Morgan and G. N.
Hook of Reading while at work on the
road one day recently, killed striped
| snake, about as large as a mans wrist
: in the thickest part, i'll which were
| found 80 young ones none of them less
than six inches long.
: The Herald of West Randolph says !:
: "a careful examination of the laws
relating to marriage by one of our alb
: lest lawyers has revealed the startling
fact that by strict construction of the
= law as it now stands, on the statute
books. there is not single man in the
. State legally married"
!. A son of W. H. johnson, of Rutland
} four years old, recently became displeas-
; ed because his father would not give
s him all the pennies he wanted, ran
d away and took the mail train. The
r conductor dropped him off at Cuttings
n vile, however, and he returned on the
5. afternoon train, much frightened and
|, disguised with his experience.
lie Mrs. Mary Osborne, an old lady Of
n over so years, residing with her son-in
IS law in Newfane, recently attempted tc
g kill herself by cutting her throat She
d cut two horrible gashes. but was discov.
N cred before life was extinct. The cause
g of her anxiety to die is cancer, and
N the old lady says that she will fnish
Of the job her earliest opportunity.
The breaking of the pole of the stag,
IN between East Randolph and Royalstol
n yesterday caused the frightened passen
ct gers to leap from the coach. Rev. D
a. J. Griffin of Jewett City, Conn.,, wa
ID very seriously injured. He was taker
st up nearly insensible and carried to
1e house near by, where he remains in
as dangerous condition. No other person
" were injured.
~ A chap down in Bridport, has beel
10 in the business of manufacturing thi
~ delectable beverage: After making cider
" he takes the old cheese of pomice. pour
" warm water upon it, lets this sour, an,
III then presses it out, colors it with lit
tie elderberry juice, and sells it. HI
paid legal tribunal 500 for sellin!
this "invisible spirit of wine."
A week ago last Sunday Afternoon
d. Peter Bushy. while out on a gunnin,
IT, excursion with two companions. il
o. South Burlington, was severely injure,
by the bursting of his gun. The thum
ed of his left hand was blown of, and tn
TO hand otherwise mangled. besides whicl
ed he received bad wound over the eye
ne extending from the nose around to tn
en- temple. His hand was so badly shat
us tered that it was found necessary to am
us putate it at the wrist.
ad On the night of the 9th Brattleboro ha
an incendiary fire. which destroyed th
.bt Revere House and barn and other builC
he ings. A smart wind would have sweT
Of Main street and the business heart
70 the town, and as it is the damage
~ estimated at $35, 1000, or second only |
10 the great fire of 1869, which destroye
,rv one half of the business section. III
.bo fire was set in a large frame barn aC
he Joining the Revere house, at IL o'clock
lg, On Wednesday September 5tn, M
les Reuben B. Wright, of West Glover, an
not Miss Alice Wood, of Fairhaven, we
oc- united in marriage by the Rev. John
cry Chalmers, in tho Congregational churC
lea in the latter place. The church W;
ISL beautifully decorated with evergreen
re, and white flowers for the marriage GER
en- mony Mr.. Wright is a graduate
the Andover Theological Seminary, la
lay class, and is called to the church
not Poplar Grove, H., where he expects
go with his bride and enter at once u
gin on their chosen work.