Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-04-23
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

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A pickerel three feet and three inches
long, weighing l6 IL pounds, was re-
Gently caught in lake Dnnmore.
Over 6O,OOO,OO0 feet of logs will
probably be driven down the Connecticut
river during the present season.
Preston Powers. Of Florence. is max
ing rapid progress on his statue of Hon.
Jacob Collamer for the State of Vermont.
Judge Bradley. of the United States
Supreme Court. has engaged rooms for
the season at the Mount Mansfield Hotel,
Stowe.
The steamer Vermont will not begin
her regular trips between Burlington and
Ticonderoga for the coming season until
the first of June.
John Farrell, oe Rutland, was fined
81 and costs, for burying horse near a
brook where several families obtain wa
ter for domestic USE
Farmers should be making their cal
culations for the planting of a large
p! number of shade trees alongside the
highways this spring. 1t certainly pays.
We have received copy of the Eeso-
buttons passed on the death of Hon.
Samuel H. Kellogg who had been clerk
and treasurer of Pittsford more than
fifty years.
At the st. Adams butter market,
Tuesday. the attendance was good. and
the market dull and lower. We quote
new butter at from fifteen to twenty-one
cents per pound, with higher price paid
for fancy diaries.
DIR. J. NJ. Currier of Castleton has
donated his large collection of Indian
relics to the State cabinet. 1t contains
nearly one thousand specimens, and is
rich in illustrations of the domestic life
of the aborigines of Vermont.
S. S. Jones. who was lately shot in
Chicago, used to practice law in Hyde
park. He married Miss Lucinia NJ.
Camp in 1897. In 1860 he embraced
spiritualism, and was editor of spirit
ualist paper at the time he died.
The town of Brattleboro has voted 39l
to 252 to aid the Whitehall railroad, to
the amount of $4,000, which will be
paid in ten annual installments. Farley
Starr, S. N. Herrick and j. nj. Tyler
are the commissioners to carry out the
vote according to law.
ID. B. Sherman of Castleton, aged
about sixty years. was killed by the cars
last Monday, at Center Rutland. He
was struck by the-hanter beam of the
engine, and thrown to the ground on one
side He was taken to Rutland fol-
treatment, but died soon after getting
there.
Mrs. James Kendall of West Windsor
a lady over so years of age, recently
went out to back piazza. from which ;
y portion of the floor had been taken VI
to repair the water pipe which passed
under it, and being nearly blind fel
through, fracturing the bones OF one lei
!. below the knee.
James Hogan & Co.. of Ashland AM
t Hopkinton. Mass. who have gone int
o bankruptcy. are the former Lamoill
Valley railroad contractors They Civ
in the list of their creditors the name
of E. Chadwick 81 900, and James Rya
2 $1,000, both of Cambridge, and Josep
r Gray, of Sheldon. $1,000.
: DIN Sturgess of Morristown, was i
% the woods, recently. and standing wit
his gun under his arm, muzzle up. Will
: two others were telling tree. AS th
broke ee the stalk SIn and rd3Is@cRarged It's cor
E. tents into the feshy part of his arm
&c The wound is not dangerous.
is case of probable iufantcide was r,
70 Gently discovered in Rutland. A DO
: was found floating down East creek,
u which was the body of child two {
a. three days old, laid in coal ashes an
l. covered with papers. The body W;
is buried. Nothing has been discovered ;
:. to its parentage, or where the body W;
consigned to the water.
- Warren Smart of Pownal, Unite
P States pensioner. aged SO years, W;
found dead in Hon H. G Roots bal
at Bennington, the 18th. He was la
It's seen the day before about half mi
its from where he was found. and physi
be ians say he died a natural death ar
had been dead some time when foun
nc For some time he had no home.
- Friday of last week Foster Dana,
" Waitsfeld. shot an eagle on the farm
RS Ephraim Campbell, at % rods and
he feet, that measured feet and
at inches from tip to tip of its wings. II
20 bird was brought to Montpelier by
= G. Jones on Saturday. and attracts
much attention. 1t is to be set up, al
te- put into the cabinet at the State Hous
he having foot more spread of wings tn;
of anything there now.
mt A curious scene was recently observ
,lt at Gaysville when pair of hawks, viii
:, had nested in the locality for sever
IN years, we're suddenly attacked by hay
tn of another and larger specie and t
ice rife battle ensued in mid air. The Ia
no that was seen of the combatants t
"a larger hawk was making rapid but u
w steady progress for the woods. while o
nat of the smaller birds was securely perch
on upon his back and hammering away
to. his head in good earnest.
ion The barn and shed of Levi II. Do
-, of Gilmore, were burned week ago |;
S Friday night, with between fifteen a
on twenty tons of hay. He went to t
nj. barn in the evening and climbed to
scaffold after some hens. By some mea
ler he tripped, and fell to the floor. break
the the lantern and knocking him sensele
pi- When he came to the barn was in fam
rill and his arm burned. He managed
=. crawl out and into the house. when h
enough was secured to save the ba
nu adjoining. Barn and hay insured.