Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-22


Mrs. Addie Chamberlin; Steward, AL
bert w. Norcross; Assistant Steward,
Frank Tenney; Chaplain, Rev. John
Morse Treasurer, John f. Tenney; Sec
rotary, H. H. Hyde; Gate Keeper, W.
". Brockway; Ceres. Mrs. Wallace;
Pomona, Mrs. o. Wilcox; Flora, Miss
Eta Wilcox Lady Assistant Steward,
Mrs. Brockway.
BARTON.
Registers for sale at this office. Price
$500 with the MONITOR for 1877
thrown in.
Will the citizens of the Village ex-
tend the usual courtesy to those who
attend the Temperance Convention,
Wednesday, and invite them to their
homes for refreshments
Geo. w. Hunt of Chicago has prac-
teal way of expressing his sympathy.
Learning of the distressing affection in
the family of his brother, Nelson Hunt,
he sent him a check for $50.
Rev. J. Wallace has sold his horse to
NJ. Burnham of Wilmington, Mass, for
$3.50. A good price, but Mr.. Burnham
is irst-rate judge of horse flesh. and
knows how to buy and train, as we'll as
to sell horses.
The Rosette party held at the Congre-
gational Vestry on Wednesday eve. was
a success in every respect except the
''rosettes" which were not very plenty.
1t is prepOsterous to undertake to intro
duce anything new into the petri6ed
notions of our society, you know.
Mrs. Jewell has received large lot
of specimen music from Oliver Ditson
& Co. of Boston, including hard and ca
sy piano sheet music, songs, quartettes,
secular and church music, Sunday school
and revival song books, &C., &c. Call In
at once and examine and select for YOUR
selves.
The Hide A,oake is a child's Month
ly, published by u. LathrOp & Co., Bos-
ton, that is really one of the best maya.
zines for little folks that we know. II
is full of instructive, sensible and pleas.
ing articles, just right for children be.
tween the ages of six and fourteen years
With pleasing stories, poetry, music and
pretty pictures, it is just calculated to
please and benefit children. Price, $500
year.
While we are shoveling snow, anG
trying to keep the roads open so that We
can get out after doctor, if it is neces
sary, in the Middle States they are mucf
worse off, as the snow is deeper and thu
railroads in some places are completely
covered up. 1t has been long tim,
since the N. Y. Central has been able Il
move freight trains, and there are thou
sands of cars showed in on the turnout
ali along the line. In many places il
New England there is more complain
about the snow than in Vermont.
Gen. W. w. Grout has let the job o
building the large barn on his Kirb,
stock farm to the Bullock boys of Lyn
don. He has also let John Sanborn O
Lyndon the job to tear down, remove an,
repair the old barns on the place, whic
will be arranged with the large barn s
as to constitute the most extensive sy;
tenn of barn buildings in this part {
the state. The large barn will be 80
l20 feet, p feet between joints" b.
sides basement; it will conveniently stol
200 tons of hay, with room for 10
animals. 1t will be we'll and CONVEX
iently finished, and ought to be suficiel
for the farm for a generation.
SINGULAR CoINcIDENT AND PAINFU
AccIDENTs.-Last Monday evening, /;
David Wright, an emplOye at Foster
hotel, was returning from lighting
guest to bed, he was taken with fit
the head of the hall stairs, and fell
the bottom, badly breaking his should
3 and bruising and injuring him othe
wise. He had a kerosene lantern in
hand, which he fell upon and broke, Il
oil running about the floor and instar
ly taking fire. When the fall was hear
=, those about the house ran to the sp
! where Mr.. Wright lay, and found hi
in the flames of the oil, badly iniur
from the fall, and unconscious. He W
taken from the flames without being S
n verely burned, and the lire was put OF
Mr.. Wright has suffered considerab
from heart trouble, and his fall W
probably caused by a fainting fit.
The second accident befel "Proi
6 Gay of Bloomington, who started fire.
\ Barton Landing, on Wednesday MOI
ing, to 90 to So. Barton. Mr.. Gay
subject to fits, and before reaching F,
O ter's hotel he had fit, and was broug
to the hotel by u companion. He lay
the lounge during the day, and at mig
:. attempting to get up and walk. he We
into another fit and fell with great fo
on to the floor, and broke, dislocat
. and otherwise injured his shoulder q
" collar bone. On account of his epilep
trouble, the doctors did not attempt