Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-06-04
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Monday evening, to an immense audi
nee.
Addison county farmers have this
year gone heavily into potato raising,
some of them have planted as many as
20 or 80 acres.
Middlebury village boasts of bust
ness block on the outside of which there
are tweDty-eight different kinds of paint
by actual count.
It is stated that most of the liquor |
sold in Rutland is brought by teams, in
the night, from Hampton. N. Y, and
that several teams run over every night.
The Lamoille News says: San itin-
Grant fraud, claiming to be a local
Methodist preacher, is wandering about
the country gathering bread to eat and
scrip to buy tobacco with"
Considerable damage was done by
lightning on the premises of Oscar
impson and CLANCY Bradley. in Shelf
field, the 18th, breaking glass out of
the windows and even tearing up water
logs.
Brattleboro is the banner town, in
raising money for the Vermont Centen-
NAL She was assigned to raise ST 900
toward it and at recent meeting raised
$500 and an additional $500 for
music.
A company has been formed at Athol,
Mass, for the purpose of copper mining
at Canaan. The company Is composed
mostly of men from Athol, and Foster
Merrill has already gone on to superin-
tend the work.
Morrisville physicians are puzzled be-
anse young man who recently died
there had only one kidney, a sort of
sac ten inches in length. filled with wa
ter. having ibrous of feshy partitions,
filling the place of the other.
Alfred Tatro, of Swanton, recently
went over the dam in boat, while fish,
ing, but escaped with thorough duck
ing. Another man was in the stern Of
the boat before it escaped from its moor
ings. and had just time to jump on land
and escape.
A significant tramp incident occurred
in Bellows Falls the other day. As a
tramp approached a house he was OBJ
served to increase in lameness. and ar
irving at the door. his emotion and
tremulous voice was sufficient to attract
tears, to say nothing of the hump on his
back, which was found to be wad Of
cotton batting.
Last week Chester Downer of Sharon
was obliged to take up a flock of ewes
that he had turned out on the hill, di
rectly back of the village. by reason oil
the foxes destroying the lambs. They
seem to kill for the mere pleasure o
, killing. as they sometimes do poultry
as four lambs were found at one tim
all warm and still bleeding.
The other morning tramp was founC
in the street at Swanton, doubled up il
heap shivering and groaning. HI
d was bare-footed and scantily clad. H
e was furnished food. and as the sun cam
: up what little life remained was warme
up. He said he came from New York
and when first found asked that h
|. might be knocked in the head with a
e axe.
n On Monday afternoon Michael WEIGH
u assistant foreman In Shermen 81 Wi
!. liams' quarry at West Rutland, wa
killed. He was at work near bloc
D. of marble, in which was an invisibl
Re seam, and while his back was turned
n piece weighing about four tons split of
,. and falling upon him crushed the Who'll
g of his body below his head. killing hir
instantly. He was about ffty-6ve year
= old.
A frightful accident occurred at tt
sr depot in Bennington, Friday, causin
d the death of boy about nine years oil
J. Charles McMasters' two boys. aged nil
= and eleven, were playing around Il
> cars, putting on the letting off brake
20 The older boy let car run down Il
g. track, till it ran into another car. A
re the cars came together they caught IL
70 youngest boy between the bunter
smashing his skull. Death was almo
- instantaneous.
- A party, consisting of Judge Villa
a. Strong, of the Supreme Court of Il
be United States, Senator Edmunds, Hol
c. John F. Henry of New York, Gener
+ W. W. Henry and George P. Foster
: Burlington. will leave Burlington {
ie Tuesday next. for short season of tro
In fishing, near the st. Leon Springs,
Is, Canada. Later in the season, Senat
er Edmunds proposes to take trip to Il
= region of the lower st. Lawrence, f,
- salmon fishing.
= Monday noon Mr.. Frank Prescott,
Vi East Orange, aged 10. at work
an Lords mill, was in the act of adiustil
I'm the belt when the wheel was in motto
arc and while thus engaged was caught
!. the arm between the belt and the arbo
~ and carried with great velocity aroul
the arbor, until Mr.. Lord. seeing the
was trouble, shut the gate and releas
ed him. The injuries were fractur
he skull, four broken ribs, and one foot G
+ tirely crushed. He lived but three hot
:, after the accident.
1t will be remembered that Hen
las Gravelin, of Weathers6eld, who is n,
Ter in states prison, under sentence of dea
gs, for the murder of one White, was char
ms ed with burning, .or procuring to
re burned. set of farm buildings belor
=, ing to Horace Weston, ESQ.,, of Wiz
inc sor. The evidence was so clear agail
her Gravelin that a suit was commenc
ka and property to the amount of sew
not thousand dollars attached. At the pr
,.n ent term of Windsor county court JUG
~ ment has been rendered against Ora,
Fo- lin for six thousand dollars and cos
of The property was insured in the F.