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

Lamoille county is being ravaged by
spelling matches.
A severe gale visited East Dorset the
other night, unroo6ng the marble mill of
d. L. Kent & Co. The hay barns of
Luther Parker were also blown down.
Mrs. Epson, telegraph operator at
the depot in Burlington, has been award
ed $1,000 damages for injuries she re-
ceived for detective sidewalk.
Diphtheria is raging severely in Barre
and Orange. During the past year
thirty eight persons died of various dis
eases in Barre.
The coolest inhabitant" says no one
knew so great depth of snow so early
in winter as now. In undisturbed places
it lies Ii feet, good measure.
wnG6 gRHep th9f y eaaGRf@fta suede G3gdf still
lives and on the whole is improving, but
very penitent and anxious live, and says
he has no recollection of attempting
suicide.
Israel Haynes, a farmer in Whining
ton, who was supposed to have been one
of the lost at Ashtabula, turns up all
right in Minnesota, have passed over
the wrecked bridge short time before
the disaster.
The Rutland Herald says Fewer
drunken men are seen on the street
since tho nuisance act was passed then
for many years before. Although liq-
uor is sold, the sellers are particular
about the standing of their customers.
A. G. West, the stage driver and
mail carrier between Montpelier and
Morrisville, who has been accused of
theft and forgery, has settled with all
the injured parties, paying them to
their full satisfaction, and is again on
the road
BUTTER MARKET.-The St. Adams
butter market, Tuesday, was very dull,
with small attendance and light re-
ceipts. We quote winter butter from
twenty to twenty-five cents per pound.
Small lots of fall butter coming forward
and held at high fgures-about thirty
two cents.
The case of Carlos M. Gilmon of Bos-
ton against the town of Strafford, which
has been on trial the past week in the
Caledonia County Court, was concluded
Saturday night, Judge Poland making
the closing argument for plaintiff. The
jury returned verdict for plaintiff
damages, $4,000, Plaintiff was Grip.
pied for life by reason of detective
highway in Strafford.
The Touring mill of G. F. Orvill
Son, situated at West Enosburgh, wa;
burned Sunday morning, January IA
together with a carriage shop and sever.
al dwelling houses. Loss to Orvill 6
Son, six thousand dollars. No insurance
The fire originated iii a carriage shol
and was discovered at about one o'clock
a. m. This seriously cripples the bust
ness interest of the village.
Through the enterprise and liberallt,
of the friends of the Vermont Methods
Seminary, we are able to announce tina
on Monday, Jan. %, (to-day) first elias
commercial college will be opened il
that institution, with a full board o
competent instructors. There are N
charges except for incidentals-such a
blank forms, ink, warming rooms, etc,
which will not exceed two dollars pc
term. We have not space or time t
give further information. but would re
fer all those desiring 1t, to enquire of
B. Southworth, Montpelier.
The one hundreth anniversary of tn
declaration of the independence of Vel
mont was celebrated at Westminster o
: Tuesday night, near the site of the oil
court houre, where the declaration wa
signed Hon. Henry Clark, of Rutland
was the speaker of the occasion, an
,, made a fine address, occupying an hou
! in delivery. Many facts in connectio
with the early history of Vermont wei
j brought forward by his address. A lie
ter was read from Gov. Fairbanks Sc,
rotary, regreting the inability of tt
Governor to be present; also from Hol
/ E. P Walton, President of the Horticu
n tural Society of Vermont. A numb'
of other speakers made short addresse
and the meeting closed. The churC
, was finely decorated with flowers an
|. evergreens. Many notices of state ar
y country were finely arranged.