Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-07-30
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

the reform school.
They have ninety year-old carpcn-
ter in Cambridge, who passes away time
In working on saw-mills, etc.
A Vershire man has forty-fve acres
of potatoes planted in one piece, and has
used three hundred dollars worth of
phosphates on the same.
James Richards, who was arrested on
the charge of being the Plainfeld in
cendiary, has been committed to jail in
default of $4,000 bonds.
Lieutenant Colonel George W. Hindes,
insurance agent at Burlington, has turn
ed up a defaulter to his companies to
the tune of about three thousand dol
arS.
Edward Gilmore, brakeman on the
road from st. Johns to st. Adams, was
run over and killed on Sunday evening,
by freight train. He was twenty
FIVE years old, and unmarried.
Colonel F. V. Randall will command
the brigade, at Bennington composed of
veterans from Washington, Orange,
Orleans, Caledonia and Essex counties.
An excellent selection.
The instruments for the Island Pond
Brass Band have arrived. They were
purchased of Qulmby Bros, Boston, and
prove to be frst-class instruments in
every particular. The leader of the
Band is Mr.. L. F. Bigelow.
Friday night last the Catholic Church
at East Dorset was entered by some un-
known person, and several valuable ar
ticles of furniture stolen. and the build
ing disfgured. The chalice was stolen,
the tabernacle broken, and the sacra-
ment thrown out.
The house and barn on what is known
as the byron Butterfeld" place, situa-
ted about two miles southwest of Lud-
low village, were burned about IL
o'clock Tuesday of last week. The
house was unoccupied, and there seemed
no way to account for the origin of the
fire other than by carelessness or de-
sign.
Geo. H. Fitzgerald and Joseph Grim
ball have formed partnership, for
the purpose of manufacturing lumber,
under the name and firm of Fitzgerald
& Grimball. They have frame nearly
completed for saw mill, 36x00 feet,
two stories high, to be erected upon the
old mill right that was burned down
last winter.
The Chicago Adunce. in noting the
fact that both Dartmouth and Hamilton
Colleges have this year conferred the
titular d. d. upon President Buckham,
adds: "The only thing remarkable
about it is either of them would have
honored its discernment of singular ex-
eellence if it had performed its CON-
plimentary act somewhat sooner
BUTTER MARKEs.-At the st Albans
butter market, Tuesday, the attendance
was small, receipts light, and trade at q
strong two cents advance for the best
grades. Common butter was dull and
unchanged. We quote common at from
ten to twelve cents; good to choice, fif
teen to twenty cents selections, twenty
two cents per pound, with occasionally
a lot at higher price.
Among the creditors of Judge Potter
of Whitehall, N. Y, are the Caledoni;
National Bank, of Danville, one thou
sand one hundred and sixty-two dollars
the Merchants, of st. Johnsbury, fou
thousand three hundred and eighty-si1
dollars; the Lamoille, of Hydepark
three thousand and ninety-one dollars
and William Hamilton, of Wolcott, tw,
Ho-,..s I'd ffsyzQna dQllarsu, u~s u.
over by lead of hay, last week Wed
nesday. and killed. His fathers horse
had been felt few minutes, and startet
down the hill. Mr.. Flagg started il
pursuit, captured and was tripped b
them, and thrown under the wheels
He lived in great agony about an hour
and then expired. He was an exemp
larry young man, and beloved by all VIII
knew him. He was 19 years old.
! Saturday last as Mrs. Corliss, wido'
of the late George Corliss, of Bradford
was out riding at Newbury, her hors
took fright at baby vehicle, and sh
was thrown from her carriage. ST
was at once taken to the Spring Hous
t where her daughter, Mrs. R. nj. Chan
E berlain, is stopping and all possib
! done for her. but it is feared that 81
will be unable to recover from her il
juries, on Monday her death being m
: mentarily expected. Mrs. Corliss
o seventy-six years old.
: The cost Of the Vermont division
the Portland and Ogdensburg railro;
= and equipments is four millions of dc
lars, and its bonded debt is about TIVE
& ty-three thousand dollars per mile. T.
: entire length of the road from Swant'
# to Lunenburg is one hundred and TIVE
# ty miles. Though the road runs acre
. the state famous for its ranges of mou
tains running north and south, it GO
81 along the streams in such a manner
le to avoid steep grades. The highe
grade going east is sixty-fve feet, a
10 vest about seventy-fve feet. The NJ
e route is fifty miles shorter from t
q Vest to the seaborad than any 9th
Ok -out, and consequently will compete
or .he through freight.
st The three sons of Solomon Steal
he are now visiting and forming acquail
ances at their fathers in Hyde Pa
Mr.. Stearns had not until last we
he L L A -
or he was eight years of age, at viii
a time his wife died and he was separat
= from his child. He was married aga
49, and soon after his second wife di
us leaving son; again he married, a
ed again was he called to mourn the de;
'or Of his third wife, leaving him with
70. third son, who has remained at hon
= he has never before seen his ell
n0 brother and second brother but on