Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-01-29
State NeaCS.

George W. Marston has been appoint
ed postmaster at Norton Mills.
The whole number of business failures
reported in Vermont in 1876, were 70.
The Brattleboro insane asylum has re-
ceived large number of patients of late.
The Board of Agriculture meets at
Lunenburgh, on the 30th and 3lst of
January.
Eighty-one inches of snow have fallen
in Woodstock up to January lS-nearly
seven feet.
Mr.. Henry f. Barnes, an old and re-
spected citizen of Stowe, died very sud-
denly, of apoplexy, on the 10th instant.
The house of G.. W. and V. W. Bag
ley of Bradford, was burned week ago
last Thursday. Loss about 50, 300; in
surance 81 800.
The death of Mr.. P. D. Ballou, for
merly of Burlington, was caused by be-
ing accidentally precipitated down
mining shaft in the Black Hills country.
Rev. DR.. w. H. Lord of Bethany
church, Montpelier, is seriously i'll, of
Inflammation of the kidneys and blad-
der, making it necessary to keep him
under the influence of chloroform por-
ton of the time.
The Central Vermont railroad have
decided to lay the entire line with steel
rails. next spring, and five thousand
tons have been ordered. This will rem
der the road as comfortable and safe as
any road can be-
The new bridge to replace the iron
structure that fell at Ashtabula, Ohio,
attended with fearful loss of life, is to
be of wood with Howe truss, the same
pattern as that on the Gulf bridge on
the Woodstock Railroad.
TIE St. Adams butter market, last
Tuesday, was quiet, with light receipts.
Winter made butter sold at from twenty
to twenty-five cents per pound, and fall
butter at thirty-twO cents, with higher
price paid for choice selections.
The diphtheria has been raging fear
fully in Orange. In school district No..
there are about twenty cases, two of
which have proved fatal. and the school
has been broken up. Great apprehen-
sions are entertained that the worst is
not yet.
A remarkable phenomenon has ap.
peared in the family of MIR. Nelson New.
comb of Putney. A daughter about ter
years of age occasionally falls into 8
sits in chair It wi win begin to move nov,
across the floor with great force, otter
throwing her out.
The Bennington Battle Monument As
ISOLATION, finding that they will have t.
lay out plan for a weeks celebration
have decided to create state centennial
commission, which will be composed o
prominent citizens Of the state. and vii
have exclusive charge of the states cen
tennial in August next.
Gravlin, the Weathersield murderer
= who attempted to commit suicide, still
lives, and on the whole is improving
but very penitent and anxious to live
He says he has no recollection of at
tempting suicide. 1t seems that he Gu
his throat with dinner knife. which h
retained and sharpened for the purpose
/ and which was found covered with blood
Y secreted in his bed.
9 A week ago last Sunday evening,
, runaway horse attached to a sleigh ra
into the yard of J. L. johnson of Che
e ter In the sleigh, beneath the robe
n was found child some three years oil
;. belonging to Mr. Bean from LUDLOW
~ who, together with his wife, had bee
tipped out some six miles from the plaC
a where the horse came to a stop. III
child was uninjured.
L A dispatch from Omaha, Nebrask
e announces the death of Hon. Phineas ]
y Ballou, formerly resident OF Burlin
e ton, which occurred at Deadwood in Il
4 Black Hills, Jan. 10th. Mr.. Ballou w
native of Hinesburgh, and was enga
II ed in business in Burlington for son
Of years. He bad served the city as aide
e man, mayor, chief engineer of the Fl
4 department, and as representative in Il
- legislature in 1879. His age was fit
= three, and he leaves wife and thr
III sons.
3 FIRE IN EDEN-On Saturday. ia
OF Goth, John d. Flanders set fire to ba
r. belonging to Norman S. Eaton of EIDE
nj which caused the destruction of the ba
. and other buildings, but not the houi
" Eaton discovered the barn door open a
re went out to shut 1t, when Flanders m
Is him and told him to get his cattle 0
r. of the barn, as he had set it on fl
! Flanders, at the same time, drew ma
;, revolver, attempting to shoot Eaton, b
It's he escaped to the house unframed. T
neighbors were rallied, and the hou
M was saved by tearing down the shet
ie. Flanders escaped, but was afterwar
~ found, arrested and lodged in Jail.
- is insane. There was partial ins'
10 ance in the Vt. Mutual
OF Another fatal railroad accident occ,
ok red at the Junction, last Tuesday mo-
rk ing, whereby Michael Kinsloe of Beth
ed was killed. He was acting as frem
of on No. 20 freight, going north, VIII
:" passes the Junction at about twel
me minutes past two o'clock a. m. WI
lrp just beyond the Jewett bridge the tri
tho started up suddenly, the tender bel
nd severed from the engine, and Kins
y was thrown on the track between
nc tender and engine. The tender pas
sly over him, mangling him SO terribly Il
he lived only half an hour. His be
avs was taken to Mr.. Chase's, on the Jew
- farm, and thence sent to his home
'' Bethel in the afternoon. The decea
lno was twenty years old, had formerly b,
lex section boss at Sharon, and was on
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