Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-02-05
State NeaUs.


old, fatally injured last Friday night,
by being run over by an ox-team.
At South Hero, recently, Samuel
Turner, aged seventy, was married to
Elizabeth Como, aged seventy-seven.
Miss Whitney, of Tunbridge, has re-
covered $876, in damages, from that
town. for injuries received from a defec-
tive highway.
A Burlington man finds that the snow
fall in December amounted to % inches
and % inches in the first half of January,
total of 48 inches.
Rev. S. H. Robinson, Congregational,
has closed his engagement at Woodbury.,
and Rev. T. w. Olmstead, has resigned
his acting pastorate at Townshend.
The Methodist church, Fairhaven,
VT, was burned Sunday. The fire was
caused by defective furnace Gas usually.
The loss is $4,000, and the insurance
$4,000.
The amount of lumber on hand in the
Burlington market, on January lst, is
reported at SO, 100000 feet. with prices
f, from one to three dollars lower than last
spring.
The death warrant for the execution
of John 2. Phair will be issued at the
present term of Rutland County Supreme
Court. The execution will take place
at Windsor, on the 9th day of April
next.
At meeting of the trustees of Dart
mouth College, held in Concord Tuesday
Rev. Samuel G. Bartlett, of Chicago
was elected President of the college.
Resolutions complimentary to the re-
firing President were passed.
Mr.. J. L Davis of Easton, Penn,
has recently come into possession of the
old furnace at Forestdale and proposes
to resume the manufacture of iron and
steel in Brandon. 1t is understood that
car wheels will be the principal manu-
Daniel Perham of Athens has an ex-
tremely profitable sheep. 1t is nine
years only has brought him twenty
lambs, fifteen of which he sold for $40
70, the other five lambs died. The
wool from this sheep was worked into
gloves and mittens bringing 1925
Who can show better returns from Sc
small flock?
A Woodstock lady the other day took
her little one to gallery for its picture
and while the artist was busy she was
fixing up the child by wetting its fact
and hair with what she supposed wa
clear water, but what was solution Of
nitrate of silver. After exposure to thu
air a short time. the appearance of tn,
child can better be imagined than de
scribed.
A young man of Pittsfeld CAREFUL,
, blanketed his horse, the other night, an,
: left it for a few moments, when, hearin,
/ a commotion, he went out to see wha
5 was the matter, and discovered that tn
, blanket had been partly burned off, tn
: shafts of the sleigh scorched, and
large P"seh of the hair burned off tn
: horse. He had heio hia lighted ciga
in his hand while putting on the DlasaL
ct.
A well informed Republican of Rich
: mond, Mr.. Edmunds' native town, write
r us: "If the bill should result in til
Selection of Tilden, as | believe it vii
: it will kill Edmunds as dead as Juliu
? Caesar. On the other hand, if it elect
Hayes he will rank with the first states
: men the nation has ever had. | hay
? yet to find single Republican who
in favor of the course he has TAKEN
Free Press.
The sleeping car on the Montrc;
night express went over a bank la
week Wednesday morning, near Ea
al Dorset. The car contained six passel
gers, none of whom were injured. III
porter of the car was in the car burne
at South Wallingford last winter, an
in the recent Pittsford accident. B
j. sides these experiences he was porter
the car in whicL Tilton is said to ha7
" made his mistake"
Miss Sarah S. Mann, daughter of IL
- late Isaac S. and Martha Mann, forme
~ ly of Plain6eld, was one of the victim
of the late horrible railroad disaster
re Ashtabula, Ohio. She had been livir
IS, in Cleveland, Ohio, and went to Bosto
d. Mass, to visit friends, and while on h
ly way home she met the sad fate whi
be awaited her. A bunch of keys, belon
w ing to her, was all that was found
tell the tale. Her a e was twenty-eig
s. years, three months and fourteen days
60 Loyal c. Smith, E. B. Stafford, Jol
d S. Ware and Cyrus H. Bates were ca
held in twenty thousand dollars,
ly Boston, Thursday of last week, to a
ne swer to the charge of swindling nu
re Der of persons in Vermont, of who
. they purchased about forty thousa
es, dollars worth of hay and produce, a
in shipped by rail to Lowell. Meantil
he the property was brought by them
Ter Boston, and sold to the purchasers.
alleged, they failing to make any
no turns, and allowing drafts, made
as Lowell, to go to protest. Ware was
,cv riginally resident of Washingt
~ county.
An explosion took place at the Ike
an sene oil works of B. &. f. Jenny,
inc Friday evening, and was heard for mi
sIU around. The main building was co