Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-06
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

seventy-seyen years and married once
who is the mother of twenty seven chill
dren.
Two large barns belonging to Ira
Mears, at East Montpelier, were burned
Sunday night, with forty tons of hay;
incendiary; loss. about two thousand
dollars.
DR.. Theopolis Clark, of Tinmouth is
physically quite vigorous, although he
has reached the advanced age Of 81 |
years. He is the oldest known living
physician in the world.
Patrick McAuliff. of Bellows Falls,
an employer of the Fall Mountain Paper
Company. was instantly killed, on Tues
day the 3lst, having his head crushed |
while unloading logs. He was frty-
five years old, and leaves a large lam
lily.
Fred Bushby, Eugene Carpenter, and
Peter Callagan, who were confined in
Jail at Huntington, knocked down the
turnkey last Monday morning as he
opened the door of their cell, soon gain
ed the street, and have since eluled
capture.
A correspondent of a Rutland paper
says that an observatory has been erect
ed on the highest point of Mount Equi-
nox, by the United States CiUi Service
Company, who are engaged in taking
observations, ETC., from this point. The
United States Coast Survey is more like
ly to be in the observatory business
The monument of Bennington battle
will probably be placed on the site Of
the old Continental store-house in the
Center village, and not on the battle
ground six miles out. The total SUBJ
scriptions amount to thirty-two thousand
five hundred dollars, but nothing will
be done about building for the present.
BUTTER MARKET.-At the st. Adams
butter market. Tuesday, the receipts
were fair, and prices remained about
the same as last week. The bulk of the
butter received was of a poor quality.
We quote common at from ten to fifteen
cents good to choice. sixteen to twenty
cents; selections, twenty-five cents per
pound.
Everything points to a grand reunion
of the veterans at Bennington. The
Centennial Commission are making all
necessary provisions for the convenience
and comfort of the Union soldiers
Tents, fuel and straw will be supplied by
them gratis. Each man should provide
his own blanket. This section of tie
state will be very fully represented.
Early week ago Saturday morning
before the workmen arrived, large per-
ton of the ceiling of the blue marble
quarry at West Rutland. belonging to
7 the Rutland Marble Company, fell in.
The sound caused by the fall was heard
f for miles, and persons in the vicinity
thought an earthquake had visited the
! locality. 1t is estimated that fully 500
tons of rock fell.
Col. Henry S. Hard, of Arlington,
: second in command of the old soldiers
0 reunion centennial forces, and promi-
y nent businessman in Bennington coun,
q ty, left home week ago last Saturday
morning for Troy, N. Y, intending t.
return the same evening. He was last
: seen on the platform of the HoosaC
S Junction railroad station, and no trace
Q of his whereabouts since has been found
# Foul play is feared.
] Sunday last an attempt was made OF
the part of some of the prisoners in the
. Franklin County jail to escape. They
r had dug through the wooded floor, anc
e were removing the masonry underneath
e when discovered by Sheriff Halbert
Edward Tatro, the convicted murdere
!" of Mrs. Butler. Thomas Riley. awaiting
u trial for larceny, Joe Laberdee, await
: ing trial for adultery, and a man nance
e Paro, serving out short sentence, wer
). the persons engaged in it.
: The Rutland Herald says: "Mr. Ross
:. station agent on the railroad in Proc
torsville, informed us. few days ag
% that he saw an army of potato bugs OIL
e their tramp by rail, all going East
" He tried to turn them around on tn
t. track but the little Colorado emigran
r. could not be made TO no West anyhow
and all he could do was to turn the bus
% westward for moment When left +
b himself again the instinct of the ANNA
d as he walked along the rail would turl
h him about again, and eastward onl
"a would the army 60. 1t is supposed tn
= bug is on strike for higher wages AM
80 better food, or, peradventure, wants
it free drink from the Atlantic waves"
A bogus telegram. written on regu
N lar brief, demanding their immediat
le presence in Rutland, to quell imaginar,
d troubles by strikers, and signed by som
- prominent citizen of the place, wa
|" handed to the captain of the Middle
or bury Company, at Middlebury, Saturda
ot evening. His men, with the band
10 were soon at the depot, fully equipped
# and ready to take the train. When
O came, however, the Conductor refused t
take them on board, as he had no order
D. to that effect, and had no accommods
ii ton for them. The company are no,
+. laboring under the impression that the
. are the worst sold militia men in tn
W State.
ir
\ Last week Monday afternoon office
=, Palmer, of Boston, Mass, arrested
IL young man who gave his name as Josep
ne F. Washburn, on his own confession
e. for horse thieving. Washburn approach
IN ed the officer on the street and inquire
= whether it would make any diAcrcnc
- with a thief if he confessed and CAV
es himself up, in regard to his punishment
to The officer told him it was quite prob;
to BILE that it would not 60 so hard wit
q him under such circumstances. III
man then confessed to stealing hors
y and buggy at Winooski Falls, drivin
On to Montpelier, where he sold the team