Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-03-19
State NeaCS.

Hiram Barton got his SD election as
town clerk of Salisbury, week before
last.
In Ludlow, within distance of half
a mile on the main street, are living 81
widows.
There was a Juvenile wedding at
Monkton. recently, the bride being six
teen and the groom seventeen years old
Montpelier has a debt of between
100000 and 100000, and voted a
tax of So 20 on the dollar.
Woodstock voted tax of two humid
red and twenty cents on dollar at the
annual March meeting
1t is again reported that Rev. DIR.
Lord of Montpelier, is in a very critical
condition, and his recovery is considered
doubtful.
Jimmy Blanchard, who created such
an excitement at st. Adams, in the char
acter of Charley Ross, has been arrested
at Milford, N. H., for burglary.
The contest for Montpelier post-office
continues close. There are four, promi-
nent candidates besides the present &C.
cupant. Col. F. V. Randall is supposed
to have the inside track.
Mrs. Rebecca Remington of South
Wallingford, over so years old, fell on
the ice last Monday. breaking her thigh
and receiving other injuries which are
likely to prove fatal.
There is in North Fayston house
which has been completely covered with
snow during the entire winter, the Chin
neys being visible week before last for
the first time since last fall.
James Titus, day laborer at Wal
lingford, fell from window in Batchel-
der & Sons factory, last Tuesday, break
ing both legs and receiving other inju-
ries which are likely to prove fatal.
Fire destroyed the shoe shop of L.
Parmelee, and the harness shop of Geo.
H. Pease, at Waterbury, last Thursday
night. Parmelee's building was insured
for 5000, and Pease's building for $500
There was collision between two
freight trains on the Central Vermont
Railroad at West Randolph, last Tues
day, resulting in considerable damage t
locomotive and 20 cars, though non'
of the employees were injured.
The Burlington Manufacturing Com
pany of Burlington. has been awarded
the contract for furnishing white Bran
don tile and black marble for the floor
in the new state capitol at Lansing, con
tanning about 10000.
The largest spruce tree ever cut il
this vicinity. was drawn on to Grotor
pond by D. P. Hall, few days since
1t had fifteen hundred feet of lumber i
it. How is that for high? That wa
the "boss' tree.
Senator Edmunds is sick with neural
gia. and will soon visit the south for tn
- -. e 20, If his health. His services hav
state and the country viii n"r, @ e =, -
a speedy recovery.
= The Rutland Globe gives currency
the rumor that the Estey organ worl
are to remove from Brattleboro to Ru
. land, on account of the high freights.
also says that the Brandon scale worl
: will probably locate at Rutland.
The author of the graceful and plea
/ ing verses in the March st. Nichola
. entitled "Pansy's Lovers" it seems
o no other than Miss Laura, the min,
2 years-old daughter of Hon. D. G. Den
G son, the Representative in Congress fro
this State.
}. Davis Alexander, 20 years old,
I North Chittenden, while out huntir
4 week before last, had his right har
e torn off by the premature discharge
j his gun, the ball also grazing the sic
of his face and passing through the ri
of his hat.
n Mr.. Aaron Wheeler of Warren, we
/ to his barn, the other evening, with
r kerosene lantern colt kicked the lal
a tern into fragments, the barn was d
stroyed with all its contents. one OK al
g one COW were totally burned, and M
i Wheeler himself was quite badly burne
|. There is better feeling in the ma
is ket, and prices are shade higher f
e strictly choice lots. We quote whit
butter at from sixteen to eighteen cent
Il fall butter at from twenty-five to tive
" ty-six cents-the latter price for ext
# choice-and new butter at twenty-6'
lie cents per pound.
= Our people have reason to be prof.
y of their delegation in the United Stat
n Senate. Messrs. Edmund and Morr
we're both offered Cabinet appointment
70 but declined. The former is charm;
n of the judiciary committee and the Ia
h ter of that on finance, two of the mo
w important committees in the Senate.
/ Mrs. Molloy, Indiana temperance lie
l, turer, addressed 1900 people at Montp
is lier. week ago Sunday evening. Fl
Vi hundred were unable to get standil
room. During the three weeks she b
&c been in the state, $500 have signed h
e. pledge, $50 of them in Montpelier, e.
n bracing druggists, lawyers, saloon-ke
es ers and many hard drinkers.
lie The fendish murderer of Josie Ian
N maid in New Hampshire, is to be aven
u ed and outraged justice indicated,
to the execution of the assassin, LaPas
on the 18th of March, 1878. He W
at sentenced on Thursday of week befc
last at Concord There can be no pi
ne for a wretch whose hands are stained
o. innocent blood, and LaPage will go
g. his death unmourned.
s. The fish commission of the State. wi
y, DIR. Goldsmith at its head, are provi
d. successful with some interesting expe
er ments. Among the rest they have trar
planted the smelt from the salt water
ne the fresh waters of the state without {