Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-05-07
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

George Stewards feur-year-old child
fell into we'll at Dorset, recently, and
was drowned.
About 800 tramps have been enter
tanned on the Montpelier poor farm,
since the 18th of April.
Rev. j. A. Bates, formerly of Lowell,
Mass, accepts call to the Congrega-
tional church in Wolcott.
Charles A. Sargent of Thetford. made
from 800 trees 2050 pounds of maple
, sugar-l400 pounds IN one week.
Mr.. A. E. Perkins of Pomfret. has Sc
leeted a carload of choice Vermont
sheep, which he will soon deliver in
Texas
The Grand Isle Episcopalians have
organized society with the Rev Chas.
Fay, for several years past resident of
that town, as rector.
Mr.. B. P. Cheney of Boston. is to
erect new monument soon to ex-Gov.
Charles Paine in Elmwood cemetery at
| Mortified, at cost of $1,000.
The Estey organ factory at Brattle-
boro, are now making 700 organs per
month. and have recently received large
orders from Australia and So. America.
A lad named Hubbard, living with
Isaiah Pepper of North Orwell, recently
fell from a horse and fractured one an
kle so badly that the leg had to be ana
putated
Rev. P. B. Fisk. pastor of the Congre-
gational church at Springfield. is hold
ing series of open air meetings at
Weathersfeld Bow, the Episcopal socie-
ty having refused to open their church
edi6ce to him, and lawsuit is in view.
A Castleton man has been looking
over the records and finds that IL per-
sons have been killed by cars and on the
rail road track in that town since the ad-
vent of railroads. Nine of these were
intoxicated Some were deaf and few
were children.
Arch. Dickey of Orange. was fatally
injured by circular saw at Bradford,
last Wednesday. Some part of the ma
chinery under the saw came out of place.
After arranging it he attempted to get
up. but his head was caught by the saw
and split nearly in two.
week ago last Thursday, Frank
Bowman, at work in the saw mill Of
, Huntington s. Weber of West Roches.
ter, was caught in the folds of a belt
| which broke. and one leg was broker
, three times-at the knee, both bones il
: the calf and both just above the ankle.
A bear recently visited Bristol and
killed four sheep for Robert Young. Ev
cry one IN Bristol. Lincoln and Starks
5 boro that has a rifle, and great many
more, went after poor Bruin, but he es
capped and during the night came back
and ate the remains of the sheep.
At the st. Adams butter market, las
Tuesday, the attendance was good, witt
J better feeling and frmer prices. w
h quote good at from fifteen to eighteel
e cents. choice at from nineteen TO twent,
!. cents, and selections at twenty-one cents
!, with few well-known fancy dairies sell
ing at a shade higher rates.
, The druggists of Middlebury hav
pledged themselves to the ladies of th
y Women's Temperance Union. that the
d will not sell, furnish or give away an
/. Intoxicating liquor, wine or malt liquor
d except upon the prescription of physi
= clan in good and regular standing-an
= in no case will they sell liquor clear.
!. A man in TOpsham by the name c
. Brown has novel team which he use
T. as horses and oxen. He has a yoke {
Or steers, one of which he fastens to bug
,r gy and drives him as you would hors,
a He claims that he has driven them froI
his house, in bad travelling, to Grotor
- distance of seven miles, in less tina
y an hour.
80 The wrestling match between jaime
fe Owens of Fairfield, and Jacob H. MAJ
ID tin of Yysilanti, Mich, set for the ever
g ing of May 26. will come off in Ne
;, York, as no suitable place could be 8,
~ cured for the affair in Boston. III
~ match is for $500 side, and hall MOI
ur ey, and the championship of the worlC
A representative of Martin met Over
at the Weldon House, St. Adams, ii
Dist inst. when the articles of agre
II ment were signed.
- VIM. A. Airing, on whose testimor
% Jesse H. Lewis was recently convicts
&c of the murder of Albert W. Deming, b;
We made full confession that the stol
in was pure fabrication devised by Il
u detectives who frightened him into test
: flying against Lewis, saying. if he d
re- not Lewis would turn States eviden
ne against him. 1t is now said by acquain
he ances of the deceased that he was su
n. ject to fits. and thought this was the re
90 cause of his death. So say the papers
mr. The sequel to one of the most brut
,so and horrible murders in the annals
~ crime in Vermont-that of Mrs. Ali
So Butler at Highgate, on June I'd last, al
Ill confessed by Edward Tatro-has prac,
re. cally ended after six days trial by t
Of jury bringing in verdict, after o
hours deliberation, of murder in Il
'4' first degree against the respondent. II
'u- sentence of the court was not pronoun
or ed, as exceptions were fled by the pr
oner's counsel as to the admissibility
mo- certain evidence
icb The house of Patrick Lotus i'll RI
!. land, was burned week ago yesterd;
morning. and the occupants, Mr.. al
ra- Mrs. Lotus and three boys, barely {
a capped with their lives. Mr.. Lotus pas
lte ed one boy out of window, and in ;
on. tempting to escape with another in
:: arms fell headlong down the cellar stat
ii'. He managed to climb up and esca
OF with his child through window. I
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