Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-11-26

GENERAL.
M MnNITnR NEXT WEEK.

We have already published .forty-eight
papers during the year. and shall print
four more during the month of Decem.
Der, if we omit the one that falls due
December Sd. We want little rest and
conclude to take it Thanksgiving week.
We hope our correspondents will send
all the news in season for our issue Of
December 10th.
BARTON.
Fresh meats. turkies and chickens
can be obtained at the Meat Market for
the next few days.
Remember the poor neighbors who
may not have the wherewith to obtain
Thanksgiving dinner.
1t took three days last week for let
ters mailed at Derby, Monday morning,
reach this post Office.
Henry Belfast has lost two cOsset
lambs. Any information in regard to
them would be thankfully received.
Mr.. Whitney the village cooper, an
nounces that he is prepared to furnish
as good a meat tub as can be made, on
short notice.
s. A Nelson Of Lyndon has purchased
the "Phil" Kimball farm, paying $4,000
for the same. Mr.. Nelson is a thrifty
farmer and good citizen.
Ellis Brothers tell the public in their
new advertisement how they can sell
goods awful low for cash, and still give
their customers little accommodation
on credit.
Miss Blodgett, dress maker and seam
stress, has moved from the r. Devereux
house to an upper tenement in the G. Ii.
Blake house where she will carry on
her business as heretofore.
Autumn fingers and the prevailing
south winds are beating back the ad-
vance Of winter. The travelling has been
rough and muddy and a moderate
amount of snow would be welcome.
Charles P. Jenness, having completed
one of the pleasantest houses in this
village, has just moved into his new
home. Under such favorable circumstan.
ces, there ought to be considerable honey
made in that hive.
Mrs. Peterson, mother of B. F. Peter
son of this village, died very suddenly
one day last week. She was in usual
health up to within few moments of
her death, which was supposed to be
caused by disease of the heart.
Thanksgiving services will be held at
the NJ. + church, Thursday evening. 1t
is expected that Rev. Messrs. Sterling
of Portland, Blake of Derby. Wallace
and Dodge will be present to participate
in the exercises.
The Young Ladies' Aid Society will
give an entertainment consisting Of
tableaux, speaking, singing, etc., at the
Congregational Vestry, Wednesday, eve.
Dec. 9Th. Osyters will be served at only
10 cents dish, and large number o.
fancy articles which have been made
during the past summer will be Offered
for sale. The entertainment will b,
good. Tickets 10 cents.
The South Eastern railway dificultie
are not settled. The Passumpsic ha
fOreclosed its mortgage of $35O.OOO
while the S. E has taken possession Of
and is running the road. The last NOV
reported was the arrest, on Saturda
, night, of all the train hands on Sout
Eastern train that arrived at Newport
The engineer. conductor and other meI
six in all. we're taken to this place, o
, Saturday night, and are here waiting
hearing which is expected to come o
to-day. We understood they were al
rested for trespass, having run thei
! train on to Mr.. Raymond's iron.
The Christian Union, published b
HoratiO @. King, No. 81 Park Plac,
New York. is one of the most valuabl
: religious publications in this countr,
| Edited by Henry Ward Beecher an
y Lyman Abbott, assisted by large corr
: Of writers, among whom are Harri,
r Beecher Stowe, DR.. Vincent, Leonar
: Bacon, Rev. S. H. Lying and others,
a cannot be anything but excellent. Tn
e paper publishes Beecher's sermons an
9 contains great deal of religious matte
b and is worth more than common new
u papers for the other useful reading
;. contains. See what the advertisemel
d says oft.
d BARTON LANDING.
b Cade has Thanksgiving ball.
}. The Thespians hold business NEE
= ing at Cade's hall, next Wednesday ev
IS ming.
D. The fellow who was detected in ki'
A
IL ing the girl on the steps, the other eve
Or ing, had to stand treat He couldr
1t Dodge it.
VI The school In Dist. No. z commenC
:. December 10, W. G. Tlnkham in t
~ higher department ; Miss A. Chesley
: - the primary. s
Sc Four families left this place, last we
H Wright Harlan Darlin0 a