Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-11-05

Passumpsic folks will put on mixed
train this week.
The railroad troubles still agitate this
place, and do great injury to its business.
About mile of track was torn up here
last Tuesday by Raymond and his raiders.
WESTMORE.
H. Berwick has put up house frame.
o. Fogg has bought the place lately
occupied by ]. Ellis.
J. Orne and George Robinson have
contracted to chop and draw 200 cords
of wood from the south end of the lake
to West Burke, for 1926 per cord.
M. d. Scott makes pretty good re-
cord on his farm. He purchased it in
1871 /; since that time he has moved his
house some distance, built large addi-
ton to it, brought running water to the
building, erected large barn and made
many other improvements. He has gone
on the principle of contraction on the
amount of land mown and titled, but
has thereby so much improved his lands
that he produces ten tons of hay year
more than formerly. This year he rails
ed 100 bushels of wheat, 100 bushels of
oats, 200 bushels of barley, 400 bushels
of potatoes on one acre of land, thirty
FIVE tons of hay and other things "too
numerous to mention. :" The land on the
west side of the lake is excellent, and
always shows good returns for labor
done on it.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
P. P. Porter of West Burke, has late
ly shipped large quantity of maple su-
gar west.
G. H. Dwinell and o. w. circuit Of
st. JOhnsbury, are manufacturing a large
number of French bedsteads for the Bos-
ton market.
The meetings of Morehouse and San
key at St. Johnsbury are very interest.
ing and largely attended. They will
continue until Friday night of this week
The meetings are all held at the South
church, and open at IL m. 8 and IL
o'clock p. m. Special pains will be tax
en- to accommodate those from out Of
town.
There is great complaint along the
line of the P. & o. R. r. because tn,
company has not paid its employees, anC
It's bills for wood and other materials
1t is probable that these bills will b,
met, sooner or later, for no corporation
can expect to be respected, that fails t.
pay the honest laborers it employs.
At o'clock Saturday night, Octobe
9th, the dry house at A. B. Stoddard'
starch factory, in Newark, took fire iron
the stove and was consumed. with abou
three tons of starch. Part of the starcl
made this season had been removed
Insured. This mill was burned yea
: before last and was rebuilt last season.
The Vermont branch of the Woman
! Board of Missions held its fifth annua
meeting at st. Johnsbury on Wednesda
with large attendance of ladies fror
different parts of the State. Addresse
were made by Mrs. Allen Hazen an
9 Mrs. Snow, returned missionaries. Tn
branch consists of 159 auxiliaries an
nilsson circles, and the receipts of tn
) year are over $4,000, being $500
excess of last year.
On Saturday last Lyman Hudson wa
in the Ferdinand forest, in Newark, I
examine traps he had set for small gam
and encountered two years old bea
By the tracks in the vicinity he kne
y several bears had passed that way b.
= shortly before, and for aught he kneV
q we're within sight of him. One he sa
10 setting on a log and discharged his rif
at him. The bear ran hundred rot
and crawled under large stone, but d
- entirely out of sight. Hudson sent
u another discharge when the bear can
out to fight and Immediately withdre
a. again, occasionally swapping out pa
Id to show fight. Hudson kept a nervo
ID lookout for the other bears while he D
as in new charge but they failed to a
IL pear when he aimed under the rock aga
n. and fired, and the bear came out fl
lg form and Hudson hit him on the he
s. with an AK. The bear then put DO
IN paws up to his ears and cried like
at child but offered no further resistant
and submitted gracefully to have
throat cut.-UniOn.
:, SUIoIDE.-Miss Emily M. Powers,
/. st. JOhnsbury, aged Is years, daught
of ]. W. and A. G. Powers, living
Portland street, committed suicide |;
Monday night, by drowning in t
LII Passumpsic river, just below the brid
Vol Miss Powers was attending school
~ the academy, and had been at sch
"a, ' during the day, but had complained
'"o not feeling we'll, but exhibited no sig
~ that caused suspicion at her home
:" the act she committed. About hs
Wy past six she put on her shawl and
Wy marked that she was going over to
e'' CrOsby's, neighbor who had daugh
VIC with whom she was in the habit of of,