Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-07-09
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


Jackson Bancroft, a Barre farmer,
was instantly killed, Wednesday, 9th |
by falling tree in his woods.
The Burlington & Lamoille railroad
has been completed from Cambridge to
Burlington. and the first train was run
over it Monday morning.
Brattleboro saloon and hotel keepers
have been notified by sixty citizens, that
they must stop selling liquors, or the law
will be rigidly enforced.
At the st. Adams butter market,
Tuesday. prices ranged at from fifteen
to twenty cents per pound for fair to
good. There was a large attendance.
Hon. N. I. Sprague. of Brandon, has
given the military company of that
place the means to equip them hand
sowely, and the company has changed
its name from the Warner Guards to the
Sprague Guards.
The Middlebury Register says: -Four
teen candidates for admission to the
Freshman class of Middlebury College
have been admitted, and one was re-
jected. Several more are expected at
the opening of the fall term"
A letter from one tramp to another
was picked up in Fairhaven, the other
day, which closed as follows: gu won t
ketch me in this stat agin my advise to
u IL tn 60 bak to york stat ceep clere of
vermont fur it IL not good hum for a
sensativ tramp"
road has been completed from Cam.
bridge to Burlington, and the first train
run over it Monday morning. Consid-
cradle enthusiasm was manifested along
the line of the route, and the road will
prove great advantage to those living
in the country which it opens up.
Judge Joseph Potter, of Whitehall, Of
the Fourth Judicial Circuit of New York,
has been adjudged bankrupt upon his
own petition. 1t is said that invest
ments in the Hone Company, at VOL
colt, and similar injudicious investments
in Vermont have had considerable to do
with the Judges embarrassment.
John Brady, of Springfield. who works
at the Vermont Novelty Company works,
had family row week ago last Sun.
day. At an early hour in the morning
he got ready to 60 to mass, but before
going got a stick of wood and dubbed
and kicked his wife so badly that DR..
Sawyer had to be called in the evening
| Miss Hemenway of Burlington. author
of the Historical Gazetteer of Vermont
writes to friend in Brattleboro that
she has resumed the publication of the
fourth volume of her work, which EN-.
braces Windham county, and not only
tintends but has good reason to expect tc
be able soon to complete the entire work
which she began Is years ago.
Mr.. Braman of Washington recently
lost cow in a singular manner. She
was out to pasture, and in going dowr
hill attempted to pass between two
small trees that stood within about fif
teen inches of each other. She passed
so far that her hips struck against the
trees, and in that position was hello
fast. She was found dead hanging BY
her hips.
Tuesday of last week, as Dennis Shaw
of Bethel, was at work on a bridge, one
of the stringers fell upon him, forcing
him down into the water and holding
him there some little time before relic
came. When taken out it was found
that his shoulder was dislocated, one o
his lungs ruptured, and that he had re
ceived internal injuries about tn,
kidneys.
Mr.. Green B. Stratton of Bennington
has in his possession a brass cow-bell
bearing the name of the British Genera
Burgoyne and the date .'1775" imprint
ed thereon. Mr.. Stratton's grandfathe
participated in the battle of Bennington
and this relic, which was worn by Gov
attached to Burgoyne's army, was NJ
doubt picked up by him as it has beef
in the possession of the Stratton famil,
, for a century.
While a young man named Pete
Lapointe was driving in Williston, tn,
horse became unmanageable and took hi
own course at high rate of speed to
stump fence, and stopping suddenl,
threw the young man with great violenc
upon a sharp projecting root of one o
the stumps The root made its wa,
, into his body breaking two ribs and, i
: is believed, penetrating the lung. H
J lies in very critical condition.
Recently. Carrie Lawrence, a gil
: slightly shattered, went out near til
sugar woods on the farm of her brother
in Hydepark. to pick berries. Bein
: gone longer than was expected scare
5 was made for her, and she was found i
$ the field unconscious. Upon being re
3 stored. she said man seized her fror
2 behind, pulled her over backwards an
: turned from vial some kind of liqui
D into her mouth and she became uncou
scious. Her story is not believed b
f the neighbors.