Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-12-17
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

1t Is said that the present season there
have been over SIX hundred cases of
diphtheria in Burlington.
At Richmond, Monday. butter sold
at Is to Is cents for fair to good /; 20 to
% for choice, fresh made; "a to 26 for
October. Skinned and partly skim
med cheese sold at to cents; sage
IL to IL.
A brick dropped from the new build
ing now in the course of erection on the
Allen House site, Rutland, Saturday
morning. and struck Joseph Lajoie. one
of the laborers on the building, on the
head, indicting serious injuries. but
fortunately not fracturing his skull.
Mr.. George H. Osborne, his wife and
child of about ten years. while driving
home from church in Pittsford, Sunday
afternoon, were thown violently from
their carriage, injuring Mr.. Osborne and
his wife considerably. and fracturing
the skull of the boy, whose life is de-
SPARED of.
MIR. John A. Conant, public spirited
farmer of Brandon. offers bounty of
one hundred dollars for the three
best crops of winter wheat. grown
on the area of an acre and under certain
conditions, and the seed sown in the au-
tumn Of 1878; $50 for the first beat,
$50 for the second and $50 for the
third. Judges have been appointed and
several farmers have decided to devote
an acre of their land to competitive
trial.
DEATH OF Rev. DR.. McKEEN.-We
sorrow to learn that Rev. Silas McKeen
d. D.. long and we'll known in Vermont
and Maine, died at his home in Bradford,
VT, ON Monday morning. 10th inst
He was one of the foremost clergyman
of his day in Vermont. during a long
pastorate at Bradford, from which be
retired, at last, only because growing
bodily in6rmities consequent upon age
required it. His memory is precious il
all the churches. His age is stated K
be eighty-seven years.
AS Stephen Farrar and Aaron Rowel
of Berlin, were saving logs in the wood
the other day, with a cross-cut saw, anC
while saving the first cut from tre'
which had been torn up by the roots
the stump sprang back and struck ;
small beech tree, which in turn struck
, Mr.. Farrar, throwing him in the al
some twenty feet. He struck the ground
on his head and shoulders, and it wa
some time before his companion coul,
: tell whether he was dead or not. Lucki
{ ly, however, not even bone was brok
/ en-.
Erwin, son of Charles Crosier, Q
Stamford, met with terrible and fata
accident while at work in the wood
Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 4th. He ha
7. gone to piece of woodland near by fo
t the purpose of drawing load of log,
and as he did not return at supper-tim
his brother-in-law and friend starte
forth to meet him, which they did afte
: short search. He was lying on tn
t ground, dead, a heavy log resting o
a his chest, literally crushing him int
ground. 1t is supposed that he fel
and the log rolled upon him. The hor
o es were standing close by, wholly unir
o jured. The deceased was about twenty
d two years of age. and has been Marie
n but few months.
ia A disastrous fire occurred in Bethe
! beginning at midnight (Monday) III
=. fire started in the White River houl
u owned by J. J. Wilson. from which
!. spread north to a building owned by
te K. Williams. occupied by DR.. Chas
- dentist, and l. w. Welsh furnitu
dealer and south to L. Stearns' Liver
70 stable and Graham's new block in whic
re I. A. Chadwick, harness maker, G. |
Skinner, jeweller, the post Office. MI
20 E. NJ. Tarbell, milliner, and two famili
= in the chambers. Then to the store al
= dwelling house of A. j. Davis occupi,
L on the first floor by G.. E. Graham
st the second floor by A. L. Stearns as
III dwelling. and Hunton & Stickney al
ne Gilman & Williams for law offices. II
:. engines from Mortified and Randoll
" were sent for, and by their aid the flu
~ Their spread of the fire was stoppe
r. Total less nearly fifty thousand dollar.