Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-03-26
State NeaCS.

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The town of Cayendish helped 243
tramps last year.
Town superintendent, by a late
change in the law. do not meet until the
first Tuesday in April.
Luther o. Greene has been appointed
postmaster at Woodstock, and John W.
Clark reappointed at Montpelier.
jeremiah Carr of Worcester, fell from
his sleigh, on We'd. Mar. Ia. in an APP
oplectic fit, from the effects of which he
never recovered.
Tatro, the Highgate murderer, will be
tried at the coming April term of the
Franklin county court He is still con-
fined in St. Adams Jail
Rev. D. Dorchester of the Methodist
church at Springfield, has decided to re-
main with the parish another year, and
his salary has been raised FIVE hundred
dollars.
Josiah Abbott of Chester, while chang
ing cars at Albany, N. Y, had his pock-
ct book, containing check of $1,000
and 500 in money picked from his
pocket.
Mr. George P. Baldwin died week
ago last Friday, at Bradford, after an
illness of two days. at the age of 10 He
was for long time judge of the county
court.
The estimated cost of the new water
works at Burlington is $4,000 The
total expenses of the present system are
Sl7,S94 per year, and the receipts about
$4,000.
The Rutland County Bar, at meet
ing held week ago last Saturday, unan-
imously voted to recommend to Governor
Fairbanks the appointment Of Hon. W.
c. Dunton to the expected vacancy on
the Supreme Court bench.
The st. Adams butter market, Tues
day, was quiet. Receipts increasing,
buyers held off. We quote straight fall
diaries at from eighteen to twenty-three
cents, selections at twenty cents, and
new butter at from twenty to twenty-five
cents per pound.
Mrs. Cutting, who resides at Straford
and has the masculine habit of smoking,
put her pipe in her pocket when going
out to visit neighbor, the other day,
from which her clothes took fire and she
received injuries which are likely to
prove fatal.
Three young ladies took the veil at Rut-
land. last Monday, the first time that
ceremony has ever been performed in the
oTare' iDishap De Goesbriand conducted
the services, and over 5000 persons, the
largest audience ever gathered in build
ing at Rutland, witnessed the ceremonies.
One of the Brattleboro congregations
was disturbed, the other Sunday, during
the momeutary stiffness following the
opening prayer. by voice from the ad-
joining dwelling, exclaiming: "Mary
where's the nails 2" Soon the answer
came, 'In the coffee pot, you fool!
Patience Bemis of Westminster West
who will be seventy EIGHT years of ag'
next May, during the past year ha'
!, -II--sS-~l -.--1 ! - 6na-abedauilt containing
9420 pieces. The quilt is perfect in al
particulars. 1t is very evident to al
that the name of Patience" is an ap
propriate one for her.
The MANILA mill of John Robertson
& Son of Putney, has just started u
again, full blast, after being idle TO
several months, on account of the waite
famine which, in so many towns il
) Southern Vermont and New Hampshire
has added its hindrance to general de
preston of business.
|, E. R. Wolcott of Shoreham, caught
deer on the ice of Lake Champlain, tn
7 other day. The animal had been driver
S upon the ice from the opposite shore
and slipping, it was unable to regain il
footing, whereupon Mr.. Wolcott, VIII
happened to be passing, succeeded in ty
Q ing it and carried it home.
{ The little daughter of Ira A. Smit
e of East Berkshire, while sliding dow
b hill, some time ago. was met by boy
q carrying board. which struck her i
the face and seriously injured he
} About twenty small pieces of board hav
It already been taken from the WOUND
e which refuses to heal.
:. There are 1900 Vermonters in th
e city of Worcester, Mass. They ere foun
l, engaged in the various professions, /:
the head of large manufacturing estal
y lishments, merchants. mechanics and a
/ tisans. Each contributing his or h,
d full share to the industries of that bus
Il city. Every county In Vermont is We
represented.
On Friday evening, the 18th inst, Il
quiet village of Waitsfeld was arouse
by the cry of fire, and the dwellir
3 house of Dea. Huzzial Gleason was foun
re to be in flames. 1t had got under tt
E. much Roadway to be quenched. but mo-
II of the household goods in the lower pa
!: of the house we're saved, and also Il
u doors and windows. The fire originate
8, in the chamber, from stove pipe.
10 young man in Jamaica. the l5t
s. was detected in having forged two not
II at the bank. was arrested in Brattlebor
,e arraigned and indictment found by Il
n grand jury, and committed to Jail wit
: in forty light hours from the time Il
); forgery was committed. AS the count
lie court is in session he will be tried
Id once, and within two weeks may
8. boarding at the State institution
:. Windsor. His name is Oscar Gleaso
. and he has been agent for sewing m
ne chimes there for some time past.
- The bottom fell out of part of Il
nt race course on the Connecticut river,
to Brattleboro, the other day. A man w
is driving over the track with some horse
70 when the horse which he was driviI
= stepped through the ice, and he bare
Is saved his team and the horses he W