Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-02-12

instructor.
Geo. G. May is about removing his
milk-pan business from Patton to this
place. Butler & Hill until recently in
the employ of Martin & Seaver are
about starting a shop here for the man
ufacture of Hyde's patent milk pan.
AS Mr.. Boden of this town was
driving along the new road in Jay near
Butts mills, his team in some way get
ting to near the bank, one horse and the
sleds were precipitated down bank all
of so feet. No severe damage to either
horses or sleds. The road is in very
dangerous condition and the select men
of Jay should give it their immediate
attention.
Programme of the meeting of the Board
of Agriculture at North Troy, Tuesday
and Wednesday, February Is and IA.
Tuesday MOrming.-Address of We'll
come, Hon. H. G. Wilson, Troy; Bud
ding and Grating, A. Chapman, Middle
bury Apple Raising, O. Donegan, Troy.
Tuesday AttermoOn.-Hired Help, H
Story, Irasburgh; Grass Culture, J. H.
Mead, West Rutland; Selection of Cows
for the Dairy, G. S. Fassett, Enosburgh.
Tuesday EUening.-Home Products,
Ora Paul, Pomfret; Horses for Vermont,
A. Chapman, Middlebury.
Wednesday Moraing.-Sheep Hus-
bandry, J. H. Mead, West Rutland;
Manures and their Application, z. E.
Jameson, Irasburgh.
Wednesday Atteymoom.-Milk Setting
and Butter Making, G. S. Fassett, Enos-
burgh; Diseases of Domestic Animals,
Prof. N. Cressy, Amherst, Mass.
Wednesday Acknowledgements
of Common Schools in the Interests of
Agriculture, DR.. Z. H. Hoskins, New
port; Questions on Diseases of Animals,
DIR. N. Cressy, Amherst, Mass.
WE.ST7NORE.
A series of Gospel meetings will be
held at the Mill Brook school-house,
commencing next Friday evening and
ending on Sunday evening. The Chris
tian friends in that vicinity are expect
ed to aid in the work.
EDO&LL-A-Ss <S-ST<+r-I
ST.. JoHNsBURY.-Luke Buzzell has
not returned.
Franklin Fairbanks has obtained
patent for an important invention on
scale beams.
Both railroads carried passengers from
st. Johnsbury to Boston and return, dur
ing last week, for $500.
Harper's Weekly has an excellent
likeness of Sir Thaddeus Fairbanks.
among its licensees of inventors.
The liabilities of Miles Hovey of Wa
terford, will reach about $4,000, among
the heaviest sufferers being his hired
man. His property is said to be mort
gagged for nearly all it is worth. About
all his neighbors in Waterford and Bar
net are losers in sums of from hundred
to thousand dollars.
One day recently span of horses be-
longing to David Hunter, of East Burke
with load oflong logs, got away half
mile above Hunters house and ran down
towards East Burke. Just before passing
Hunters house his wife saw them and
ran into the road, jumped upon the rear
end of the logs, crawled along to the
front and out upon the tongue, securing
the lines and stopping the runaway just
as the horses were beginning the descent
of long hill. Such woman is worth
having.
EXTENSION GRANTED.-The creditors
of Richard E. Peabody g. Co., the lum-
Der manufactures and merchants at
McIndoe's and at Groton, having press
! ed them for settlement which they
were unable to make, there was a meet.
ing at this place Tuesday evening, to
f consider propositions made by that firm
asking for an extension of time for the
Y payment of certain liabilities. We un.
s derstand that an arrangement was made
Y by which the creditors give Peabody &
: Co.. an extension of one year, said firm
O to pay them ten per cent, of the princi
/. pal, and the interest atedonian
The Caledonia county papers are can
vassing for aged people, and the Unio'
+; presents the following: david Eastman
/. of Lyndon, moved into town at eightee
: years of age, and sixty-seven years ag
married Rhoda Brewer, then of Sutton
and the happy couple are still living o
the same farm Eastman helped clea
I seventy years ago. They had sixtee
). children, seven of whom are now living
v six in Lyndon and one in Sutton. The
a have thirteen grandchildren, and eigE
( great grandchildren Mr.. and Mr.
Eastman are in good health, do their Ow
az chores and enjoy life apparently as we
70 as any of their descendants.
al MAN LOST Charles Hoag. a your
well-to-do farmer Of Waterford, put
1. his sudden disappearance last Saturda.
.L He came to this nlace with his wife