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

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A thirsty Bristol man has built cask
TO hold AZ barrels of cider.
At Vergennes. week ago Saturday,
the ruling price for butter was 80 cents.
The Bennington Battle Monument As
ISOLATION has decided to locate the mon
ument on the site of the centennial store
house, at Bennington Centre.
The largest boulder in Vermont is
called the ''Green Mountain Giant, ly-
ing on the hill in Nottingham. and con-
tains forty thousand cubic feet.
A lady of Richford was induced by
domestic troubles to commit suicide, and
had waded into a river for that purpose
when she was rescued by N. E. Smith.
The South Eastern Railway Company
have sued the Passumpsic railroad, to
recover TWO hundred and ninety thousand
dollars for damages and annulment of
lease
The barn of J. J. Estey in Brattle-
boro, and house adjoining, occupied by
four families, were burned a week ago
last Saturday night. Loss. 5000, with
small insurance.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
association for the protection and pres
ervation of fish and game will be held
on Tuesday, November 9th, at the Ber-
wick House, Rutland.
Work on the State Workhouse, at
Rutland, is to be commenced at once,
and it is expected that the foundations
- II - laid and the huildino he COW
cred before winter sets In.
Large quantities of shad are being
caught in the lake at Alburgh, and the
bays are filled with ducks. Partridges
are so plenty and tame that several have
been shot around the farm buildings.
There are seventy-one thousand schol-
ars in the common schools of Vermont,
ten thousand in the thirty-three graded
schools, three thousand in the twenty
six different academies, and six hundred
fitting for college.
The barn of w. Blair of Stannard,
caught fire a week ago last Saturday
night, from the explosion of kerosene
lamp. A lot of hay, straw and a new
horse rake were consumed with the build
ing. Three calves barely escaped get
ting singed. Insurance, S475.
The largest block of granite ever quar-.
ried in Vermont, perfect in every respect
and weighing about six hundred and
twenty-eight tons, has just been taken
from the Barre granite quarries without
the use of powder. 1t is forty feet long
seventeen feet high and ten feet thick.
At the st. Adams butter market, last
Tuesday, trade was dull and prices low
er. We quote common at from twelve
to fifteen cents, good to choice at from
eighteen to twenty five cents, and selec
tions at twenty-seven cents per pound
with higher price paid for some few
lots.
The Central Vermont shops at st. AL
bans, have just turned out new loco
motive, which is the most powerful oil
the road. 1t has six l-2 feet drivers
l7x24 inch cylinders, and patent bal
ance whereby the weight is kept equa
on the drivers, regardless of the Unequal
tiles of the track. 1t has been nance
the Bradley Barlow"
The Moody and Sankey meetings a
Burlington are still growing in interest
Nothing like it was ever known Their
before. Very many people came fror
outside towns. A week ago yesterday
it being the last Sunday of Mr.. Moody
stay, the town was crowded, and hund
reds were unable to obtain admission
Nothing like it has ever been seen i
Vermont.
Last Saturday, Mr.. Edward Hill
formerly of Cabot, but who for some tim
past has been manufacturing cedar OF
in Danville, came very near losing hi
life. He was at the depot engaged /
changing one barrel of oil into another
on the syphon principle, put his lips
the tube. and before aware of it, inhale
and swallowed portion of the oil I'll
effect was immediate; but with help, b
managed to reach DIR. Woodlands house
Powerful emetics were at once admins
tered, and the patient soon becam
. better-North Star
According to an item circulating
the daily papers, South Londonderry hi
been enjoying romance which has enc
ed in the proper way. Rev. L. v
Wheeler brought his nineteen year-ol
: grand daughter, Ida. from the Whit
, Mountain regions of New Hampshire
prevent her marrying the man of hi
choice, and to force her into wedding
rich Lyme On. H..) youth. The favo
t ed lover followed, and when recently til
| grandfather was caught away from tt
a house.. the girl was hurried to the hot
by her lover, and, while grandpa WI
:. storming around trying to bring breat
I of promise suit against the girl in Il
e name of the unfortunate Lyme yout
0 the couple were quietly married.