Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-10-28
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Int CttPpeT says Judge roland I0unQ
the Legislature little Lukewarm.
The marble auction sale at Rutland
realized about $4,000.
The Rutland County Court granted
seventeen bills of divorce at its recent
term.
Isreal Brown. of Brattleboro, veter-
an of the war of 1912, died the other
day, aged ninety-nine years.
Miss Eunice NJ. Ball, sister of Mariet-
ia. one of the victims of LaPage, was
recently married in San Francisco to
Mr.. @. A Chase.
The Orange county court docket shows
its usually large list of cases, there be-
ing A chancery cases. and 242 civil
cases, and criminal cases.
Salvin R. Clark, of St. Adams, died
suddenly on the morning of Sunday, of
paralysis. He was sixty-seven years of
age, and leaves wife and two children.
Six bushels of potatoes are required
for one meal at the Brattleboro insane
asylum. Between eight and nine hun
dred barrels of flour are consumed there
every year.
At Stowe. recently, Henry Warren's
boy, twelve years old, fell from fence
on his open pocket knife, which entered
his body near the heart It was mar
row escape.
Iron bridges are to be substituted for
the two wooden ones over the Winooski
river at the Lime Kilns, on the Central
Vermont Railroad, and the preliminary
work has just been commenced.
A resident Of West Dummerston has
tanned blue jay which has developed
marvellous power of mimicry. 1t imi-
tates to perfection the cawing of crow,
the growing of bantam rooster, the
cackling end clucking of hens, and the
peeping of chickens.
The Lanaoiue NeaOs says Our farm
ers are complaining bitterly that the
potato bugs, after having done their best
to destroy the potato crop, are not in
clined to seek ''a lodge in some vast
wilderness" but are intrusively taking
possession of their domiciles.
The Rutland rumsellers who were
sentenced to pay fine within twenty
four hours or 60 to Jail, saw the neces-
sity of at once coming forward with
funds enough to liquidate their little
bills, and the consequence was large
flow of cash into the county treasury.
Deacon Lyman Fisk and his wife Of
Waitsfeld, recently celebrated their
golden wedding. representatives from
six states. including a brother and his
wife and two sisters of the bridegroom
who were present at the marriage Of
the couple 30 years ago, attending.
A 72-year-old citizen of Dandy, whc
went with the excursion from Rutland
to New York appeared in the Jefferson
market police court, the 10th, in de
moralized condition, and informed the
Judge that he had "seen the elephant
and the pesky crittur cost me $7l.40."
Hon. Frederick Billings of Woodstock
in answer to request from Senator
Battell of Addison county, that he woult
permit his name to be used as candi
date for Senator Morrill's place, said
81 can engage in no scramble for Office
and am content with the post of privat
station"
BUTTER MARKET.-The st. Alban
butter market, Tuesday, was dull am
lower. Prices ranged as follows: Com
mon to good, twelve to seventeen cents
choice, eighteen to twenty cents selec
tons, twenty two to twenty three cent
per pound, with some extra lots at
higher price.
While I. r. Wright, of Randolph
was out hunting recently, at Cornish
N. H., his gun accidentally discharged
the contents lodging in the leg belo'
the knee, making the amputation of th
leg necessary. The shock to his systeI
was so severe that he died soou afte
the operation.
Sam Stevens, of Montgomery, was fl
tally injured on the IL inst while diggin
trench some ten feet deep for Josep
Lombra, by the caving in of the cart
at the sides which buried him beneat
it. He was promptly extricated by hel
. near at hand, but was so seriously il
jured inwardly that he only lived abor
| five hours.
5 Recently a child of Charles Slack,
' Chelsea, got bean into its throat so f;
, that it was impossible to remove it will
out surgical operation. An incision OF
inch and half long was made in tt
! neck, and the windpipe opened SO tn;
/. the bean was taken out with a pair
+ forceps. The child was one year and
half old.
: A Castleton correspondent of the Ru
: land Herald says Is bushels of pour
j sweets, bushels of Fall pippins,
bushels of seek-no furthers, 2 bushels
- russets, and bushels of common fru
have been gathered from one tree in tn
village the present Fall. The tree
: 60 years old and girths s feet at ii
J, trunk. 1t has stood on our little d
O main % years, and in that time hi
y supplied us with many hundred bushe
; of apples.
:. Montpelier's centenarian, Mrs. Phe
- Hazard, died on the 18th inst, ag
IS l0l years and six months. She was
e native of Mendon, Mass, and came
" Vermont in 1902. Her second husbal
: died in 1866 aged rs. She leaves
= daugter, born in 1900, and son, DO
81 in 1874, but had no other childre
re She has been quite active up to fl
is weeks ago, her memory being remark
,, bly, good and hearing not impaired b
Il she had lost her eyesight.
: The income from the State Prison
. the two years past is s26,9l5, or 500
u less than the expenses. There arc L
re prisoners, and within the year l49 ha
st been committed, 80 discharged, one