Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-07-29
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


Bellows Falls.
S. NJ. Nutting of Westminster, has
a very successful apiary of Italian bees,
which has already m ade over 500 pounds
of honey this season.
Marshall O. Snow OF Leicester, has
been arrested on charge of writing and
circulating obscene matter among the
youths of that town.
John H Kelly's barns at Barre, were
burned with several tons of hay, the
other evening, probably by tramps; loss
$1,000; insurance $500.
Carl, the ten-year-old son of widow
S. +. Smith of Royalton, had one Of his
legs cut off by train the other day,
necessitating amputa tion above the knee.
Freddie Belden Of Vergennes, aged
seven, was drowned below the falls on
Sunday, his being the Goth drowning
case IN as many years in Otter creek
near the city.
Raymond and Robinson, of the Con-
necticut & Passumpsic Railroad, have
bought COTS interest in the Montreal,
Portland & Boston Road, thus getting
control of the Road.
Stephen Harrington of Woodstock has
eloped with widow named Paine, after
selling his cow, tub of butter which
his family were using, and everything
else he could turn into money.
During the creased pig race at Guild
hall, on the 18th, Peter McGoff was care
lessly run againt by team, knocked
down and run over, breaking three ribs
and otherwise injuring him.
BUTTER MARKET.-At the st. Adams
butter market, Tuesday, the receipts
were light. Common to fair sold at from
ten to fifteen cents, and selections at
sixteen to seventeen cents per pound.
In Jericho Centre, an organization
has been in existence since 1906, called
the Ladies' Cent Society, which has
contributed about 1900 to the cause
Of missions. A similar society exists in
Underhill.
Henry Campbell, native of Crown
Point, N. Y, for some time a laborer
upon the farm of Nancy Merritt, in North
Montpelier, fell from hay wagon few
days since, breaking his back. He can
not live.
A valuable Hambletonlan colt, owned
in Poultney, broke leg when three days
old just above the pastern Joint. The
limb was set. and the colt bids fair to
recover. His sire met with similar
accident when young.
The next meeting of the Bennington
battle monument association will proba-
by be held at Bennington August 16,
and Cows. Fairbanks, Prescott of New
Hampshire and Rice of Massachusetts,
are expected to be present.
The annual encampment Of the First
Regiment. Vermont Militia, Col. T. S.
Peck, will probably be held in Burling.
ton, on August 1926 next. The camp
will be named Camp Fairbanks, in hon.
or of His Excellency Gov. Fairbanks.
Reports from nearly 200 points in
Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota,
| Nebraska, Dakota, Kansas and Missouri,
covering the spring wheat regions show
that the acreage is nearly 90 per cent
greater than last year, and that the
prospects are better than at any other
time since 1860.
An independent battery company ha:
been organized in Montpelier, composed
of veterans of the late war, to the NUM-
Der of thirty-three men, which compose
the first section of two guns 1t i.
Differed as follows: Captain, J. O. Liv
ingston; first lieut., Lewis Wood; sec
, ond lieut., Alexander Jangraw.
A stranger carrying a satchel wa
: killed by lightning in Syracuse, N. Y.
, on Sunday. He was about % years old
, medium size, with black hair and mus
tache. From conversation had will
him it is supposed that his name wa
either Kennedy or Stone, and that h,
was on tramp from Chicago to Berk
shire, Vt.
, William E. Garfield, an express mes
senger between st. Adams and Boston
fell from the cars, near Billerica, OF
Saturday night. The train was goin,
= at the rate of forty miles per hour, ant
Mr.. Garfield received injuries from
which it is not expected he can recover
He has been in the service of the roat
eighteen years.
= Mr.. Pierce, living near Hinesburgh
had barn struck by lightning Sunday
3 during heavy shower, and the fui,
5 passed around and down a side of tn
q building and a herd of eight COWS, in
stantly killing four of them. Two mel
were sitting IN doorway about five rod
| from the barn, and one was turne.
q wrong side up, while the other was no
affected.
5 At Chelsea, recently, a storm of WIN,
broke down a large number of shad
trees, one of which fell against tn
Congregational church, doing much dam
age. A large chimney on Hyde's hote
: was broken off close to the roof, am
moved ten feet, and then it went crash
ing through the roof, breaking the roc
boards and five rafters, and passe
g through the first ceiling below. an
t finally lodged on the floor of the larg
|, hall.
o An aged scissors grinder named Pat
rick Spellman, a resident of Pittsfeld
! Mass. was brutally murdered at STAN
ford VT, about four miles from Mort
5 Adams, on Saturday, by John DALEY
s proprietor of the State Line House. Tn
It murder grew out Of a dispute relative t
; the price for grinding couple of razors
Daley IS drunken and disreputabl
fellow and he kicked the old man t
death because he claimed pay for wor
8 as agreed unon.