Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-07-15
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Edwin Hyde, of STAFFORD, dropped
dead while haying the other day.
There were several cases of sunstroke
in Vergennes last week, and one is re-
ported fatal.
The Democrats of the I'd Compression
al meet in convention at White River
Junction this week Thursday. See off,
cial call.
Republican convention for the county
of Lamoille is to be held in the town
hall at Hyde Park, on Wednesday, the
3lst day of July.
E. W. Chase of Burlington, an extern
slve manufacturer of doors, sashes and
blinds, died suddenly of apoplexy on
Saturday night. He was SO years old.
Joshua M. Dana of Woodbury. COM
mitted suicide July 3rd by hanging him.
self in his barn. LII health, causing
mental arrangement said to be the
cause. He was farmer and 70 years
old.
1t is said that the old schoolhouse in
| district No. in Dummerston has stood
over 100 years, five generations of chill
dren being traced who have attended
school there. The we'll on the common
was dug in the year 1901, by Eben Ash.
The Essex county republican conven-
ton resolved "that we have the utmost
confidence in the wisdom, integrity, and
craftsmanship of President Hayes and
fully endorse his policy for bringing
peace and prosperity to the whole coun-
try"
The burglar who robbed the safe of
Robbins & Marsh at Chester depot, May
10, 1877, is now in Jail at Rochester,
N. Y, for carrying concealed weapons,
and will soon be brought to the state
for trial. He has robbed Is or 20 post
offices in the country, and is considered
a very dangerous fellow.
Great excitement prevailed at Water
bury, the 9th inst, on account of a mad
dog that bit two men and large num-
Der of dogs. A company of children
had a narrow escape. He was pursued
until late at night and early Saturday
morning until he went into house un-
der bed and was killed.
The Messenger says: ..Hon. Bradley
Barlow returned from Washington, Sat-
urday. where he had been for some days,
completing the sale and transfer of all
his interest in mail contracts and west
ern stage routes to parties from that
section. Negotiations to that end had
been going on for months. He has now
no interest, direct or indirect, in the
business.
Warren H. Blossom, thrifty farmer
of Woodstock, committed suicide Satur-
/ day. with a shot gun, the charge enter
, ing his side just below the heart and re.
sulting in death in two hours. He was
Respondent from financial difficulties.
; the result of borrowing money at low
3 rates, and loaning west at high rates Of
e interest. Age about 40. He leaves g
7 wife and two children.
y Following the acquittal Of Deacon
= Ezra P. Smith upon the charge of pois
lining his wife at Vergennes, VT, comes
5 statement that the Grand Jury of AID
: olson county found indictments agains
v Mrs. Champlin for murder and adultery
! This was kept secret at the request o
the States attorney and the sheriff. |
is said that she is at Birmingham,
e manufacturing town in Clinton county.
} In the chimney of one of the cars o
). the Burlington and Lamoille railroad i
is a birds nest, containing two eggs. TIL
/. car leaves Cambridge Junction on it
Ie daily trips at noon, and gets back agai
at half-past six; and during that tim
the mother-bi remains at the Junction
u going to the nest as soon as the car al
rives there What she will do when
% comes to Matching out time remains I
is be seen. At all events, the circun
so stance is quite notable one.
Daniel Bartlett of SALISBURY VIII
Of was arrested the other night for stonin
u the cars between North Bennington an
n Bennington, was brought before Jude
Dunton at Manchester, and, pleadin
" guilty. was sentenced to the state prise
re for one year with hard labor. Bartle
re is about 20 years old, and was intoxica
is ed at the time of committing the GU
- rage. The parties who sold him IL
:. liquor will be brought to justice an
az punished.
" The monotony of prison life was som
US what broken on the Fourth, at the sta
i'll prison, by Superintendent Spencer gi
be ing the men the freedom of the prise
ev yard, which they very cheerfully accep
= ed. They amused themselves for sever
as hours by INDUCING in games, singin
lie conversation, etc after which they r
nd turned to the cells, as work was suspen
IT'S ed for the day. They conducted theI
~ selves in such manner as to refe
- credit upon themselves and the disciplil
of the institution.
:. st. Adams had celebration on Il
~ Fourth which was gratifying success
In every way-a notable feature of the d;
he being the presence of the Sixth Fusilee
is of Montreal the first time, probabl
,so that foreign military organization
- British subjects, has taken part in
do celebration of the American Indepen
ne ence Day. Literary exercises were he
W, in the Park in the afternoon, the ma
en- features of which were an address
,n+ welcome by the president of the da
=. Hon. Worthington G. Smith, fine or
1'S ton by Hon. Homer E. Royce, and t
ng reading of the Declaration of Indepen
ill ence by W. F. Davis, Esq.
ut, During the month of June there wei
of according to the Free Press record,
be deaths by violence In this state.
:. these, four were suicides-John Broy
a =, of Dandy {drowning), William Cul
ds, minis of Berlin (hanging), Patrick M