Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-09-30
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

with cold and throat difficulty. He is
seventy Eight years old.
In the town of Jamaica there are liz
families that never attend church, and
IA families that have no Bibles.
The railroads take the trade dollar
for SO cents, and others who know how
to do business do the same.-.St. .Aibans
Messenger.
English sparrows are said to be very
destructive to grapes. vines being en-
tirely stripped in some localities by the
little pests.
The Methodist Seminary. at Montpel
Ter, is prospecting finely, with one hun
dred and ten students in attendance the
present term. A few more are expected.
The four societies are in a fourishing
condition, having q total membership of
ninety.
One of the best known citizens of YER
mont, Deacon L. L. butcher, of st. Al.
bans, died at his residence on Wednes-
day last. He had been prominent and
active in business, religious, political
and social affairs, for many years. His
age was seventy-six.
J. w. Nichols, of Concord, has got
fifteen hundred and fifty pounds OF but
ter from ten cows so far this season,
three of them being -year-old Jersey
heifers. Nichols has hog which now
weighs seven hundred pounds, which is
the result of sour milk.
BUTTER MARKET.-At the st. Adams
market, Tuesday, there was good at
tendance and fair receipts. Common to
good sold at from ten to sixteen cents
choice. eighteen to twenty cents selec-
tions, twenty-one cents per pound, with
some fancy lots at higher price.
Messrs. A. T. & 0. F. Barron have
decided to rebuild the Junction House
at White River Junction and make it a
first class hotel. The depot at that
place is to have another story and a
wing at the south end, both of which
have been rented by the Barrons for
their restaurant.
Charles, an eight years old son of
Alfred Tatro, of Berkshire Centre, met
with what might have been fatal acct
dent While holding an open jackknife
in his hands the other day. he fell, the
full length of the blade entering the alb
domen near the navel. Strange to say,
the boy felt no inconvience from the re-
suit, and is now around as if nothing
had happened to him.
Mrs. Julia G.. R. Dorr, Vermont
most distinguished poetess, has received
the personal thanks of King Alfonso Of
Spain, for her tender sonnet ON the late
Queen Mercedes, which originally ap
peared In Scribner's Monthly and was
afterwards translated into Spanish by
J order of the Spanish minister at Wash.
, ington, and extensively published il
papers of that nationality.
A new freight tariff has been issued
by the superintendent of the Contra
Vermont railroad, whereby large re
l duction in rates of freight has beer
made. These new rates are in accord
ance with the times, and, the RUTLAND
Herald thinks, will no doubt encourag,
so much extra business that the receipt
of the road from the lower rates will
e equal. if not exceed, the amount unde
: the higher prices.
The Southeastern depot was destroyed
by fire on Tuesday morning. The fir,
was first discovered in the northern por
ton, occupied by L. Baker & Son, ant
:, is supposed to have caught from sparl
: from au engine. The flames spread rap
i ly, and the entire building. two huudre
and seventy feet long, including sheds
was soon in ashes. The company's SAT
and papers we're saved, but all the good
r including some four hundred and fit
e barrels of -four, carload of nails,
/ car. load of kerosene, quantity of salt
. corn, ETC., were burned. The firm ais
lose an eighteen-horse power steam en-
CINE and four hundred and fifty cord
i Of wood. Their loss is about $4,000
insurance $4,000.
r The Montpelier argus says (and W
t have noticed the same thing that per
sons travelling through Washington
county are struck with the frequent oc
3 currence of fine rows of trees by tn
S roadside and around farm houses, bu
s very few know how they happened t
e be set out, attributing it to the taste Q
the original proprietors of the property
;, 1t is we'll known fact, however. tina
Il our New England farmers have bee
% quite anxious to get hold of the sal
3 mighty dollar" and in the earlier year
v of the Washington county Agriculture
Society, when Hon. Daniel Baldwin wa
at his head, prize was offered at th
q fair for the best rows of trees set out b
Re persons in the county. and there wa
e quite competitor in this line. The re
! suit can now be seen in the magnifcer
shade trees mentioned.
" But it is a curious thing to look upor
:, The state of Vermont, with its immens
: republican preponderance, habituall
y insists that none but those of unques
d tionable standing in the republica
1t church shall be given even the least {
- Offices, it has that conservatism which
= averse to all sudden changes, and goe
u on crushing the rebellion years an
N years beyond all reason. and has pol
Il ular sensitiveness about the use of none
r. by political candidates, which has tin
and again defeated men who were onl
charged with paying what in 9th,
G places are considered perfectly legitimat
y campaign expenses. Bradley Barloy
ly saying nothing as to his personal cha
. acter, comes up as of no party in pa
- ticular but as quite as much of DEM
u crat as anything. openly adopts IL
De Tweed system of campaign. does it a
IA on bolt from fair nomination of
reputable man and unquestioned repul