Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-05-27
STATE NEWS ITEMS,

CuSois WHO oRAAhS5t AAVhA AOsOOO uiGGS.
Sheriff Drew of Burlington, has offer
ed reward Of 500 for the dog poison
ers.
The medical department of the Uni
versity of Vermont has one hundred and
four students.
The works of the Brandon manufac-
turing company will be removed to Rut-
land, next month.
A four pound EEL with a chicken in
its stomach, was caught at North Pow
nal, the other day.
Burlington's temperance work, led by
Mr.. Maxwell, has just closed, and humid
reds have signed the pledge.
Owen Reed of Quechee, lost his pock-
et-book, week ago last Friday, con-
tanning over six hundred dollars in notes
and fish hook. He says he would like
to find the fish-hook.
Mrs. Captain Woodward of Ludlow,
celebrated her eighty-ffth birthday by
an old ladies' party. on Tuesday of week
before last, the average age of those
present being seventy-three.
At Hydepark. recently, orville Reed
met with an exceedingly painful acct
dent. While driving nail it few back
and entered his eye, piercing the ball
and totally destroying the sight.
The directors of the Bennington Bat
tie Monument Association, held meet
ing in Burlington, the 10th. The re-
ports presented were encouraging, and
plan for raising the $75, 200 was adopt
ed.
At Peru, the other day, three-yea
old child of Alfred Williams. while
playing with some shaving, in the tenn
porary absence of its mother, set fire to
its clothing and was SO badly burned
that it lived but few hours.
At the st. Adams butter market, last
Tuesday, the attendance was good, re-
ceipts increasing and market quiet. We
quote butter, poor to choice, at from ten
to eighteen cents per pound selections,
twenty cents per pound.
DR.. B. O. Tyler, one of the oldest res
idents of Montpelier, died, last Monday
night, very suddenly, aged so. He was
a graduate of Dartmouth medical col
lege. class of 1924. He leaves a wife
and large family.
Gen. Stephen Thomas. late pension
agent at Montpelier, who disbursed
about million and half dollars from
his agency, has had his account voted
correct by the Auditor at Washington,
with balance of twenty odd dollars in
his favor.
The Vermont State Eclectic Medical
Society will hold its thirteenth annual
meeting at the State House, Montpelier
on Wednesday and Thursday, May 29tt
and 3Oth, at 10 o'clock, a. m. The an
nual address will be delivered by G. H
Gray, M. D, president of the society.
While some men were digging eel
lar in Fairhaven, the other day, they
discovered vault six feet long by tire,
feet in width, made of brick and mortar
which contained the remains of human
body. The vault contained beside tn
corpse few old army brass buttons ant
chemicals to hasten decomposition.
That Miss Davis and child of Jericho
whose mysterious disappearance wa
mentioned month ago, have been foun'
in Canada. 1t is stated that eight per
sons were concerned IN their abduction
and secretion, their object being to pre-
vent Miss Davis from testifying in
, suit against her betrayer.
A tramp outraged the wife of Roswell
Cora while she was alone in her hous
at West Fairlee, the other day, becaus
she refused him some cider, and attempt
: ed similar performance at the house @
} Benjamin Rowell, but was frightene
away. He was arrested and confined i
the tramp house at Bradford, but escaE
ed by window during the night.
George Warren, a riverman at wor
on Bowman's drive, was fatally injured
week ago last Friday. at Mclndot
: Falls. While he was walking over jal
of logs one rolled, he went into the ri1
er, the logs rolled over him and he VIZ
n taken out nearly drowned, several roc
below where he fell ill., Medical al
was at once called, but there are sma
J hopes of his recovery.
: The piecers in the Bennington woole
: mill struck, on the 10Th, thus THROWN
It out of employment all the other oper
9 tives. The strikers complain that ii
wages are too low. This mill furnishe
steady employment during the hal
u times upon low basis of wages. III
: mill recently doubled its capacity ar
J. the number of help. The places of tt
% strikers will be filled soon and busine
will proceed.
Jesse H. Lewis. vino was convicted
70 the April term of the Windham Coun
l. Court, in 1877, of the murder of Able
Deming, on Ball mountain in Jamaic
recently died in Fayetteville Jail, viii
} awaiting the action of the Supren
te Court on his petition for new tria
20 Lewis had long been in consumptio
Q and fully realized that his earthly Ell
L was near yet he steadfastly maintain
e, his innocence of the crime with viii,
i, he was charged.
ID People over Bennington way wou
D. like to interview chap, who called hi
: self G. f. Tiffany, and represented hi
= self as commercial agent for the groce
r. house of H. K Thurber & Co. of M
D. York. S. F. Harris is "out" $50
ID endorsing draft for that amount.
ne is prompt appearing business ma
!. about five feet six inches in hight, thi
O. set, with light hair and moustache.
TO wore light pants, dark coat and vest a
one of his front teeth is partially gone
II The other day, Thomas Ladue.