Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-02-04
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

day, while coasting. and broke her leg.
Nearly $4,000 was spent at the Bur-
lington city agency last year, for liquor,
to be used for 'medicinal and mechani-
cal purposes.
Burlington claims to have twenty
five pound cat. while the heaviest feline
in the Boston show weighed less than
eighteen pounds.
A full-blood Poland-Ch hog, bred
by c. K. Gray of East Montpelier, kill
ed thee other day, at 20 months old,
dressed off 726 pounds.
A little son of Sullivan Taplin of
Corinth, was recently run over by boy
who was coasting, and received injuries
which resulted in death.
Farmers in Wolcott raised eighteen
or twenty tons of hops, last year, with
disastrous results, the price obtained
being less than the cost of picking.
H. L. Dunton, who had a desk IN the
Office Of the Brattleboro Record, has dis
appeared with certain funds which he
was employed to collect for various par
ties.
Israel Hewitt of Pittsford, died one
week ago last Sunday, aged 81 years.
He was a soldier in the regular army,
and served under Generals Dearborn and
Wilkinson.
A large number of the employees at
the Central Vermont Railroad shops and
train hands residing in Rutland have
been discharged, to reduce expenses, and
more, it is reported, are to have notice
Feb. l.
Samuel Wells, Treasurer of the Far
mers' Mutual, died at Montpelier, last
Wednesday. Mr.. Wells was prominent
citizen of that town, and is well known
throughout this part of the State as an
honest, genial and enterprising man.
At st. Adams, recently, Mrs. La
Plant, the mother of ten living children,
the oldest 50 and the youngest 5, mar
ried one La Faun, aged between l6 and
l9, and the happy couple started for
Plattsburgh to spend the honeymoon.
The maiden name of Mrs. Thompson,
who presented the painting of the Sign
ing of the Emancipation Proclamation
to the government, was Rowell. She
was born in Waterford, Caledonia coun-
ty, and at twenty was waiter in st.
Johnsbury hotel.
Mrs. John Liberty of Vergennes, has
been so severely poisoned by the use o.
coloring matters in dyeing clothing thai
she is not expected to recover. Her ply
sician finds that the vitriol and othel
poisonous ingredients have been absorb
ed into her system.
Trenor W. Parks attorney has mott
fed Luther R. Graves, the Bennington
Town Treasurer, that the bond suit hav
ing been decided adversely to the tow
"beyond cavil or dispute" Bennington
must at once pay the accrued interes
coupons, amounting to about $4,000.
jeremiah Leach, Jr., about twent
years old, employed by the Vernon
Farm Machine Company at Below
Falls, was caught by belt he was ad
, justing, the 22d ult., thrown over tn
shaft and had one arm torn out at tn
shoulder and thrown away. He is in
critical condition.
While G. W. Whipple of West Cor
cord, was drawing bark to Miles Pom
. depot, the other day. his load stuck o
/ the railroad track, when the mail trai
5 came along under full Roadway an
a struck the sled, Smashing sled aud bar
into small pieces, and throwing the hor,
es down bank about 10 feet, withor
4 much damage done.
Some feeling has been occasioned
o the attitude of Father Boylan of Ru
e land, towards the reform club. On SUI
day of last week, he denounced the clu
as ''a snare to lead the souls of your
: men to perditlon, and recommended j
d its place the Hibernian benevolent an
literary society. He also forbade men
e bers of his congregation from attendir
balls, and refused to perform the la
;, rites of the church over those who il
Il dulged in round dances.
J The man whom the people of Alburg
n let freeze to death one cold night, wee
a before last, proves to have been Villa
h Mead of the Pittsburgh On. " Carr
. son, who has served creditably in tt
y army nine years, and was off on week
:. leave of absence. He was tempera
IS man, and nobody assigns any other e
cuse for the inhumanity of his dea
Ia than that people have been bothered
! good deal by tramps. and so are susE
u cious of all strangers.
$ A school ma am at Hydepark tried
IS break her pupils of the baleful habit
r using tobacco by sleeping up numb
i of old pipes and giving some of the ell
CANT reliquum to those detected in mic
= tian indulgence dose unrivalled, {,
% believe. since Mrs. Squeers' administr
I'd ton of stomach comfort in the shape
/ birthstone and treacle to the hapless i
At mates of Dotheboy's Hall. 1t made t
i little boys very sick and their paren
= very mad, and the usefulness of t
is school is naturally somewhat impaired
, The two daughters of Mrs. Bliss
s. Fairlee, who disappeared so mysterious
w few weeks since, have at last be
Sc heard from. When they left home tn
II walked to North Thetford, where tn
took the train to Manchester N. HI. I
70 conductor carried them as far as Lei
We non, where they were made to leave
r. cars. AS they have an aunt at II
:" place, they went to her house. She
10 once applied to the town authoriti
who sent Miss Nellie to Concord, wht
i'- she is now at work, and Miss Ida v
to sent to the farm at Woodsville. s
lis says she was turned out of doors by
an step-father. She has little son abe
- a week old.
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