Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-01-14
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Israel Harper. of Richford, recently
found very young babe upon his door
steps.
Edward Fairbanks. of Springfield,
ninety two years of age, attempted sui
eide by cutting his throat with razor
recently
Reports come from Burlington that
Elk Gov Levi Underwood has softening
of the brain. Sand that he cannot very
long survive.
Horace Morse of Duxbury, recently
killed two White Chesters. about l6
months old that weighed 800 and $50
pounds respectively.
The Rutland Herald says three hun
dred and twenty three drinking men
there have signed the pledge since the
opening of the reform movement.
The Springfield Republican thinks
Col. Veazey Of Rutland. ahead in the
race for Governor; calling him young.
popular, and the especial candidate of
the old soldiers
On Sunday last in Burlington % per-
sons united with the College Street
Congregational Church. 36 with the
Winooski avenue, ~ with the Methodist
and nine with the Baptism all 1872.
At the recent term or Windsor county
court. George W. Sears. aged twenty
one years. and Geo E. May, aged seven
teen years. got FIVE years each in the
state prison, for breaking into bakery
at Ludlow some time since.
/ BUTTER MARKET.-At the ST. Adams
butter market, Tuesday, there was not
enough doing to make quotations. Fall
selections are wanted, and would bring
from twenty-nine to thirty cents. VIM
ter butter sold at from eighteen to twen-
ty-two cents per pound.
Pownal is Boosting over Mrs Helley
who was one hundred years old last Au
gust. The venerable lady is smart and
active, spends most of her time in knit
ting. can see to thread needle as we'll
as girl of sixteen, and can go up and
down stairs without help.
Wolcott has got things down to fine
point. Good beef Is selling at three
: and half cents by the side; pork. FIVE
dollars per hundred; potatoes. forty
cents; dry wood at one dollar and fifty
cents, and green hard wood at one doll
ar and twenty five cents per cord.
Recently. as young man of Ascut-
: NEVILLE. was returning home late at
5 night. and when nearly at his house be
: was seized in the street. choked and
roughly handled by two unknown men.
who threw him down and robbed him of
e his wallet, containing small sum Of
money.
Since the advent of cold, bracing
q weather, the diphtheria epidemic in
i Burlington has materially subsidized, and
e hopes are entertained that the germ
y will be SO effectually stamped out ere
the return of damp or warm weather
10 that we shall have no more of it. al
n least for spell.
IS The Springfield Republican says thai
W Special Agent Clark. has completed hi:
h inspection of the collectors officers Of
&c internal revenue in New England. The
office at Montpelier, Collector Dana, il
Ae reported in most complete order, anc
nt the collector one of the hest men in tn,
a, service"
n j. n ketchum of Barre has mad
= during the past season from seven full
blooded Jersey cows. one being two
9 year-old heifer. 1882 pounds of butter
}. besides furnishing family of six witt
r. what milk and cream was needed HI
n. has used in this time about $50 worth
j of extra feed, composed of meal an,
- bran.
OF The other day. Chester Clark of tn
O. American House, Montpelier. laid dow
Ig. his pocket book, containing S2C
nd and $500 in notes. after he had trans
- acted some business. Shortly after b
." went into his dinlng-room to carve th
meat for dinner, probably without TAX
ing up the book. for it was the last see
l0' of it.
by One hundred years ago Vermont use
le- to punish burglary and counterfeitin
ID by branding the offender with a ht
., iron and cutting off his ears; lying VIZ
punised by setting the liar in the stocl
Gu aud whipping; and thieves were con
ld PEELED to make tbree-fold restitution
9TH stolen property. The state has g
in bravely over that kind of dealing
rr. William Dady. who has feeced Win,
ham farmers and others about the cou
:, try to the tune of several hundred dol
nc ars by buying their produce, forgir
md notes and in other similar transaction
ach was arrested the other night at Dur
yo. merston, where he was stopped with
49,. farmer, and representing himself to be
sufficient means to purchase farm.
~ D. P. Hall, of Lyndon. who has b;
TWO charge of the Groton Pond Lumber Coz
cry pany's property since their embarra:
ent ment, has sold the ruins of the mill, |,
test acres Of land, logging tools, boardi
). houses, and furniture. to George
VIC Richardson. of Littleton. N. H.. for S.
Feo' 900. The property has been bargain
900 to the same man three months ago
heir fore the mill was burned. for SIS Oh
,ra- 1t was insured for S4.333, which NAL
$11,333 Mr.. Hall now gets for the pre-
erty, suffering loss of S3,667 on
~ count of the fire. Mr.. Richardson
tends to put in new mill next spril
~ sufficient to cut all the lumber abe
the the pond.
will The rebel official report of the hat
han of Lees Mills. the first fight of
or Vermont Brigade during the Penins
=, campaign of 1861, states the rebel |
VIII at seventy-6ve killed and wounded.
gan Guiding Colonel Mckinney among
lere. killed. This report which is contain
e a in the supplementary volume of the
e belion Record, also states that the &C
y plete surprise, and that their lines W