Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-09-23
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Vermont's total valuation is SS7, 1914,

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Mrs. Hammond, the revivalist, will
hold series of meetings at Burlington
next month.
The general term of the Supreme
Court is ordered to be held in Montpel-
Ter, on the 4th Tuesday of October next
The freshman class of the University
of Vermont in Burlington is unusually
small, numbering only l6 including one
woman.
Jessie Frazier, girl of IA, was
caught by revolving shaft and badly
hurt in the Bennington wooden mills the
other morning.
BUTTER MARKET. in st. Adams on /
Tuesday. common grades sold at from
ten to sixteen cents. and selections at
from eighteen to twenty cents per pound.
Sergeant-at-arms Phinney is making
extensive and much needed repairs about
the State House and grounds. They |
| will be in fine order in time for the |
session.
The Central Vermont and Woodstock |
Railroads have finally settled their
squabble over a crossing at White River
Junction. the latter road getting its de-
sired facilities.
The house of James G. Bates, of North
Hartland, was struck by lightning a
a week ago Sunday evening and set fire
in several places, but no material DAM
I age Voc done
The Novelty Works at Springfield are
erecting new buildings on the site of
those burned, and there is fair pros
pect that work will be lively again in
that region soon.
At the recent election, Hon. G. w.
Willard received six hundred votes for
Governor, all, practically. from the Sec
ond District. G. G. Martin, the Green
back candidate, received 2,4OO.
The Essex County Herald, published
at Island Pond, has changed hands, N.
A. Burnham retiring; and Mr.. w. H.
Bishop, who has been associate editor
of the paper, now assumes control.
| There is general complaint through
out the state that the potato crop is
suffering heavily from rot. 1t is more
than probable, therefore, that prices
will rule high before next spring.
| A large number of poultry fanciers
met in st. Adams the other evening
and organized State Poultry Associa-
ton, with George Gregory Smith of st.
; Albaus, president, and Fred A. Field of
Rutland, secretary.
Of the 1877 Congregational churches
in the state, 60 have pastors and 100
acting pastors. The total additions dur
ing the year were 1,O84, and the Rut-
! land church leads all others with a
membership of 459.
Henry B. Stevens, of Bradford, long
connected with the Profile House stage
line, at the White Mountains, slipped,
while trying to stop his horses, last week
Tuesday, and was quite seriously hurt
by catching his leg in wheel.
{ The estimable wife of Joel M. Haven,
Esq, of Rutland Railroad Company,
died Sunday noon after an illness of some
months. She was president of the Wo.
mems Christian Temperance Union of
Vermont, and was noted for acts Of self
sacrifice and benevolence.
, Lightning rod swindlers are around
Vergannns. threatening anits against all
; whose notes they hold if they do not
pay up Immediately, Notwithstanding
the fact that the parties were told, when
, they gave the notes, that they could
have 10 years to pay them in.
, Jane Eccles, woman about 40 years
of age who had served as as domestic
: in Burlington and Winooski, and who
had made two previous but unsuccessful
attempts to commit suicide by poisoning
took corrosive sublimate at the poor
: house and died on Friday last.
The Montpelier Watchmam says the
worst features of our biennial system
finds unusual development in the make
up Of the legislature just chosen. There
e is an exceptional number of new men.
: while the well-known and experienced
, legislators of the State have gone to the
rear.
Col. John B. Mead is about complet-
ing large and elegant building as a
large and elegant building as a home
: for the students of the Randolph State
! Normal School. The building measures
IS by So feet, is three stories in height,
and will cost somewhere between $4,000
and $4,000.
) The White River Iron Works are
D g.,
| machine called concentration, which is
{ used for separating the black sand from
the common sand. is now in successful
operation and bids fair to be success
1t is expected that the furnace will be
e operation in week or ten days.
: A freight train on the Central Ver-
i mont Railroad going north on Wednes-
1 day afternoon, struck two children, one
a son Of Pat Henly, aged years, and
one son of Avery Edwards, aged 4.
: The younger is thought to be fatally in.
: jured. Both live in Richmond. No
Y blame attaches to the engineer, he doing
all he could to stop the train and get
the children off the track.
John III. Amidon, of Elmore, veteran
of Company /. Eleventh Vermont Regi-
r ment Heavy Artillery. was seriously if
: not fatally injured by the premature
! discharge of a cannon at Camp Reynolds
the other day. the result of gross care
lessness. The cannon was not swabbed I;
: no one thumbing the vent. His face
g and hands were frightfully burned. He
e will probably survive and save one eye.
: A fire broke out in Burlington, few
" evenings since, at about six o'clock, in
; a wooden building just back of the old
''Leavenworth" block. : The wooden
building was in such close connection