Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-07-01
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

his lOTIJ-Hltu UedT, Week UelOfe ldSG.
Henry January of Vergennes, fell
some twenty feet, the other day, in
to the water and among rocks, but came
out with slight injury.
The Brattleboro Reformer observes
that 1.-THE Democratic party of Vermont
still continues to be run as business
enterprise of Hiram Atkins"
At the Windsor county republican
convention, last Tuesday, Hon. John F.
Deane of Cavendish, W. G. Danforth of
Barnard. and Nelson Gay of Stockbridge,
were nominated for senators.
The St. Adams butter market. last
Tuesday, was very dull and prices low
er. The bulk of the sales were made at
from fifteen to sixteen cents, selections
being seventeen cents per pound.
Prof. Walter E. Howard retires from
the position of principal Of the State
Normal School at Castleton at the ter
mination of the present academic year,
after two years of service.
The Rutland Leader announces that
the State Fair will be held in st. AL
bans, in the second week of September.
We suppose this is official, as Henry
Clark, Secretary of the State Agricul-
tural Society, is editor of the Leader.
st. Adams is to have grand celebra-
ton on the Fourth. The Sixth Fusileers
of Montreal, 800 strong, will be present
and there will be masquerade, speech
making. sham fight, during the day,
and torchlight procession in the even
ing.
The Central Vermont Railroad Com
pany are employing twenty extra men
at their Rutland shops in making six
passenger cars for the New London
Northern Road, of which they hold a
lease, to take the place of those burned
on that road last spring.
S. M. S. Mitchell, who sued the M.
E. Society in Richford, for $1,000 which
he claimed was due him, has compro-
missed the matter for 5000. A special
says: "The church actually gains, in a
balancing of claims, much more than ii
pays. besides holding the position assum
ed by the church.
A brood of quails, six young and two
. old ones, which are believed to be iden
: teal with the imported quails set at lib
erty last year by Judge Evarts, has beer
found on the premises of J. NJ. Shaw a
North Pawlet, thus proving that these
birds, as was hoped, return to the places
t where they are released.
George H. Bigelow, special agent o
: the post Office department, has been in
$ vestigating o. D. Town, postmaster a
Woodbury.. on charge of selling stamp
in forbidden directions and at unlawful
$ discount. It is understood that Mr.
7 Town admitted the facts. but denied an,
e guilty intent, and that thus the matte
q rests.
Messrs. Brown & Claggett, the larg
Montreal dry goods house, so we'll know
in Vermont, the Junior member of tn
a firm being son of DR.. G. Claggett G
e Mortified, have been for some time sys
n tematically robbed of silks to a larg
amount by Henry Robin, one of thei
clerks. Week before last, he was caugh
and arrested.
5 The fifteen prisoners in Burlingto
d Jail made a concerted plan to escape
IS last Tuesday night, by digging hol
II through the stone wall, which is abou
:. eighteen inches thick, and had only t
~ knock out single tier of brick to effec
n an exit; but the plot was frustrated b
e the officers after some resistance on I'll
It part Of the prisoners.
N The buildings of the Vermont novelt
! works at Springfield were burned las
Tuesday evening. The loss is $4,000
, insured for $4,000 in some 20 compar
t. les. A hundred and twenty-five me
= are thrown out of employment. III
'. company manufactured children's ca
riages and toys, and was the largest
9 the kind in New England.
= James McGrath, one of the men col
Is cerned in the Harmon robbery at Bel
y, nington, recently, gets fifteen years
e, the State prison. Pirate Hicks, de
70 perate character, was arrested on HUI
son river steamer for being concerned
y the robbery. and Edwards, another
the gang. who escaped from an officer
ID Hoosac Junction, N. Y, recently, h
of been re-arrested. Hicks proved an ALT
IN A large owl was caught in singul
~ manner at Manchester, the other da
e He entered hen coop in which were
~ hen and brood of chickens, the structu
IN being proppeed up with stick to allo
Id the fowls free ingress and exit. AS soc
be as the owl came in the hen and chicke
- ran out in hurry SO as to knock o
the prop and bring the coop over t
III owl. holding him prisoner until the ne
nd morning.
he The Orange county republican tick
ed is as follows: For senators, John
,rs Mead of Randolph, and John G. Stear
of Bradford assistant judges, John
Cleveland of Brookfeld, and S. K. Ds
al ling of Vershire States attorney.
Ter M. Harvey of Topsham; sheriff, W.
to Clark of Brookfeld baliff, William
ON Kibbey of Fairlee; judges of proba
= VIM. H. Nichols of Braintree, for t
y, Randolph district, and John A. Tenn
OF of Corinth, for the Bradford district.
ILL E. A. Batchelder of Andover, has
sV- dog of Newfoundland breed that is son
re, what remarkable in his way, mantle
Bile ing sagacity and reason at times viii
70 are hardly in accordance with the g
:, eral idea of the brute intellect. 1
TX dog and his master went to town Mt
Ted day of week before last, and a numI
Ill, of pelts were left without his fully |
on. Outstanding the transfer of possessi'
Mr.. Batchelder returned home, not fe
'Ac ing any particular concern that his
or uos not with him He did feel CONS