Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-10-21
STATE NEWS ITEMS,

STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Rev. B. F. Rattray, pastor of the
johnson Baptist Church, has resigned.
In Eden a mother and daughter have
both applied for divorce from their
husbands.
William Lawson, of Elmore, has
caught twenty-five large hen-hawks this
season in one steel trap.
The House assembled, Oct. II, and
upon calling the roll only 100 members
responded. Not being a quorum, the
House adjourned.
A Rutland man named Hall is gold
mining night and day at Bridgewater,
with two sets of miners, and is said to
be taking out some very rich ore.
The number of children between the
ages of five and twenty years, is 3d.
836, of whom 1922 attend school.
The total cost of the schools is S504,-
592.
Thomas J. Coon. of Winooski, aged
forty years committed suicide Sat-
urday forenoon. stabbing himself to the
heart with common pocket-knife. He
was temporarily insane.
At the Court of Queens Bench, now
in session at Sweetsburg, Que, the case
of one Ball, who murdered Grin Smith
last June in self-defence, while working
on the highway, was tried Oct. 10th,
when the jury rendered verdict of not
guilty.
BUTTER MARKET.-At the ST. Adams
butter market, Tuesday, butter sold as
follows: Common to good, twelve to
eighteen cents; choice, nineteen to TWEEN
ty-two cents; selections, twenty three
cents per pound. with few extra lots
alta higher price.
In the case of the side Judge in Orange
county, who was said to have been de-
feated by the democratic nominee from
the misspelling of his name on the tick
cts, the error was considered as clerical
and accordingly corrected, the true name
being J. ?. Cleveland. Jr.
Mrs. Lucia Swain, wife of the late
Nathaniel Swain, of South Reading, and
mother of Hon. A. N. Swain, editor OF
the Bellows Falls Times, was found
dead in her bed at the residence of the
latter, Sunday morning. Cause, Apo.
plexy. She was seventy eight years old
A notorious ruffian has been shelveo
for l5 years by the sentence to that pc
Rod in the state prison of Joel Emerson
of Worcester, who robbed and nearly
murdered William Penn on the outskirts
of Montpelier on the night of Angus
%. Emerson had only recently return
ed from the Black Hills, where he boasts
of having killed lis man.
The will of the late Lydia M. Jewett
of Newton, Mass. among large mum
Der of public requests, contains the fol
lowing: TO the Congregational churcl
in Hardwick, VT, $1,000; to Genera
Convention of Ministers and Churche
in Vermont, $4,000. to be applied t
the Fairbanks Fund for the relief Q
needy and destitute clergymen."
Over five hundred dollars has bee
} raised among the members of the Legis
, lature for the aid of the sufferers fror
yellow fever at the South 1t is expect
ed much larger sum will be realize,
within few days. Colonel N. I
Sprague, of Brandon, led off with
subscription of one hundred dollars.
: In the Washington County Cour
: Oct. II, Joel Emerson was found guilt
of assault upon William Penn with il
tent to kill and murder and robber,
and was sentenced to fifteen years i
0 the State Prison. Emerson insisted thu
j. he was innocent While being take
e back to the Jail he said he should n,
] stay in Windsor.
The peculiar death of George Valique
: one of the Vermont Reform School boy
a after he had been corrected by Overse,
A. B. Allen, recently is causing mut
e comment. and his body is said to ha'
n borne marks which falling down son
! steps could not have produced. Hi
F, who has always had a good character,
q in custody, and the case is to be inve
IS tigated by legislative committe
IF Diphtheria has broken out in the schot
h but the cases are few, and no deaf
have occurred.
. We learn that Governor Proctor b
y completed his list of staff officers, viii
are as follows: Surgeon-General, Jol
vs. A. Mead, of Rutland Aldes-de- Cam
ID George w. Hooker of Brattleboro, w
or lard Harrington of st. Adams. Hen
:. A. Fletcher of Cavendish and Thad
a. Chapman of Middlebury; Addition
at Aides, Walter Scranton of Vergenr
es and Carlos D. Williams of Northfe
Id These appointments are excellent on
We and will meet general approbati
= throughout the state.
! Among the remarkably active {
Us people in the State might be named \
ny John Hazelton. of Berkshire. One d
ur last week he, although totally blir
rv worked all the afternoon and husk
: several bushels of corn. after which
- took the large quantity of stalks CARR
Id them out and piled them up. Mr.. {
nd Teton is in his 9th year. He is
powerful build and in his younger ds
was perfect Hercules in strength. c
tie of the feats of which he boasts '
be- shouldering a small cannon which weis
ed 7S0 pounds,