Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-08-19
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

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panied by General Schenck, spent the
Sabbath at Stowe.
Hon. George B. Loring. of Massachu-
sets, has accepted an invitation to de-
liver the annual address at the Vermont
State Fair.
During the month of July there were
seventeen deaths from violence in this
state-one murder. four suicides, and
remainder accidental.
The conversions through Mrs. Ham,
mond's labors in the state, from Novem-
Der 2lst to May 18th, are said to num-
Der seven hundred and twenty.
There will be no soldiers reunion at
Montpelier this summer, as was the de-
sign last year. Hard times the chief
cause of the postponement until 1879.
Dexter Goodell, of Calais, who died
the other day, was veteran of the
Mexican war, serving under General
Scott, and also saw about three years
service in the late war, being a member
of the Eleventh Vermont.
The attendance was good at the st.
Adams butter market on Tuesday, with
a slight advance on the best qualities.
Common grades sold at from ten to six
teen cents, and selections at seventeen
and eighteen cents per pound.
There was religious boss trot'' in
Waitsfeld last week between the horses
of G. G. Warren and Father Gallagher,
the Catholic priest at Waterbury, for a
purse of one hundred dollars, Mr..
Warrens horse easily won the money.
Mrs. Nathan Adams of Stowe, who
recently committed suicide, was de-
ranged from fall on the Methodist
church steps last winter. She drowned
herself in about eight inches of water,
after having removed her false teeth
and placed them on log by the side of
the brook.
1t is reported that the Central Yer
mont Railroad officials contemplate cree.
ting at White River Junction nam.
moth hotel on the site now occupied by
the depot, in which the restaurant and
telegraph Office are located. The burn.
ing of the Junction House has hastend
these plans.
R. E. Peabody, charged with forgery
and in st. Johnsbury Jail the past SIX
or eight months, was bailed out on Sat
urday-his father-in-law, E. D. Blodg
EFT. S. S. Thompson. of Lyndonville
Langdon Burnings. of Waterford, ant
others, becoming surety for the bail O
five thousand dollars. Peabody had /;
run of fever in Jail, but is now fully re
covered.
The secretary of the Vermont Stat
Grange reports that the oranges in Yer
mont have gained more members by mi
tiation during the quarter ending Jun
30th than during any corresponding
quarter since the grange movemen
; started in Vermont. He predicts gen
eral revival of interest in the work o
the order throughout the State the com
ing Winter.
Gov. Fairbanks has appointed Gen
W. w. Circuit of Barton, Col. ALDER
D Clark of st. Adams, and N. P. Simond
( Esq, of Rutland, board of director
of the new state work house at Rutland
: These appointments are the same gen
l tlemen as composed the commissio
G that built this institution, and it is fiji
: ting that they should organize the wor
at its Inauguration. The next Legisla
tura will alact /. hoard IF d,ractorc
The Swanton Courier is responsible
for the following: Edward Perry 2
> has entered the happy home of Willlar
o Morits, Jr., and stolen from him hi
d wife. This happened several days ag'
the treacherous Perry and the false vii
departed under cover of the night, to th
i town of Franklin, where they were
y pass the honeymoon. when the good pei
pie of that town induced the couple t