Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-05-13
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Chaplain d. A. Mack, Of the Third
Vermont Regiment, is to deliver the Dec
Grafton Day address in Brattleboro.
The report of the executive committee
of the Vermont seminary shows the as
sets to be $92.366; liabilities, $4O,987.
Hon. G. W. Willard is expected home
in about two weeks He is greatly i'm
proved in health, and is in Washington
at present.
Castleton has an elm tree on one of
its principal streets that girths nineteen
feet, and is supposed to be two hundred
years old.
David Morrill, of Norwich, died last
Wednesday, aged 81 years. He was one
of the oldest Masons in the United
States and relative of Senator Morrill,.
Coleman Sanders of Chester, has re-
Gently lost $1,000 in government bonds,
by the speculations of Massachusetts
bank cashier, with whom they were de-
posted for safe keeping.
James Fisk of Brattleboro, father of
James Fisk. Jr., is travelling around the
country selling lightning rods. He is
accompanied by seven men and employs
six horses in the business.
A ten-mile walking race at Spring
field. between Rice of Rutland and Lib
by, local pedestrian, was won by the
latter in the remarkable time of one
hour and twenty-five minutes, Rice be-
ing quarter of a mile behind.
The post-ofice at Swanton Centre has
been discontinued, and one again estab-
lished at Swanton junction. with Chas.
Roberts as postmaster One has also
been established at West Lincoln, with
Milton J. Stearns as postmaster.
In Williston, small house has been
built for the accommodation of tramps.
When the tramp puts in an appearance
he is escorted to the shanty, fed and
lodged over night and dismissed in the
morning. The arrangement has worked
well.
Last Tuesday, the body of man was
found in the Winooski river near Bur-
lington. The head was gone, and the
body gave indications of being in the
water long time. Supposed to be that
of one Cunningham, who has been MISS
ing since April.
In the eight days of his work at st.
Adams. Mr.. Maxwell, the temperance
agitator, obtained $50 signatures to his
pledge The Messenger says that his
labors there cannot we'll be ovcr-valued,
and that his addresses have been judi
cious, practical and powerful.
Farmers who have been holding back
potatoes for higher prices in the country
towns of Vermont and New Hampshire,
are now offering them to purchasers, in.
some places, as low as 25 cents bush.
ell. There is a greater supply than usual
Notwithstanding the ravages of the pota
to bug.
mo Smoking Allowed" This cal
: now be posted on the study doors O
most of the Methodist ministers of Yer
mont. The Methodist Conference a
Woodstock, which has just adjourned
declined to accept candidates for tn
: ministry who use tobacco or intoxicatin.
e liquor.
: At the st. Adams butter market, las
p week. the attendance was large. receipt
fair, and market dull and lower. W
. quote butter at from ten to sixteen cent
+ per pound, according to quality; selec
It tons at from seventeen to eighteen cent
i per pound, with few fancy dairie
bringing something higher.
Larkin J. Mead's model for the Ben
, nington monument is II feet high stat
Il ne of Gen. Stark, surrounding a strut
'e ture 100 feet in height. The latter is i
j. some respects a copy of the famous tow
'. er of Giotto at Florence, and will be OF
- namented with bas reliefs representa-
y incidents in Gen. Stark campaign.
- A sad affection befel young lady
:, Brattleboro, the other day. On the st
u of June she was to be married and leay
l. for Europe on bridal tour. All tt
s. preparations were made, and in wee
= she was to meet her affianced at Sarat
: ga, when few days since, she receive
! letter informing her of his death
& San Francisco of spinal meningitis, aft
lie an illness of only three hours.
es G. T. Storer, the Maine pedestria
n, walked one hundred miles at Swanto
IS, the other day, in twenty-five hours, ma
he ing the first twenty-five miles in fo
l. hours and forty minutes +; the first fif
No miles in nine hours and ffty-six mi
ne utes, and sixty miles in eleven hou
b, and forty minutes. The first mile W
II made in ten minutes and five second
ne and the last in eleven minutes and thi
ty seconds.
The Bennington Banner says th
Henry G. Root and Charles M. BIZ
d. have been at work in Washington, ]
"a Gently, among the Vermonters there.
teresting them in the work Of the pl
posed battle monument, and the res,
ne of the labors of the two gentlemen the
er- is that about one thousand one hundr
he dollars is already pledged to the mon
aw ment fund, with the probability of
!. increase to some one thousand five hur
red dollars.
'Ai The amount of freight transported
ere the Central Vermont is enormously a
FL almost unprecedentedly large, and pro
in Uses to greatly increase in volume, la
cir in the season. With the opening of
=, Welland Canal, it is proposed to blu
'.a' large elevators at Ogdensburgh and
lie distribute from that point instead
in from Chicago and Milwaukee. This W
ess of course, make business for the Cent
ont Vermont road and its Boston connectio
-, and they are now arranging to accc
n"i modate this increased traffic.
An Irish gentleman in Granville, v