Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-22
STATE NEWS ITEMS,

at Woodstock, May lst.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Guyette, of North
Duxbury. have fifteen children.
P Redfeld Kendall of Rutland will
deliver the address in that place on
Decoration Day.
About 100 students are in attendance
at the medical department. of the Uni
versity of Vermont.
Gold mining in the town of Stock
bridge. Vt, is to be resumed at once, on
larger scale than ever before.
A Brattleboro commission house has
sold during the past eight months forty
five thousand barrels Of -four.
R. W. Page. formerly for long time
connected with the Mortified quarry
interests, dropped dead on Sunday.
One of the inmates of the Brattleboro
Insane Asylum escaped the other night,
after quite struggle with the keeper.
Servants wages in Burlington, Vt,
households vary from $3.50 to So per
week, and householders propose cut
down.
The greenback party at Winooski. of
which John R. Forest is the headlight,
numbers one hundred members and holds
nightly meeting.
Mrs. Campbell of South Fayston has
a monthly rose tree that stands l feet
high, and has forty buds and blossoms
on 1t at once.
Mrs. Martha Frizzel Morey of Straf-
ford, who celebrated her centennial in
1876, died on Saturday, March Is,
aged lOl years, 10 months.
The express trains across the State
between Saratoga and the White Noun
tains are to be run again this summer,
the time being shortened by two hours.
Rev. J. H. Hincks. pastor of Bethany
Church, Montpelier, was married the
4th inst, to Jennie K, daughter Of
Rev., r. B. Thurston of Saybrook, Conn
The house of H. H. Church, of West
Randolph, was burned on Friday nigh
Of last week. Cause, explosion of {;
kerosene lamp. Loss $ll00 insurance
$3.50.
In Ferrisburgh, Vt, the other day
was witnessed the unusual sight of ;
man and his great-grandson choppins
wood together. Hiram Peck is tn,
patriarch's name, and his age is s.
years.
|
There were, it seems, 919 person
committed to Jail, in Vermont last year
OF these, 658 Americans, 255 foreigner
and of SO the nationality was not stat
ed. The men arrested numbered S53
and the women sc.
The lumber dealers and manufacturer
in Burlington, report revival of bust
ness, and some of the latter are runnin
their mills over time, while one tw
firms have had to move into more ez
tensive quarters.
The Free Press says the local lax
commerce is opening with notable brisi
ness, half dozen schooners havin
made trips to and from Burlington wit
full cargoes, within the last day or twC
The canal will, it is now announced, b
) opened on the first day of May.
Two Fairfield boys were discussin
the relative merits of the village Metf
odists and Universalists, when on
squelched the other with the remarl
"Well, the Universalists don't profe.
much and they live up to it, every tim,
and that's more than you can say !"
BUTTER MARKET.-At the st. Albar
butter market. Tuesday, the receip
were fair and prices low. We quo
common at from twelve to fifteen cent
good to choice at eighteen to twent,
! three cents. and selections at twenty-fv
cents per pound, with some fancy dairi,
calling higher price.
! The train employees of Il
Central Vermont Railroad will be un
formed about May l. The suit will
of navy-blue cloth and brass button
with the words Central Vermont Raj
road encircling the buttons. The cal
will be of the United States navy reg
lation pattern.
Henry Austin, who was buried
Winooski, the other day. had seventies
s years ago made an agreement with Pet
Fountain that at the death of either, Il
survivor would make a brick receptac
for the remains of the deceased. M
: Fountain faithfully kept his word, al
e water tight brick grave was made f
, the remains of Mr.. Austin.
9 A teacher in one of the St. Alba
Sunday schools was endeavoriug to e
plain to the infant class, the theory
the watchful care and goodness of Go
e She used the familiar figure of his f
s therhood, and said. "Now. if you We
playing in the yard and should fall al
hurt yourself. your father would RI
and pick you up" A bright little sew
years old, spoke up and said, mo
. wouldn't-my father wouldn't-he's
} lazy" The truth of the remark is sa
d to have made it doubly amusing.
d A sad case was that of the brothe
e Hill, Moses and Chauncey, of West Co
= cord. After long life of frugal indr
: try, the competency they had wru
: from the soil was impaired by an u
:, fortunate business venture, and final
If swept away by the failure Of "friend
% for whom they had endorsed. The d
aster was too severe for Moses, and
u took up arms against his sea of troub
$ and by opposing, ended them. AT
h his brothers suicide. Chauncey linger
1T on, for while, and one day last wee
:. at the age of ~, died of a broken hea
n A two-headed child was exhibited
h the Bates House, Rutland. Tuesd;
The parents of this remarkable curiosi
/ are French Canadians from st. Beno
thirty miles from Montreal. This tw
now eleven weeks old, has well a
81 perfectly shaped heads, one having [