Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-29
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

healthy the other day that her life is
dispaired of.
A son of Carlos Roberts, of Swanton
Junction, fell week ago last Sunday.
and struck his head upon a stone, Sc
riously injuring himself.
Patrick O'Brien's lO-year-old daugh-
ter set her clothes on fire at West Rut-
land recently, while playing in the
woods, and was fatally burned.
Charles McLenithan's infant child at
Woodford has five grandmothers and
great grandmothers living, two of the
latter being centenarians.
1t is rumored than Vanderbilt will
soon claim his own, and take charge of
the Bennington & Rutland r. r., when
it will be run directly under his man
agement.
A man so years old visited Castleton
last week. who resided there through
1913, IA and Is, and found not
person living in the village who was in
it at that time.
At Richmond, Monday, butter sold at
Is to 20 cents for fair to good 81 to %
cents for choice; and extra nice at
higher figures. Potatoes rs to 80 cents
eggs 10 cents.
1t is said that no such revival has
been experienced at North Ferrisburgh
for a long term of years as within few
weeks past About so are among the
converted and reclaimed.
Two hundred cavalry horses per week
are being purchased in western Vermont,
and in Clinton, Essex and ST. Lawrence
counties, New York, by agents of the
English government.
The remains of Peter Hammond, who
died at Geneseo, ILL.,, on the 9th instant,
at the great age of one-hundred and two
years, were inferred at West Wardsboro,
his former home, last week.
M. G. Huling, SO long leading and
influential merchant at North Benning-
ton, and the efficient Representative from
Bennington in the Legislature of 1876,
is reported as about to move to Illinois.
An eight-year- old Springfield boy fell
under large stone team on Saturday
afternoon, and had his head crushed.
This is the second fatal accident of the
kind which has happened in the town
within two years.
1t is understood that the work of lay
ing steel rails over the track of the
Central Vermont will be resumed at
once, and extended from Montpelier
(where it was suspended at the close Of
last season) to White River Junction.
At Taftsville, one Barrett has been
sick for the three months with conges.
ton of the lungs and complication Of
other diseases, and his wife has aban
doned him, while no one has called tt
see him, or render any assistance.
The will of the late H. E. Bradford
of Benningt gives $4,000 to hi
, widow, his manufacturing property t
two sons, $4,000 each to his tw,
= daughters, and makes several $1,000
i requests to worthy relatives and friends
The corner stone of the building
b erected by Col. N, L. Sprague, of Bran
e don, for the Farmers Club, was lait
o. last Saturday, addresses being made b.
Col. N. T. Sprague, Prof J. S. Cilley
S. P. June, E. H. Griswold and H. II
Merritt.
The residence of Hon. George W
a Harmon of Bennington, VT, was enter
IS ed by masked burglars Tuesday nigh
o the family gagged and bound, and th
house ransacked and robbed of gol
. watch and over hundred dollars i
'r money.
70 J. H. Tracy of Woodstock was sever,
D ly injured Tuesday. His cattle starte
is to run and in attempting to step upo
n the cart tongue behind them he made
: mistep and fell and was run over. Or
W cheek bone broken and his face consi,
N erably lacerated.
DR.. S. W. Thayer of Burlington, wi
a sued the city for $4,000 damages fl
- injury caused to his property and tt
- health of his family by an open sew
s, near his residence, has been awardt
n only $766.66 damages. The case wi
s. 60 to the supreme court.
in Diphtheria is still continuing
~ frightful ravages at Ferrisburgh. E
ward Garapee lost fve-year-old gi
~ by the disease on Monday of last wee
Oh and an eighteen months boy on Tuesda
t. and still has SIC children sick, three
90 them very dangerously.
ia The annual meeting of the Vermo
,u Editorial Association will be held
:" June, in Brandon. The literary exc
;" cises will consist of an address by D.
in Camp, of the Newport Express, and
les poem by Mrs Julia G. R. Dorr, of Ri
ms land An excursion to Lake Dunno
:. will be among the attractions of the ]
union.
a. BUTTER MARKET-At the st. Alba
on butter market, Tuesday. advices we
7as received from Boston not to pay or
ed twenty-five or twenty-three cents for
&c article. Sales were made of common
good at from twelve to fifteen cen
We good to choice at from eighteen to TIVE
Ire ty-three cents, while selections ran
81 high as twenty-four cents per pound.
Burlington has just had an illumin
10 ed town clock placed in the tower
:, of the College street church, which
IKE one of the finest of its class, and |
les only one of the kind in the State. I
len dials, which are five feet four inches
f. diameter, are of ground glass. with bla
- hands and figures. and are lighted
0'' gas jets. By an ingenious arrangems
ing the gas is turned on. and lighted, a
cir turned off by the clock itself at a
the hours desired.
vas Not long before Ben Wade's last si'