Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-04-15
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

is seriously ill with pneumonia.
Brattleboro pays $50 per year for the
tuition of three scholars in Greek.
Brattleboro is to have poultry and
pet stock exhibition, the coming season.
$1,000 monument has been erected
at Mortified to the memory of ex-Gov.
Charles Paine.
The North Bennington boot and shoe
company have suspended. Liabilities
not yet known.
i Shoreham has fifty year-old horse
with something of the vigor of youth
still surviving.
A brother of Hon. E. J. Phelps of
Burlington has just been appointed to
the bench in Iowa.
The Norrisville Manufacturing Com
pany has been sued for $4,000, and, it
is thought will have to suspend.
During sixteen years position as track
walker William Burke. of Castleton,
has walked one hundred and thirteen
thousand nine hundred miles.
An adopted son of H. J. Rood of
| Brook6eld, aged 8 years, fell into a pan
Of boiling sap Monday, and was so bad
| " scalded that he died on Tuesday.
! Joseph Russell, the blacksmith at
East Concord, has eloped with the wife
of MIR. Paro Russell leaves wife and
three children. and shop and good bus
mess.
The Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance
company celebrated its 50th anniversary
on Monday last, having been originally
organized for business March 3lst.
1928.
Mr.. L. L. Tucker, South Newbury, is
the owner Of seven sheep which have 10
lambs; FIVE of the sheep had twins and
two had triplets, one of the triplets
died.
w. Jones, of CRANKY, claims to have
trapped very large catamount in Um-
peer mountain. The animal succeeded
in breaking the chain and carrying off a
heavy trap.
A Springfield preacher electrified his
congregation, on Sunday, by reading
half of the last Thanksgiving proclama-
tion before discovering it was not the
one intended for Fast Day.
At Hartford, the other day, Miss Ma
bel Gibbs. aged 70 years, was so excit-
ed by visit from brother whom she
had not seen for twenty years, that she
, died before she could speak.
A barn in Underhill, owned by Palm
er Irish and occupied by L. B. Parker,
was burned the Sd. with fifteen COWS
and several young cattle and sheep. The
building was insured, but Mr.. Parker
t had no insurance on the stock.
0 Hon. S. S. Pike, of johnson, died
s Friday before last, aged 60 years. Judge
Pike was native and life long resident
of Lamoille county, had held many off
ces of honor and trust in the county ane
: town. and was universally esteemed.
d At the States Prison, at Windsor
: some 1900 pairs of shoes are mad
j. daily, by the l61 convicts. The worl
|, is all done by the convicts, save tn
> sewing, which is done outside, in a sho]
!, adjoining, employing some forty girls.
d BUTTER MARKEr.-The St. Alban
: butter market, Tuesday, was dull. Com
n mon grades sold at from eighteen t
i twenty cents, good to choice at fror
y twenty-one to twenty-six cents, and Sc
lections at twenty seven cents per pound
upon the monument to Capt. job
Smith and wife at West Newbury, it i
recorded that they "lived together i
the married state ~ years." he dyin
in his Oath year, and she in her So
Sc year within few months of each other
Quite gang of burglars and burglar
re esses have lately been arrested at Man
~ chester, and bound over, as follows
Fred Woodward, the ringleader. is ur
u der $4,000; William Dunbar, "High
N Kent and Mrs. NJ. J. Dunbar, $500
es Mary Dunbar, $50.
d The Poets Journal is the name of
j. new periodical to be published in Bul
- lington, the first number of which wi
: appear about June l. 1t will be devot
- ed exclusively to the interests of poet
1t and lovers of poetry, and all article
he will be original.
of Two large blocks of granite. weighin
II eight and eleven tons respectively, hay
!. recently been q uarried at John Bigelow
y granite ledge, in Barre, and sent to Ru
" land by railroad. six pairs of horses an
O. three yokes of oxen being used in draw
B. ing the larger one to the depot,
& Michael Gregg, of St. Adams. l
X years old, while attempting to get on
/. moving freight train last week Wedne
A. day, fell between the cars and had h
D. left arm cut off just below the shoulde
!; The next day Policeman Sullivan arres
ed boy named Thomas, who persiste
To in getting on trains.
= Van Dyke & Merrill. of McIndoe
= Falls, have let the job of running lO
" 100000 of lumber to their boom be
he to Isaac Bowman. MIR. Bowman b
IS contracts from different parties to dri,
40.0O0,O0O Of lumber down the Come
= ticut river this spring. Some to
~ driven as far as Hartford Conn.
W Prof. Cressy delivered two very alb
OF and instructive lectures on Veterinal
!. Science, at Enosburgh Falls, on We
by nesday afternoon and evening, April
eIl to large and intelligent audiences.
:. the evening he spoke for nearly tv
:" hours on the diseases of the horse, sue
ne as splint, spawn and ringbone, al
showed the location of each from par
IN of skeleton which he procured aft
bo his arrival here.
,se The body of R. G. Jordan of We
s, Roxbury, Mass, who has been missil
nu about three months, and whom a rewa
. was offered at the time, has Just be-