Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-06-17
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Joel Dingman of Montgomery was
kicked by horse the 9th inst, and
died in short time
The widow of ]. Sullivan Adams
died at Jacksonville, Fla, the 9th, of
typho malarial fever.
Hon. W. H. II. Bingham will proba-
bly, receive the democratic nomination
for governor again this year.
An Episcopal church has recently
been organized at Grand Isle. with Rev.
Charles Fay, D. D., as rector.
A son of P. Barrett, of Cambridge,
has just died from injuries received
while wrestling nine months ago.
A Miss Higgins, of Eden, was alarmed
the other night by party of serenaders,
and fell down stairs breaking her jaw
and several teeth.
Lewis Talcott, of Williston, has a
dairy of two hundred COWS, from which
he at present makes twenty eight cheeses
day. at an average of fifty pounds
each.
4. West u Brother, chair manufactu-
rers of Arlington, have just suspended,
and their failure involves great many
people. Their liabilities are 100000,
and assets $4,000.
The surviving members of the Six
teenth Vermont Regiment are to cele-
brate the fifteenth anniversary of the
battle of Gettysburg by reunion at
Chester on the 3rd of July.
The Free Press gives the following
report of the Burlington assessors: Ag-
gregate grand list. $50. s05.42 num-
Der of polls, 1866; number of fremen,
2l9; total valuation of real estate, ST.
GIG. 404,.0 Oh; total personal property.
$500. 637.37.
Charles ?. Chamberlain, of Groton,
a young man eighteen years of age, was
seriously injured the other morning
while digging gum in the woods. An
iron chisel fell from limb of tree,
fifteen feet from the ground, striking
Chamberlain upon the head and render.
ing him unconscious.
During the progress of dance at the
Portland House, Sheldon, last week
Wednesday evening, a large kerosene
chandelier fell to the floor. The lamps
exploded and the oil, spreading over the
carpet, was ignited and threatened to
destroy the house; the male members
of the party. however, rallied. and sue.
ceeded in checking the fire before much
damage was done.
Rev. James Dougherty, D. d., died
at johnson, the 10th, aged 80 years.
He was graduate of the University Of
Vermont of the class of 1880, and re.
ceived the degree of D. D. from the Uni.
versity in 1864. He was pastor of the
Congregational church in Milton fol
some years, and for % years or more
thereafter was pastor of the church il
Johnson.
George H Gilbert, of Dorset. VT, il
the graduating class of rs, Dartmouth
marks one, being the fourth in the his
tory of Dartmouth who has ranked per
feet Rufus Choate was the first. anC
he was followed by Professor John Put
nam as the seconde Justin HI. Smith
of Norwich. Vt, secretary to the Hon
John D. Philbrick, of Boston, Commits
sioner on Education to Paris Exposition
was the last prior to Gilbert. and wai
in the class of III.
The Free Press says the frost die
much damage in Chittenden county
..In some places in Addison county
Starksboro, Bristol, Lincoln and othe
towns-many gardens and potato field
were so injured as to render secont
planting necessary, and in a few local.
ties water was frozen-slightly 0
course. The mountains to the south o
{ US were whitened with snow and alto
gether things are looking decidedly win
try"