Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-01-21
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

mas udu JuDllee over the raising OF the
$4,000 debt last year.
Thirty-fve persons became members
of the Congregational Church in Yer
gennes, on the 9th.
Lake Champlain is now closed from
Whitehall to Port Henry, and from
Cumberland Head northward.
The Bennington Battle Monument
Association have already received $27,-
600 and more is still coming.
John Hull was killed at South Roy
alton the 9th, by tree falling upon
him while he was chopping wood.
BUTTER MARKET.-At the St. Adams
butter market. Tuesday, winter butter
sold at from eighteen to twenty-three
cents, and fall selections at thirty cents
per pound.
The Misses Park. according to their
usual custom, distributed among the
poorer people of Bennington nearly three
hundred dollars in value, in substantial
presents. during the holidays.
On Wednesday. Jan. 8, Mrs. Phebe
Ann Otis committed suicide at the resi-
dence of her father, James S. Furniss, at
Colchester Center, by shooting herself
through the head with revolver.
Seymour Harris, of Morrisville, made
from fourteen cows last year, 400
pounds of butter. His COWS had moth
ing but grass in the pasture from the
25th of May until the 10th of August
Jack Carroll, of Enosburgh Falls,
was run over by train of cars last
Saturday evening, and instantly killed.
He was section man, 80 years old,
and was to have been married the fol-
lowing day.
There died in West Haven, Rutland
county, VT. aged Sc, John Francisco a
veteran of the war Of 1912, and. it is
stated, Horace Greeley's first teacher.
He had lived on the same farm for six
ty-eight years. !.
The Free Press states that the diff
culties between the Burlington & La
noble and Portland & Ogdensburg rail-
roads are adjusted and hereafter close
connections will be made at Cambridge
Junction for all points east.
| L. 2. Clark, of Addison, has sold one
half interest in Spanish Merino ram
and six ewes to E. Townshend, of Paw
ilion, N. T., for So, $50. The price was
at the rate of $4,000 for the ram, and
and $500 for each of the ewes.
The Vermont Valley railroad have
brought suit against the Central Yer
mont for Sl29.000. It is about as diff
fcult to keep track of the railroad suits
in Vermont as it is the PROCESS and bat
ties of the Turko- Russian war.
The Vermont reform school managers
are complaining of overcrowding. Only
1l6 boys and l6 girls can be accommo
dated comfortably. but there are now
, l34 boys and IL girls, and disagreeable
shifts have to be employed to lodge
them.
The farmers of Grand Isle, the island
county, are evidently very thrifty
class. The products of their farms tn,
past year would have given to each per
{ son 80 bushels of grain, As of oats, Il
potatoes, Is of apples, 70 pounds o
! butter, 26 dozen of eggs and 80 pound
of WOOL
States Attorney Norman Paul o
e Windsor county has paid into the treas
: ury over $1,000 for fines, costs, forfeit
r ures, ETC., during the present term 0
the county court-more than enough t
pay the total expenses of the court for
Z year, and thing without precedent i
t this state.
d The sixth annual meeting of the Cor
r necticut River Valley Masonic Unior
e comprising three hundred and sixt
members, occurred at st. Johnsbury las
. week. A large number of the fratern
% ty and prominent members of the orde
d were present. A business meeting wa
If held, with President Paine of Windsc
10 in the chair, concluding with the eleC
ton of officers of the ensuing year.
% Mr.. George R. Chapman left for
thousand dollars of life insurance in til
: Connecticut General Life Insurant
r. Company for the benefit of his wife, an
e. three thousand dollars in the Vernon
le Life Company of Burlington. for til
n benefit of his mother. Mr.. Chapman
: mother was daughter of the late Jaco
J Amidon, of Mortified, where she hs
/ many friends now living.
e. G.. A. Bell, of Fairfax, was marie
on New Years day to Nellie G. Robil
son, of Swanton. The newly marie
couple went on their wedding trip
10 Montreal, and while stopping at the A
80 bion House Mr.. Bell found himse
- stricken with paralysis of the left l.
a and arm. He was at once taken to h
=, brothers at Rutland, but arrived the
= in helpless condition, and died la
= week Wednesday.
~ John Hall young man about thir
: years old, was killed in the woods ne;
re South Royalton, Wednesday. 9th ms
While chopping off log the tree beg;
to swing around. He jumped from Il
u, log to escape being thrown and steppil
% backward his foot caught and he fell
re, re position to have the log strike hi
nc breaking both legs above the knee al
el causing other injuries which resulted
on his death in about two hours afterwarc
He leaves wife and two children.
tes Vermont has another revolving abe
M ton case. this time at Brandon, whe
al Mrs. Julia F. Moore, alias Donah,
led under arrest, charged with being a re
,rd ular abortionist and having commit
ao- abortion on six women, the last of whC
mt lies in critical condition. Mrs. Moo
eff is about 35 years old and former
at. married to Moses Tatro, notorio
criminal sentenced to the state prison
number of years ago, and was divorc
is and married to her present husband.