Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-06-16
nich will be a great convenience to the

village.
Mr.. Raymond of the Passumpsic R. R.
is making improvements in and about
the Memphremagog House, the wharf
and the depot, and is building roads to
and improving the beautiful site known
as Prospect Hill.
We recently spoke of the orchard farm
of DR.. Hoskins, which lies on the east
side of Memphremagog near Newport,
and take little space this time to speak
of the operations of Thomas Farrant, who
lives on the other side of the lake. Mr..
Farrant is an Englishman who has de-
voted his life to gardening and foricul-
ture, and is probably the best informed
on these matters of anybody in this Sec
ton. He built a large glass hot-house,
some years ago, and began the culture of
large variety of garden and house
plants, which were, before he began, rare
or unknown in this vicinity. At Stan
stead he has another dollhouse, and in
these grows thousands of plants which
are ready for sale in the spring and early
summer. Many of them have been sold
and others are contracted for, but humid
reds remain, which are now in rich
bloom. 1t will pay one who has love
for plants to visit these gardens at this
time of year. Among those which are
grown in greatest profusion are roses,
geraniums, begonias, coleas, fuchsias,
verbenas, pelagoniums, ferns, carnations,
callas, heliotropes-but we can mention
only few. There are also lots of annu-
ais, such as stocks, asters, phlox, scabi-
osias and zinnias. Mr.. Farrant occas-
ionally sends a team about the county
with these plants for sale, but those who
have no better facilities for obtaining
them can get them in safe condition by
addressing Mr.. Farrant, either at New
port or Stanstead. They will be sent
safely by express.
NEWPORT CENTER.
Fred Lawson has hired the Lutte Elan
ders residence and has taken possession.
Frank Adams had good horse killed
last Friday, by the 9 o'clock p. m. train.
David Rollins has moved with his fam
lily into an old house adjoining the field
where Dave thinks the kettle of gold is
buried.
Josiah Crawford has taken job to
build a portion Of the new road, leading
from Sewell Rogers to Mr.. Flint's on
the Burlington road, for 68 cents rod.
Rev. A. H. Hancock of Coventry, will
preach at the school house in district
No. 4, on Sunday the 22d inst Rumor
says that Mr.. Stone will be present to
oppose him, if he should preach an anti
Seventh day Sermon.
Some good somebody is little riled
at what appeared in these items, in re-
gard to Mr.. -Hancock's stirring up the
Seventh Day people, in recent sermon.
Keep your temper friends. Religion is
not thing of one tenet, but is founded
on the broad principle of love toward
God and our neighbors.
SALEM
Daniel Kilbourn is peddling for E.
W. Parlin.
Mrs. Horace Crandall has gone West
to visit her only daughter in Usage, Iowa.
Harvey Foss and Al. Lyon having had
trouble, agreed to meet on certain day
and fight it out. They met, had bloody
hand to hand encounter, Foss getting
badly beaten and pounded up. He will
not want another fight for few days.
SOUTH TROY.
John w. Currier and Rufus Harvey
have sold a Mr.. Damon of Richford, F.;
farm near this village for $500, cash.
Maynard Carpenter who, less thar
a year ago, went West to try his fortune
has returned home. The fever and agu
brought him.
Considerable damage has been don
q by frosts in this vicinity. In many in
3 stances farmers have re-planted Who'll
p fields of corn. With the potato bugs
wire worms and frosts, crops do no
: promise we'll.
o WESIMORE.
o We were glad to see Deacon Hunt a
r meeting again.
Fishing continues lively and wit
good success.
r Warren Daniels has got situation i
e telegraph office at st. Johnsbury Gen
ire.
g Sabbath school was reorganized tn
1; 9th inst. S. A. Hunt was chosen ST
e perintendent.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The Newark diphtheria scourge
is still prevailing, and three persons die
last week. Mrs. Ephraim Fairbanl
- died on Sunday, and her little chill
- about two years of age, later in the wee
L One child died in East Haven, wi
took the disease of boy who had bee
sick in Newark and went to East Have
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