Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-05-19
Local News.
dLBANY.


S. F. Phelps has moved on to his farm
the west hill.
T. W. Patterson, of Craftsbury, has
arted his meat cart.
Henry Hayden is making quite extern
We repairs on the house and barns
tely purchased of H. A. McClary.
Hay is being fed out pretty close, al
ough few weeks ago it was thought
at quite quantity would be summer
over.
The Reform Club adjourned to meet
me time in September. Meanwhile
none of us get drunk, or in any way
olate the pledge we have taken.
Some weeks ago we announced the
lrder Of Mr.. and Mrs. Dennis Hight,
ar Port Townsend. Washington Terrific
The following particulars of this afro
bus crime are given by Mr.. L. B.
lstings, of that town, who we think
8 relatives in this place. We give
tracts from private letter. Mr. Hight
'merly lived in Albany, Vt. Mr.
ght and wife lived about four miles
IN the village of Port Townsend. They
re living on farm that Mr.. Hight
d improved and owned. Their MUIR
r appears this wise: Mr.. Hight il
Ems was going from the house with
milk bucket to milk his cows, and
s shot with a double barreled shot
n by some vile wretch who was hiC
ar the stable. We Judge that his
fe hearing the report of the gun, came
to see what was the trouble and was
pt like her husband. The people here
nix that she was not killed instantly
cause her body was mutilated with /;
ife. The cruel part of said murder
yet to be related. Mr.. Hight and wifi
ed some distance from any neighbors
Prefore the bodies were not found fol
enty-four hours or more after thei
lth. They had two little children
re babies. one about two years old
other few months old. The par
5 that found the bodies went into tn,
use, and there were the little children
Oldest was tied up in q chair, tn,
er lay in a cradle. The condition O
se dear little children was sad, ant
ir suffering must have been yer,
ere. The Judge of Probate 500
pointed guardians for them, and the
now provided for. Nothing has bee
Veloped to give US any clue to tn
lrderers. Two persons were put i
Jail and remained there some thre
nths from the the time of murder
til the Governing of the district cour
G two were then discharged, there nc
ng any proof against them, only
tie circumstantial evidence. | hav
own Dennis Hight at least II years
| remember correctly, he stated to mt
It be had relatives In the norther
It of Vermont, and had not write
me for many years. l have ofte
sed him to write to his relatives, b.
o not think that he ever did. NJ
ght was quite large man, not give
talk. He came from California her
elieve. He had been married son
years-his wife was twenty or mo-
IRIS younger than himself. His wi
a very resolute little woman
iedonian.
SOUTH ALBANY.
VIM. McCaffrey came near losing h
Bar house one day last week, from Fl
ming in the woods.
Joseph Holmes of Waterville bong
Soloman Orne the J. P. Aver plae
'sisting of house, barn and six acr
land. Price paid, 5000.
EAST ALBANY.
Carlos Monkey, the veteran pump-l
er, has put down sixty-fve mil
logs within the past few veal
! proposes to lay several miles
leduct this season. He does 90
* every time.
BARTON.
See the announcement about Sh,
d shawls made by Owen.
Attend the closing exercises at [
DOL house Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. Phelps will preach at the sch,
Use in the Trip district next Sund
3:3O p. m.
New Hampshire passed one law,