Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-11
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

SncceCl Olduv VI DTdQIOEO Has Deeu
held in the sum of $500, for an assault
upon his wife.
Burlington and St. Adams. have es-
tablished telephone connections, and
are pleasantly talking together.
FIX. Gov. John Gregory Smith will de-
liver the address at the next fair Of the
White River Agricultural Society at
Bethel in September.
The expenses of the town of Stannard,
in Caledonia county. last year, were only
$l23, which included the support of one
pauper, which cost $42.
The final arrangements have been made
for wrestling match for $1,000 a side
between John Mcmahon of New York
and James Owens of Fairfield, Vermont.
Vermonters and New Workers are to
join in a grand celebration of the ami
versary of the battle of Lake Champlain
at Pittsburgh, New York, September
18th.
There are 1872 Congregational minis
tiers in Vermont, of whom sixty are pas
tors, eighty-six acting pastors, and about
one fourth of the whole number are
without pulpit charges.
Of the $9,5O0,OOO appropriated by
congress for river and harbor improve
ments, Vermont's share is $4,000, of
which Burlington harbor gets $4,000,
Swanton harbor $4,000 and Otter Creek
| $4,000.
On Sunday before last Rev. M. H.
| Harris organized Universalist church
at Vernon, with 81 members, of whom
is almost 81 years of age, was one of the
number who were baptized.
1t seems to be generally conceded By
all who are in a position to know, that
the rush of visitors to the White Noun
tains is unprecedented this season, the
number being long way ahead of any
thing that has been noted in the past.
Clark French, employed by Mrs. Dan
lei Taft at Barre, was seriously kicked
by colt which he was beating the other
day. His nose was broken, an eye
| knocked out and his forehead crushed
in, so that l l pieces of bone have been
removed.
At Stowe recently Miss Brown was
reading in bed, holding the light in her
hand, when she fell asleep and dropped
the lamp on the bed, setting the clothes
on fire. Assistance came in time to save
her life, but her back was blistered near.
ly the entire length.
BUTTER MARKET.-At st. Adams Tues
day, there was better attendance and
larger receipts. Prices remain abou
the same as last week. Market dull ex
cept for choice lots. We quote butte
, at. from eight to twelve cents per pound
selections, thirteen cents.
Four carloads of sheep started from
Middlebury for Texas Thursday morn
ing. Junius Severance takes two o
; them. Ira Doty goes via Illinois will
one of them and Texas gentleman goe
with the other. This might be calle,
Inauguration of the fall trade in Spanisl
Merino sheep.
Ex- Lieutenant Governor Levi Under
: wood has left the insane asylum at Con
cord, New Hampshire, and is now stop
n ping at Wells River with Cashier Georg
n Leslie. He is in excellent physical healt
3 and has for some time been allowed
60 about Concord without an attendan
or any physical restraint.
The Vermont Mutual Fire Insuranc
. Company have declared an annual az
Il sessment of five per cent. and the Unio
e Mutual one Of four and ne.half DC
n cent. The Farmers Mutual have ne
. yet held their annual meeting for NAL
i ling up their assessment. The past yea
'e has been one of extraordinary hardshi
d to these companies, their losses bein
8 very numerous and heavy.
y Twenty persons united with IL
Methodist church at Fairhaven last SUI
day, portion of the fruit of the lab,
of Mrs. Hammond with the churcl
There were some seventy five who we
: converted among whom were skeptic
he in6dels and disbelievers of all grade
r. A correspondent says no such work b;
70 been done in Fairhaven since 1872
!, when there was the great awakeniI
:" under the preaching of Mr.. Drury al
:; Willard Child.
70 Our venerable townsman, MIR. En-
BIT Blinn, Tuesday morning started to ent
J" a closet at his residence, on Pearl stree
10 but opeued the wrong door and fe
down the cellar stairs, at the foot
~ which he was subsequently found in !;
ID unconscious condition. Medical aid w
ps at once summoned, but his injuries we
q. so severe and the shock to his system
~ great that he died in few hours. N
Blinn was one of the oldest of our CT
~ zens. and was we'll known througho
r; the community. He was in his SD yea
or Free Press. 1ss'
lie, The workshop at the House of Ct
IT, rection is nearly completed. The wa
az of this shop are twelve inches thick wi
:. l6 inch pilasters the roof is slated a
az will be surmounted with three cupola
nd the windows are large and strong
i'd grated. There will be two doors, ca
T of which are double and of iron. I
workshop is surrounded by board fer
Is feet high. 1t is understood that tt
De- shop and the prison labor is leased
Ter Mr.. Brown of Lee, Mass, who will We
lid in marble. The prisoners are engag
10 in finishing the workshop. ditching
g water-pipe to, convey water to this sh
" and grading the grounds south of I
W. House of Correction.
nd Rev. John Morse, pastor of the Me
odist church at West Concord, appe
to the preachers of the Vermont Conf
Tor ence and friends of Christ in referel
The to the local church. The mortgage
his $4,000 has been foreclosed, and