Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-08-04
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

4 Col. Charles H. Joyce is at his home
in Rutland.
Senator Justin S. Morrill, is spending
the summer at his home in STAFFORD.
Senator NJ. H. Carpenter is visiting
his father-in-law, Hon. Paul Dillingham;,
in Waterbury.
H. W. Love saucy and ugly editor
in Burlington was recently badly clicked
by a man he had abused in his paper.
Ira V. White, who committed suicide
at Chester. Friday. was father of Her.
bert 0. White, who was murdered by
Gravelin.
The Sunday Crucible was but is not.
A Sunday paper has not as yet become
Vermont necessity. There are enough
of the other sort.
The Messenger states that Emma
Sands, the girl who got her name into
the paper, by mysterious disappearance
= A4;Il IN iueane oonditiou.
BUTTER NARKET.-At the st. Adams
market on Tuesday selections sold at
thirteen cents per pound, but the bulk
of the sales were made at twelve cents.
A tax of ten cents on a dollar has
been assessed on the ratable estate of
Essex county, for the purpose of meet
ing the deficiency IN the treasury of that
county.
Among the distinguished arrivals at
the Memphremagog House. we notice
that of U. S. Grant, jun.-son of ex-
President Grant-who made short stop
on Tuesday.
Seven. years-old Clinton Cummings,
while fishing in the river at Bolton, on
Thursday of week before last. fell in and
was drowned. At last accounts his body
had not been recovered.
Gov. Talbot of Massachusetts, with
two of his brothers, made a brief visit
to Dandy the other day, seeking the
burial place of their father, who died
there over fifty years ago.
Gilbert Child, a prominent and sue
cessful young merchant of Wells River
was found dead in bed at the Cossucl
House on Tuesday morning. On Monday
he was in perfect health and probably
died of disease of the brain. An exam
ination will be made.
Good Templars of Mortified made
raid on the rum. sellers of that villag
one night recently. Five places wer
''raided," and in four of them liquo
was found and seized. The temperate
people down that way are getting rouse,
and mean to make it lively for the run
dealers. asi
At Newbury, the other day. Will
digging off the bank on the top of tn
hill near the old fort of revolutionar
fame, some men unearthe1 the skeleto
of an indian. which was buried in a
upright position. Judging from the shap
of the skull it is thought to be one {
tribe of Flatheads.
A grand temperance camp meeting
to be held at Mortified, Vt, Tuesda,
/ Wednesday and Thursday, August /!
, 20. and 81, next. Several prominer
E gentlemen have been engaged to addre'
the meeting. among them Miss France
Willard. Ex- Lieut. Gov. Geo. N. Dali
t Rev. C. c. Frost, of Conn, Gov. Hea
= of New Hampshire is also expected
e There will be music and the railroad
will carry for fare one way.
i, A fire broke out in the hardware an
furniture store of J. A. Burleigh & Sol
Waterbury, Monday, which was d
! stroyed. Nothing was saved. Loss G
r the building. $4,000; on goods. $4,000
: insured in several stock companies fl
$4,000. The fire spread, and had it n
been that there was no wind and Il
: buildings were wet with the recent rain
: more than half the village would doub
# less have been consumed. NJ. M. Knight
!. dry goods store, dwelling and barn
worth $4,000; insured for $500. H
= stock of goods, worth $4,000. al
u household furniture, was nearly all save
}, Frank B.. Taylor. groceries. buildir
!, worth $4,000. and goods worth $500
= insured for $500; some of his goo
were saved. NJ. O. Evans, drugs al
= medicines, store and contents wor
d $4,000. More than one half of the goo
le were saved. Watts block, G. e. w
l. mans store and the dwelling house
]. Griggs were saved by the freme
= though somewhat scorched and damage
- Samuel Merrill. living in rooms ov
B. Evans store. lost all his household fl
ne niture, and had no insurance.