Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-03-03
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Twenty applications for divorce have
been filed for hearing at the March term
of the Rutland county court.
The Governor of Colorado has ap-
pointed Capt. M. B. Carpenter, formerly
of st. Adams, as military secretary.
Salisbury has just had a lawsuit
wherein the plaintiff claimed twenty
five cents and was awarded thirteen.
Some one, who has been figuring it
up, says that sixty commercial agents
were last year travelling for Burlington
houses.
Senator Morrill, is reported as saying
that he knows of man who is entitled
to $4,000 under the arrears of PEN
sions bill.
Dwinnell's Hotel at Eden and all its
contents was entirely consumed by fire
last Tuesday night. Loss about $1,000;
no insurance.
Last Sunday morning the house of
George Palmer, Of Fairhaven, was burn
ed, with the contents of the chambers.
Insured for $1,000.
E. Stockwell of Jonesville, captured
bear short time ago weighing four
hundred pounds. In all, he has en-
trapped or killed 80 in that vicinity.
BUTTER MARKET.-At the st. Adams
butter market on Tuesday, the receipts
were light and market dull. Prices
ranged from ten to twenty-five cents per
pound, according to quality.
A three-year-old daughter Of Peter
| Gerard of Burlington, was so scalded
Saturday, that she died next morning.
A servant left the child alone in room
with a pail Of hot water, into which the
child fell.
James Collins, laborer, fell from a
construction train on the Rutland divis-
ion of the Central Vermont Railroad on
the Goth, and was instantly killed. Col
Inns lived in Rutland, and leaves wife
and three children.
Miss Mary S. Knowles, of Farnham,
P. O., the Quaker evangelist, who has
been so successful in Johnson and other
towns in this State, has just commenced
a series of revival meetings at the NJ.
E. church, ST. Adams.
A running race for $1,000 and the
championship has been arranged between
Norman Taylor of Woodstock, this state,
and John Raine of Toronto, the race to
take place either in New York or Bos.
ton the first week in March,
Horace Prentiss, formerly of Williston
but who has lived for some time il
Westford, was killed while chopping of
a stub on which another tree was LODGED
striking him on the head. aud infictins
injuries from which he died three hour
after being carried home. Mr.. Prentis
was about 80 years old, and leaves ;
wife and two or three children.
Thirteen years ago Ella A. Mills, 0
Johnson, then 16 years old, went t
Manchester, N. H., to work in the facto
ry. Since that time she has saved iron
her earnings S2l00, and short tim
ago, finding her father struggling wit
a farm on which was $1,000 mortgage
she had the property decided and record
ed to her. and life lease transferred
her parents.
Fair Haven had an $18,45O fire O.
Thursday evening of last week. the in
surance being $4,000. The prlncipa
losers are: Thomas Hughes. five tene
ments and block containing his boo
and shoe store. loss $4,000, insuranc
$1,000; J. T. Hughes dwelling an
millinery store, $4,000. insurance 50
800; Mrs. Carpenter. IS, 900. insuranc
$4,000; Frank Coleman, cigar store
loss $4,000. insurance $1,000; Kelley
building, where the fire started, 81 500
Hon. George P. Marsh, United State
Minister to Italy, writes home to hi
friends in Vermont that the weather i
Italy is unusually severe, and the poe
5 are suffering terribly in their stone hut
with no fireplaces and floors of eartl
6 Those who are fortunate enough to hav
!, stable (and cow sleep in it for til
l sake of the animal warmth. Mr.. Mars
once saw eight beds in the stable of
6 well TODD peasant not far from Turin
Thousands of laborers never have thei
feet dry or warm once in the course c
+. the whole winter.
? The Boston Journal has very SCUM
, article on newspapers. Among othe
, good things we quote the following
1.-The papers which feast on crime an
horrors. which serve up domestic scar
2 dals with every sensational accompan
e ment of detail and headline, these pa
pers are pretty clearly known and the
character understood" This is SO tru
: and so we'll said that the Journal need
e now only to whistle Carrigan off tn
e Phair scene. and order Legacy Smith
s "let up on Gravelin.-Rutla'ad Heratc
$ A correspondent of the Troy, IN. Y
Times writes as follows of Fairhave
farmer: "At Fairhaven we visited tn
J. farm of Charles W. Gardiner who make
f butter from Jersey COWS. Mr.. Caroline
sets his milk in pans four feet Ions
> twenty-five inches wide and six inche
deep. Ice water is made to run aroun
: the pans to cool the milk. His hea
S of nine cows averaged 317 IL pound
: of butter year. This is almost 20
pounds above the average in the Stat
; per cow. jersey COWS and cool mil
: make the success. He sells his butt,
as fast as made from five to ten cen
e above the market price. His COWS a.
fastened with a chain around the necl
as he thinks stanchions cruel, and
s does Mr.. Richards.
e "The Vermont Almanac and Regist,
It for the year of our Lord 1895" W;
e printed in Widsor Alden Spooner, an
contains 'a chapter on electioneering
from which we make the following e,
e tracts: This seems to be the prop,
e place to explain the philosophy of ele