Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-05-26
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
The prospects for fruit seem good.

The prospects for fruit seem good.
The May term of the Windsor County
Court begins Tuesday next.
Mrs. Luther Cady of Quechee, has a
sword cactus that has ninety buds.
j. S. Paddlefoot of Hartford, lost |
about thirty sheep the other night by
dogs.
Mrs. jeremiah Sanborn, the oldest |
resident of Bradford, died lately at the
age Of ninety-one years.
A Guilford dog, a few days since,
killed five black snakes measuring from
IL to 6 feet in length.
People engaged in planting report the
ground full of insect life. especially the
large white grub, and cut-worms.
DR.. Middleton Goldsmith has given
his medical and scientific library to the
Rutland County Medical and Surgical
Society.
The annual convention of the Protest
ant Episcopal church is to be held at
Emanuel church, Bellows Falls, Vt,
June 18th, next.
The checker tournament at st. Adams
has closed-Colonel c. D. Gates, of
Cambridge, having won the champion
ship of the state.
The granite business in Barre is -four
ishing. There are seven stone shops in
the town and over 100 men will be en-
ployed this summer.
A note from Secretary Clark says the
Vermont State Fair has been located at
Montpelier for three years. The fair
for 1879 will be held September 8, 10
and IL.
The largest single consignment of
lumber, this year, was received by Bron-
sons, Weston, Durham & Co., of Bur-
lington, the other day-four barges laden
with 100000 feet.
Chas. Haywood of Springfield, made
remarkable shot the past winter while
hunting foxes. Firing just at the op-
perfume moment, when huddled together,
eight foxes were killed at one shot.
At South Burlington, Monday after
noon, Mrs. Mary E. Landon committed
suicide by throwing herself into a els
tern. She was 81 years of age and had
been out of her mind for some months
past.
A grade Durham cow belonging to
James Milham of Shelburn, has brought
forth three heifer calves. All three are
bright and lively and all marked exact
ly alike. The three weigh one hundred
pounds.
Charles Coleman of Londonderry, has
a calf, now several days old, with only
three legs. 1t is apparently in healthy
condition, and Mr.. Coleman will raise it
if possible. The right fore leg and
shoulder is entirely absent.
The eighty-fourth annual meeting of
the General Convention of Congregation
al ministers and churches of Vermont,
will be held at Burlington, in the Col.
lege street church, commencing June
10th, at two o'clock p. m.
The body of Oscar Remington. drown
ed in Otter Creek three weeks ago, was
found in Otter Greek, about one quarter
of mile from where he drove into the
water. The body was not decomposeG
enough to prevent positive Identification
A temperance pledge, written and
signed in 1910, to which is appended
520 names, has lately come to the from
in Castleton, after being in obscurity
for 20 years. Only about so of the in
dividuals whose names follow this pledg,
F are living.
BUTTER MARKET.-At the st. Alban
: butter market, Tuesday, there was
/ larger attendance than usual, and con
siderable quantity delivered. Their
were no common or low grades offered
, Extra fine sold at from ten to clever
cents; fancy grades sold at thirtee1
cents per pound.
The 100000 mortgage on the ST
8 Adams Iron and Steel Works has bee
0 cancelled, thus removing the last em
barrassment in carrying out the ney
compromise arrangement. The mill will
start on full time very soon, with heav
orders and encouraging prospects. Ed
> ward A. Smith will be active manager.
o Laliberti, the till tapping barber o
Burlington, has been taken to the Hous
o of Correction to serve term of one hun
dred and thirty days, his father hav
ing failed to pay the fine and costs i
the case. He can't steal there, unless
! perhaps, he follows the fashion adopte
), there of late, and steals aaoay
d A Richmond farmer recently had oc
casion to leave two-quart basin full c
+ large board nails at the end of
hollow tree some four feet from tn
; ground. A day or two ago the nail
were wanted, and on going after thel
. every one was found on the ground, an
a robins nest in the basin with tire
eggs in it.
= Mrs. Francis F. Washburn of Roche:
. ter, died few days ago from the efee
. of a blow received from spring be
= frame which tipped over and struck he
on the head as she was setting rool
to rights about week previous. Th
p blow, though painful, was not at fir.
'e deemed to be serious, but resulted
o Inflammation which extended to tt
ii brain.
ID Judge Calvin French of Proctorsvill
died about midnight of Wednesday, ;
l. the age of seventy-nine years and SON
" months. Judge French received only
l. common school and academic educatio
rs teaching during the winter when /
re was a young man, and working on b
IS fathers farm summers till he began Il
study of law. He was admitted to tt
W Bar in 1886.
he While William Murray of Waite