Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-20
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

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rayer meetings.
Rev. Mrs. Perkins has just resigned d
he pastorate of the Universalist church s.
t West Concord.
The state dairymen's association t
olds its annual 10th winter meeting at S
Montpelier January %, % and "a. {
Twenty-Five persons. converts under
Mrs. Hammond's preaching. joined the
Methodist church, Vergennes, Jan 9Th. ,
Since the repeal of the national bank
ruptcy law, there have been eight cases
entered in the court of insolvency for
Franklin county.
A heavy business is reported at Grot-
on Pond, some $50 men employed. Saw
dust is being shipped to Boston, to be
used for packing ice.
Miss Mary Knowles, an evangelist
from Farnham, P. O., is winning golden
opinions in johnson and awakening
much religious interest.
G. W. Searls, the route agent between
St. Adams and Newport, who was sus-
pended on account of alleged immoral
conduct, has been re-instated.
BUTTER MARKET.-On Tuesday, at
St. Adams, winter butter sold at from
twelve to sixteen cents. and selected fall
ends at twenty-five cents per pound.
A St. Adams man nearly choked to
death recently by swallowing a false
tooth, but neighbor slapped him be-
tween the shoulders and he coughed it
| up.
Vermont has two hundred and fifty
grist mills at Sl,25O,OOO. The annual
yield of wheat in the state is estimated
at 1851 bushels, and of corn ,700.-
001 bushels.
Gov. Proctor is reported as saying
that .the house of correction must be
run on business principles, if it necessi-
tates the appointment of new superin-
tendent every week"
John L. French, merchant at Ches-
ter, has failed, with $4,000 liabilities
and So, 900 assets, all but 5000 Of his
Indebtedness being money borrowed of
people of Chester and vicinity.
Charlie Mac, trotter formerly fam
Gus in Chittenden county. and which
has trotted in 2:25, has been sold by
Boston man who has recently owned
him to New Yorker, for $4,000.
According to The Press. of Troy, N
Y, the Harlem Extension railroad, from
Bennington to Chatham, N. T., is run
: ming behind, its expenses being 500,
J 439, and its receipts S50, 1928.
) The wife of ex Governor Hiland Hal
. and mother of Mrs. Trenor w. Park
died at North Bennington last weel
Wednesday. But a few weeks sine
} they celebrated the sixtieth anniversar
S of marriage.
: Fayette Sheldon, of Jamaica, has bee
G amerced $50 for pulling out about 81
inches of the tongue of his horse, be
cause it refused to draw. This is non
{ too heavy sum for one brute to pay fc
o abusing another.
e H. G. Boardman, of Milton, has
large muskrat farm in the extensiv
# muskrat farm in the extensive marsht
near the mouth of the Lamoille Rive
where the seductive fowls have multi
IN piled so rapidly that a plentiful harve
At is anticipated
re Benjamin Dinsmore of Georgia Plai
err publishes an advertisement notifying Il
:. Signed fitE6 Che Temperance pledge, askir
" them not to sell him any more intoxica
u ing drinks. and warning them that
II, they do he will inform against them.
There was a touching circumstan
tn attending the funeral of Chauncey
W. Williams, late editor of the old Rutlal
of Globe His wife was Ill away fro
:. home, and the doctors forbade her bell
- carried back to attend the services,
the procession halted on the way to t
no church, while the remains were taken
he her bedside for her last farewell.
A meeting has been called in CONGO
MT to see what shall be done about
- town bonds. There are nine suits again
n L the town and all the moneyed men q
dy leaving. Personal property has be
on sent out of town and the farmers 6
,tv taking stock from other towns to Ike
od for pay. A majority of the bondhold,
~ have offered to take fifty per cent. a
Gu accrued interest.
le- At South Dorset. the other day, Jan
ad Burns assaulted and nearly kill
Ose Charles Reynolds, of Manchester Dep
of With a double whiffletree he stru
-, Reynolds three times, the first blow h
49, ting him in the forehead, cutting fe
'ok full cash, the second across the shoulc
and breaking some bones, and the tn
the on the back. Reynolds was picked
q for dead, but is still alive and it
&c thought will recover. Burns settled
'0'' affair with the town grand juror for
OUT dollars, but the states attorney is
ley pected to take hold of the matter
put The St. Adams Messenger comes
ny. the defense of the State house of corr
and ton. 1t says the walls of the insti
ted ton are twenty inches thick. laid
- gray lime nearly as strong as GENE
- and the windows are grated. The c,
ank are not built against the walls, but fl
hey block inside, four feet distant from
ned walls, the corridor completely encircl
loo. them. They are built of hard br
laid in cement their walls are one
thick, and the floors and ceilings ar,
IN marble four inches thick, bedded on {
to crete foot and half thick. III
ony doors are grated and locked. To escs
90 therefore, prisoner has two walls
- total of 80 inches of compact masonl
'orA or two sets of CRATES to go through,
EN- all this while under the eve of a gu.
for both wings of the prison are C
ness manded by the guard room in the
:. tire. The portion which is to be |