Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-04-07
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

the expenses of the ensuing year in the
town of Franklin.
Gen. W. W. Henry of Burlington will
succeed the late Gen. George P. Foster
as United States Marshal for the Dis
trict of Vermont.
Vergennes has elected ex-Congress-
man +. E, Woodbridge mayor, while
his colored coachman, Stephen Bates, is
the new city Sheriff.
Colonel 7. S. Peck has paid to Mrs.
George P. Foster $500 to which she was
entitled through her husbands member
bership in the Masonic Relief associa-
ton.
I. G. Brennan and Thomas Tierney,
at ST. Adams, were recently fined ten
and twenty dollars and costs, the former
sentenced to Imprisonment for one
month. for liquor selling. They appeal
ed, of course.
George NJ. Chase, of Westminster,
has been feeding five hogs this winter
on clover hay twice day, and Stops
from the house once day, and reports
them as thriving finely. He says they
will walk up and eat clover hay like an
OK.
A party of twenty treasure hunters
from Vergennes are making preparations
to unearth 10000 sovereigns which they
Insist were buried during Burgoyne's
invasion near Ausable Forks on the
bank of that river. The usual luck
probably awaits them.
The National bank Of Poultney sus-
pended payment Saturday morning. The
accounts of the institution are said to
be all strai ght, and it is lntimated that
the suspension is really for the purpose
of closing up the affairs of the bank,
there being sufficient assets to meet all
liabilities.
Sheriff Halbert lately seized from E.
Ransom, who keeps saloon in st. AL
bans, two fve-gallon kegs of whiskey,
three two quart jugs of liquor, five one
quart bottles partly full, and one barrel
Of beer. The liquor was adjudged by
Justice Gilman forfeited, and Ransom
NiO hOo "PPN"A'
The richest man in Cavendish, now
"a years old and who began life as
merchants clerk more than half Gen.
fury since without dollar, and has
amassed fortune, still carries the same
we'll preserved umbrella purchased by
him so years ago. We would like to
know how such man could help &C
cumulating fortune.
A letter from Port Townsend, Wash
ington Territory, says that Dennis Hight
and his wife were both murdered there
few weeks ago, and that thus far their
murderers have escaped arrest, although
two men had been confined on suspicion.
Mr.. Hight went west from Albany, but
now. He has brother-B. W. Hight,
at Council Bluffs; Iowa.
Viola Beckwith. of Rochester, fell
from swing early last fall receiving
injuries which some weeks later pro-
duced an almost total inability to take
food. For twenty-five weeks she has
not taken as much nourishment as would
furnish single meal for an ordinary
man; but has subsisted almost exclu-
sively upon the small quantities of stlm-
ulants which her stomach could retain.
James Brown was arrested recently
by officer Ladd, Enosburgh Falls, for
burglarizing the store of George Fassett
& Son in October, 1877, of about 500
worth of goods. A portion of the goods
were found in his possession and fully
identified by Mr.. Fassett. He was
brought before Justice J. G. Jenne for
examination and held for trial at county
court. His bail was fixed at $500 in
default of which he was committed to
Jail.
Mrs. Erastus Edgerton of Hydepark,
has snake cactus which is now in
bloom. 1t has 40 buds and blossoms.
with the appearance of still more. On
the main stock are 45 branches, and 80
others of smaller proportions have
sprouted within the past six months.
Fifteen slips were taken from the plant
during the last summer and fall. The
longest branch is 10 feet, and many
others are from to feet long.
The interest awakened in all the Pro-
testant churches in st. Adams during
the past few weeks is considerable. In
the Methodist church there have been
about fifty hopeful conversions, the re-
suit of Miss Knowles labors. In the
Baptist church there have been more
baptisms than at any previous period
In the Congregational church most
gratifying number. especially Of young
people, have expressed Christian faith
and at st. Luke's church, under the
ministrations of the new rector, a good
sized class for confirmation has beer
forming.-Messenger.
The Burlington Free Press says tina
the other day a year and a half ole
; child of Edward Chase. of Essex juno
ton was observed to be suffering great
pain, for which no visible cause coulC
be discovered But the next morning
r as it was being dressed, a thread was
discovered protruding from between two
of its ribs on the right side, which, OF
being pulled out, proved to have nee
die upon the end of it. The whole
r length of the thread was one foot fvt
' inches, which together with the needle
5 l IL inches long, was in the child
body. How it came there is mystery
Last Fall there resided with Hiram
; Skeels at Highgate three persons VIII
had lived beyond fourscore, namely. Mrs
e Rachel Skeels, widow of the late Viii
liam Skeels, aged eighty-two; William
e G. White, aged eighty-seven, and Mr.
} Nathan White, aged ninety-three. Oh
: the lst day of February Mr.. William
G.. White died at the Falls, where b