Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-06-16
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

I1euTy L. oduGo ulCu do " atOl Jul y,
June 6, aged 81 years. He was an ex-
member of Congress and leaves widow
in her 88th year.
Four boys recently escaped from the
Reform School at Vergennes, and were
found by Sheriff Rider, of Middlebury,
in an old barn, and returned.
Philip Egan, young lad from Troy
living with the Messrs. Briggs of Sears
burg, was run over by load of lumber
the other day and was probably fatally
injured.
George Trehauga, of St. Albans, has
that three-legged one at West Hartford.
George has another with web-foot, like
a duck.
Several Bennington liquor dealers who
have been indicted for violating the state
liquor law are sojourning in Troy, N. Y,
says the Times, until the adjournment
of the court at Manchester.
The Lamoille County Union of |. O.
of CT, will be held at Jacksonville on
Tuesday, the 18th day of June. Eve
ming session will be public. to which all
are cordially invited Address by the
Rev. DIR. Willard of Burlington.
An unoccupied house owned by Will
liam Reyes, of Highgate. was burned
last week. A house adjoining, also
owned by him, and occupied by Theo-
dore Lombard, caught fire, but the flames
were confined to the roof. Lombard
lost some furniture and clothing and
pig.
BUTTER MARKET-At the St. Adams
butter market, Tuesday, the attendance
was good, receipts large, market dull
and prices one cent lower than last week.
We quote butter at from ten to thirteen
cents per pound, selections fourteen cents
per pound, few fancy lots bringing a
little more.
G. T. Glynn, of Saxtons River. a
young merchant who had previously
stood high in the estimation of the COM
munity. disappeared on Monday of last
week, and an investigation of his affairs
disclosed an Indebtedness varying from
$4,000 to $4,000. 1t is reported that
there is woman in the case.
A three year-old child of Chas. Rob-
bins of Chester wandered away a week
ago last Sunday night and was not found
until the following Tuesday morning
when the little one was discovered lying
in pasture a mile from home. She
had been out of doors during two rainy
nights, but was uninjured except from
hunger and exhaustion.
Pownal is agitated over the digging
up of skeleton, apparently that of a
young man of about 20 years. by work
men on the new Burt road short dis
lance below the present depot. The skel-
eton had evidently laid there many years
covered by only two feet of earth. Many
theories prevail, with dark tragedy in
the foreground.
There was a serious accident at West
Fairlee on the 28th ult. A platform
built of the carriage shop belonging to
Horace Libbey. some thirty feet high,
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after painting, without moments warn
ing suddenly fell to the ground. At the
time of the accident Mr.. Libbey and
son and Messrs. Chubb and Howe of
Post Mills were standing upon the plat
form, and all went down with the debris.
All were more or less injured but no
bones broken. and were doing we'll at
last accounts.
The Rev. L. Ii. Stone of Castleton
went to Brooklyn, last week to attend
the funeral of brother, a resident of
that city, and the first one of seven sons
that has been removed by death in the
family. Four of them are Congregational
clergymen and all reside in Vermont,
and the seven are natives of Cabot, in
this state. Mr.. Stones sons number
seven and they are scattered far and
near over the land one in Massachusetts
one in New Hampshire, two in New
York, one in Wisconsin, one in Penn
sylvania and one in Oregon. Mr.. Stone
and four sons were in the Union army,
from Vermont, during the darker days
| in the late rebellion.