Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-15
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

BUTTER MARKET.-At the st. Adams
butter market, Tuesday, good to choice
grades sold at from ten to fifteen cents.
and selections at sixteen cents per pound.
Mrs. Amasa Jones. an estimable lady
Of STAFFORD. Vt, while laboring under
temporary fit of insanity occasioned by
sickness, committed suicide by drowning
in watering trough on Monday night.
The Central Vermont and Vermont
and Canada taxes, so long in dispute.
were paid to the town collector of St. |
Adams last week. They are for the
years 1875 to 1879 inclusive, and |
amount to $3O5O83.
Heman Brown and Peter Fisk of
Bradford have been committed to the
House Of Correction for two hundred and
two days for petit larceny. Charles
Clark, of the same town, gets one hum
dred and forty-two days for like offence
G.. M. Packard, young man about
25 years of age, who arrived at Mon
treal, Can, on Thursday, Sept. 4, from
Milton Falls, engaged room at the
American House, and shortly after de-
liberately shot himself fatally with
revolver. a sfl
Mrs. Nathaniel Eaton of Danville will
have reached the advanced age of one
hundred years if she lives to see the last
day of this month. She is strong and
active and in full care of her apartments
and spends the remainder Of her time in
knitting and reading her Bible
A little five years-old son Of Allen
Phelps of Marshfeld. had the misfortune
to run bis hand into the machine used
for splitting sole leather in G. o. Davis
boot and shoe shop on Tuesday of last
week. 1t opened all four of his fingers
to below the second joint, splitting the
| bone about in the middle.
At Dandy, the other day, Ellis Mil
lard was moving some household goods,
when his horse became frightened, and
turning corner tipped over the load,
and the loaded wagon ran over Mr. Mil
lard, completely crushing the bones of
his breast into his lungs. He died in a
few hours after the accident.
Mr.. J. V. R. Kent of Calais, has been
sued in the sum of $4,000, on account
the death of Henry Gray, son of Otis
Gray of this place occasioned, as it is
claimed, by an action of Mr. Kent IN ex-
cayating sand bank on the roadside,
by the caving in of which young Gray
was killed on the 29th of July last.
The next annual fair of the Grand
Isle Agricultural Society will be held at
the town-house, South Hero, September
3Oth and October lst and End. Colonel
Mead, state superintendent of agricul-
ture, will probably be present, and hold
meetings for the discussion of matters OF
interest to farmers and fruit-growers
and other speakers from abroad are ex.
pected.
Monday of last week fellow who
gave his name as Richardson, but was
really George Carr, formerly of Barre
went to Moses Whitehill's in Groton
and wanted board. He was taken in
and staid three days. when he "levant
: ed. ;" stealing the Sunday go to meeting
hat of Mr.. Whitehill, and leaving hi
board bill unpaid. All "dead beats
should be looked out for.
, Saturday morning as young maj
driving Charles P. Smiths team wa
crossing the tracks near Blodgett's mil
in Burlington, while two locomotive
were approaching from opposite direc
tions. the horse became frightened ant
stood stock still. and the wagon wa
struck by one of the locomotives-tha
used in switching-the boy thrown GU
and severely though not seriously in
jured. and the wagon completed
| wrecked.
5 Bellows Falls is undergoing tremen
t dous smallpox scare. A Frenchma1
named Busted, widower with famil
c of children, was taken sick short tim
after visit to Montreal and it was sew
, eral days before it was ascertained tina
, he had the smallpox. he and his chill
. dren in the meantime moving abou
: freely among the people, the children
> indeed, attending school. All the school
have been closed for three weeks an
the excitement and fear are great.
. The .'old burying GROUND" at Benning
ton is to be enlarged by the addition {
. one and half acres. and fitted up in
manner becoming the place. This bury
! ing ground is the old Revolutionar
burying place. On it was the site {
the "Squires House" where Ethan ALE
lived. The enlargement will make th
whole include the place where the bray
: Bennington dead of four wars rest, ami
9 church surroundings fitting to give hor
= or to the best sense of 3 patriotic peopl,
; As Forepaugh's street procession ":
doubling in the parade at Watebur
the band team met cage of monkey
: when the horses jumped and overturne
. the cage into the ditch, throwing IL
: driver among the wheels, cutting b
: head badly. The horses ran among
! the crowd with the forewheels of ii
y carriage. The elephant team was throw
= into confusion, and great disaster W;
l. only prevented by the exertions of Il
n keepers, who stopped the horses an
:, quoted the elephants.
le John G. Trip and several wealth
3 men of Bangor, Me-. A. H. Thaxter. Il
y Stricklands. G. E. Hill and others, ha,
N opened silver mine in Corinth, one al
ID three-fourths miles from the railros
is station. The first assay Of surface 0