Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-09-08
STATE NEWS ITEMS,

STATE NEWS ITEMS.
It is predicted that. despite the bugs,
the potato crop will be the largest for
years.
Colonel G. Fl. Joyce delivers the ad-
dress at the Orange county fair held at
Bradford, Sept. 23rd. Oath and 25th.
The next poultry show of the Cham
plain Valley Association will be held at
Burlington on the 18th, 18th, 18th and
10Th of December next.
The Universalists of Richmond are
building $4,000 church. and expect to
have it finished by January next The
work is done by George Guernsey of
Montpelier.
Mrs. Augustus Adams of Eden, on
Wednesday of last week. had an ence-
phaloid cancer about one-half the size
of hens egg, having seven roots or at
tachments, removed from her tongue.
A son of Joel Blackner. sixteen years
old, was drowned in White River, near
Gaysville, Sunday while bathing. AL
though something of a swimmer, he
dropped into deep hole. and his COM
panions, better swimmers than himself,
could not rescue him.
The wife of Martin Bailey of Ludlow
was thrown from wagon on the 23d of
August in Weathersfeld, fracturing one
of her fore-arms. She is the fifth per-
son from Ludlow who has been injured
on the highways in Weathers6eld with
in two or three weeks.
The new Catholic convent at Burling-
ton, the foundations of which are now
half up, will have frontage of one
hundred and seventy feet and depth
of sixty-one. and will be four stories in
height. The whole structure will be
substantially built of brick and stone.
Mrs. Clarence Reynolds of Norwich,
was fatally injured on Sunday night of
last week by falling through an open
place in the kitchen floor of her house
into the cellar. Her skull was badly
fractured, her position, when found, in
dicating that she had fallen head fore
most into the cellar. Her death oc-
CURED on Monday.
The movement of merino sheep from
Addison county westward has been live.
ly, many of the best focks losing choice
members. Cherbino & Williamson of
Middlebury sold one of their stock rams
to A. &. o. B. Taylor of York Center,
Ohio, for $500. They also sold to the
same parties five other rams and four
ewes. One of these five rams brought
5000, and some of the others over Sl00.
Rev. Henry Ortan French, a young
gentleman we'll known in Chittenden
county. being graduate of the Vermont
University Class of 1874, and Principal
for some time of Underhill Academy,
was found dead on the beach at Sachem' s
Head last Wednesday morning. He
went early in the morning on search
for sea moss, and it is thought ventured
too far. and thus lost his life. He had
been pastor of the First Congregational
church at Guildford, Conn, for over a
year.
Mr.. Leveane. the, proprietor of the
Fairfax House, was recently fined $3.50,
and costs, and one month Imprisonment,
and for want of the necessary greenbacka
mittimus was made out giving him
1903 daysi in the house of correction.
Leveane not being a friend to hard
| work, thought the easiest way out of il
was to walk out, and the last seen Of
him he was deliberately walking of
through corn field, thus cheating the
State out of . steady boarder, and the
sheriff out of his fees.
Last week some scoundrel entered the
saw mill of L. H. Parkhurst at North
Hyde Park, and after setting the planel
bed up to the knives let the water upor
the wheel, causing the planer to com
mence revolving. Had not Mr.. Park
hurst discovered the mischief when be
did. three o'clock in the morning. hi.
mill and machinery and hundreds Of
thousands of feet of lumber would have
been consumed by fire. as, for the wan
of oil, friction began which caused heat
to such a degree as to melt the babbit
ing of the planer, and as it fell to the
floor it struck on the shavings, which
were just ready to burn when he got tx
| the mill. #
A Lunenburgh correspondent of th,
Essex County Herald relates villainou,
transaction on the part of certain un
fortunate creatures in that place. They
went to the house of an aged and insane
woman late at night, hurled stones
against the building, breaking in WIN
dows and bursting in the door, afte
which they drenched the old woman
with ice-cold filthy water, and to pre-
vent her from building a fire to dry her
self they stuffed the chimney full of hay
Such unprovokcd cruelty is seldom
heard of, and it behooyes the officers o
that town town to capture the guilt
/ persons, as they are known, and Civ
them short respite from their trim,
efforts of practical joking in the Hous
of Correction. 81