Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-02-24
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

by the Methodist church.
Baynard Acethorp of East Haven,
recently lost 500 mare, and on ex-
animation frog. weighing nine ounces,
was found in her stomach.
BUTTER MARKET.-At st. Adams on
Tuesday, winter butter sold at from ten
to twenty cents, and fall at from TWEEN.
ty-two to twenty-five cents per pound.
There was funeral in Fairhaven, on
each of the 10 days ending last week
Thursday. They were mostly elderly
people, and of no settled type of disease.
In Montgomery, within two weeks,
three persons have died whose aggregate
ages amounted to ESQ years. The last
one Dea, Tolman Samson, in his seth
year.
Ex-Congressman F. E. Woodbridge of
Vergennes, moves to Polk county, Col,
in the spring, to engage in farming on
several thousand acres of land which he
owns on the Red river.
James Flanders of Hydepark, the
we'll known liniment peddler, got lost
on one of the many lumber roads in
Eden and persisted there by cold and
exhaustion some days since.
James McDufee, former resident of
Bradford, and son of the late John
McDuffee, died Jan. 18th, at his home
in Eel River. Indiana, in the seventy
third year of his age. He moved from
Bradford to Indiana in 1886.
Gravelin, who is to be hung next
month for the murder of Herbert White
at Weathersfeld, was worth $4,000
when he was arrested. but this has all
been gotten away from him, it is said,
by persons protesting to be his friends.
Kimball & Co., at East Richford, have
just contracted to furnish New York
house 1900 chopping trays. They turn
out about l6 dozen a day. They are
now filling orders from Chicago and St.
Louis for 1000 dozen rolling pins for
kneading dough.
Mr.. Ira Greenwood boarder at Blais-
dell's house, Kimball's mills, at Rich
ford, was badly scalded recently, while
sitting beside the stove, the hired girl
accidentally overturning kettle of boil
ing water on his feet. Two valuable
dogs were also victims of the accident
to such an extent that they had to be
killed.
At Richardson's Mills, Groton Pond,
on the Montpelier and Wells River rail-
road, on the 9th, NJ. Norwood of West
Groton, twenty-five years old, was in
stantly killed while trying to get upon
a moving freight car His body was
terribly mangled, one leg and an arm
and the upper portion of his head being
cut off.
The late James Williams, of Castleton,
left an estate valued at $4,000. in
which he gave his wife a life interest,
and at her death it is to 60 to the Bap,
tist church at Hydeville (Castleton)
The church has been so poor that for a
number of years no service has been
held there, and it has never had a set
tied pastor.
ST. ALBANs, Vt, Feb. 20.-It is re.
ported here on good authority that Brad
ley Rarlow has bought up the entire
amount of stock, bonds and securitie.
of the South Eastern Railway, of which
he is president. These securities amount
to several million dollars. The amount
paid has not been ascertained. Mr.
Barlow is not here to-day.
The st. Adams Advertiser of Monday
says: Within the past twenty-four hours
the largest number of freight cars hav,
gone south from this station that wer
ever sent within the same space Of time
There were in all, upwards of 400 cars
ga of which were loaded with live hogs
8 with Western sheep, some 10 witt
dressed meat for Liverpool, etc.
Last week Mr.. Judd Wright of Mid
dlebury sent to Central Ohio flock o
fourteen merino rams and ewes which
are claimed to be the best lot of shee]
ever sent out of the country, being Sc
lections from some of our crack focks
Among them was one from the Centen
NAL prize flock of j. T. Stickney o
Shoreham. Mr.. Wright claims that tn
fourteen cost as much as any full car
load of sheep ever shipped.-Niddlebur.
Register.
The most extensive marble firm il
Vermont is that of the Rutland marbl
company. They run three large quar-
ries and two marble mills in Rutlan,
,, and one in Salem, N. Y. The tire
mills contain IS gangs of saws that Gu
, millions of feet of marble a year; tn
company employees 400 men, and own
+ a sand deposit in Castleton from whic
is shipped 600 car loads of sand to tn
mills in Rutland and Salem annually
The freight charges on sand alon
e amounted to $4,000 last year.
Hubbard Beeman of North Fairfa
t has recently lost three young COWS fror
some disease not understood in the neigh
borhood. They were apparentlay il
) only from two to "a hours. Examlna
: tion after death revealed high state c
Y inflammation of the membrane betwee
the liver and the first stomach, and ais
of the small intestines, and the latte
were suffused with blood. Perhaps som
: one familiar with veterinary science ca
e suggest cause and remedy in sue
y cases.
9 Mr. Fred Gale, the medical studeI
g who volunteered to nurse in the famil
:. of Mr.. Charles Morse, where seven chi
u dren died OF diphtheria, has had a terri
! bly, severe run of the disease and
h hardly out of danger after being Fl,
weeks down with 1t; while a brothe
Pliny Fisk Gale, recently of the Norm;
School at Randolph, aged nineteen, too
g the disease from him and was buried Fe
: 9Th. A few other cases, none as y
d severe, have occurred among those wi