Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-07-14
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Chief Justice Pierpoint will spend a
portion of the summer rusticating at |
North Duxbury.
Hon. E. W. Stoughton, our Minister
to Russia, is rusticating at his summer
residence at Windsor.
Frank Harrington of Dummerston had
all the fingers of his left hand blown
off, while fooling with powder on the
Fourth.
The Unitarians of Brattleboro have vot-
ed to call Rev. John B. Green of Mon
treal, for two years from January lst,
at salary of $1,000.
John G. SAKE, the distinguished YER
mont poet, is sixty three years of age,
having been born at Highgate, Franklin
county. June I'd, 1916.
Rev. Adirondack Murray has ordered
bis steam yacht to Lake Champlain, and
be is looking for a camp on the lake
shore where he can spend the summer.
J. B. Smith, treasurer of the Grace
Episcopal church at West Rutland, has
been arrested for collecting $500 of SUBJ
scriptions to the church and using the
money.
Charles Lee, in his seventy seventh
year, fell down stairs at Stamford the
other dag, and the shock to his system
was So great that he died two days af-
| forwards.
A lighted fre-cracker thrown in the
face of Arthur Newcomb of Waterbury.
eleven years old, on the Fourth, ignited
a bunch in his hand, which exploded
and destroyed his eyesight.
A large bear went into the pasture of
Aaron Low of Stratton, on a recent
morning, attacked a calf and drew it
some distance into the woods, but was
frightened away before eating it.
The receivers and managers of the
Portland & Ogdensburg railroad have
made contracts to do the work on the
road ordered by the court. The con-
tractors are coming on at once with a
large force.
Michael Kelley of Brattleboro, who
was fined last week for an assault upon
George Nj. Colt, and for drunkenness, IN
default of fines was committed to the
House of Correction for two hundred
and twenty-eight days.
At the late term of the Orange county
court five divorces were granted and ont
marriage annulled on the ground of lille
gality. The grand jury was in session
two weeks and found twenty-five tru'
bills out of the thirty three acted upon.
Mr.. Truman Raymore of Cambridge
had his pocket picked on the Fourth il
Burlington, and lost his pocket bool
containing $2O9.75. He had just com
out of the Howard Bank, and mike,
with the crowd surrounding a travelin,
, peddler.
, Daniel Brooks. who beat his wife S
numerically at Burlington some tim
ago, has been bound over in the sum Q
$4,000, on the charge of assault wit
intent to kill and John Tebo, who stol
r SIP of Alvaro Adsit. was bound over i
p one thousand dollars on the charge {
grand larceny.
The notorious Stewart Harvey ha
been taken to the House of Correction
s serve term of ninety days for an al
It sault upon Sheriff Bailey of Wells Rive
n village. This professional dead bea
will now have chance to earn hi
bread by the sweat of his brow, q thin
be never yet has done.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin sa,
the refrigerator cars by the Central We
> mont and Grand Trunk line are doir
J. wonders for the export trade of Bosto
IF The exports of butter during the pa
If eight weeks were twenty-one thousar
- packages against twenty-six hundrt
packages during the same weeks la
J. year.
he 1t is reported that Hon. T. W. Pa
d has informed the selectmen of BENIN
ly ton that unless their $4,000 suit
ne four years neglect of his North Villa,
national bank to return list of
" stockholders is withdrawn, he will I
D. move the bank from town and will le
n, executions for $4,000 overdue intere
or judgments against the town.
On As Lester A. Bryant of Lincoln a.
n family were coming through the Ript
: woods lately, they heard fearful screa
y ing among the tree tops, and, upon loo
ng ing up. saw an animal jumping FRI
ut tree to tree which was thought to be
il. catamount. He was the size of lar
shepherd dog and much longer.
: followed them twenty-five rods.
bo The Central Vermont now emplc
ninety-one locomotive engineers, a
'ln two hundred and twenty mine conducto
st. station agents and baggage masters.
so has one hundred and twenty locomotiv
r. one hundred and four passenger ca
= and two thousand and fifty freight ca
50 This does not include the green cars
en' the National Despatch line, of VIII
&c, there are more than thousand, a
9TH which carry nearly all the throu
nm freight.
om BUTTER MARKETs.-At Richmond
: Monday, butter sold at from eight
" eleven cents for fair to good, eleven
m twelve cents for choice. and twelve ;
one-half to thirteen cents for fine. Fal
made cheese sold at from five to five /;
be one-half cents, and factory at from
,kea and one half to six cents per pound.
the ST. Adams market Oh Tuesday th
Jul was a larger attendance than usual, ;
be a considerable quantity delivered. Ez
ers fine sold at from twelve to thirteen Gel
ill. and fancy grades at fourteen cents
N pound. No common or low grades
fered.
~ Just now the champion absent-min
~ individual is reported at Ludlow.
the other evening he took deacon's wifi,
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