Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-05-19
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Rutland had two fire alarms last

1t is announced that the st. Adams
rolling mill will resume business May
goth.
A Milton trappist has caught one
thousand five hundred muskrats this
Spring.
The state prison now has one hundred
and fifty nine inmates-just enough to
fill all the cells.
Ed. Shanty of Barnet was committed |
to St. Johnsbury Jail recently. in default |
Of 81 900 bonds-for grand larceny.
A. H. Libby of Springfield, walked
heel and toe-at Rutland, ten miles in
one hour twenty-seven minutes and ten
seconds.
The new Masonic hall of Hiram Lodge
No. 1O4, at West Rutland, will be dedi-
Dated by the officers of the Grand Lodge
en- Wednesday, May 28th.
Castleton has four soldiers of the war
of 1912 still living, Hyde Westover,
Beers Perry, Levi Phillips and Jacob
Wheeler, all Of them over eighty years
of age.
Barney .Cahill was sentenced from
Underhill for breach of the peace and
committed to the House of Correction
for one hundred and twenty days. He
gave his age as eighty three years.
A drive of from fifteen to twenty mil
lion feet of logs, started from the New
Hampshire woods. is coming down the
Connecticut river for McIndoe's Falls
and Bellows Falls.
The dwelling house of Mrs. Scott, an
old widow lady living alone in Swanton,
was entered during her absence, a few
days since, and S23 stolen, her whole
treasure, which she had been fifteen
years accommodating.
MIR. 6. Elroy Francisco, who was
burned severely at the burning of Ca.
den's store, in Rutland, some two weeks
ago, died from the effects of his injuries
Sunday. He was thirty four years old.
The tenth annual session of the YER
mont Baptist Sunday school convention
will be held June 4th and 9th at Yer
gennes, with Professor William F. Sher-
win of Newark, N. j., as general con-
ductor.
A bear three feet in height, six feet
in length and weighing $50 pounds, was
pursued and killed by parties in the Vi
cinity of Starksboro, Thursday Of last
week. He had been killing and feasting
on sheep.
An incendiary fire in Ferrisburgh,
destroyed two barns filled with hay,
straw and eleven head of cattle, on Sun
day evening, belonging to T. Middle
brook, of Vergennes. Loss $4,000;
insured for $3.50.
Harris Brothers, contractors for the
Brattleboro & Londonderry narrow gauge
railroad, have just contracted to build
and equip similar line in the valley of
Big Sandy river, on the Kentucky side,
fifty miles in length.
At Graham's chair factory. five miles
from South Londonderry. Thursday of
last week, Orison Bowen was struck in
the neck by silver thrown from cir
cular saw. His jugular vein was sever
ed, and he died almost instantly.
1t is reported that in making a cut
for the new railroad about two miles
below Jamaica village, ledge of white
rock has been struck, samples of which
take fine and have the appearance Of
being an excellent quality of marble.
BUTTER MARKET.-At the St. Albans
butter market, Tuesday, the attendance
fair, receipts light, market dull and
prices low. We quote butter at from
twelve to thirteen cents per pound, with
, an occasional lot at shade higher price
5 David Richard Campbell, Esq, Of
Windsor, has recently presented the
. town of Chester the sum of five thou
sand dollars to be securely invested
and the income thereof to be devoted t.
the support of the INDECENT poor anc
: paupers.
: The University of Vermont will fur
D nish, free of expense except for freight
chemical fertilizers in the half-acre set
to all who will try them with corn OF
poor or worn-out soils. Letters address
: ed to the president of the Universit,
r will receive prompt attention.
t The medical department of the Uni
n versity of Vermont at Burlington ha
one hundred and fifty scholars, tn
largest class for years. Sixty-one be
e come full-fedged NJ. DIS in about eigh
e weeks. The literary department ha
ninety scholars, twenty of whom gradual
at the same time.
h On Monday morning the people 9
: Barre were astounded by the report tina
i Mr.. Dennis Britton, a farmer residin
7, on the West Hill, had committed suicid
t. by hanging. No cause is known for thi
n singular act. He was seventy-six year
l. old, and leaves wife, but no children
10 He was forehanded and thrifty farmel
re and was one of the old residents of th
'e place.
IN Mrs. A. Brooks has given to th
< Mary Fletcher Hospital at Burlingto
ID three hundred volumes Of interestin
: books, for the use of the patients, t.
- gether with very handsome book cas-
re in which to put the same. Mrs. Brooke
st has also recently given a large numb'
m of volumes, including many books
10 travel, some of them of great interest.
2 the Fletcher Free Library.
= A fire in West Rutland, cause by
u defective fue, broke out on the 9Th
m the house of Richard Lane, entirely Co
Id Stunning his house and those of J.
w ManleY, Henry Gorham and James
~ Harmon. Three barns. connected wi
- the above property. were also burne
es There being no fire engine there, Of
was sent from Rutland on a special ira
or the loss would have been much grea
de err Loss from $4,000 to $4,000