Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-01-12
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

GS.
Burlington had only five fires last
year with loss Of $4,000, against eight
fires and a loss of $40, 1914 in 1873.
Mark Midget, a Cambridge man of
seventy, shot white owl lately, after
following it about twenty-five miles.
Messrs. H. L. Human and A. Chand-
Ter, proprietors of the Record and Farm
er have dissolved partnership, Mr.. Chand-
Ter retaining the business.
Granby's vital statistics for 879 show
nine births, one marriage and four
deaths. 1t is the largest number Of
births ever recorded in town.
Albert Chapman has ceased to be the
editor of the Middlebury Register, aud
is contemplating the publication of
monthly devoted to the merino sheep
trade.
Otis J. Lazelle of East Dover, has
been troubled with feeling in his right
side as though something was pricking.
and last week he had No. sewing
needle taken from his side.
A son of Albert Durkee Of STAFFORD,
aged fourteen, while carelessly handling
a pistol which he supposed to be unload
ed, shot himself Saturday, the ball en-
tering his heart, killing him instantly.
jain Savage, an employe of the Mont
pelier & Wells River Railroad Company,
had his right hand quite severely jam
med, last Monday morning, while shack
ling cars at Woodsville, New Hampshire.
One of the churches in Norwich fills
the position of janitor or sexton by an
auction. at which the person naming the
smallest sum secures the situation. Forty
dollars was the annual stipend recently
bid.
ST. ALBANs BUTTER MARKET. Jan. 6.
The attendance and receipts were
light; and market quiet with little offer
ing. Winter made butter sold at Is to
to 20 cents per pound, according to
quality.
Rev. Samuel Fish of Brattleboro is
the oldest Baptist minister in New Eng
land He is now ninety years of age,
is regular attendant at church, and
occasionally participates in religious
meetings.
| The Central Vermont railroad shops
at st. Adams, have just turned out a
new mogul engine, the largest ever built
there. Its cylinders are eighteen and
one-half by twenty-four, and it weighs
forty-two tons.
We learn from the st. Adams Mes
Seager that Mr.. D. Webster Dixon, form
erly associate editor of that paper, has
accepted the position of private secre-
tary to Hon. Bradley Barlow, and leaves
next week for Washington.
Ex-Governor Stewart, acting as master
in the great organ suit against the Estey
Organ Company, has awarded the plain.
tiff $4,000 damages; but as the whole
question is to be reviewed in court, moth.
ing is yet definitely settled.
One Witham, an employee of the spooI
factory at Burlington. was arrested latt
Sunday night ON the charge of inces
with his own daughter He is some
fifty years of age and the girl abou
nineteen. Both were lodged in Jail.
Mr.. Williamson, youngest son of Pas
chal P. Williamson of Pomfret, fell some
250 feet from the steeple of church b,
was stating in Chicago one day las
r week. and was instantly killed. Hi
, remains were brought home for burial.
a correspondent ,1.a.rIeuur1
Journal claims that tho recent terrible
accident near Orwell was the resul
of negligence. He says that the roat
had no ballast, that the ties were rottel
; and were raised above the road by stow
wood driven under them.
The Vermont Bible Society has can
vassed ninety-nine towns in the state
and visited %, 1874 families 1928 wer
without the Bible, and 524 of them wer
4 American families. The cost of tn
( canvass thus far is S2.6l6, or by addin
r the cost of the books given 1927.
, The Vermont Dairymen's Assocatio
will hold its eleventh winter meeting i
Brandon, on Wednesday. Thursday an
Friday, January 2lst, 22nd and 23rd
E 1880. The critical condition of til
8 dairy interests of Vermont demands til
, | earnest consideration of every citizen.
! The friends of DR.. S. W. Thayer {
Burlington, presented him on Christina
morning certificate of deposit fc
d $1,000, which had been placed to hi
r credit III one of the Burlington bank
{ by few of them, to defray the expense
of trip to the South, which it is hope
will confirm the improvement in b
health already so marked.
1t is said to be settled fact that ii
i machine works of the Bennington g. Ru
II land railroad company will be remove
q from Rutland to North Bennington. II
headquarters of the company are
. North Bennington. The president, Il
+ treasurer, the general freight agent, wit
e their respective Offices are located Their
n The superintendent resides at Bennin
# ton-only five miles distant. A ne
:. depot is to be erected in the spring
Hon. E. D. Mason of Richmond, hi
been presented by MIR. Thurber of Ne
s. York with Stilton cheese, manufactu
es ed at Stilton, England, which took IL
IS first prize of foreign cheese at the i
- ternational dairy fair at New York. II
cheese is quite curiosity. 1t is shape
much like the crown of fall hat, is ty
years old and weighs about 2 pound
The outside coating is hard and por
ID and about as smooth as a toad's bac
n The cheese is very rich and somewh
mouldy inside. as it is intended to be.
IN Gold mining operations were common
al ed last Saturday on land owned by Sill
w. Hazen of West Hartford. The pa
90 ties interested are NJ. G. Howe, DR..
o. | M..o- ox,d Mrn Choofor Df,unnr