Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-09-20
STATE NEWS ITEMS,

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STATE NEWS ITEMS.
In the town of Milton 81 of the % voters
who took the freeman's oath voted the
republican ticket.
The merino sheep breeders association
has membership of 507, with 253 locks
accepted and $2125 in it's treasury
Charles Hale, about So years old, one |
of Marlboro's largest farmers, fell from a |
great beam in his barn, Sept. 7. and was
killed.
Hattie jenkins, of Chester, while play |
ing croquet the other day, caught her foot
in wicket in such manner that she fell
and broke her arm.
| The little mountainous town of Halifax
| will hold it's first annual cattle-show and
fair the 2Sth. The premiums this year
will be ''honorary."
| Joseph Hulett of Springfield, SO years
old, has voted for every president since
Madison, and hopes to live to vote for
Garfield in November.
Many in Vermont will learn with re-
greet of the death of Mrs. E. P. Walton of
Montpelier, who has been i'll for several
weeks of typhoid fever.
Norris Reynolds, deaf old farmer,
was struck by train, while crossing the
track at Rutland Friday, and was thrown
80 feet into pile of stones.
Mr.. Arson Davis, one Of the old resi-
dents of Montpelier, died on Saturday
night after a two days illness, of cholera
morbus. His age is about 20.
Mrs. B. II. Smalley's farm buildings at
Swanton were burned by a forest fire last
week. Insurance about 81, 900. The loss
was very much more than that.
A portion of the rails for the Brattle
boro Whitehall narrow-guag railroad
have arrived and the work of laying them
is being vigorously prosecuted.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union of Vermont will hold its sixth an
nual convention in the Methodist church
at Montpelier, the 10Th and 30th.
Mrs. Chauncey Stonio of Duxbury was
so abused by her husband that she went
without eating two days and then tried
to kill herself with paris green, but took
too much and vomited it up.
A Rutland county house is on the state
, line between Vermont and New York,
and its owner pays taxes in both states
and in three towns, Pawlet, VT, and
Granville and Hebron, N. Y.
The st Adams Adeertiser says: SIT is
no more than just for us to say that we
know that Hon. Bradley Barlow has in
terested himself to good purpose in aid
' of General CIRCUITS election
The St. Adams Messenger has been
r sold by Col. Albert Clarke to Mr.. S. B.
: Pettingill, formerly of the Rutland Herald
; and Globe, who has consolidated the St
i, Adams Adreriser with the Messenger.
General w. w. Lynde of Brattlboro is
dangerously ill, having been stricken
with a paralytic shock-the second he has
had. General Lynde is one of the repub
It lican candidates for presidential elector
C at-large.
n Among the veterans who were presen
4 at the polls in Essex, VT, were Sila
. Mcclellan, over 80 years of age, Martil
Barney and Noah Tyler, each nearly so
T the latter voted the democratic ticket 70
a the sixty third time.
IL Andover maintains her long time rep
lie utation as a clean republican town. o.
ID Tuesday she voted republican IA, dem
N ocratic l. That democrat must be lone
some chap. Where is there Another tow
of equal population that can match And
over?
. The voters of Westford adopted move
y if not happy method of obviating deat
tn lock. After ballotting for Town Repre-
sentative until 2 80 O'Clock, Wednesda
of morning, the three rival candidates S,
: lected fourth man, who was saisfactor
to all three, and he was promptly elected
There is no intelligence whatever of E
80 Lane of Lunenburgh, who so mysterious
en- disappeared His friends have consulte
ed a spiritualist in New York, who says tn;
I'M he is in the gold mines of the far Yves
is but nothing seems more improbable.
-, is generally believed that he has commi
ted suicide.
De-
:. Norwich University at Mortified b;
" yet a few free scholarships open to d
ne serving young men. This Institute
lid offers special advantages to those desirir
u.s. to pursue an English or Latin scientii
,lv course in connection with a thorous
military education. Send to Profess
;. Rumbaugh for information.
The Legislature will have to settle Il
election of justices of the peace in Ct
i0i chester. The town is entitled to II ju
ate tees, of whom six democrats, three 1
as publicans and a greenbacker are settle
led but three candidates, two republicans al
ity uenooia'' received 'he next highe
=, number of votes and the Legislature W
have to pick two of them.
St. Johnsbury, stand up! Is it n
lei surprising, as well as to be regretted
owe every republican, that the town in We
ur- mont having an ex-governor, an ex-Unit
States senator, delegate to the nation
7. convention, one of the state commit
and numerous aspirants for political he
ors, could cast only eight hundred a
'po- eleven of it's avowed eleven hundred
ira publican votes P Hdtctmdn.