Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-08-23

Willard Hunt has very bad hand,
caused by deep erysipelas sore.
Mr.. E. H. Smith of Dartmouth Col
lege is engaged to teach tho fall term of
Albany Academy, which commences
September l.
The repairs on the school house are
progressing rapidly. The new story
is on and nearly finished outside. John
Beede is the master builder.
Mr.. VIM. Sartwell has rented Mrs.
Jenne's village place and will move in
soon. He has bought Chafey's team
and engaged to do their freighting from
the Landing for two years. He also
proposes to run livery stable.
Barton.
Have you seen the fire engine?
Village meeting Friday evening.
H. Z. Hopkins has built neat front
yard fence.
The new covered seats on the fair
ground are finished.
Butter sold here Saturday at from II
to % cents, choice lots bringing % cents.
There will be a meeting at J. L.
Carr's office tonight to organize Gar
field and Arthur club.
We noticed three new engines for the
South Eastern Railroad 90 north yes
terday. Business must be good on that
road.
The ratification meeting last Friday
night was ''fzzle," owing to unavoid-
able circumstances and some misunder-
standing
There will be special communication
of Orleans Lodge No. 50 F. & A. M. in
Masonic hall, Saturday, Aug. %. Work
on the third degree.
Frank Plumley, Esq. of Mortified,
will address the people on the issues of
the day at Robinson's hall next Monday
evening. Aug. so. Let there be good
turn out and fill the hall. The ladies
are cordially invited. Other speakers
from abroad are expected.
Attention is called to a change in the
advertisement of Boston Lead Mfg Co.,
enumerating their manufactures. All
goods from this establishment are war
ranted to be perfect and of the very best
quality. Their Boston Star Brand" of
white lead is unexcelled by any in the
market.
At the democratic county convention
held at Newport last Saturday the fol-
lowing named gentlemen were put in
nomination: For senators, W. F. Robin.
son of Barton and Henry Pinney Of
Holland; states attorney, j. G. Burke
Albany judge Of probate, Nelson Rand
Craftsbury high sheriff, A. j. Morrill,,
Charleston high bailiff, John Thrasher
Coventry. For county committee. G.
W. Aiken, Troy; - Hazelton, Derby
ID. McDOugall, Barton; = Lyon, Crafts.
bury S. P. Pinney, Greensboro.
About once in a generation appears :
book that is at once and universally
accepted as marked element in the life
and literature of the world. Such &
work, at the close of the seventeenth
century, was Bunyan's pilgrim Prog
ress, one of the best-knOwn books o
human origin. In the eighteenth cen
fury, a period of much cultivation anC
talent but little genius, De Foe'
"Strange Adventures of Robinson Cru
soc" startled the reading public with ;
narrative so apparently real that it wal
i received with intense enthusiasm al
truth, and for a hundred and fifty years
IS has remained one of the leading classics
In our own more fertile age, Waite
SCOTS "Waverly" first burst the bond
of stilted fiction and created the histor
ical novel about thirty Years later Mrs
Stoves Uncle Toms Cabin" aroused
the world with indignation over tn
wrongs Of a race, and inaugurated tn
novel with purpose. And now, thirt,
years later, appears another book, ~
Fools Errand, by One of the Fools,
which has seized upon the popular i'm
agination and run through edition afte
edition, as fast as it could be printed
1t is the marked book of this generation
We have copy of this book in GU
Office, and consider it we'll worth tn
price asked for it, and a book tina
should be read by every person.
Barton Landing.
w. @. Johnson's buildings are recei,
ing new coat Of paint.
Thomas Roy, who attempted suicid
by hanging, has gone to Toronto to liv
The children's missionary society wi
hold a fair at the Yestry of the Congr