Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-04-19

on the Missisquoi road, has been chan
ged to South Franklin.
Diphtheria is raging at Richford and
the neighboring towns, 10 deaths hav-
ing already occurred.
Some three hundred feet of piles of
the Rouses Point railroad bridge were
demolished the other day by floating
ice.
The calendar of the June term of the
Addison county court contains one hum
dred and ninety-one court and sixteen
chancery cases.
According to the observations lately
made by Professor Barbour of Burling-
ton, Jay Peak is 3,45O feet above North
Troy village.
The April term of Franklin county
court began Tuesday. Forty-six cases
are set for jury trial, and there are fifty
four court cases.
William Edward Mead of Brandon
took the first prize at the junior exhibit
ton of Wesleyan College at Middletown,
Connecticut.
The town of Hydepark has called in
Its $4,000 bonds, which were issued
to aid in the construction of the Port
land & Odgensburg railroad.
In Lowell. recently. five generations
sat at one table. at Judge Paine's, being
a daughter. mother, grandmother, a
great grandmother, and great great
grandmother.
Green grass was cut in front of the
Caledonian office. St. Johnsbury, the
9TH, ten inches long. Friday morning
the mercury was only eighteen above
zero at the same place.
Peter Cantwell, a tramp printer, stole
Sl05 from N. johnson. a tailor and his
roommate. at st. Adams, and bought q
ticket for Montreal, since which no trace
of him has been fround.
The April term of the Lamoille coun-
ty court begins April 9th. the Hon. H.
H. Powers presiding. The calendar
contains one hundred and four cases in
county court and twenty-four in chan
Gerry.
Chester H. Weed of Malone, who was
hurt by falling from the balcony of the
st. Adams House, has gone to Cleve.
land Ohio, to enter for treatment at the
sanltarium there. His limbs are par
TALLY paralyzed as a result of his iDju.
ries.
Mrs. Elizabeth Newell of Burlington
overturned lighted kerosene lamp
her clothes Immediately igniting. The
flames we're soon extingulshed, but not
however, until she had suffered severe
burns on her hands and elsewhere. Sh,
died the next morning.
Horace L. Loomis. George I. Root
C. F. B. Haskell of the senior class o
the University of Vermont, and Edward
Stanley of Burlington, received from
Edward H. Phelps. recently appointed
chief engineer of the Michigan Contra
railroad, appointments on the Mackinay
/ extension survey.
r The town of Rockingham has bee
, sued for $4,000 by Amos B. Keith Q
Lynn. Massachusetts,, for damages re
ceived from being precipitated down a
r embankment by canal bridge. The in
q Jury occurred on the 10Th of August
b 1879. The case is to be tried in tn
] United States circuit court.
A young man by the name of Fran
McCollom, some twenty years of age
r subject to fits. went out of his uncle
house. that of Alden Earle of Plymouth
; the other evening. and wondered in tn
. darkness and rain until he persisted
d His body was found some time the mex
it day in pasture.
e A new depot is to be built at Whit
8 River Junction. President Raymond {
4 the Passumpsic road will have charge I
the improvements, the Central Vernon
and the Northern corporations contrib'
1t ting equally to the expense. Plans of
4 structure worthy of the place are in Il
D. hands of the architect.
is Victor H. Lovejoy, the principal a
tor in the recent ARRAY at Uuderhil
y had hearing at that place on Satu
day, and was bound over in the sum
as $1,000 for shooting Morehouse and
I'll the same amount for assaulting and 9
r. tempting to shoot Blodgett. He W
= unable to obtain bail and now lies
- Jail in Burlington.
:, The amount of fines imposed and c.
o. lected at the late term of Rutland cou
or ty court for violation of the liquor la
he is as follows: Fines, l,l20 of viii
n States Attorney George E. Lawrence
=, entitled to $3.50; costs, S247.65, ma
10 ing total of fines and costs of 81. SO
mt IS. Bonds called, forfeited and pa
in $1,000; fines and costs paid under
M nuisance act, S4O3 72; total, S3,07
81. The late two items 60 to the st;
in full.
res St. Adams has bonded debt of s21
ed 600, $4,000 of which is payable
If twelve years, and there is not a dol
set aside with which to pay it. Th
ny is floating debt in excess of availa
it'll assets of SS,4l9.24. The interest a
g. expenses for the coming year are estiI
lies ted at SIS, $500. To meet this g
Tho the floating debt there is the water
= come and licenses, which together '
ily yield probably 6,00O-which lea
I'M $4,000 to be provided for by
18th and will require $50 cents.