Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-12-20
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

NJ Il i IL 4sA w ~ l. A1A0s
Col. Kittredge Haskins has received his
commission as District Aattorney for
Vermont.
Newbury village has taken $4,000 in
stock for new hotel, and SIC, 900 more
is desired to finish it.
General Hazen, Vermonter by birth,
has been appointed chief signal officer of
the army, to succeed General Meyer.
Pure black marble has been discovered
near Brandon, and quarry is to be
opened in the spring. The marble is of
the finest kind, and it is claimed that it
| can be quarried cheaper than other mar
BILE in the state.
The nuisance bill passed the house 148
to so, and it is the sharpest turn of the
prohibitory screw ever made in this state.
| I makes the owner of the building where
| liquors are sold as liable to Imprisonment
with the lessee who sells.
| Before adjournment last week the SEN
ate passed bills abolishing the offices Of
superintendent of education and superin-
tendent of agriculture, the weight of
opinion being that these offices are use
less expense to the state. The railroad
commissioner was also abolished but SUBJ
sequently the bill was reeonsidered. A
day or two will decide the fate of these
officers.
The Supreme Court of Vermont has
rendered decision in the great Vermont
Central Railroad case, which is of great
Importance as settling the long disputed
question of the different classes of secu-
rites upon the Vermont Central and Yer
mont and Canada Railroads. The decis-
ion is in favor of the holders of the ''trust
securities" over the mortgage bondhold-
ers, and is concurred in by the full Bench.
The only daughter of Daniel Harvey
sat down in a pail Of boiling water last
week Friday and was so scalded that she
died in about twelve hours. This pail of
hot water was left standing ON the floor
for an instant, while the hired girl stepped
into another room to get the mop. The
little Que was not there at the time, but
ran in, and fell into the pail before the
girl got back She was 2 IL years old.
, Three cars of the Montreal express
r north, on the Bennington & Rutland Rail
road, were thrown from the track by q
broken rail, at South Wallingford, Mon,
day afternoon. There were about fifty
passengers on the train, but singularly
enough, not more than twenty were III
E jured, only two seriously. These were
' Mrs. A. p. Childs of Bennington, and the
conductor of the drawing-room car. The
train was behind time.
Charles Crosier, a farmer, of Stamford
is the owner of lands through which
road passes leading to his neighbori
e lands situate beyond his farm. This road
s though not a public highway, has 70
= many years been used by the neighbour
:, without objection. About year ago
however, Crosier forbade all person
using this route, and built gate acros
. it. He thus gained the ill-will of tn
neighbors, and the gate has long been
: bone of contention. Last Friday, job
Noble, teamster, who had lost one arr
. during the war, attempted to open tn
10 gate, but was prevented by Crosier, an
q fierce war of words ensued. Crosie
l. siezed a pickaxe handle and struck Nobl
,e a terrible blow near the temple. Nobl
~ was picked up for dead and carried home
but has since revived, and his physical
thinks he will recover. The neighbo
Y hood is excited over the ARRAY, whic
OF will be officially Investigated.
It is fact well established by unque
d. tionable testimony that Halls Hair r
of storer renews, cleanse, invigorates an
restores to it's original color and lustr
as faded, gray or discolored hair, cheapl
or quickly and surely. The poorest Peep
prefer to buy it and use it, rather than
=" proclaim in a manner more forcib1e tha
e. words can delineate, through blanche
u locks or grizzly beard, that they are age
'U and passing to decay. A very short tri
at will convince the most skeptical that
or does eradicate the scalp diseases whiC
% rob the hair of its color and life.-FO
he Scott (Kdn.) Daily Monitor.