Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-09
At an auction sale of the property Of

At an auction sale of the property of
w. B. Jones, COWS sold for from Is to
% dollars, yearlings 7 to 10, sheep to
5, aud hay to 10 dollars ton.
Benz Morgan died very suddenly last
Sunday morning, at the age of 81 years.
He was in usual health and got out Of
bed in the morning and got partly dress
ed, when he fell and in half hour was
dead. He was born in town and had
always lived on the same farm.
Thirty-fve years ago Hon. I. J. Cree
was appointed guardian over David Al
lard and family of this town. Mr.. Al
lard was then Al years old and adjudged
insane. He had wife and eight
children all but one being minors. At
that time the inventory of his property
was $456. During this thirty-fve years
Judge Cree has built new house and
barn on the place, and the property now
is worth $1,000. A part of the time
only has Mr.. Allard been able to work.
We call this a pretty good record for
guardian especially when it is consider
ed that the bill for the Judges services
averages only triie over S. per year.
We can all afford to have guardians at
that price and with those results fnan-
cially.-Unson.
STANDARD.
Calvin Sheppard of this town, who
has been married five years, is the hap
ply father of five children, the oldest of
which was four years old last December.
Four are twins.-Indec.
EAST HARDwICK.
VIM. Bronson is down with the in
fammatory rheumatism.
J. R. Delano who has been confined
to his house for two weeks or more, is
now able to be about his business.
The selectmen have forbidden coasting
on the hills in the village. They are
settling the bills of the town and find
them less than usual.
The suit of foreclosure on Frank
Williams farm, by the administrator of
his fathers estate, was heard by P. II.
Gleed last week at Halls hotel.
Col. J. B. Meade, State Superin-
tendent of Agriculture, held very sue
cessful meetings here recently. The at
tendance was large and the topics dis
cuessd were we'll presented. The only
fault was that the time devoted to the
subjects was too short.
WEST BURKE.
Prof. Geo. G. Bush will lecture at the
NJ. E. church on Friday evening, Feb
18th. His lectures are excellent and
every body praises them.
l. EASTERN TO WNSHIPS.
The heaviest fall of snow this season
in the counties of Missisquoi and Bronze
came on Tuesday, the Sd inst. From
II to Is inches fell during the twenty.
four hours.
1t is generally understood that the
narrow guage railway, running from
Stanbridge station on the Central Yer.
mont to st. Hyacinth on the Crane
Trunk. will this spring be changed to ;
broad guage, in order that cars from
connecting roads may be run over th'
line without transhipment. The narrow
guage has been called one of the bes
paying roads in Canada.
Yankee horse buyers are very plent,
and large numbers of good horses ar
being shipped to American markets
Twenty-three good steppers were shlppe'
from Cowansville one day last week.
The browning triumph of railroad en-
cheering was reached on Friday last
when train of loaded cars drawn by
thirty ton locomotive successfully crosse
the st. Lawrence river at Montreal o.
the ice bridge which has been construct
ed during the past two weeks at cos
of between six and seven thousand do
lars, and consists of long timbers lai
; fat upon the ice to which the ties an
rails are securely fastened. The bridg
is to be used for freight trains only
which are now running regularly betwee
the Montreal shore and Longueuile, COZ
Meeting the North Shore Railway wit
the South Eastern at the latter place.
A French paper called LIE Josrat
made its appearance at Cowansville la.
: Thursday. lie Journal is the onl
French paper in the district of Bedfor
] and is to be issued as weekly.
a HISTORY OF DERBY.