Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-02-09
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Seven members-one Senator and six
Representatives-of the Massachusetts
Legislature. now IN session, are natives
of Vermont.
The state prison directors are said to
have discovered deficiency of some ST.
500 in the accounts of H. P. Spencer,
late superintendent.
Hon. Alexis T. Smith of Vergennes,
we'll known through the State as an ex-
tensive and successful farmer and stock
raiser, is wintering 250 steers.
Lydia Brigham. of Norwich, was
standing in high chair for the purpose
of reaching something on high shelfin
the pantry, recently, when she fell and
broke her leg just above the ankle.
Lieut.. Gov. Cotton has visited several
cities in New York recently on business
and finds strong sentiment in favor of |
Edmunds for the presidential nomination
which only needs political impulse at
home to make it tell.
ST. ALBANs BUTTER MARKET FEB. 3.
The attendance and receipts were
light and market quiet. Winter-made
butter sold at from Is to % cents !; a
small quantity of extra choice at % cts.
per pound.
Vermont exports eight million pounds
of cheese, and sixteen million pounds of
butter annually. The increase of the sell
ing price of these commodities even one
or two cents per pound, would yield to
the State no small amount of revenue.
The Central Vt. road will build four
more lotions l0-wheel freight engines
with l9-inch cylinders. The New Lon
don Northern railroad has bought the
first two moguls turned out by the Cen
trail road.
Mr.. Butterfeld, the Vermont super
intendent of the census, is in receipt of
many letters daily from applicants for
the position of census enumerators. He
will not make any appointments for sew
eral weeks yet.
Hon. Frederick Billings of Woodstock
has given 500 to the Congregational
church at Plainfeld to be used IN fitting
up the vestry so they can hold meetings
therein, and they are now at work on it
for that purpose.
Citizens of Lamoille county. through
Senator Edmunds, have petitioned con-
gress that the patent laws be amended
so as to prevent the prosecution of per-
sons who may ignorantly infringe upon
patents, and thus protect them from
spectators or impostors.
Traffic is so great on the Vermont
Central railroad that 10 freight trains
averaging 80 cars each were together at
one station the other day. Could enough
| cars be obtained it is said that the ship
: ments of lumber and merchandise from
Burlington alone would average so cars
aday.
, A fire at Burlington last week dam.
l aged the Pioneer shops $4,000 worth
r J. r. Booth. door manufacturer, $500
: R. NJ. Clapp. curtain rollers, $4,000
i. S. c. Kimball. $3.50; Wing & Smith
$2sQsi ussa a U psura6fs $So9 bf 6 E
ladder and breaking his lantern.
i F. L. Merritt of Wolcott, was severe
It ly hurt the other day, by his horse bit
o ing him on the right side and jammins
. him to the ground. and then lifting hin
up and shaking him. 1t was yer,
narrow escape, and would have beer
J worse had not man at work for hin
d beat the horse off with shovel.
y The medical college at Burlington
lie has lately been enlarged and renovated
= the money (some $4,000 being contrib
uted by the citizens. The lower lectur
room has been enlarged to seating ca
'e pacity of some two hundred. Tn
l. amphitheater has also been enlarged
re The museum has been thoroughly ftte
"a up, and two-story addition in the rea
:, built, eighteen by thlrty-fve feet.
Accidents at Chelsea were numerou:
d Wednesday forenoon. While sharper
ing sled stake, Scott George cut o
two fingers of his left hand; Josia
- Douglass. aged 81, had shock of APP
OF plexy, and ex-Lieutenant Gov. Burnhal
e. Martin, stepping down from the POI
is Office piazza, suddenly slipped and fel
81 breaking one bone of his left arm at tt
wrist.
- A Central Vermont express train IL
'u other day ran from st. Albaps to Viii
Vn River Junction, 100 miles, in 1913 mi
f. utes, and made Is stops on the rout
9. The time consumed in the stops mu
90 have reduced the actual running time
- about mile minute. 1t was a gre
"a feat and but for the admirable syste
re, in force on the line. steel track al
la the best of men, would have been ii
de possible.
90 Speaking of the poultry show at Mon
!. pelier last week the Watchman say
:. 1.-THE White-crested Polish fowls by '
Ill H. Root of Burlington were the han
,es soonest feature of the exhibition. To
he non-professional they seemed faultle
,at specimens of their race" Mr.. ].
: kingsland received the first premium
- Plymouth Rock chicks and on Houd
raj chicks and fowls; and Mr.. B. j. Der
lie. first on White Leghorn chicks and fow
IN Timothy Wheeler of Waterbury is
he sort of maple sugar "probs." For sc
les eral successive seasons he has made o
~. servations from fall to January relatil
r to the probabilities for the sugar CT
for the following spring His pred
tions have been SO INFORMALLY verifi
an by results as to attract general ate
will ton, and he has received numerous
Der tiers of inquiry from different parts
NO. the country. Mr.. Wheeler prophes
- for the coming season a good but I
OF the best production of maple sugar.
Ior About noon last Monday. in spite
one the warning given him by Mr.. Eli Clal
ms who lives near Farr's ferry on the
will side, William Holman of Chesterft