Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-11-08
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

In consequence of the movement to |
procure the Communication of Carr's SEN |
tence by the legislature, he will not be
taken to the state prison at present.
The Journal of Montpelier, says There |
is very strong feeling upon the subject |
of changing the name of the town of Ely
back to that of Vershire among the old
residents of the town, and a strenuous
effort will be made to secure it's passage.
ST. ALBANs BUTTER MARKET, Nov. q
The receipts were small and market quiet,
except for fine grades, which were in de-
mand. Good to choice butter sold at 20
to 81 cents per pound; selections % cents
per pound; fancy lots at higher price.
The Free Press is authority for the
statement that the following eight towns
in the state have population of less than
100: Buel's Gore, 49; st. George, 90;
Averill, As; Ferdinand, 40; Avery's Gore,
16; Harris Gore, 40; Somerset, 81; Bal
timore, Il.
John P. Howard Esq, has given $l0,
600 to ST. Paul's church in Burlington, for
the building of a new chapel. The work
will be begun at once. Miss Louisa How
ard has also given 81, 500 to the Home for
Destitute Children, in that city, to pay
off the mortgage which has been theaten-
ing it.
Business on the Central Vermont rail-
road is so large that it is with great diff
Guilty that freight cars can be furnished
to shippers as fast as they are wanted
This road is carrying large quantities of
wheat from Ogdensburg to Boston that
comes through the lakes, and our lumber
merchants require about so cars day.
While some workmen were blasting, to
obtain stone for the foundation of the
Burlington woollen company's new office,
from the ledge of red sandstone which
juts out into the river from the Burling-
ton side, the fossil remains of a mud tur-
tie were discovered in the solid rock. The
stone is to be built on the wall of the
Office with the one containing the impress
sion next to it.
Ten years ago Alvin Quimby of Lyndon
sold carriage to j. NJ. Soule of Soutf
Stratford, upon which the Lyndon Car
riage Company had lien, and then went
to California. Soule sold the carriage tt
third party, the company took the car
riage on their lien, and Soule had to pay
the party he sold to $40. Quimby recent
" returned to Vermont, was promptly
arrested, and is now in Chelsea Jail.
The numerous burglaries that have beer
committed along the line of the lowe
some time have caused much excitement
1t has been thought that the burglars hav'
, been hiding in the hill or mountain ives
of Ely station, near the old slate quarry
Wednesday the people in that localit.
made up their minds they would know
the truth of their suspicious, and turnet
, out en- mdsse to make search. The re
suit is that the gang was unearthed, de
8 spatch from North Thetford Wednesda
r night says that George Abbott, suppose
to be the ringleader, had been shot S
that he could not live. Abbott has serve
. a term in the state prison at Concord, n
H., for breaking into Hale's jewelry stor
!, at Oxford, n. HI. Last summer Georg
e worked for Israel Abbott, his uncle, bu
n suddenly disappeared, and has not bee
!. seen in the vicinity since until the othe
night, when man named Emery, VIII
was watching Jaquith's store at Mort
u Thetford, was positive he met him in ii
# road. This set the people to thinking
= and the result was the occurrence {
- Wednesday,