Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-03-15
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

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Vergennes has literary club, read
ing club, kettledrum club and Dante
club.
Hon. Walter G. Dunton, of Rutland,
is to deliver the Memorial day address
at Burlington.
Col. LIE Grand B. Cannon has a cow
on his dairy farm, near Burlington. val
uec at $4,000.
Two men were arrested in Burlington
on Monday for Offering forged note in
payment for paint.
A Rutland physician recently attended
the births of ten children within twenty
four hours, all in Rutland.
There is but little snow in the central
part of the State, and travelling is diff
cult. The prospect for the sugar season
is not good.
Hyde Park has voted to refund its
bonded debt at a rate of interest not ex-
coed per cent, and to pay 81, 900 of the
principal annually.
Mrs. Alvin Hescock, wife of a respect
able farmer at west Brattleboro, is said
to have fallen heiress to 100000,
portion of New York estate.
Four young men left Huntington for
the West last week, and party of
twelve will leave Bristol this spring for
the silver mines at Leadville, Col.
A Philadelphia firm have taken the
contract to bring the water from lnman
pond to the park at Fair Haven, dis
lance of about five miles, for $4,000.
Mr.. James D. Warren, the editor of
the Buffalo Commercial, and one of the
delegates-at-large from New York to the
Chicago convention, is native of Roch-
ester, Vermont
Wareham Morse, highly respected
citizen of West Brattleboro, died
Monday afternoon from an overdose of
chloral which he had taken on Saturday
afternoon to produce sleep.
Hon. Ryland Fletcher, of Cavendish,
the first republican governor of Vermont.
is strong anti-Grant man. He Is 81
years old, but in perfect mental freshness
and vigor, as might be inferred.
George Lyford, carpenter of East
Middlebury Was found dead in the woods
Friday from loss Of blood from cut by
his ak in his ankle. He left home We'd
nesday morning to chop wood in Ripton.
Harris Bros. & Co. late contractors of
the Brattleboro and Whitehall narrow
guage railroad, have, according to their
books, received $4,000 from officials Of
the road, and expended over $4,000.
Ned Stack, an Irishman past middle
life, was knoncked down and run over by
an engine and thirteen cars of an accom-
mediation train, at Mortified, Saturday.
both legs were cut off, and his wounds
are regarded as fatal.
The noted flock of Spanish merino
sheep owned by the late Edwin Ham
mond. of Middlebury. have been kept in
tact and are now owned by his son,
George Hammond at Middlebury. He
is said to have refused $4,000 for two.
year-old buck.
Anna, the 16-years-old daughter Of
Fl. A. Waite, proprietor of the Green
Mountain House at West Wardsboro, left
her home on Monday night, since which
time nothing can be learned of her where
abouts, and the cause of her disappear
ance is mystery.
The jury of circuit court at Burling
ton have disagreed in the case of Dear
against Beckwith and Henry, the United
States provost marshal and assistant
who were sued for $4,000 damages fo
keeping the plaintiff in prison SIX months
charged with melting desertion in 1864
The case has been up six times in differ
, ent courts, the government being the rea
defendant.
The venerable Paris Fletcher of Bridge
port died on Friday last at the advanced
age of So years and IL mouths. Mr.
Fletcher had been one Of the most prom
inent, as he was by repute the richest
:, man in Addison county. He had beel
:, president of the bank at Middlebur
for two-score years, and was in man.
ways identified with the business inter
ests of the county.
A. H. Munson of Utica, New York
!. and lady, attempted last Wednesday t
t cross the lake from Essex to the Vel
mont shore in an ice-boat. when the Graf
broke thorough the ice and the lady wa
rescued with difficulty. Subsequent
the party discovered the ice breaking u
e and the retreat to the shore cut of, an
g after floating on cakes of ice over a
$ hour they were taken off in an exhauste
. condition by boats from Essex.
/, The suit of Rev. Daved Shurtle
against the Rev. Alfred Stevens, bot
l. Congregationalists, for SANDER in intr,
% ducing into the ministerial association
:, Windham county resolution to witt
il draw membership from Shurtleff unit
rumors derogatory to his character shout
be investigated, has been decided again
e the plaintiff on the ruling that the pr
1T ceeding was in accord with Congreg
ID tional usage and not defamatory.
er Saturday night Mr.. Fl. B. Foster,
+. Swanton farmer. heard some one movir
about in the house. but thinking it w
- his hired man paid no attention to hiI
g 1t proved to be former hired ma
of named Fred Jordan of Lowell, who b;
" managed to effect an entrance and 70
m berry. He lnew that Mr.. Foster kept h
money in a certain W; lrobe, and from
he made good his escape with SIP. {
Sunday Sheriff Halbert found him al
MS. recovered all the money. Jordan co
m, fessei the crime, waived examinatio
we and in default of bail was committed f
=, IL trial.