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

ed by the Senate Monday.
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
The total receipts of St Allbans post
office for 1879 were $9,667.13.
The Bates House at Rutland, under
its new management, is to be kept
temperance house.
The spring term of the Essex CLASH
cal Institute has begun, with about
seventy students and more to come.
Two Jacksonville men have been
seriously injured by lead poison in
cider kept in cask, the inside of which
was painted.
The mill property IN Wolcott. lately
owned by the American hone and box
company. has been bought by a New
York man.
Col Joseph Battel, proprietor of the
"Bread Loaf Inn at Ripton, will build
telephone line to Middlebury, dozen
miles away.
The large boys at the Perkinsville
(Weathersfeld) school tried to GUST
their teacher. but declined when he
drew a revolver.
DR.. Noyes of Randolph is expecting
to go to Alaska in April. He is en-
ployed by the fur company as resident
physician to the natives and employees
of the company on two islands, the pop
ulation being IT'S and 200 respectively.
The suits of Asa T. Barron of White
River Junction against Daniel S. Elan
ders and George II. Worthen Of Leba-
non, N. H., for assault and false i'm
prisonment have been carried to the
United States circuit court.
Miss Jennie Sears, daughter of Jesse
Sears of Richford, sustained severe
injury to her spine at Richford Sunday,
by being thrown from sleigh over a
] log and down bank, the result of the
horse being frightened by dog.
At the dedication services of the Uni
tartan church at Richmond Friday,
1000 persons were present. Dlstin-
guished clergymen from Burlington.
Montpelier and other places were pres
ent. The church was built the past
year at cost of $1,000.
Joseph ST. Lawrence, of Swanton, at
tempted suicide by strychnine on SUI
day forenoon, but owing to an error
in the preparation of the 'pizen," and
prompt medical aid, he still lives. He
was an employee of the tannery.
The new engine, 200 horse power,
of the Bennington Wooden Mills. has
been placed in position. 1t is fed by
five boilers. and this immense power
shows to some extent the large manu-.
factoring interest which fills the two
great buildings to the northwest of this
village.-Banner.
Henry Dutton of Hartford committed
suicide last week by shooting himself
in the head with revolver. He re-
Gently passed examination at Dartmouth
College preparatory to entering the
Chandler scientific department Tenn
porary alteration of mind is assigned
as the cause of the fatal act.
On Wednesday. John Ring. of Mid
dlebury. was up for selling liquor, and
plead guilty of four offences It wal
his second conviction, and he wa
fined $50 and cost, and sentenced t.
four months in the House of Correction
at Rutland, in addition to three day,
for each dollar of fine and costs Who'll
term of confinement, 427 days. H
ppealed.-Register.
Judge Luke P Poland. of ST. Johns
bury. is credited with saying: Gu
small-fry politicians imagined awhll
ago that the nomination Of Grant wa
a certainty and wanted to start earl
for fear they could not keep abreast tn
boom. So they called the convention
r Feb. 25. | have no idea what convention
D will do; but it is plain that the Gran
f feeling is diminishing every day.
There are three old ladies in Chelsea
. aged respectively 81, 80 and SO years
one of whom has been heard to re
y mark recently that "she hoped whe
5 she became old there would be somebod
e to take care of her," and the eldes
when SO was heard to say that Ssh
: hoped when old she should never be S
fussy' as another whom she mentioned
e Longevity is the chief disease at Chelsea
d About seven o'clock Saturday evenin
r while Sheriff Halbert was supplyin
the prisoners in the Franklin count
Jail with coal, a prisoner dashed Il
Y of pepper in his eyes and escaped
r The man who escaped is named Chris
: opher G. Tracey. who had been arrest
: ed for theft. There were three othe
prisoners in the room whose escape wa
$ prevented by the prompt action of th
8 sheriff
d The town authorities of Montpelie
. have decided to strictly enforce til
Sunday law against saloons. The 70
, lowing orders were issued Saturda
e night: All saloons must close by |
l. o'clock P. NJ, and not to open till
( A. NJ; must not open in any name
IL Sunday. If either order is voilatec
prosecutions will be enforced to til
. full extent of the law. The police a.
% ordered to arrest any man seen DRUM
r, whether making disturbance or no
2 and prosecute him to the full extent.
a. Jewett Mann of Windsor, aged abor
4 sixty-6ve, Wednesday morning of la
week attempted to kill his daughtt
- Ella. Mann charged his own family wit
OF keeping house of i'll fame, whereupc
of Mrs. Mann, aided by her two daughter
It attacked her husband with broomsticl
. and pokers, driving him into the corn
of the room behind the stove. Mar
- threatened harshly, but the three we
d, too much for him. In the despera
le effort to extricate himself, he seized
vs. coffee pot from the stove and hurled
- at Ella. stikipp her on the hack of n