Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-01-26
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

The death is announced of DR.. James
Davis, eldest son of Hon. Bliss N Davis
of Danville. DR.. Davis went south
many years since, served in the confed
crate army during the war, and since its
close had practiced medicine in New
Orleans.
One of the merchants has concluded
that when he wants to send letter to
Windsor tho en--.e 1~y he Mill be careful
to select the right stage-driver to send
by, as it takes too much time for letter
to reach Windsor by way of Gassetts and
Burlington.
Ex-Gov. Levi Underwood is at his
home in Burlington. mentally much the
same as before he went to Concord. Re-
Gently he was caught trying to blow up
his house. 1t is heated by steam. and
he had drawn off the water and built up
furious fire.
Wonder how many of the people who
cut Vennor's prediction from the papers
for ready reference when the cold snap
should come between the 9th and 18th
of January" have noticed what mild
weather we had between those days?
Give us some other weather prophet.
Martin Daily of Burlington. worked
for one year on the Rutland and Bur-
lington railroad under the original con-
tractors, Bradley, Strong & Co, and has
ever since worked for that road, drawing
full pay every month. making thirty-one
years and nine months of labor without
the loss of single day from any cause.
The number of deaths at the Vermont
asylum at Brattleboro during 1879 was
only eighteen, or precisely four per cent.
on the average resident population of
four hundred and fifty patients. This
showing is an exceptionally good one. for
these four hundred and fifty inmates are
all sick persons. and many of them are
i'll both in body and mind.
The third annual reunion and banquet
of the Sons of Vermont occurred Friday
evening last. at the Grand Pavilion Ho-
tel, Chicago. Over four hundred persons
occupied seats at the banquet. Address
es were delivered by Rev. DIR. Boardman,
President Buckham of the University OF
Vermont, and others. Letters were re-
ccived from President Hayes, Secretary
Evarts, Senator Edmunds and ex-Gov-
ernor Fairbanks.
NORTH TROY, VT, Jan. 20. Mark L.
Bannlster of Troy was arrested here to.
day under the requisition of the Govern.
or General of Canada. for passing coun.
terfeit bills on the State National Bank
of Troy, N. Y. He was taken to Newport
} where an examination will be had to.
morrow. Bannister has borne an excel
lent reputation heretofore. A large
amount of counterfeit bills on the same
bank are in circulation on the Canadian
frontier.
People in Fairfax. Fletcher, and al
that region, have been 'done' out O
the value of their produce, L. N. Wilson
who bought butter. and everything elst
that anybody would sell him, having
'.lit out" for Canada, leaving probably
$4,000 of unprovided for debts behind
him. Lew" had an off-hand way O
, doing business that made him rather
: popular, but that popularity is thing
of the past. his victims being SO numer
Gus that the excavations are almost uni
versal.
Major John c. Tyler, 43 years oil
t and only son of the late Ferdinand Ty
s Ter, died Sunday at the Vermont asylum
for the insane at Brattleboro. where b,
had been taken about a fortnight before
A graduate of Yale college in 1861, b.
entered the army as major of the Fourth
Vermont regiment in the fall of 1861
s resigned the following year. and after
ward served on Gen. Badly Smiths staff
He was selected by Grant for the Odcss;
consulship, but the appointment was no
confirmed. He leaves a widow, cousin
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