Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1880-07-05
STATE NEWS ITEMS,

The cotton factory at Middlebury has
commenced running with full force.
A road is building to the top of Potato |
Hill in Lincoln, where signal service |
station will be established.
Citizens of Burlington have contributed |
81 ,957.38 for the enlargement and i'm
provement of the medical college there.
Pliny Holton, aged twenty, shot him.
self at Westminster Saturday night, and
he died the next morning. Cause UNI
known.
Frederick L. Kingsbury, M. D., and
wife of Waterbury have been appointed
by the American Board of Missions to go
| to Bulgaria.
Rev. Edward Payson Lee, rector of
| Grace church at West Rutland, was or
| dained to the priesthood Thursday by
Bishop Bissell.
At Bennington, VT, on Thursday,
nine year ole girl named Mannett, while
kindling fire with kerosene, was fatally
burned The child was alone at the time.
Her parents were in the habit of lighting
the fire in this manner.
The citizens of Johnson, Waterville
and Belvidere have held meeting in Bur-
| lington, and decided to make survey at
once for an extension of the Burlington
& Lamoille railroad from Cambridge juno
ton to Johnson, a distance of nine miles,
At meeting of the trustees of Dart
mouth college last week Tuesday after
noon, Hon. Wheelock G. Veazey of Rut-
land class of 80, was chosen to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Will
liam 2. Haines, L. L. D., of Bradford, Me.
The floor of barn belonging to L. A.
Ives of Mt Holly gave way an milking
time the other evening, throwing Ives
nay into the cellar Ives was seriously
hurt, valuable COW was killed and 9th
ers were MANNED.
Burlington's real and personal estate is
valued at 1921, GIL, an increase of $11O,-
933, mostly in personal. There are one
hundred and nine more polls than last
, year, which makes against the accuracy
of the new census, which shows loss
, since 1870.
The Montpelier and Wells River Rail-
road Company want to build a $4,000
depot at Wells River, and have the Pas
sumpsic and Boston, Concord and Mont
real roads rent it. The other two roads
want to have hand in building it, but
]. the three roads could not agree last veal
upon the cost and style.
p John Green was arrested at Sheldo1
last week Tuesday for stabbing a MAJ
trade. Green was arrested and bount
over to the next term of county court
y In the night he escaped from the thir,
e story of the Portland House, where h
% was confined while awaiting transfer t.
;, jail. He was handcuffed, but let himsel
to the ground by means of sheet an
- bedquilt, escaping in an almost nude con
% dition. There is no clue to his where
| dDOuCS. Liz OulCeTS OucI d TtWdTQ III
Is his arrest.
h The university of Vermont at Burline
II ton yesterday conferred the degree {
bachelor of arts on Is graduates, inclI
ding two women, bachelor of philosoph
~ on Hattie NJ. Allen of South Hero, Vt
Oh and Mary Brownell of Williston, Vt
s, civil engineer on Frederick M. Barsto'
Sc of Shelburn, VT, c. F. B. Haskell an
,r James Russell Chapman of the class Oft;
The corporation dinner was eaten at tt
American hotel, followed in the evenin
i0 by levee at President Buckhams hous
y To-day will come the examination fl
as admission to the university, and in tt
ne evening the commencement exercises
ry the medical department.