Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-10-31
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

The Champlain valley poultry assoc1a-
ton will hold its annual exhibition at
Burlington, December 20-24th next.
1t is said that the right to manufacture
the SCREEN Mountain Renovator," owned
by the Silas Smith estate of Georgia, is
worth $4,000 or $4,000.
Eddie Flint, boy Is years old, was
thrown from an ox-cart at Westminster,
Monday night, and the wheel passed over
his head, killing him instantly.
Men from Springfield, Ohio, are buying
winter graft apples in Addison county to
take west. They say Vermont apples
keep better than the western fruit.
1t looks as though railroad would be
built from the Adirondack region at Lu-
zerne, N. Y, by way of Lake George to
the Central Vermont at Addison Junction.
Tuesday night, the 18th, sneak thieves
entered the barn of Phineas Pierce of
South Royalton, harnessed his horse to
his buggy and departed to parts unknown.
The Good Templars have organized an
active campaign for the year and expect
to organize large number of lodges DUR
ing the fall and winter, Lodges have
lately been formed at Plainfeld and in
other sections.
| Burlington seems in earnest about Or
ganizing a permanent fair association
with a capital of $25, 900. Burlington
ought to be able to do this in good shape
and it can be made decided success.
Col. A. B. Franklin of Newfane, master
of the state grange, has been invited by
the national bureau patrons of husbandry
to deliver series Of lectures this winter
in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and
Kentucky.
While at work in Clark's saw mill at
Milton Falls, Monday, young man NAM
ed Farrant was struck on the breast by a
piece of wood which flew from saw, and
so badly injured that he died the same
night. He was Frenchman and unmar-
ried.
The Beldens Falls water-power, located
three miles north of Middlebury, and for.
merly owned by the Beldens Falls marble
company, has been bought by the Bel
lows Falls paper company, and will be
used in making wood pulp. They have
already begun the foundations for large
mill.
ST. ALBANs BUTTER MARKET, Oct. 20
quiet, sales low, prices unchanged. We
quote common 20 cents; good to choice
% to 80 cents; selections 80 cents; extr,
SO to 80 cents; Shipment 1000 packages
Eggs 25 cents per dozen. Poultry 10 t.
Is cents per 10.
A resident of Fair Haven for quite
while missed wood from his shed, and fl
: nally, to find out what became of it, load
ed several sticks with powder. The mex
morning, hearing an explosion at tn
house of neighbor, he ran in and foun
the fire blown out of the stove and tn
2 griddle-oakes, which the woman wa
: cooking, plastered on the ceiling.
= Homer Irish of Shelburn has raised O
e his home farm of twenty-five acres, tn
= past season: Eighty-nine bushels ofsprin
wheat, one hundred thirty-two of winte
wheat, one hundred forty of oats, sixty {
! potatoes, seventy barrels of apples
+ twelve tons of hay, besides a good ves
n etable garden and grapes, strawberrie
8 etc. And he also has young orchard ,
h five hundred choice apple trees, just b
ginning to bear.
Linda Duba of Isle La Motto, seventee
= years old, went duck hunting recent
10 with two small boys. When the DO.
he came back to the boat they found Dull
te dead, with his gun leaning against hir
N An examination showed that the chars
;. had entered his mouth, and as the who
charge went into his mouth and no sig
of even burnt powder ON the outside, it
5 thought that he must have been BLOWN
he in the muzzle of the gun at the time
20 went off.
IA hC III quo w lll1C WICSClluS3 III
friendly match at the state fair, Barn
McEnany of Fairfield hurt himself int
at nally by being thrown by hip lock. T
&c injury was SO slight as to be hardly n
ticed by him, and not sufficient to preve
~ him from INDUCING in several more Dout
nj Soon after, however, a pain in his 81
" rendering it difficult for him to work,
nd went to the residence of Mr.. O'Neil
bt Moretown, where he remained until
decease, which occurred quite sudder
on the 18th inst. He was about 81 yea
IA old, and had won considerable fame as
h- wrestler.
no c. E. Brown, an employee of the Bost
rm firm of Fuller, Dana & FitZ, commit
nd suicide at the Weldon House, St. Albal
nv Wednesday night, the 18th, by shoot
- himself with revolver. He had be
playing billiards, and afterwards, ST
20 ping into the Mushroom, drew revol'
le' from his pocket and shot himself in
W right temple, death ensuing almost