Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-02-21
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Rutland expended for the support of
the poor last year $8,18215.
All the papers in the matter of the re-
moval of the shirt factory from Glen's
Falls, New York, to St. Adams have been
signed.
E. G. Goss, master mechanic of the
Southeastern railway, has resigned his
position, and A. G. Eastman of the Cana
ola Central railroad succeeds him.
Last Wednesday evening the machine
shop of Mansfield & Stimson, Rutland,
was partially burned. Loss estimated
between $4,000 and $4,000, with no in
Surance.
The Central House at Hartland station
was burned early last week Thursday
mates barely escaping. Loss $4,000; in
sured for 81 800.
September 18th, 18th, 18th and 10th
have been selected as the days for holding
the next state fair at Montpelier. Hon.
Henry Chase, president of the society,
will deliver the address.
Last Thursday night the store house of
the Stark Paper Company in Bennington,
paper manufacturers at State Line, was
burned. Loss $4,000; no insurance.
Most of the contents was finished paper
ready for shipment.
The Brattleboro manufacturing compa-
ny's property has been sold to J. EStey
& Co. for 6,25O. The machinery was
purchased for $3.50 by Estey & Co. and
the Rollstone machine company of Fitch
burg, Massachusetts.
It is expected that the new tax law will
double the real estate valuation, making
it about $40, 900, 900, and increase the
| personal estate valuation six or seven
times, or to about 100000 The
| grand list will be about So 800, 900, and
the safe tax, seventeen cents, $425,00
The home of the Williston murderers,
Joseph Woods and Alma Smith, has been
sold by mortgage foreclosure. OF the
children the oldest is in the poor house,
the second in the Orphans Home, and
the third, an infant, with the mother in
Jail.
At the st. Adams rolling mill large
force is now employed and orders enough
are on hand for several months work.
! Recently large quantities. of steel rails
were sent to the Maine Central and Grand
Trunk roads, and more are now being
rolled for the Central, which will put
down several thousand tons in the spring
Washington (not New York; Truth, il
biographical sketch of Hon. c. II. Joyce
of the first district, says: ''No better maj
could be found in the house of represent
atives for speaker of the next congress
combining legislative aptness and expert
ence, and should some one from New
England be accepted for that position, i
would be singular if Colonel Joyce shoult
be forgotten"
The number of school children in TIN
state is given as IS, 23S by the superin
tendent of education, distributed through
1857 schools, the annual expense o
which is $446,216, an average cost to tn
state of $5.93 per annum for each scholar
The number of teachers is 1859, who's
salaries amount to $3.50, 800. There ar
also 10 incorporated academies and 1
graded schools in the state, with 2,57
|. and 6,036 scholars respectively.
Governor Farnham and the directors O
the state prison decided to cancel tn
present contract with H. II. Mawhinne
& Co. of Boston for the convict labor a
the prison and have awarded toe same t
William d. Bracket & Co. of Boston d
, greater advantage to the state. Th
making of shoes will be continued an
the new contractors take charge in thre
months, which notice is necessary accoro
ing to the old contract.
George Freeman of Calais found thu
something was making depreciation
among his poultry, and to prevent it an
punish the offender, he set three stet
! traps at night. In the morning he foun
4 an owl fastened not only by the thre
f traps he set,-one on his leg and on
t fastened to each wing, but still anothe
/ steel trap fastened to the other leg, whic
q he had taken around with him until I'll
leg below the jaws of the trap was nearl
e gone. Four traps proved to be too Gun
t bersome for him to transport.