Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-11-28
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

laundry business at Brattleboro.
Rufus E. Brown, young Burlington
lawyer, has absconded, leaving many UNI
paid debts.
The Jericho cheese factory the past six
months has made 2,4OO cheeses from &c.,
900 gallons of milk.
The state agricultural society has in
vited Gov Smith to deliver the address
at the next state fair.
The subscriptions to the capital stock
of the proposed permanent fair at Bur-
lington now aggregate $4,000.
Joseph Phelan caught a wildcat weigh
ing thirty-one pounds in a trap in the
woods at East Granville one day last
week.
According to the recently issued census
bulletin Vermont has an area of 1855
square miles, the water surface being 430
and the land surface 9135 square miles.
ST. ALBANs BUTTER MARKET. Nov. %.
The market was quiet. November but
ter sold at 20 to 25 cents per pound; fall
ends, selections, % cents per pound; ex-
ira, 80 cents per pound.
Marick Young of Weathersfeld drove to
Claremont, N. H., with Charles Streeter
on the 18th inst. They separated, and
Young has not been seen since. There is
no clue to his whereabouts.
During the six months ending Nov. 1st
| the business transacted at the Central
Vermont freight office in Burlington was,
in tonnage, double the amount Of the cor
responding time in the preceding year.
| Governor Farnham has appointed Hi
ram A. Cutting ofLunenburg and Herbert
Brainard of st. Adams Fish Commission
ers for a term of five years; R. A. Saw
age of Stowe, assistant Judge for Lamoille
county, vice Chester w. Ward; resigned.
Good Templar lodges have recently
been formed in Poultney and Barre, while
it is expected that one will be formed at
st. Johnsbury tonight. The work of in
creasing the number of Templars and the
success.
More than 1000, 900 bushels of charcoal
are produced annually at one establish.
ment in Dandy. The kilns are 81 in mum
Der, with a capacity of 35 cords of woo6
each. The proprietor owns $4,000 acres
of woodland and carries on a large lum
Der business.
The board of agriculture has lost an
, other member in the person of Mr.. Lo
throp of Pittsford, whose resignation ha'
been rendered. Among those mentioned
to succeed Mr.. Fassett of Enosburgh il
Mr.. E. r. Towle, the well informed agri
J cultural editor of the Messenger.
J The death is announced, at Des Moines
Ia, of Capt. Charles v. H. Sabin, pro
prietor of the Sabin House of that city
Capt. Sabin was quartermaster of tn
First Vermont Cavalry, and was after
ward promoted to A. Q. NJ. He was tn
g best of men and universally popular.
DR.. Hoskins of Newport wants tn
e proved and something better given tn
a people than the horse trot, with a fe'
agricultural appendages, which now goe
; for the annual fair. We suspect that Dl
Hoskins is right in believing that an in
provement might be made In the way
is run.
i The Rutland county court was run at
r net profit to the state of five thousan
+ dollars, last year, and will apparent
make an equally good showing at tt
close of the present fiscal year. I'll
y Herald says that the amount paid by Il
) liquor dealers of that county for fine
:, costs and bonds called at the last term
e court was about $3.50.
t John Ryan, about seventy years of ag
e was killed at Fairhaven recently by tt
~ premature discharge of gun. He WI
found sitting on box in his barn wi
~ his gun resting between his knees, and
u is supposed that he leaned over while t
n gun was cooked to fasten his shoes. II
s, movements discharged the weapon al
,e the contents entered his breast.
,r A Shelburn family received a pleasa
m anticipatory Christmas gift last week
the shape of nine-months-old infant.
elderly lady stepped off the New York e
press and asked the family to kindly ca
re for the child for a moment They chez
|? fully complied with the request, whereu
en- on the lady stepped aboard the cars aga
III and was soon on her way rejoicing.
a. AS man named William Merrick
IL Brandon was hunting deer in the Adirc
dacks Monday he found a strange hou
~ interfering with his own and shot the
imal dead. He went to where it was al
as he was STOPPING over the body cutti
off the ears, he was shot at by some |
NC known person and mortally wound
. The shooter is supposed to be the owl
ar of the dead dog, but has not been capt
re- ed yet.
mt John P. Howard has giveu to the Ho
10 for Destitute Children in Burlington
opera house which bears his name.
was built two years ago at cost of 81
Vi 900, and contains four large stores an(
Or spacious theatre. This Is the largest
md gle gift ever made in Vermont to cl
ted liable institution. Mr.. Towards e
MI. during the present year to charitable,
ligious and educational institutions
:, gregate nearly $225,000.
The Montpelier Wutchnadn says: g
cry member and attendant upon the
ati- legislature will favorably remember
ept ter Earle Kinsley of Burlington, the you
we est and most active and obiiging mes:
thv ger in the House of Representatives
l. now learn that on the recommended