Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-09-05
STATE NEWS ITEMS,

STATE NEWS ITEMS.
1t will be unlawful to catch brook trout |
after September l, and impossible to do |
so before that date.-Mcssenger.
Hon. Albert Clark, formerly of the st.
Adams Messenger, is now on the Boston
Herald staff as special correspondent.
A man named Smith, living near Rich
ford, accidentally shot himself Monday,
while hunting, and lies in critical con-
dition.
The loss by the burning of White,
Clarkson & Cos planning mill near Rich
ford, Aug 6, was $21 900. The insurance
was $11 1000.
During thunder storm at West Sails
bury lightning struck the iron railing near
the depot three successive times within
ten minutes.
Jackson Davis, formerly of Alburgh,
was accidentally shot in the eye by Law
yer Day at st. Elmo, Cal, recently. He
died instantly.
Daniel Burrows, seventy-one years old,
deaf and dumb, and resident of Bridport,
was killed by the White Mountain express
south, August 25th, on the Rutland road
near Brooksville.
Governor Farnham has appointed Col
LeGrand B. Cannon of Burlington trus-
| tee of the University of Vermont and
State Agricultural college, to fill the va
cancy in the board occasioned by the resig-
nation of Lieut.. Gov j. L. Barstow.
While endeavoring to dislodge a half
fallen tree in the woods at Woodford the
other day, Charles Burris received injur-
les which it is thought will prove fatal.
When he cut the prop which held the
lodged tree it came down upon him with
crash, mangling him shockingly.
The Windsor Journal says that Col
John Hay, acting editor of the N. Y. Trib-
ane, has been the guest of Hon. w. NJ
Evarts in Windsor during the past week,
while the city papers declare that Mr..
Evarts sailed from Liverpool for New
York on the City of Berlin the 25th.
A diabolical attempt was made recently
by some person or persons to poison sew
eral families using water from a spring in
Stamford. Mr. J. o. Sanford of that
town while passing the spring stopped to
examine its condition, and was surprised
to find upon its quicksand bottom patches
of green substance. He took for chemi-
cal analysis a portion of the deposit,
which proved to be Paris green, and it is
now certain that large number of people
have been exposed to death by poisoning
A. d. Evarts, a Waltham farmer, finds
a ready market for the butter made from
his so head of Jersey cows at 80 cents pei
; pound. He puts it up in two and foul
pound wooden packages in crates holding
II and "a packages. On his 500 acre farm
is model $4,000 barn, with hay mows 4C
feet deep. Machinery cuts all the straw
cornstalks and fodder Near mountain
spring, which has temperature of so de
, grees all the year, is a creamery supplied
with Campbell pans, and the cream is
, churned by steam power. In this herd O.
Jersey is the noted six-years-old COW O.
the Woodbridge strain of Jerseys with
record of two pounds of butter per day
: and a two-year-old heifer which produced
: one pound of butter from 112s pounds o
q milk. His average sales of butter hav
! been about % per cent. above the genera
market for grade cows butter.
! The Universalist state convention a
-, Barre elected the following officers 70
:, the ensuing year; President, FL. V
French of Woodstock; vice-president, G
Il w. Tilden; corresponding secretary, Rev
s S. A. Parker of Bethel; treasurer, Wi
J. lard Chase of West Concord; trustees
|. Rev. E. w. Whitney of Brattleborc
chairman of the committee on FELLOWSHIP
and ordination; Rev. S. A. Parker G
! Bethel preacher of the occasional SCI
e mon: Rev. S. H. McCallister, d. D., c
r Bellows Falls, alternate, Rev. 1. P. Boot
IL of Mortified. Rev. G.. w. Barnes {
= White River Junction, was ordained b
the convention. The convention close
- with a sermon by Rev. G. L. Demores
- D. D., editor Of the Sunday School Hell
e en-, Manchester, N. III. The conventio
d has been very successful, both in attent
\. ance and work accomplished, about
l. clergymen being present. The next col
vention will be held at Brattleboro.
At Underhil recently two lads went L
r Mansfield Mountain trout fishing, al
er spent the night in room on the secor
p floor of the halfway house, which w;
ut otherwise empty. During the night the
e: were awakened by the sound of some a
co imal scrambling in at lower windoy
Then came sounds of scratching and ella
; tering on the floor below, and then upt
v" the stairs. Thoroughly alarmed, al
u having no weapons but pocket knive
e. the boys now sprang up and drew the
.es beds across the door to bar the entranC
~, The creature came to the door, and aft
e snuffing at the cracks, endeavored
~ push it open. The boys crowded the be
80 stead against the door with all the
tor might, but were in way to be overpo
m cred, when, finding their voices, tn
shouted loudly at the intruder. He to
fright at the shouting, and scuttled doy
stairs and out of the window The MOI
of ing light showed scratches on the do
ny and window castings, and outside the w
dow the tracks of bear in the soft ga n