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

STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Williston's personal grand list is $685.
$50, against $40, 1926 last year-an increase
of over six-fold.
1t is estimated that the grand list of |
Bellows Falls will this year be over $780,
900 against Sc, 900 last year.
The Free Press says that Senator Ed |
munds has received and declined four |
invitations to deliver commencement adj |
dresses at as many colleges.
In drunken row at Burlington on Sat-
urday night, at about IL O'Clock, Frank
Mccullough was stabbed in the abdomen
and died in a little over "a hours.
Rev. L. L. Beeman, who was assigned
by the Vermont conference to Woodstock,
is in Massachusetts in attendance upon
his wife, who is sick of diphtheria They
had gone there to bury their child, and
Mrs. Beeman was taken sick while there.
At St. Adams butter market the attend
ance was good, receipts increasing, mar
ket dull, prices lower. We quote butter,
common, - to Is cents per h.; good to
choice, 16 to II cents per ID. selections,
Is cents per h., with few fancy lots at
higher price. Eggs II cents per dozen.
Asahel Isham, who died at East Fair
field the 23d ult., aged 80, was an active
soldier in the war of 1912. At the time
of his death he had in possession his
fathers discharge from the revolutionary
ranks, signed by George Washington. A
twin brother of Mr.. Isham is yet living in
Washington.
Col. George w. Hooker, Commander
of the Grand Army of the Republic, has
issued General Order No. 3, designating
May 80 as decoration day in Vermont, in
accordance with the order from national
headquarters. He expresses the wish
that every soldiers grave may be deco
rated with flowers, and also requests that
each Post shall send to headquarters full
| reports and copies of all addresses made
ON that occasion.
| A statement has been going the rounds
| to the effect that out of the 1900 or 1900
| inhabitants of Stowe only 100 are church.
goers. This statement does the town an
! injustice, and was evidently based upon a
count taken on very unfavorable day.
| The town was canvassed last fall by an
agent of the Vermont Bible Society.
Some few families he failed to visit, in
Guiding some of the church members and
regular attendants. Yet the number
attending church which he found was
462 Allowing the same ratio in the fam
lilies not visited would give total of SIS.
The Connecticut River Lumber Compa-
ny have opened their boom above Wells
River, containing about 100000 feet OF
logs, which will be hurried down the
river, as the present stage of the water
in the Connecticut River is favorable to a
rapid drive. One hundred men are en-
gagged on this drive. Between four and
five hundred men are at work at the head
of the river preparing the second drive OF
| uDOuG tO,OOU.OUO lCCOs nC CA
pect to boom the lot just started at Hart,
ford within the next thirty days. There
has never been such a large amount Of
logs cut in Vermont as during the past
winter, but the demand for lumber is
good and prices are remunerative.
A sad accident occurred near the Ray
| burvino crroup6 in JipoChurub poiIa mr.
a half from the village. Frank Welcome
and his sister Jennie, while returning
from drive about 8 O'Clock Sunday
evening, met team which they did no
see in the dark. As the carriages came
together, Welcome and his sister wer,
thrown violently to the ground, jennie
striking on her head and shoulders SOM
distance from the carriage. She wa
seriously hurt. She was taken to hous
near by, where physician was called
He found her injuries to be in her spin
and head. She has remained unconsciou
since she was taken up and had convul
sions most of the time. The doctor say
she cannot live.-Rutland Herald.
Mr.. Jesse Perkins, the oldest person il
Cabot, died at the residence of his son
Charles Perkins, at Lower Cabot, Apr
"a, aged ninety years. His father wa
the first settler in the town of Walden
moving there in 1889, and settling on tn
farm where General Hazen camped wit
: his army in 1879, while cutting throug
the famous HaZen road. Here the subiec
of this notice was born, being the frs
child born in the town Of Walden. II
resided on the old farm for quite nun
Der of years, and then removed to tn
| north part of the town. From there h
went to Lower Cabot, where he died. II
, was an athletic man, and his strong arr
in his young days did great execution
reducing the heavy timbered forest to th
smooth and fertile fields. He was ma
who took little part in public business
but attended closely to his own. He wa
| at one time the possessor of quite TO
! tune. He was consistent member of til
Methodist church for more than sixt
: years and died in the triumphs of faith
Waterman.
Compound Oxygen in Epilepsy.
The following is an extract from lie
t ter received from patient who had use
e Compound Oxygen for Epilepsy. 1t
dated March, 1879: 81 commenced takin
S the Compound Oxygen last April (197S
|. for epilepsy, and have taken four month
treatment 1t has helped me more ths
all the medicines I've taken for the la
five years. Have only had spasms OF
st time since 1 commenced taking the Ok
Sc gen. l think l am entirely cured of Il
n spasms, and my health is better in eve
De way than for several years before" o.
y Treatise on Compound Oxygen, which
is sent free, will be found of great value
In all who are suffering from any chron