Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-05-23
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Waite, the Brattleboro bank wrecker, |
has secured another postponement of his |
trial.
Barre is to have a new Odd Fellows
West Randolph.
The assessed valuation of personal
property in Milton is 1904, 339 80, against
$161, 878.S1 last year.
Rev. B. S.. Taylor of the Methodist
church at Weybridge has resigned and
will try his hand at hotel keeping.
A fatal disease is attacking cattle in
Ludlow, the lungs becoming dark and
honeycombed and water settling on the
brain.
d. C. Hardy, Sheriff at Morrisville, was
mulcted $3.50 for being drunk last week,
and Frank Cutting $lO.92 for the same
offence.
Rev. Mr.. Hubbard, late of the Ludlow
Tribune, has gone to Iowa to look up
newspaper which he has had from that
direction.
Fred LaRock, working in the steam
mill at Johnson, had all of one foot ex-
cept what held two toes cut off by large
circular saw.
A Williamstown man recently paid
Mortified dealer good square sum to
avoid being prosecuted for selling lot
of ''doctored" maple sugar.
Amos Ingraham, ofLudlow, was drown
ed last Thursday, while sluicing logs at
Cary's mills, in Houston. He was As
years old, and leaves a family.
Cider drinkers may be warned by the
fact that lightning smashed Pierce Dick
inson's tumbler at Tunbridge last week,
just as he was pouring out drink.
A parlor car will be put on the ST.
JohnsburY and Lake Champlain railroad
the latter part of June, and viii run from
Maquam to the White Mountains.
The town of Cabot has employed Mr..
John M. Fisher to write its history Mr..
Fisher has for years been diligently col
lecting the material necessary for this
| purpose.
Special agents of the postoffice depart
ment will shortly make an examination OF
the star routes in Vermont, of which
there are 1157, to see if any reforms are
necessary.
G. G. Benedict, state military historian
recently found at Washington the flag Of
the 9th Vermont that had been recaptured
at Richmond. 1t will be placed in the
state-house. si
The Vermont Baptist Sunday-schoo
convention meets this year at Brattleboro
June and 2. The name of d. L. Moody
appears on the programme for an addres:
the second day.
G. M. Chase of the Lyndon Union il
not content with his newspaper soarings
but has also gone into composing ant
publishing music, having issued 9Th
Vermont Union Polka
A daughter of Henry Beyor, of High
gate, aged years, was riding on wood
en- field roller last Thursday afternoon il
the street, and fell off so that the heav
roller passed over her head killing her.
The Vermont State Eclectic Medica
Society, holds its sixteenth annual meet
ing, at the State House, May 25 and q
} at 10 o'clock, a. m. The annual address
is to be delivered by DR.. w. F. Temple
, ton, of Montpelier, President of tn
Society.
John Brown, the colored man who ha
been lecturing in the State during til
spring, arrived in Rutland Saturday nigh
and after attending church Sunday, ws
: found insensible in his room, Monda,
, In spite of the doctors care, he died
seven O'Clock Tuesday evening.
: Grand list returns from 81 towns in tt
n State show an aggregate assessed yalu
ton of $36, l99, 900, the same towns la
year showing valuation of only $40 ,567
{ 200. In these towns, therefore, the ne
i law has brought under taxation near
,- seventeen millions of dollars of hither
d untaxed property.
i The butter market at ST. Adams, M;
% II, was firm and active, with an advan
of cent per pound for best grades; col
mon dull and unchanged. Common bu
10 ter sold at II to 10 cents per poun
'e good to choice 16 to 10 cents per poun
rs with few fancy dairies at higher prie
rs Eggs IL cents per dozen.
,e The Rev. John f. Adams of the Ne
N Hampshire conference is thought to
the oldest Methodist minister in t
:, ! world. He is 81 years old this mont
~ and has been So years in the ministl
nt In the same conference are four 9th
ID men who entered the ministry over