Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-11-14
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

STATE NEWS ITEMS.
The Portland & Ogdensburg railroad
has concluded not to bridge Lake Cham
plain at Rouses Point at present.
The nineteen barrels of ale seized in the
Central Vermont station at Burlington
two weeks ago have been declared for
feited.
Nearly all the states show decrease in
this years wheat crop, but Vermont has
nearly $4,000 bushels more this year than
last.
Gov. Farnham has appointed Thursday,
Nov. oath, as day of thanksgiving and
prayer-the same day appointed by the
president.
A little one-year-old daughter-of Frank
Booth of Essex Junction had a spoonful
of laudanum administered to her by mis-
take few days since, but was saved by
medical skill.
The bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. Cook, who
were found dead at Bellows Falls, were
placed in tomb, and no other examina-
ton, as all are satisfied that they died by
their own hands.
Colonel Cannon of Burlington has
colt that cost him $500, which has just
trotted half a mile in l. 1919. 1t is I'M
derstood that he has refused an offer of
5000 for the animal.
A trifie over $50, 900 is already pledged
for the Bennington battle monument, and
a further congressional appropriation to-
ward the needed 800, 900 will he sought.
Individual subscriptions are quite numer-
Gus and substantial.
The house in which President Arthur
was born at East Fairfield is still stand
ing. Several apple trees near by are
pointed out by the coolest inhabitant'' as
having been planted when the presidents
father was living on the place.
Brakeman Dennis Day was damned at
White River Junction Monday evening,
between a shifting engine and car to
which he unsuccessfully tried to couple
it. He lived only about three hours. He
was thirty years of age and leaves wife
and two children.
ST. ALBANs BUTTER MARKET, Nov. s.
The market was quiet and prices had q
downward tendency. Common butter
sold at Is to 20 cents per pound; good to
choice, 25 to 90 cents per pound; selec
tions, 80 cents per pound; extra, 80 tc
"a cents per pound.
Judge Pierpont is gradually sinking
from exhaustion of his vital powers, but
his mental faculties are unimpaired The
other judges deputed Judge Ross to visi
him at his home to convey to him the re
spect and sympathy of his fellow judges
This duty has been performed.
Mr.. j. P. Williams of Shrewsbury, agen
of the state fish commission, has recent,
stocked several ponds in Newark ant
Sutton with Oswego bass and black bass
and will soon place fish in some of tn
ponds on the line of the st. Johnsbury [
AdhC
At Richford last Tuesday Frenchma
was pulled out from beneath the smoking
car of the day express train. Not havin
money to pay his fare to Portland, whitt
er he was bound, he had crawled beneat
, the car and had ridden in that perilou
position up to that point, and woul
+ doubtless have continued his ride had b
not been discovered by the car inspector
/ Statistics of the Vermont Methods
a Episcopal churches are as follows: Nun
. Der of circuits, 173; number of preachin
places, 221 number of effective member
of conference, 1874; number of supern1
$ merary and superannuated members, 2t
s number Of probations in conference, Il
d number of pastoral supplies, 81; churt
d membership, 1928; practitioners, 2,174
Sabbath-school scholars Of all ages, II
247; number of church ediices, 1873; va
- ue of church edifices, $720, 707; numb
q of parsonages, 1874; value of parsonage
n $166,600; salaries paid the presiding {
v ders, 81 ,O95; salaries paid the bishop
II $498; current expenses, $12,385.
Lewis B. Hubbard of Ludlow desires
secure as full returns as possible from t
"a dairy interests of Vermont, for use at t
7, next annual meeting of the National BI
ID ter, Cheese and Egg Association, to
II held at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Novemh
!: 10Th, and solicits from every owner a
. manager of cheese factory, the name
~ factory owner, number of cheese, numt
as of pounds of milk and number of CO
We during the last season, and returns fri
IN large private diaries. He would like
of name and address of every maker of f
:. maple sugar, with the number of trt
and amount made in 1881, as he is in
D0 ceipt ofinquiries from western purchas
n respecting good sugar makers in V
tie mont.