Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-08-08
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
JAMESTOWN, D. T., Aug. l.

STATE NEWS ITEMS,
G. H. Hall of Shoreham cut 1858 pounds
of wool from his flock of 95 sheep.
The Connecticut River railroad are
preparing to erect a repair shop at Wind
sor.
Brandon lady raised 26 bushels of
strawberries this season, worth So. % per
bushels.
Dartmouth college has conferred the
degree of LII. D. ON Hon. Timothy P.
Redfield of Montpelier.
Four million pounds of maple sugar is
DIR. Hoskins' estimate of the yield this
year in Orleans county.
Joshua Samson, fifteen years old, was |
drowned the 30th while bathing in the |
Missisquoi river at East Berkshire.
The supreme court for the county of
Lamoille will convene at Hydepark ON
Tuesday, August 16. There are ten cases
on the docket.
A six-years-old daughter of Mr.. L, Pow
ers of Beebe Plain, Quebec, was run over
by a freight train on the Passumpsic rail-
way last week, and probably fatally
injured.
Rev. Warren Fl. Roberts of Erie, Pa,
has been permanently engaged for I'm
manuel Church at Bellows Falls, and is
expected to commence his duties as rec
tor in September.
Eugene L. Emery, B. A., for the past
year principal of the Frelighsburg gram
mar school, has been appointed to the
principalship of Barton academy and
graded school at Barton.
Col. lie Grand B. Cannon of Burling
ton has sold his herd of shorthorns to
western men. This herd is said to be the
largest and best herd in the country, and
will be sore loss to Vermont breeders.
Gilman Wilson, for forty years engag
ed in the marble business at Manchester,
died suddenly on the 9th. About two
years ago he had a shock of paralysis,
since which time his health has been
poor.
An arrangement has been made by a
company in Holyoke, Mass, to purchase
the water power on Connecticut river
known as Summers Falls, and about sixty
acres of land of VIM. Allen, for the manu-
facture of paper.
The internal revenue receipts at Rich
ford were unusually large in July, amount
: ing to $37, 900. There are signs of live
ly freight business over the roads to
Richford and to st. Adams, where the
receipts are also large.
At the St. Adams butter market last
6 Tuesday the attendance and receipts were
light and market dull. Butter, good tC
selections, 20 cents per pound; few ex
: ira lots at a higher price, general price
q Is to 10 cents per pound.
: Senator Edmunds in declining an invi
c tation which was extended to him tt
p deliver the address at the Windham coun
ty tair says 81 began this spring with
resolution to practice total abstinenc
from public speaking, ETC., this summer
u and 1 have stuck so far. I should other
y wise have been glad to 60"
lie In Rutland a twelve-years-old son of
t. T. Thayer was sitting in the window 0
r the shirt factory, when he lost his balanc
N and fell to the ground, a distance G
twelve feet. The boy struck on his fore
"a head and breast on a slab of marble. Pal
OF tial conclusion of the brain was produced
ne and it is thought internal injuries wer
e. sustained.
it, Saturday, three Norman horses, on
T. stallion and two mares, arrived in s.
: bought by Governor Smith. They al
- four, five and six years old, in colo
VI glossy dark bay, and very gentle. M
X so large as the Normans bought thrt
n years since, they will be used as drivir
% horses, use to which their gentlenes
=, and endurance makes them peculiar
adapted
Mrs. Charity Winn committed suiciC
ford. She had been sick for some week
but was thought better Friday and walk,
across the road. She was found Saturd;
lu- morning, lying partially on her bed, h
70 head off and strangled by rope fasten'
to clothing hook in the wall. She w
dressed and the act was apparently col
Go mitted before retiring at night. She W
eW II years old.
eV- The new Upiver salist curch at BelloN
md Falls was dedicated last Wednesda
lew Many strangers were present and we
l;st Hospitality entertained by the ladies of t
:, parish. Rev. DR.. McCollister, the paste
delivered the sermon; Rev. DIR. Demort
leo of Boston the charge to the people. Re
are J. H. Farnsworth, State Missionary, a
ms. Rev. Asher Moore of Ohio were amo
cry those present. The church is an elegs
mo structure and cost $4,000.
400. The fall term of the State Morn
~ School at Johnson will begin the fl
Tuesday in September, with Prof. Edws
anu Conant, late State Superintendent of e,
rain cation, as principal Each town is Ell
by tied to one scholar whose tuition is p
hey by the State, and vacant scholarsh
oro may be filled by students from towns
ready using scholarships. Will not
friends of education see to it that all
Gus scholarships by law provided for are
hou- ed? Persons DESTROYS of State Scho
the ships must secure the appointment or