Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-04-11
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

A cheese factory is building at North
Georgia.
Asa T. Barron of White River juno
ton is slowly recovering from his recent
dangerous illness.
Aaron Cragin of Weston, father of ex-
senator Cragin of New Hampshire, is
dead at great age.
There are now one hundred and thirty
convicts in the state prison-a less num-
Der than for many years.
Woodstock is excited over the prosecu-
tion of O. G. Kimball, a druggist, for
violation of the liquor law.
VIM. Blythe, rail sawyer in the ST. Al
bans iron and steel works, was instantly
killed Thursday morning by being caught
and drawn into the saw gearing.
Joseph Evarts, one of the wealthiest
residents of Georgia, died on Saturday
morning of pneumonia. He was distantly
related to Hon. William NJ Evarts.
The Vermont Central and Southeastern
railways have entered into pooling
arrangement for through passengers and
| freight. A reduction in fares is expected.
The shipments of lumber and other
freight from Burlington average nearly
| fifty cars a day aud the receipts, princi-
pally general merchandise, about thirty
! tons.
| Representatives of the Central Vermont
Passumpsic and Southeastern railways
have arrived in Montreal to settle upon
the pooling arrangement for through
freight and passengers to Boston.
The Central railroad has six heavy
freight engines known as "Moguls,
which easily draw 80 freight cars eacl
from St. Adams to Roxbury, and half a:
many more on the down grade to White
River Junction.
L. P Thayer will move the Farmer from
Montpelier to West Randolph, where h
will continue the Herald and NelcS. TIL
move is made because he considers Ran
dolph affords a better advertising fell
than Montpelier.
A suit under the Civil Damage act ha
t been brought by the heirs of the lat
Chauncey Richards against d. p Moore
l hotel proprietor at East Berkshire, dan
l ages being set at $4,000. Richards wa
, | ~ Lo% Il To- fol
f when he was thrown from the wagon an
0 killed.
e A pile of about 1900 tons of steel raj
: is standing in front of the rolling mil
! ready to be shipped to Ohio, to be use
e on the road running out of Wheeling, v
; Va. The mill has orders enough to kee
e it running until July, including one fro
r the Central which will lay 5000 tons Il
e coming summer
) Captain U. A. Woodbury. and w.
X Bowman have leased the Van Ness Hou
u in Burlington. Mr.. Bowman was Gle
d at the Ottawa hotel, Montreal for tv
Il years and half; at Russel's Hotel, Gu
, bee, two years; proprietor Gin connecti'
,r with the late M. B. Curtis, formerly
'e Burlington) of the Haynes House, Sprin
d. field, Mass, for three years; and prop
etor of the Lake Memphramagog Hous
Newport, Vermont for seven years.
h James O. Bachelor, brakeman, W
~ killed on a way freight at Bolton Satl
. day evening. When making up the trs
~ he was standing on the brake beam
or the tender, from which he slipped a
nc was run over, nearly cutting his head
NV and killing him instantly. He was
,s years old, lived in Northfeld, had W
MT and baby, and went on the road one W
:, ago last October. No blame can be
loo tached to any one.
nix Nearly half century ago Freder
les Douglass found himself unable to obt
an hall or church in Vergennes in VIII
ely to ''speak his Niger sentiments" on
Die abolition of slavery, and when he
ich tempted to sit at the dinner table in
lly leading hotel, the citizens got up and
SIS, the table. Now the city has temperal
wv. reform club, and one of it's leading offic
al is negro, and at the last charter elect
emit the city elected a Frenchman for
yes mayor, a negro for its sheriff, and you
blv woman for its clerk.