Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-05-02
STATE NEWS ITEMS,

The personal grand list of st. Adams is
$1,506,4S as against 1913, lis in 1880
an increase of 473 per cent.
Rev. NJ, NJ. Mill, pastor of the Pittsfeld
Baptist church, has resigned, the resig-
nation to take effect July /.
The Burlington Free Press predicts that
the next General Conference will restore
the lines of the Methodist Conferences,
and says that the Burlington district
churches will agitate to that end.
The Herald says that the Rutland listers
think the grand list of the town will reach
$4,000. Last year it was $37 900. Forty
lists in town will be over $50, 900, and
twelve to Is lists over 100000.
Rev. Mr.. Malcolm of st. Johnsbury,
mont Christian Messenger, has resigned
that position and is succeeded by Rev.
Mr.. Bartlett of Williamstown.
Rev. O. S. Basford, of Essex, left Mon
day evening for Dakota with a colony of
80. They go to settle on James river, on
the Dakota extension of the Northwestern
road which runs from Winona to Dead
wood.
At the st. Adams butter market, April
&c, the receipts were fair and market
quiet with lower prices. Common butter
sold at Is cents per pound; good to
choice 20 to 81 cents per pound; selec-
lions % cents per pound. Eggs II cents
| per dozen.
| DIR. Alferd Langdon Elwyn of Philadel-
| phia, a grandson of John Landon of New
Hampshire, who furnished the funds with
out which the battle of Bennington could
not have been fought, remembers the
patriotism of his grandsire by contribu-
ting 500 to the Bennington Monument.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stark Thorpe, who died
at louisville, March 8, at the age of 6S
years months and 10 days, was the wife
of David Thorpe of that place, and a
granddaughter of Gen. John Stark, the
hero of Bennington. Her mother was
Sophia Stark, the youngest child of the
general.
The laws of Vermont and Massachu-
sets requiring that on and after July Isl
all railroad cars entering those States
shall have patent air-brakes, on penalty
to the company running them Of ten dol
lars a day for each car, the Troy anC
Boston company have ordered the air
brakes for all their trains.
William M. Kendall, Jr., for the pas
four months, associate editor of the ArguI
last week severed his connection will
that paper and has gone to Rutland
where, it is understood, he has beer
offered favorable inducements by leading
Democrats to publish paper. The frs
number will probably be issued July first
Governor Farnham has granted an APP
, plication to Miles for a hearing on hi
: petition for pardon from Windsor pris
on, where he is serving out fourteen
years sentence for breaking into tn
! Barre National Bank in July, 1875. TIL
f hearing will take place in this village abou
, May 18TH Miles counsel claims to hav
o evidence to prove an alibi.
: BY the liberality Of Hon. j. Gregor
. Smith the University of Vermont an
n State Agricultural college is enabled t
f renew the offer of prizes to Vermont boy
# not over II years of age for largest crop
/ of corn and potatoes Is acre. The prize
i, will be the same as last year, S25, S2(
V SIS, SO, So and scholarships to first O
each list. Applicants will receive il
structions and blanks for reporting. AZ