Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-03-06
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


fee for 1881 were $13, 1874.
George S. Goodnow has been appoint
ed postmaster at Nottingham.
Stowe has only one clergyman, and he
conducts four services each Sunday.
Edward Delaney, a brakeman, was in
stantly killed at Alburgh last Friday while
cars.
The merino sheep trade is booming.
No less than fifteen western buyers were
in Brandon last week.
Rev. J. c. Langford of the Methodist
church at Colchester, gives up preaching
on account of i'll health.
The town auditors report Of Benning
ton shows reduction of the debt of the
town for the year of 1924, 652.8l.
The State Dental society will hold its
annual meeting at the Van Ness house in
Burlington March 18th, 10th and 18th
Chauncey Warner of Cambridge has
given in money and securities $25, 900 to
the home for destitute children at St.
Adams.
Fishing rods to the value of from forty
to fifty thousand dollars are annually
made in Post Mills village, in the town of
Thetford.
Jared Booth of Ferrisburgh, from a
farm of less than one hundred acres, de-
rived a net income the past year of over a
thousand dollars.
The attendance at the Randolph normal
school is the largest in it's history-over
no students, Of whom 80 are in the
graduating class.
The streams of Rutland county are to
be stocked with alligators. A. H. Spen-
Ger, station agent at Clarendon, has re-
Gently returned from Florida with % of
the agreeable insects.
William Perry, 81 years old, for many
years a well-known resident Of Burling-
ton, was drowned in a brook near there
Wednesday night. In the darkness he
drove off an embankment fifteen feet high.
j. L. Sanderson of st. Louis, formerly
of st. Adams, a star route contractor, has
been indicted for conspiracy to defraud
the government, and for perjury. He be-
gan his active life as driver from ST..
Adams to Richford.
In burlington in 1881 there were eigh-
ty-seven marriages, three hundred fifty
four births and two hundred twenty six
deaths. Seven deaths were the result of
violence. The most fatal disease was
consumption, from which there were
twenty-five deaths.
December l last there were four hun
! dred and ninety-seven pOstoffices in Yer
mont The receipts from these offices
last year were $6O2.4O less than the ex-
penses, but in only twelve states and one
territory of the Union were the receipts
equal to or above the expenses.
An old man named John Welsh, an EN-.
ploye of a Dorset quarry, received fata
injuries one day last week. A huge stone
rolled down the mountain and strucl
him, breaking both legs and decorating
his body in a fearful manner. The unfor
tunate man lived but short time.
An investigation into the affairs of thu
Connecticut River Mutual Fire Insuranc,
company of Bellows Falls, since its or
ganization, has been in progress durin!
the past week, resulting in finding mat
tiers in such a condition that at a specia
meeting of the directors it was voted t.
wind up the concern.
Castleton has lost its oldest inhabitant
Jacob Wheeler, who died the other day a
the age of 80 years. He was a veteran o
the war of 1912, and leaves fifty living de
about eighty years, was present at sixty
five town meetings, and had voted for fiji
teen democratic candidates for president
ST. ALBANs BUTTER MARKET, Feb. 20.-
There was good attendance at market
receipts very light: market active; price
firm. We quote winter butter 80 to 3
cents per ID; new butter 80 to 40 cents
a few tubs of choice new butter, we I'LL
derstand, changed hands at highe
price than above quoted. Shipment
about rs packages. Eggs % cents pc
dozen.
At meeting of the officers of the M
tional Horse Nail company, held on Fir
day, offers from several localities wer
| carefully considered, and it was decide
to maintain their works at VergenneS
and other facilities weae offered. TIL
Vergennes Water Power company wi
proceed to erect the necessary building
+ Immediately, on the former site.
The great railroad suit, James r. Lans
t don and others Us. Vermont & Canad
p railroad and others, set for trial Tuesday
the DIST inst, has been continued to til
adjourned general term of the suprem
court to be held in Montpelier on the fir:
Tuesday in May. The sickness of Jude
q Redfeld and the disturbances on accom
Of the immense interests involved tn;
n the case should be heard before the flu
bench was the consideration which d
cided the court to order the case conti
ued.
: Constable Irish of Montpelier last wee
/ levied upon sufficient personal proper
1t of James r. Langdon to satisfy the hig
e way tax amounting to 1915 assess
J. against him on the grand list of 1881, al
! filed list of the same in the town clerk
office, as required by a recent statut
. The collection of his other taxes is he
le in allegiance for the present. The who
d matter will in some form come before t
" courts, and the constitutionality Of t
r. doubling" clause of the new listing |;
will be affirmed or denied.
!. It seems that the plan now before &C
gress, providing for savings depositori
l. in connection with the postoffice, origin
as ted with Hon. George B. Burrows, a les
10 ing state senator in Wisconsin, and Sc
e in-Iaw of the late Hon. Daniel p. Thon
- son of Montpelier After receiving t
I endorsement of both President Artl
and Postmaster General james, the me
at ure was sanctioned by the house comm
or tee on postoff1ces, and a bill reported
te carry it into effect. A very able spec
covering the whole ground was lately