Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-02-06
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Ex-Gov. Proctor has returned from his
European trip.
Estey & Co. of Brattleboro made 15,-
600 organs last year.
st. Johnsbury has a newly-organized
branch of the Irish Land League.
Baxter Bancroft of Plainfeld has died
from an overdose of opium taken when he
was i'll with dysentery.
A spiritual mass convention will be
held at the Waterbury House, Waterbury,
February 10, IL and IL.
The Vermont farm machine company of
| Bellows Falls has received silver med
al for it's Cooley creamer, awarded by the
Pennsylvania state fair.
Freight and passenger traffic is unusu
ally heavy on the Central road for this
season. 1t is fortunate so far in not hay
! ing had any snow storms this winter.
Several men were badly burned in
foundry at Burlington last week by over
! turning a mass of molten iron. Two
named Donnely and Crowley are dead.
Jonathan Powers, much respected
citizen of Bradford, died instantly of
heart disease, while out riding on Satur
day. He was 70 years old, and leaves a
widow and two daughters.
st. Adams has case of small-pox-H.
c. Rollo, baggagemaster on the Central
road between st. Adams and Springfield,
Mass, being confined to his home there
with the dreaded disease.
An organization has been formed in
Middlebury called the "Citizens' League
for the Suppression of Crime" Its spe-
cial mission is the suppression of drunk
enness, perjury, gambling and the illegal
sales of Intoxicating liquors.
Lewis Harrington of Sharon recently
shot an eagle that measured six feet and
three inches from tip to tip of wings,
when spread; weight, eight pounds and
ten ounces; two feet and eight inches
from tip of bill to tip of tail.
''The old mare" of Rodney Cummings,
Of East Montpelier, one of the noted
equines of that town, died last Friday, in
years, and during all that time has had
no other team to use on his farm or on
the road.
When the Central Vermont railroad
was built J. r. Booth of Burlington work
ed as a common bridge hand Now he is
the largest timber limit owner in Canada
owning 1926 square miles, or ,423 1850
acres-an area equal to more than one
fifth Of the state of Vermont.
The Montpelier Waterman calls loudly
for able men for congressman in this state
= this fall. The Wdtchman could throw
2 light, perhaps, on dark places by sug
costing proper men to be nominated il
the two districts. That would rather
serve to point the moral of its tale.-Mes
senger
An exchange tells a story of Fairfield
man who was listening to a temperance
man who was trying to prove that the
: present occupant would keep up the plaI
. of not using liquor in the White House
:, His only reply was: 81 guess you have
forgotten that President Arthur was borl
in Fairfield"
John T. Bascom, formerly of Milton
S was killed in Nevada on the 30th of Ma,
a last by falling down a shaft of the Navajo
d mine, which he was visiting at the tim
h for the purpose of thorough inspection
q He was son of the late Reed Bascom o
Milton. He enlisted during the rebellion
t in the Ninth Vermont Volunteers, AM
/ rose to be captain of Company F.
: In the collar-and-elb wrestling mate
y at Smyth's Hall, Manchester, N. H, be
l. tween William w. Montgomery of Fail
n field and John II. Taylor of Baskerville
) n, H. for purse of 5000 and the lig1
weight championship of America, Taylo
$ won in two straight falls. Time, ] hou
l. 40 minutes. There were five bouts, an
II the men were very evenly matched.
Gov. Farnham writes to say, that til
statements in the Windham County r.
IL former, charging him with having made
re bargain in reference to the succession t
S, the place of chief justice, and the appon
ment of United States Senator, in ever
-, of a vacancy, are absolutely false so f;
as he is concerned, and so far as he know
- with reference to all the parties named.
!. Hon. Edmund Burke of Newport, N. Fl
> died Jan. %, aged 70. He was born
" Westminster, and commenced the pra
st tice of law at Colebrook, n. H., in 1873
l. He was editor of the argus and Spectat
a. at Newport many years. In 1889, Al al
20 43 he was elected to congress, and ser
ed with marked ability. In 1916 he WI
90 appointed commissioner of patents |
IL President Polk and served four years.
An important decision was filed in Bra
III tleboro Monday. After a long heariI
by Commissioner Stoddard, Reade al
S; Merrifeld, in the case of the first natio
va al bank against the insolyent estate
Silas M. Waite, Its defaulting presider
: the bank is allowed $287 900 on clai
o by Receiver Price over 100000, viii,
as claim Waite has strenuously resisted,
tic sisting that the stockholders had be
8. paid in full, and that the bank was actu;
nd ly indebted to him. The result is We
,o important to the stockholders apd 9th
. creditors.
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# "a Girls CBoIGE."-It in a drug store
All interesting incidents occur In drug stol
that is nearly all. She was pretty, with blue e
and golden hair of that kind of beauties the o
- won Id have called angel Iut for the fact thu
colony of pimples her fair fropssiece precluded
ire tbonobt of a celestial, haino Raw,no timidlv IN