Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-05-22
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Colonel c. H. Joyce arrived at his home
in Rutland, Monday night, probably to
look after his fences.
Senator Edmunds has engaged summer
quarters in Dublin, N. H., near Monad-
mock mountain and lake.
The republican convention to nominate
candidate for member of congress in
the first district will be held at Burling-
ton, June %.
The annual State convention of the
Congregational churches will be held in
the Congregational church at Manchester
on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 18th
and 18th.
The Windsor Journal Company has
been presented with four and one-half
pound sucker, which induces the corpo-
ration to drop into poetry over the auspi-
cious event.
Brattleboro and Wilmington have
raised the amount allotted each toward
the preliminary survey for the proposed
narrow-gauge road, and work is expect
ed to begin at once.
The town of Brandon has secured from
the government four pieces of condemned
iron cannon, to be placed in the public
square, beside the soldiers monument
soon to be erected there.
Thomas Pierson of Waterbury, aged
Is, was kicked in the bowels by a colt,
last week Tuesday, and after suffering
intensely for twenty-four hours, died of
his injuries. He was the chief support
of large family.
A drive of sixty-five million feet of lum-
Der has been started in the upper waters
of the Connecticut River, near McIndoes
Falls. 1t will be driven down to the
Connecticut River company's mills, at
Turner's Falls. The company employs
500 men at an expense of about $500 pei
diem.
Dr. FL. A. Cutting, of Lunenburg, has
been appointed to represent the State
Medical Society at the meeting of the
American Medical Association at ST. Paul
Mimi, next June, and because of his
original researches on building stoves
has been elected member of the society
of Natural History at Brookville, Ind.
Old gentleman King, of Waterbury
who was reported as missing, has come
to light again. 1t seems that he was only
visiting friends. The manufacture o
sensations is a very thriving industr,
nowadays. And the beauty of it is, yol
can make a cairn of gossip-tricks as higl
as the tower of Babel without singh
wisp Of straw.
A sad drowning accident is reporte,
from South Barre. Alma, young daugh
ter of Charles Heath of that town, fel
into the water from the plank crossin
the river just below the dam at the mill
and was drowned. A playmate had cross
ed from the mill and Alma was followin
her. Either from fright or misster
she fell in and was carried down over til
rapids some sixty feet. Her mate bein
too frightened to recross the plank an
tell the workmen in the mill, ran half
mile and told Mr.. Heath. He went
once, but life was already extinct.
Trenor w. Park has gone on trip t
California, state that it is alleged /
left years ago quite surreptltiously and
great trepidation, because of some thing
connected with the Mariposa estat
Since then Mr.. Park has been a power
Vermont, but atterward lost his hol
which he has as yet failed to regain, b.
has more strength now than at one tim
At one time, too, his fortune was vel
seriously impaired, but he has more ths
retrieved that, and is now very ri,
man.
1t is related that two years ago Csc
l. Parker, of Granville, while drinking W
;. ter from a spring after dark, was dis
Il greeably conscious of having imbib
something a little livelier than hemlo
d twig and less pugnacious than a beet
: bug. Since then he has never enjoyed
{ entirely peaceful gastronomic conscient
A short time ago he gave himself into