Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-01-30
STATE NEWS ITEMS,

EnoSburgh Falls and Manitoba report
the lowest dip of mercury-40 below zero.
Custom receipts at Island Pond in 1881
foot up $l94,113; expenses of collection,
$SS75.
The Vermont college Of teachers will
hold meeting at Montpelier, Feb. 3.
Half fare on railroads. 4.
Forty years ago there were at .Newfane
Centre courthouse, Jail, hotel, school
houses, churches, and several stores,
where now there is not a vestige of a
dwelling.
Michael Donahue of Fairfield, VT, died
last week of injuries inflicted on himself
with shoe knife. He was promising
young man, until a year ago, when he
showed some signs Of arrangement.
The Stephen Hazard farm in Ferris
burgh, consisting of POI acres, has been
purchased by Noble Ellsworth for $4,000.
The David Hazard farm, in the same
town, comprising 247 acres, has been sold
for S13, 200.
Aunt Annie, an English lady who has
lived in John Clark's family at Putney for
20 years, was found Friday morning on
the stove in her room, where she had ev-
identity fallen in a fainting fit. She was
completely roasted, and lived only a few
moments.
w. w. Montgomery of Fairfield and
John H. Taylor of Baskerville, n. H.,
have signed articles for wrestling match
for the light weight championship of the
United States, and purse of 5000. The
contest is to take place in Manchester, N.
H., Feb. l.
Congressman Grout has introduced a
bill to pension Newton Boutwell, of Nor
risville, who surely deserves the boon.
He lost four sons killed in the war, Thorn
as and Robert, Co. D, 4th Vermont; Rod
ney, Co. F, 18th Vermont, and William,
who enlisted in the 10Th New Hampshire.
j. X. Drury and Son of Essex Junction
paper mill at Hartland, to be built by d.
H. & j. C. Newton of Holyoke, Mass. II
is reported that the demand for brick is
greater than for many years. Prices
have recently advanced 81 per thousand.
In Warren, recently, w. H. Cady's lit
tie boy, four years old, came near getting
killed by being shot. He got hold of 8
loaded revolver, and placing the muzzle
against his breast so as to push back the
hammer, it discharged and the ball hit 6
rib over the heart, passing along under
the skin about five inches, stopped, where
it was taken out.
The signature of the late Park Valen
tine of Bennington, on the American
, house register in Troy, is the last that h
!, ever made, and the only one which was
written 'sPark Valentine and wife"
student friend of the young man Offered
) the proprietor of the hotel $40 for tn
l privilege of cutting the signature out o
t the register as a momento. The latter
: however, cut out the page and presented
it to Major Valentine, the father of tn
Inflated bridegroom.
About so citizens gathered in Burling
: ton Tuesday evening to consider the plal
{ Of temperance reform in Burlington's cit
: government. The report of committe
e was accepted, complaining of the ineffic
+ lency Of the police and the neglect of tn
city government in allowing continuou
and notorious infractions of the law
+. They propose to put down all politica
L and municipal corporations, re-elect Cit
o Judge Haseltine and demand the nomina
f ton of candidates who shall be known t
be in favor of prosecuting existing law
! In order to accomplish this a committe
Of IL strong temperance men was chose
Il to urge their views upon existing politics
: organizations, with the threat to act il
|. dependently in case they do not join i
:. attaining these objects.