Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-01-02

Christmas There were 80, 745 pounds of
dressed poultry shipped over the Central
from Canada.
The liquor dealers of Chelsea were
waited on recently by the working COM
mittee of the Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union, and requested to desist from
further sale.
At the recent term of the Orange coun-
ty court Ida J. Rush of Lyme, aged 15,
pleaded guilty to placing Instructions on
the track of the Passumpsic Railroad, and
was sentenced to the reform school for
the remainder of her minority.
In addition to selling the Weldon House
in st. Adams for 1884, 900 Mr. Mills will
| give $4,000 to the party who will buy it
and agree to run it as temperance house.
And still no impatient purchaser appears.
Did the listers appraise the Weldon too
high when they valued it at $4,000.
At the St. Adams butter market, Dec.
q, the attendance was fair, receipts light,
market dull, very little doing. Prices the
same as last week. We quote winter
made butter 20 to % cents per h.. selec-
lions % cents per h.; October made but
/ ter, none offering, would bring 80 to 33
cents per Id. Shipments 200 packages.
A. A. Earle, formerly of the Morrisville
Citizen, was in town Tuesday morning.
He is still looking for paper to buy, but
has not yet found place. In this con-
nection we will say that Fletcher Tarbeps
new paper at Swanton is to be managed
/ by Chas. Jameson, once of st. Adams,
and lately one of the editors of the North
Troy Palladiuna.-Me Messenger.
The internal revenue commissions re-
&port for the year ending June 80, 1881,
Shows the whole number of dealers in
distilled and malt liquors in Vermont to
be 488. The list camprises one wholesale
liquor dealer, four hundred and nine re-
tail dealers in malt liquors and seven fruit
or cider brandy distillers. This is an
average of one liquor dealer to every $50
inhabitants.
Captain Amasa Tucker, well known in
the state as an eccentric man but of con-
siderable native talent, committed suicide
Tuesday evening of last week by hanging
himself from his bedpost, at the poor farm
house in Calais, of which he has been an
inmate for some years. Although he was
found very soon after he went to his room
life was extinct. He had made three
previous attempts at suicide, each time
by poison, within as many years.
The thirteenth winter meeting of the
J Vermont Dairymen's Association will bt
held at Rutland, on Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday, Jan. 1920. The subjec
of butter making in all its various phases
will be given the prominence which it.
Importance to the people Of Vermont de
mands; also the related topic of the util
= ization of skinned milk and questions O
public interest relating to dairy husban
dry will be answered by well-known ex
perts in their several departments. TIL
usual railroad courtesies may be expected
There has been no material change il
= the situation in ST. Adams since the cit
zens' temperance meeting. The hotel
give no indications of reopening thei
s doors and the saloons keep no open bars
: The Weldon House, for Mr.. Millis's foul
fifths of which he now asks $24, 900, ha
had over $225,0 expended on it's cor
struction and furnishing, and it is in e2
= cellent repair and condition. Mr.. Mill
!. further states that the Weldon will neve
e be reopened for any purpose so long a
e he holds the property in his hands. Bus
mess has been good with the merchants
and travellers who chance to come in O
the trains are provided for among I'll
temperance people