Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-07-31

MS arm, Cutting III dOOuI HILL OH; JnlllkS
he has learned enough about moving for
one year.
AS the mixed train from the south was
entering the yard at Bethel, Monday
morning, it collded with heavy freight
train from the north, smashing one en-
CINE badly and damaging the other slight
ly. 1t took about four hours to clear the
track.
The great strike of the freight handlers
in New York has ended, and the men who
struck are either entirely out of a job or
have gone to work at the old wages.
Hence all that came of that strike is big
loss of time, much inconvenience to ship
pers, and lot of bad blood.
The Rochester Saturday Journal has
this A horse that could trot half a mile
in less time than any other on record died
on farm near this city few days ago.
He was called Hanson, and has been
known to trot half mile in LOB. He
could not hold out for a longer distance.
He was small white horse. He was &C
cidentally killed by running against a
post.
The first continuous highway built in
Vermont, was from White River Junction
to Burlington. From the Junction it
went to Randolph Center, and through
Brookfeld, Montpelier, Waterbury, Will
liston, setc. 1t was constructed by the
government and laid out six rods wide,
or two rods wider than the roads of mod
ern days. To-day it is one Of the best
roads in the state.
Baltimore has set good example to
the rest Of the country, by it's ordinance
prohibiting the manufacture or sale of the
toy pistol. Last year, in the fortnight
following the 4th of July there were 20
deaths in that city, resulting from the
use of that terrible plaything. This year,
although there have been deaths from
this same cause in all parts of the coun
try, amounting in all to hundreds, Balti-
more reports but one.
Charles w. Wilds, law partner of Hon.
| John w. Stewart, and Jessie Stearns,
we'll known at Montpelier, had narrow
escape on Otter creek the other day.
| They were fishing above Belden's Falls,
and their boat got into the rapids before
they knew it, so that despite their exer-
lions they were carried to the
falls. They managed to get near
enough to the shore to save themselves
by leaping from the boat, Mr.. Wilds
barely saving himself from going over.
The boat took the tumble, and was wedg-
ed firmly between two rocks below.
The greenback party in this state, in
fact in the entire country, is poor or
phan; it is ready to fuse with anything
that is fusable, and at the same time does
not know and cannot find out where il
belongs. The surviving heroes who re-
Gently assembled at Waterbury and decid
ed to hold grand mass convention, re
mind one of the darkey who had such bad
luck with his family relations. He com
planned: "Fust my fodder died. and der
my mudder married agin; den my mud
der died and my fodder married agin, and
somehow 1 don't seem to have any parents
at all, no home, no muffin. "-BurlingtO
Clipper. ---
Senator Edmunds has received from hi:
colleagues Of the Judiciary committee
acting Vice-President Davis, Senator
Bayard, Mcmillan, ingalls,, Hoar, Garlant
and Sargent, a beautiful expression O
sympathy regarding the recent death o
his daughter Julia, in the form of lette
in which they say s'Knowing how griev
ously your tenderest affection has beel
stricken in this irreparable loss, it is be
yond our power to offer any consolation
except such as wells up in sincere sym
pathy. But we humbly pray God to Civ
you fortitude to bear this hard trial, ant
: to inspire you with confidence in his sub
away from this life, has joined the bless
ed in everlasting joy"
Hon. Frederick Billings, ex-presiden
of the Northern Pacific railroad, has Ion;
been the owner of 4 lovely home at Wood
stock, VT. His grounds comprise 60
| acres of lawn, meadow, forest, mountain
and tillage. 1t is within the village lin
its and the views in all directions ar
picturesque and beautiful. The mansion
house was erected by Hon. Charles Mars
in 1906, and the property was purchase,
by Mr.. Billings on his return from Eu
! rope in 1868. The house has been great
ly improved by its present owner and i
now spacious and beautiful in its arrange
ments and elegant in all it's appointments
The Conservatives on the place are file
with rare plants and flowers, and tropic
l al fruits are raised in abundance. Larg
barns on the estate are filled with fin
F blooded stock and cattle, Jerseys an
Southdowns predominating. Mr.. Bi
lings has done much for Woodstock, an
this year is rebuilding church parsor
age at an expense Of several thousan
dollars.