Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-01-09

Gov. Farnham has appointed Hon. SAM
uel M. Gleason of Thetford, Hon. Albert
Dwinell of Calais and Col Mason S. Col
burn of Manchester as state board of |
listers to appraise railroad property un-
der an act of the legislature passsd at its |
last session.
Senator Edmunds wants congress to
make law making a man with more than
one wife liable to fine and imprisonment.
This is meant especially for the Mormons.
Brigham Young would have felt bad if he
had known that a man from his native
state was going to crowd his church that
way
William Pike of Waterbury, long in the
employ of the Central Vermont railroad,
as bridge hand, fell from the high bridge
at Royalton, Thursday, a distance of 20
feet, striking ON rafter across the mid
die of his body and hanging there until
the rest of the help could get the ladders
and take him off. Though badly hurt
he will live
A. A. Earle is still looking around
among the rural towns of Vermont for
suitable place to display his journalistic
ability. Why not try Waitsfeld, Earle?
Your leading initial article might be upon
the subject, 'sWhat I Know about Horse
Racing" You can write upon that sub
ject from your own inward conscious
ness Waterman.
We regret to announce the death of Dr.
c. L. Fletcher of Sheldon, while on his
way to California. The doctor has been
practitioner at Sheldon for several years,
but recently sold out his business to DR..
/ Allen and started month ago for Cali
r fornia by steamer with his wife. News
E has been received that he died on the pas
sage, but no particulars are known.
I Charles White of Burlington, married
and having two infant children, suddenly
disappeared on Saturday night, and Mon
day morning was found drowned at on,
r of the docks. He fell in when intoxicat
+ ed, and the slip froze over before morn
Il ing. Search for him was made in differ
:, ent directions, but without avail, and tn
ice in dock was cut and the body found
y A company, consisting of R. F. Parker
w. w. Cate, w. A. Mudgett, and S. A
= Fife of Wolcott, are building steam mi
in the center of a large timbered porto
y of the town. where they are intending t
% do a heavy numbering business the CON
j. ing year. Their engine (Which is ne1
a one) with forty horse power is now 6
- the depot waiting transportation to tn
mill. When this mill gets in running o.
. der the town of Wolcott will do the mos
< numbering Of any town on the St. j. & ]
N C. railroad.
lie William S. George, editor and propri
ne tor of the Lansing (Mich.) Republican
~ who died on Tuesday of last week at Il
age of fifty-six years, was born at Derb
: He had been connected with the Viii
Us Mountain dEgis of Lancaster, N H., Il
n New Bedford Mercury, the North Adam
n Transcript, the Springfield Repubtca
~ the Detroit Adrertiser and Tribune, al
bo in 1878 took charge of the Lansing Rept
lican. He learned the trade of printer
. Lancaster and Haverhill, N. H., and
as the age of about twenty edited a pap
or called the Asylum Journal at Brattlebor
lie He subsequently worked at his trade
no Boston and Lowell, before going We
The defeat of Mr. Blaine in the Cincinn
~ convention was largely due to his inf
" ence in the Michigan delegation.