Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-07-23
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

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It is announced that Hon. William |
NJ. Evarts will deliver the address at
the next State Fair at Burlington.
L. S. Drew of Burlington had six
teen of his fancy sheep, valued at
$500, killed by dogs, the other day.
Nearly every farm in Bridport con-
tains several acres sown to winter
wheat, which looks nicely. and bids
fair to give good yield.
The Free Press says that upward
of 175 students have already booked
for the fail term at the Methodist
Seminary at Montpelier. President
Beeman has just secured another gift
of 81 900 for the institution.
s The Ely Mining Company has now
paid one-third of the amount due for
laborers' wages for the, months of
May and June. The company as at
present organized will not resume
work, and the mines will probably be
idle the rest of the year or longer.
The following couples in Ryegate
have been married over fifty years /:
Robert Gibson and wife, married
about 1897. Iob, w Do,rorc opI
wife, 1881 Robert Miller and wife,
1881 Robert Davidson and wife,
1881 Daniel Wormwood and wife,
1888.
Rev. DIR. L. .. Brastow of Burling-
ton has received q call to the Congre-
gational church at Wyandotte, Kan.
Rev. DR.. Brastow has gone thither to
look over the field, and will subse-
quently attend the grand army meet
ing in Denver. He will return home
some time in August.
The ladies of New England have
been invited to make an exhibition of
their industries at the approaching
exhibition of the New England Insti-
tute Fair in Boston. Mrs. J. Greg
DRY Smith is vice-president for Yer
mont, and an appeal IS made to the
ladies of this state. Any inquiries
addressed to Mrs. Smith will be
cheerfulIy answered.
Maj. E. D. Redington of Chicago
was in Montpelier last week. Maj.
Redington was q paymaster in the
Union army, was subsequently in the
pay department of the Pacific railway,
and is now in the lumber trade in
Chicago. Maj. Redington is a native
Vermonter, son of E. G. Redington
formerly of st. Johnsbury, and has
hosts of warm friends among the
Green Mountains.
Joseph Bla, a lad of eight years,
was killed at the Waterbury iron
bridge Wednesday, 18th inst, by the
II O'Clock freight. The bridge is on
a curve so the engineer could not see
that a woman and three children were
on the track until within few rods,
when it was impossible to stop. The
terrified woman stood upon the mar
row girders at the side of the rail with
her arms around the children. The
engine brushing her clothing struck
the boy Joseph on the head and
knocked him into the river thirty feet
below. He was Immediately taken
out, but his skull was fractured and
death had been instantaneous.
Quite a serious accident happened
at the saw-mill of A. H. Kicker
Groton recently. A young German
twenty-five years old, by the name o
Johann Ritcher, employed piling slal
wood in the mill yard, went into tn
mill during a shower, and in careless
ly attempting to brush few shaving
: from the planer which was in motion
caught his left hand in the revolving
knives and in an instant his hand an
wrist half way to the elbow wer
gone. 1t was necessary to amputat
. the mangled limb, leaving a STUN
i some three inches in length, and tn
{ young man is doing well at present
He is from the province of Saxon
a in Prussia, and had been at work fo
e Mr.. Kicker about five days. He wa
e landed at Castle Garden in Ne
York just two weeks before the da
4 of the accident and Mr.. Kicker hire
d him from the agent at Essex june
lie ton. 1t is a sad accident, as til
q young man is among strangers an
cannot speak nor understand wor
o of English. He will be cared for b
\ his EMPLOYER.