Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-06-25
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Speaker Martin will deliver the Fourth
of July address at Enosburgh Falls cele-
bration.
II. c. Meeker of Duxbury visited his
son Almon at the state prison last week
for the first time since his confinement
there.
Among the examiners at Dartmouth
college this year are Rev. c. B. Hurlbert
of Lyndonville, and Rev. S. S. Martin of
Peacham.
The eleven-year-old daughter of Joseph
Desablind of Winooski, fell into the Win
ooski river last week while at picnic
and was drowned.
The artesian well in Bennington has
been sunk to the depth of go feet. 1t is
thought that good water will not be
reached short of $500,
The Bradford listers have been indicted
for offenses against the listing law in
1881 and 1882 and will have their trial at
the next term of Orange county court.
The friends of the Vermont Methodist
Seminary have lately been highly gratifi-
ed by the gift of 81, 900 to that institution
by Judge Samuel Plumley of Albany.
Jesse Bradley, 14-year-old son of Mrs.
William Housinger, of Alburgh, and Of
the late Thomas Bradley, of Williston,
was drowned few days since, while
bathing in the Missisquoi river at Swan
ton.
J. w. Brock of Montpelier returned
from his ten days fishing trip Friday.
The party caught 2,459 trout weighing in
the aggregate 1850 pounds. Several of
the speckled beauties weighed over four
pounds each.
Mr.. George Leonard of Hinesburgh has
in his possession the trowel used by
General Lafayette in laying the corner
stone of the University of Vermont. Mr.
Van Rensselaer, Coon, grandfather of
Mr.. Leonard, owned the implement at the
time.
Fred Daley, the boy who stopped the
express train from running into the wash
out at the Gilmore Brook bridge the 18th,
Johnsbury and Lake Champlain Railroad,
| beside present of 800 in cash from the
company.
Rev. Horace Bundy, a native of Hard
wick, where he was born in 1914, and
widely known as portrait and landscape
painter, died at Concord, N. H., week
ago last Friday. He had been an artist
for so years and an Advent preacher since
1943. He has lived almost four score
years.
The workmen on the Lamoille Valley
Extension railroad with few exceptions
have struck for higher wages. They
nave been getting $1.25 per day, and asl
$3.50, claiming that they have to lose 81
much time on account of wet weathe
that they can make but little more thai
enough to pay their board
The dedication of the new colleg
building and the unwilling of the new
statue of Lafayette will take place a
Burlington tomorrow, Tuesday. TIL
addresses are by Rev. w. H. A. Bissel
and Judge J. A. jameson of Chicago
Many distinguished persons from al
parts of the country are expected to b
present.
There is young lady connected wit
the school at Vergennes who has been i
attendance for three years, and lives on
and half miles away, but has never II
ceived tardy mark or been absent day
She lives with Capt. Isaac Satterly c
Ferrisburgh, whose relative she is, an
+ he has taken her back and forth, wit
clock-like regularity through all thes
years.
Elliot Harris of Halifax hung himse
| in the mill near his residence last weel
| He left the house about half-past 81
e | o'clock, and was found an hour late
f The act was undoubtedly caused by il
4 health and Encouragement. Decease
t was man Of good character, and serve
e honorably during the war as member
4 Company I, Fourth Vermont Volunteer
l. in which he re-enlisted. He leaves
wife and two children.
/ The venerable Nahum Peck of Hine
: burgh, who died ON Saturday, June
n was at the time of his death the olde
e practicing lawyer with one exception
l. in Vermont. He was born in Royalto
a Mass, October 5, 1876, and was admit
t. to the bar at Montpelier in Septembe
e 1928, Immediately thereafter settling
J. Hinesburgh, which was ever afterwa
4 his home. He was a brother of the Ia
y Ex-Governor Asahel Peck of HinesbuLgl
A Brattleboro man, G.. w. Parker, b
: invented new musical instrument viii
he calls the 'clariphone. 1t is co
=, bined guitar and harp, having eighte
strings, and it is said to possess gre
volume, range and f1exibility. 1t initial
- a great variety of Instruments and can
;, thrown into any key by turning a sin:
knob Mr.. Parker has constructed
~ model of four hundred and eighty-fC
- pieces of different varieties of wood, a
= has applied for a patent.
o. In Vermont there are 102 charter
,r- lodges of free and accepted masons, h
rd ing a membership of 1928. There
ba also 9 subordinate communicates W
I'M 1853 Sir Knights. The subordinate co
To- ellis of r. and S. NJ, number 10 with
of members. 1t is safe to set the mum
ne of individual members of the maso
m fraternity in Vermont at about $500
nd day The above figures show that
w. person in every forty of the population
are the state is mason, while in the Uni
rol States the proportion is one in ev
TT. eighty of the population.
lie A boy named Telon had terrible
ia venture on Thursday at Rutland.
ess was on the top of a freight trian in
the railroad yard, and when the train
are moving, a brakeman, annoyed at 81
an action of the boy, attempted to tn
him from one car to another. In 81
hts way the boy fell between the cars
us. some six or seven passed over him as
,ra- Law in the road bed. The brake be
llIv rolled him over and over and drag
led him along the track, cutting and brul
o. H. anC