Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-01-29
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

alist clergymen, six less than at the close
of 1881.
Postmasters appointed: Craftsbury,
James d. Leavitt; Lower Waterford, H.
w. Hedgecock; Newfane, John ID. Pierce.
Sumner Brigham Of Bakersfield died
very suddenly the 18th, while on his way
from the house to the barn. He was
about IS years of age and respected |
citizen.
Mr. S. d. Hatch, the architect of the |
Howard Opera House, Burlington, has |
been selected as the architect of 49,
000, 900 hotel to be erected by American
capitalists in the City of Mexico.
A large barn and shed on the James
MCGEE place between Highgate Springs
and Swanton were burned recently. In
sured in Vermont Mutual. The fire is
supposed to have been the work of an
incendiary.
Bradley Barlow has refused to pay his
taxes and st. Adams has attached his
property. 1t is said that he will fight to
the end, claiming thai the law is uncon-
stitutional. Legal proceedings are pend
ing to test the matter.
The death is announced Of DIR. Walter
Burnham, distinguished surgeon and
physician of Lowell. Mass. DR.. Burn
ham was native of Brookfeld, VT, and
was graduated from the medical depart
| Of MI of in,
1929. He settled in Lowell in 1916.
The freight forwarded from Barre sta
tion in 1882 amounted in the aggregate to
6S4O tons consisting in part of 400, 1872
pounds of butter, 10000 bushels of pota-
toes and 1902 tons of granite. The ton
mage received during the year aggregated
6l96 tons, including GAL barrels of flour
and ~, 1874 bushels of grain.
fire at Waterbury last Friday night
destroyed the furniture store and shoe
shop of J. Baisell. Loss 5000; insured.
The fire commenced in the furniture store
and cabinet shop of Alpha Atherton,
which was burned. Loss $4,000 Davis
block, worth $4,000, was soon burned, but
part of the contents were saved.
The wife of Rev. Dr. Little of the New
England Congregational church was tax
en- suddenly ill, last week Sunday, with
pulmonary embolism. Her husband, who
was delivering sermon at the time, was
sent for, but before he could reach home
his wife was corpse. She was from
Thetford, and very highly esteemed.
According to just issued bulletin,
Vermont has 2,S74 manufacturing estab-
, 224, employing IA, 43S men, 2,271 women
and s31 children, paying out annually in
wages S5,164 ,479, expanding yearly for
materials SIS, $3.50, 677, and turning out an
nually products valued at S31, 1854, 366.
Patrick Ready was found guilty recent
ly at Rutland before Justice Bailey of 2l0
S offenses for selling liquor as of third con-
viction. His sentence was six months in
6 the house Of correction and fine amount
ing with costs to $4,000. In default OF
payment his alternative sentence to the
u house of correction is for 81 years and
I, seven months.
d Justice Weeks has decided that the
+ jugs of liquor, about $50 in number, seiZ
!, ed a few weeks since at the Rutland eX
press office, were illegally sold in Yer
mont and therefore liable to confscation
L The liquor was ordered by Rutland par
C ties, some of it by mail and some of it by
d telegraph from Whitehall dealers, who
q sent it c. o. d. The National expires:
company claimed the liquor, and have
appealed from Justice Weeks decision
- ami will carry the case to the supreme
. court.
George W. Hooker of Brattleboro ha
y received the merited compliment of being
r. nominated at the recent meeting of thu
l. national republican committee as secreta
ry to fill the vacancy caused by the resig
nation of S. w. Dorsey. He was com
PEELED to decline and John A. Martin o
ID Kansas was elected. On motion of Sen
IS ator Logan the thanks of the commltte
rs were unanimously rendered to Mr.. Hook
N er, assistant secretary, for the able an
efficient manner in which he had dis
charged the duties of that office.
The Illinois Association of Sons of Vel
III mont held their sixth annual banquet a
Ut the Palmer House in Chicago, last Wee
ed nesday night Four hundred persons, il
th Guiding many distinguished citizens c
~ Chicago and the state sat at the board
r brief address was delivered by Norma
- Williams and L. L. Coburn, the retirin
III and and incoming presidents, and b
us Rev. DIR. C.. L. Goodell OF ST. Louis lie
ed tiers of regret were read from Senator E(
We munds, Vice-president David Davis, Sci
~, ator Cullom and Governor Hamilton {
y Illinois, Hon. w. F. Villas of Wisconsi
10 and President Buckham. Telegram
from President Arthur, Governor Bar
nd tow, Senator Logan and Charles G. Pa
Ike ker, president of the Sons of Vermont
Worcester, Mass, were read.
a The Boston Journal says: The day e
h press train between Montreal and Ne
~ York over the Central Vermont line o
casionally makes notable time recor
VI The run from st. Johns to Burlingto
res seventy-six miles, was recently made
in one hour and thirty-nine minutes, inclu
nj ing station time for nine stops. Allo'
r+O ing ten minutes for stops, the actual ru
ming record for the train was seventy-s
miles in eighty-nine minutes, or about
7hI ty miles an hour. The distance betwe
to St. Johns and St. Adams, forty-four mile
lily was made in fifty-seven minutes, and
ton tween St. Adams and Burlington, thirt
n two miles, in forty-two minutes. Fro
North Georgia to Essex Junction, mir
teen miles, the time was twenty-five mi
utes. This train frequently makes t
the run between St. Johns and st. Albal
hip forty-four miles, in one hour. This qui
;cb time was made with the engine Govern
=. Smith, having a five-foot driving VIII
and fifteen by twenty-inch cylinder. Tx
CD Farrell was engineer aud Ed Nash condl
oSt tor. The train consists of three ca
his The track is steel rallied and is
hat straightest part of the Central Verne
loh line.