Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-01-15

M. T.. Bedell is moving over the
mountain to look after the interest of
the new saw-mill.
Jesse Buck has bought out the
goods in his fathers store and will
fill up with large stock of goods in
the spring. Jesse is a wide-awake
boy and proposes to make things
lively
WeStmOre.
By fire at j. c. Orne's whet-
stone shop on Friday morning, Mr..
Orne suffered loss of two or three
hundred dollars. A timely discovery
of the fire prevented much more
serious consequence.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Sutton.
nj. A. Campbell has sold his fine
three years old Jersey cow to N. K.
Campbell, for SIS.
Irving Wiley from Kansas has
been spending a few week here
among his friends.
John E. Willard is writing up the
history of the town for Miss Hem
enway's Gazetteer.
w. S. Hayward celebrated his
birthday last week by inviting about
100 friends. A pleasant gathering.
Lewis Hill of Maine, who was
brought up here but has been absent
many years, has been in town on
visit.
Water is very low in the river and
the sound of grinding is low. Burn
ham & Frost are getting out tubs
fast enough at the tub-factory to
keep ahead of their orders, however
After deciding that New England
possessed advantages sufficient to
make emigration to other parts of
the country unnecessary, the lyceums
in the Darling district were closed
probably froze out by this New Eng
land winter.
H. w. Easterbrooks and M. A.
Campbell have each had pleasant
evenings entertainment for the men,
bers of their Sunday school. Mr..
Easterbrooks' class presented him
with gold-headed cane; Mr.. Camp
bell gave the school an entertain
ment at Grange hall.
By recent decision the law suits
between Alfred Burnham and Rich
ard Jenness are brought to a close,
and they can sit down and mediate
on the profit of settling disputes by
courts and lawyers. The parties
lived together pleasantly as neigh
bors several years, when they fell
out, and trouble began. Bnrnham
owned shop, with right of way and
other privileges, which was originally
! part of the Jenness property. After
the trouble Jenness refused Burnham
the rights he formerly granted and
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such as he had by purchase. Fian-
ally the road to the shop was fenced
off by Jenneess and stout set of
bars put up. Burnham's timber and
wood which he piled up about the
shop was was taken by Jenness and
piled up in front of Burnham's
front door, and there was a general
row between the families afterwards
Jenness' daughter undertook to pre-
vent Burnham from removing the
bars which had been put up in front
of his shop, Burnham was able to
remove the bars, girl and all without
serious difficulty, though the girl
fought with true womanly heroism.
Jenness then brought suit for as
sault and battery, and there were
four suits in town, in which the
jury disagreed. Finally the ex-
pense to the town having reached
nearly 500. it was decided to with
draw the suit against Burnham.
This done, Burnham sued Jenness
for damages and to bring the matter
of his rights by his deed to decision
of the courts after long contest
the county court gave Burnham S27
damages, his costs, and gave him the
privileges he claimed by the stipula-
tions of his deed Jenness carried
the case to the supreme court, but
was beaten there, having a heavy
bill of costs to pay. Afterwards
Jenness sued Burnham for damages
in piling timber on his (Jenness')
land. This was finally arbitrated be-
/ fore Judge Poland where Jenness
got So damages and the court allow
ed him to collect the same amount of
costs from Burnham. The entire
expenses of these suits was probably
more than the value of the Jenness
or the Burnham property. but Burn
ham established the rights he claimed
and Jenness had the pleasure of put
ting Burnham to heavy expense,
by paying much heavier one him
self. Both ought to be amply salts
fed with the law.
West Burke,
James Gaskill is home from Cali
fOrnia on visit.