Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-07-16
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Oscar Jones of Peacham, VT, killed
himself by hanging Sunday.
Lightning broke 200 lights of glass in
a factory in Woodstock, the 9Th.
Five bears, old and young, were killed
in Pittsfield and Sherburne in June.
Waterbury National bank has declared
a semi annual dividend of four per cent.
Peter Mcclure of Bennington was fined
fifty-eight dollars for cruelty to animals.
A stock company will be formed at
Montpelier to bring Berlin pond water
into the village.
The White River Agricultural society
will hold their annual fair at Bethel, Sep
TENDER Is, 10 and 20.
Parker Thomas, while trying to pass a
railroad crossing at Richford, VT, Mon
day, was killed by freight train.
viii Sullivan, formerly of the Mont
pelier Argus, has lucrative position in a
newspaper office in Lincoln, Nebraska.
The severest wind and rain storm
known for thirty years visited Stowe the
9TH, carrying away bridges and doing
$1,000 damage to roads and crops.
d. g. Mcguire. an old resident of Rut-
land, VT, and father-in-law of the mana
ger of the Daily Herald, dropped dead in
the office of DR.. Putnam Monday.
| Ganlnal Ahhntt 4, Il
shooting at target with revolver last
week Wednesday, accidentally shot and
killed his hired man, Henry Spau.ding.
Willard Eggleston and N. S. Marshall
two of Rutland's wheelmen, made the
longest days bicycle run that has evel
been made in the State, Monday, riding
103 miles.
Truman Perrigo of Essex was another
of the cavalry escort to Gen. Lafayette
when he visited Burlington in 1926
There were two companies, one from
Essex and one from Shelburne.
Mrs. Cornelia Smith has given tn,
town of Bristol corner lot, and the tow
has voted to build thereon an $4,000 build
ing to be known as the Holley Hall, il
memory of Mrs. Smiths father, the lat
Winter H. Holley.
An Irisbman who was recently ridin:
over the Central Vermont road, in com
pany with Il friend, took occasion to re
mark as follows on the lay of the land i
this state: ''Begorra, this is a foine cour
try, where the land is SO plentiful the
have to4pile it up in heaps to kape it,
Rev. L. H. Stone of Castleton, Il nativ
of Cabot and resident there from Isl
, to 1886, was chaplain of the centenni;
celebration at Cabot the 4th. Cabot
the native town of seven Stone brother.
five of whom are Congregational mini,
tiers. The first nine of the forty years
Mr.. Stones ministrations were with tt
l Congregational church in the town of h
nativity.
h The trade dollar is experiencing a Sc
:, back just now. The Central Vernon
managers have notified their agents NJ
to accept that kind of dollar at al
S yalue the banks and the post office +
2 fuse to take them; and parties havir
+ them on hand had better put them in
cold storage till they are worth NOR
When the New York brokers get throus
l fooling with them, they will undoubted
) rise in value.
e The Island Pond Herald reports til
re William Masters, soldier of the war
l. 1872, who died in Maidstone, June 9
% was one hundred and eleven years oil
! He was born in Andover, Mass, al
moved to Plainfeld with his parents VIII
a quite small. He went to East Stratfor
II N. H., in 1880, where he worked at blac
IS smithing till old age compelled him
e. lay aside his tools nine years ago. Sin
II then he has lived with one of his sons
= Maidstone, supporting himself on |
pension of 500 year. He never emplt
III ed physician and was never sick un
~ the day of his death, which was quiet a
v painless.