Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-04-02

Tor warmer weather. .Wlltn the lnVa-
lids can have out door air and ex-
ercise.
At the recent school meeting in
this village. DR.. Branch was chosen
clerk and treasurer, Hollis ThrashGr
collector, and Albert Webster. Geo.
Bean and Hollis Thrasher COM
mittee.
Intelligence has just been received
from Franklin, n. H., that Joseph
Enos was thrown from sleigh, last
week, breaking his skull and receiv
ing other severe injuries. Mr.. Enos
lived in this town many years remov-
ing to Franklin last spring.
Easter Sunday, Rev. Mr.. Bacon
had an excellent and appropriate
sermon. While there was no general
attempt at decoration, Mrs Salmon
Nye brought beautiful pelargonium
that was greatly admired, the foliage
being very luxuriant and the plant
a mass of buds and blossoms.
H. F. Black, who has the largest
dairy in town, has built dairy house
and it is supplied with the best appa-
ratus for making butter and cheese.
He churns by horsepower. Mr..
Blacks butter and cheese have repu-
tation which makes it bring high
price. III. G.. Cleveland is another
dairyman who does dairying on sci
entifc principles, using power for
churning. He uses the lag horse
power which regulates itself and is
as safe and convenient as a thing
can well be.
CraftSburY.
James Goodwin has taken the
Whitney farm.
L. Edwards remains on the town
farm another yea.
The funeral services of Horace
Demeritt were conducted by Mr..
Clark at the Collins school house.
The Congregational Sunday-school
gave very instructive and interest
ing Easter exercise Sunday evening.
AS considerable interest has been
felt in this town in the suit against
Rev. II. w. Worthen, lately held at
Montpelier, we give the following as
substantially embracing the facts,
with comments of the Montpelier pa
pers In the spring of 1879, Mr..
Worthen was stationed by the con-
ference at Mortified. Among his
parishioners was Mrs. Gibbs, as she
is conventionally called, although her
real name is Vincent. AT the age of
fourteen OF less, she ran away from
her home in Enosburgh and married
young man named Vincent, who in
a few days enlisted, and left her at
home, a gay war widow. Her gaiety
was SO gay, indeed, that Vincent re-
fused to live with her after he came
home. and she drifted to Holyoke,
Massachusetts, where she worked in
the mills, met Gibbs, and, under the
maiden name of Cross, married him.
Gibbs did not discover the former
marriage till they made a visit to
Enosburgh some time afterwards ;
and he then settled the affair with
Vincent by giving him five dollars in
money and silver watch valued in
the trade at fifteen dollars. For this
moderate sum Vincent relinquished
all right, title and interest in her,
and Gibbs returned to Massachusetts
with his prize. He is hard drinker
and they lived a varied life in towns
in that state for some years, and, six
years ago, came to Northfield, where
her brother, Albert S. Cross, lives.
She is now nearly thirty-four years
old. Her acting husband is large
framed man, if not of very strong
mind, and who has suffered all his
life from the effects of drunkenness.
At the time of Mr.. Worthen's re-
moval to Mortified, Gibbs was not a
member of the church, having with
drawn at some previous time to es-
cape expulsion for drunkenness. At
the camp-meeting in 1880, he claim
ed that he wanted to lead better
life, and he was made a probationer.
1t was between then and the last of
July, 1881, that the attempts at Sc
duction are alleged to have been
made. The plaintiffs say that Mr..
Worthen was frequent visitor at
the paint shop and at their house.
He says that Nh. Worthen, having
tried to have him go peddling, soon
hauan to taIlx aboDt his wife and oh
tanned an account of certain diseases,
under which she labored, and then
offered to cure her. 1t seems that
Mr.. Worthen studied medicine be-
fore he began to fit himself for the
ministry, and has practiced gratui-
tously ever since to limited extent
among his Pensioners. She says
that his improper advances began with
squeezing her hand and eliminated il
a forcible assault upon her virtue
which she successfully resisted. AL
though these things continued fol
some months, she told nobody Of
them, not even her husband, but bore
up under them amazingly, until Octo
Der, 1881, when a quarrel, growing
up between the Gibbs people ant
Mrs. David A. Holt, neighbor, who
charged that Gibbs had painted hi.