Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-05
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

STATE NEWS ITEMS.
H. W. Hedgcock has been appointed
postmaster at Lower Waterford, vice A.
P. Taft, resigned.
George B. Davis has been elected di-
rector of the Caledonia National bank in
place of B. N. Davis, resigned.
Hon. David E. Nicholson of Rutland is
dangerously sick. His family, which is
in Pennsylvania, has been sent for.
The arctic bird, the pine grossbeak,
have made their appearance in the north
western part of Vermont, betokening a
very severe winter.
A set of paper wheels under a truck of
an engine of the Central Vermont rail-
road have been in use twelve years and
are still apparently sound.
Rev. Samuel Fish, for fifty years pas
tor of the Baptist church at Halifax, and
the oldest clergyman of that denomina-
ton in the state, died recently aged nine
ty-four.
A young man in Bennington, living
some four miles from church, having sold
his horse, harnessed his OK to his sleigh
and brought his family to meeting. The
OK made good time.
Rev. w. L. Anderson was ordained
with impressive ceremony at the Congre-
gational church at Stowe recently. Many
clergymen from various parts of the
state were in attendance.
Guy Reynolds, Esq, prominent and
well-known citizen of Grand Isle, drop
ped dead recently. He had represented
his town in the general assembly and had
held the usual local offices.
Richardson Brothers, Davenport, Iowa,
former Vermonters, state that their sales
of Jersey cattle during the past year
amounted to over $1,000, and that their
herd is one of the largest and best in the
west.
Addison county is now completely
overrun with western sheep-buyers, who
are buying all the good sheep they can
get, notwithstanding the fact that the
price of wool has just fallen five cents a
pound in Ohio.
An employee of the Vermont marble
company, while cleaning the snow from
the edge of one of the quarries in West
Rutland, lost his footing and fell a dis
lance of one hundred feet. He was only
slightly injured
Miss Nellie Lefay, employed at the but
ton works in Rutland, came near losing
her scalp the other day. Her hair caught
on some small shafting under the ma
chine and was wound around it. She
sustained no serious injury.
An event which rarely happens occur
red at West Wardsboro Jan. 9TH and 9th
the death of aged brothers, Sullivan
and Miles Knowlton. Still more singu-
lar is the fact that the death of each was
caused by diseased foot.
William H. Bryant of Rutland, VT,
died recently of spinal MENINGITIS.
He was formerly general ticket agent OF
the Rutland railroad, superintendent OF
the Portland and Ogdensburg railroad
and cashier of the Howe Scale Company
President Arthur has just acknowledge
ed the receipt of a cane presented by Dr.
G. S. Green of East Fairfield. 1t was
taken from an apple tree standing but ;
few rods from the old house on the ''Ar
thur Place." which was the birthplace O
the president.
Joseph Duba of Grand Isle on tn,
morning of the fifteenth skated to Platts
burgh. In the evening he started on thu
return trip and has not since been heard
from. His track was followed until
hole in the ice was found. He .undoubt
ly skated into the hole and was drowned
The Rutland Herald says: 'tFrom al
parts of the state come reports of DIR,
streams, springs and wells, and shoult
the drouth continue there will be actua
suffering within two weeks. Many wa
Ter power ESTABLISHMENTS nave DeeH CON-
PEELED to shut down entirely, while 9th
ers are only running part of the time.
There are over 100 steam sawmilIs il
this state, which have sawed and manu-
featured from 10000, 900 Ito $4,000, 00
feet of dimension stock from the log dur
ing the season of 1882. The aggregat
production OF lumber, timber, chat
stock, ETC., is estimated by measure t,
aggregate 232, 050, 900 feet the past year.
The drought in Addison county still
continues without abatement, and moth
ing like it has been known for man
years. So general and long continues
has it been that very few farmers ar
raising any cattle to sell, as scarcel
enough water is to be had to winter tn
number of cattle usually kept for domes
tic purposes.