Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-01-22
the Congregational church, Tuesday
and Wednesday, Jan. % and "a.

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A daughter of E. F. Young is dan
gerously sick with diphtheria. There
are several cases of the disease about
here.
The streams in this section are
very low and water mills are running
on short time. Many springs and |
wells are dried up.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
ST. JOhnsbuTy.
AS Willie, young son of Jabez
Ellis, was coasting down Hastings
hill one day recently, some boys on
traverse sled ran against and over
him, cutting him up badly. 1t was
carelessness in the boys, but they
were all little fellows and didn't real
ize the danger.
An item is going the rounds of the
press crediting Cincinnati as having
the most churches to the number of
inhabitants of any city in this coun-
try, it averaging church to every
1858 inhabitants, while Boston has
only one church to every 1778 of its
inhabitants. This may be worth
Dragging of in the cities, but the
country town of St. Johnsbury has a
church edifice and preacher in it to
every 429 of its inhabitants, or near
ly three times as many in proportion
to its population as Cincinnati.
What came near being a terrible
and fatal accident was narrowly es-
capped by the family of Julius c.
| Gray last Friday night. Mr.. Gray's
mother set pan of live hard wood
Goals in the sleeping room of Mr..
and Mrs. Gray for the purpose of
warming it before they retired,
which they did at the usual time.
Their young son occupied a room
connected with theirs, and he was
awakened little before two o'clock
by strange feeling of sickness, and
called his mother. Mrs. Gray arose
in a bewildered condition and ran
down stairs, where she at once faint
ed and fell on the floor. The noise
aroused the household, and Mr.. Gray
was at once rescued, but in an uncon-
scious condition. A physician was
at once summoned, who administered
restoratives, and Mr.. Gray at length
recovered consciousness. but suffered
considerably in the mean time. Mrs.
Gray and the boy were not so seri-
ously affected, and were soon quite
recovered. Mr.. Gray was longer in
outgrowing the effects of the accident
and is now all right. The explana-
tion of the matter is that the hot
Goals consumed the oxygen in the at
mosphere, thus producing strangula-
ton and suffocation, the effect being
the same as in the case of charcoal.
-Inder.
Sheffield.
We hear very pleasant reports from
our neighbor G. B. Simpson and wife
who are running the boarding house
for the Montpelier Seminary. They
are giving excellent satisfaction. The
winter term of the school is very
large, exceeding any former winter
term.
Sutton.
Reuben Ellis has had serious trou-
BILE with his lungs of late but is able
to be out of doors again.
Andrew Lang has let his farm to
Mr.. Hogden of Lyndon. Mr.. Lang
is to peddle for Quimby.
G. M. Campbell has bought of j.
T. G. Cunningham his wood lot ly-
ing near the Chesley mill.
Mrs. Lovina Shaw from Greenfield,
Mass, is spending the winter with
her brother, Thomas True, in our
village.
The school in district No. closed
last Friday with an exhibition. 1t is
the third term taught there by Miss
Susie Hume of Lyndon, who is en-
titled to much praise for her success
full labors.
Mrs. John Ladd fell last Wednes-
day and broke her hip. This acct
dent seems all the more sad as Mr..
Laid met with similar accident a
few months ago, and is not yet re-
covered.
West Burke.
j. P. Otis and wife, Mrs. O. w.
Baker, and A. L. Aldrich and wife
attended the Grand Lodge of GOOD
Templars at Montpelier, last week,
and report very interesting exercises
East IIardwick.
: Mrs. S. S. Orion is sick of pneu.
monia.
Mrs. Rufus Miner died Jan. 10
aged 80 years. Her remains were
carried to Peacham for burial.
Mrs. c. M. Bailey returned from
Peacham last week her daughter has
recovered from her severe illness.
Mr.. Harvey Montgomery's cancer
is better so he goes out to ride occa
sionally. We trust he may be cured
= Mrs. Elizabeth Jewett of Boston
has given the Congregational churcl
a very fine New England chape. OF
gan for Jewett chapel.
: EUROPEAN FLOODS.