Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-12
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
ST. Johnsbury is talking of illuminat-
ing itself with the electric light.

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Eleazer A. Austin of Georgia died of
apoplexy while at church on Sunday.
Little Kate Gordon of Georgia had a
leg badly fractured last week while
coasting.
1t is stated that the medical college at
Burlington gets all its anatomical sub
jects from the Province of Quebec.
The farm buildings of Alvin Hiscock,
situated in Dummerston, were burned the
LIST, together with produce and some
household furniture. Loss estimated at
$500.
Senator Edmundss friends deny that
he has any desire to be elected president
of the senate or that he is urging the
election of any one as one of the officers
of that body.
The agent of Forepaugh's circus has
an exhibition on Frost meadow some
time in the early part of the summer
Brattleboro Ph9nir.
C. w. Searles, United States mail agent
from Ricbford to St. Adams, has been
suspended, and a man named Jameson
appointed to his place. Searles has been
in the service over eleven years.
The famous Terrace Hill stock farm
of Bellows Falls is making nearly or
quite one thousand pounds of milk daily
in its own stables, and distributing 500
to 600 quarts per day to its customers.
A young man in Middlebury has lost
all his hair within two years from some
unascertained cause. He has not been
sick, and no reason is known for the dis
appearance of his capillary adornment.
John w. Dorsey: of star-routc notorie-
ty, is at his home in Middlebury, where
he will remain short time. The slow
progress of the star route trials seems
not to have disturbed his equanimity or
digestion.
Russell Butler of Waterbury, aged rs
years, died of pneumonia recently. He
was son of the late Ezra Butler, one OF
the first governors OF Vermont; also a
graduate of Burlington college, man OF
learning, and the author of a history OF
Waterbury.
The Burlington Daily Free Press has
taken a new departure and reduced its
price to 5000 per year and we doubt not
will find ample reward for doing so. 1t
has renewed its youth, so to speak; in
| deed it is better than ever, and worthy
support from all sections of the state.
Joseph Cook, the lecturer, fell between
| train of cars and the station platform
at Poultney the other day. Walter S.
Eaton, son of Rev. A. Eaton who was
there to conduct him to his hotel, grasp
ed him by the hand, and pulling with al
his might, brought him on his feet again,
good deal scared, but little hurt.
C. c. McAllister, the injured Pullman
car conductor, is gaining as rapidly as
possible. The wound in his leg is rapid
ly healing, and the piece of loose bone
the movement of which caused his physi
clans to fear there had not been a unioI
of the bones, has been satisfactorily dis
posed of, and they are confident the bone:
are nniting.-Argus.
The absence of rain for so man,
months has had the effect of turning the
attention of hundreds of farmers of West
ern Vermont to the question of reliabl
water supply, and it would be no. matte
of surprise if wind mills, for raising wa
ter, should be adopted over quite bel
of country i'll Champlain valley, midwa
between the mountains and the lake.
In the house last Tuesday, on motto
of Mr.. Grout of this place, the senate bi
authorizing the Lamoille Valley EXter
sion Railroad Company and the Ogdens
burg and Lake Champlain Railroad Con
pany to construct a bridge across LAX
, Champlain from Alburgh, VT, to Rouse
Point, n. Y, was taken up and the sub
stance of the house bill for the same OF
ject was substituted therefore, and tn
| SCudbc Jill Us dlnChdOu was poooCd.
The Vermont panther has proved itse
a brute of marvellous strength. A Woo
: stock farmers barn-yard has on one sic
7 a stone-wall ten feet high. The pantht
e came down on this yard the other nigh
seized young steer and sprang with
over the high wall 1t happened, how
ever, that the brute's prey was tied by
strong rope to a mate, and this secor
: steer, hurled against the wall and take
: from its legs completely checked the pa
n theirs progress. The farmer, aroused
: the commotion, sprang from bed, lightt
his lantern, hurried to the barn-yard al
> found his two steers hanging clothes-p
U fashion over the wall, both dead. II
g panther's tracks in the snow explain'
n all, and now one more neighborhood wi
~ dogs and guns is out after this terrih
beast. This is panther story.
Allen Stone of Elmore, on Thursd
night, Feb. L, started to go across t
pond after his days work, but becomil
IS bewildered by the storm and darkne
lost his way. He wore felt boots wi
Ie rubbers; the latter were lost off by ste
# ping into some water on the ice and
boots were soon worn out by the
crust He then tore up his overcoat
his feet, using strips from his sh
q sleeves to tie with, but these could n
:. be made to last long. He finally got
ID the shore, nearer dead than alive a
: ready to give up the struggle; but sect
=, house he crawled up to it and was {
- mitted. He was coatless and his fl
Ut was bare and frozen solid half way to
t, knees, and badly torn by the crust. I
,h hands were also frozen. The best re
is edies were applied and physician su
:, moped, but Mr.. Stone will have to SUI
the amputatlon Of both feet and a part
Nc one hand. He is 80 years old and has
m family. The time he was wandering W
SO from p. M, to a. m.