Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-09-10
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Mrs. Henry A. Buttolph has given the
Methodist Episcopal church of Shelburne
a large bell.
Hon. S. M. Gleason of Thetford has
been appointed receiver of the Vermont
| Copper Mining Company.
A general term of the supreme court
| is ordered to be held at Montpelier on the
fourth Tuesday of October next the 23d.
The Central Vermont imported ninety
one carloads, or /, 134 tons, of locomotive
coal from Canada during the month of
August.
The fifteenth annual convention Of the
state Sunday school association will be
held at Mortified on Tuesday and We'd
nesday of this week.
Messrs. Wilder & Co. will soon COM
mence the erection of large paper and
pulp mills upon their water power near
White River Junction. iEs
A six-year-old son of Michael McMur-
ply, of STAFFORD, was accidentally shot
brother, thirteen years old, August 30.
The boy was killed instantly.
Rev. L. p. Frost of Bradford has been
appointed by the governor a delegate to
the educational convention to be held at
Louisville, Kentucky, this month.
A seizure before judgment has been
taken out against Bradley Barlow at the
70, - Ta+ %
stead, P. O., Mr.. Human of Derby and
Mrs. Horace Stewart of Beebe Plain, eX-
ecutors of the estate o. the late Horace
Stewart. The claim is for something
more than $4,000 being on account of
two promissory notes of $4,000 each,
given in 1881, and the interest for the
past two years.
Major Ira HI. Evans of Palestine, Tex
as, was in the state recently. Major Ev-
: ans is a Vermonter, native of Barre,
and was member of the Tenth Vermont
Volunteers. He subsequently accepted a
, commission in the Ninth United States
colored troops, and served in Texas until
the close of the war and two years after.
He then went into business there, and
= has been member of the Texas legisla-
, ture and speaker of the house, and has
been prominent and successful in various
railroad and business enterprises.
At Hartland, Wednesday, Oliver Holt
aged so years, was run over by train
u and instantly killed. Despite repeated
(; warnings, and several narrow escapes
:, from injury, the old gentleman was &C
!. customed to walk the track between
Hartland and Windsor, and had probably
started for the latter place on the morn
J ing in question. He had partially cross
u ed the bridge, when he was caught by thu
IS belated midnight express from the north
II Unable to escape, on account of the in
% firmities of old age, he was knocked dow
and run over by the engine. Both leg
were cut of, with one arm, and the life
i less trunk was hurled to the road, som
q seventy feet below.
A st. Adams dispatch says that tw
members Of the New York syndicate, VIII
~ Southeastern railroad, made flying visi
to st. Adams, Saturday, and had cor
~ ference with Mr.. Barlow, as result c
IL which certain papers were executed
he which it is said have the effect to put tn
ID syndicate in Mr.. Barlow's place and de
1r eide the question of purchase. The d'
!, lay in contamination has been caused b
the attitude of some of the Southeaster
~ directors, notably, Chaffee, who is unde
lie stood to be Canadian Pacific man, an
TX who has publicly stated that Mr.. Barlo
a had no interest to sell in the road an
could transfer no title. There is GOO
! reason for the belief that the syudica
have abandoned attempts at an amicab
le arrangement with the directors and ere
O. itors and taken the step which plac
IT. them in Mr.. Barlow's shoes, fully prepa
n ed for fight to maintain their positio
bo should it prove necessary. Waterman.