Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-08-13
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

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Wool is selling i'll South Royalton for
twenty-five cents per pound.
Mrs. Hannah Holland of Townsend
celebrated her ninty-ninth birthday re-
Gently.
The first surpliced male choir in Yer
mont, it is said, has been organized in
St. Pauls church, Burlington.
The Spiritualists hold their camp-meet-
ing at Queen City park, near Burlington,
from August 10 to September 10.
rattlesnake measuring four feet two
inches was killed in the vicinity of
Skitchawaug Mountain, Springfield.
The Central Vermont railroad compa-
ny has just added two hundred and twelve
volumes to the railroad library at st.
Adams.
Thomas Brow, Il fireman on the north
ern division of the South Eastern road,
fell from train few nights since and
was killed.
Gen. w. W. Grout of Barton has ac-
cepted the invitation to deliver the adj
dress at the fair in Rutland, September
5, aud Z.
The annual meeting of the St. Johns
bury & Lake Champlain railroad company
will be held ut ST. Johnsbury on Wednes-
day, Aug. 10.
| DR.. L. A. Harrington, superintendent
of marble quarry at Pittsford, was in
stantly killed last Wednesday by the fall
ing of Il derrick.
A letter addressed to 'Widow Smith,
Richford, Vt, threw the postmaster into
panic, there being eleven widows of that
name in Richford.
The directors of the Central Vermont
railroad company held a meeting at Bos
ton on Tuesday of last week, and elected
the old board Of officers.
Peter Rrinnelle and John Shortsleeves
while intoxicated, got into fight at Mil
ton on Tuesday, and Brinnelle was SC
badly injured that he died. Shortsleeves
fed
Efforts are being made to have th(
semi-annual encampment of the Crane
Army of the Republic, department o
Vermont, meet at st. Johnsbury durins
the muster.
Joseph Battell of Addison county ha
purchased u, 600 acres of land in tina
county for no other purpose than to pre-
serve the forests which now flourish ppol
it from destruction.
The Franklin Co. Agricultural Societ
are making unusual efforts for a success
full fair to be held at Sheldon, Aug. %, 3
and 81 Gen. w. W. Grout of Barto
delivers the address.
Antoine Z. Moore Of MiddleseX, age
ninty-four, has worked regularly in tn
hay field the past season, moving, pitcf
ing, etc, and doing as much work a
many men his junior by half century.
The circus at the Ely mines cost th
state about 50 1000, which is just tn
: amount paid into the treasury by Fore
| paugh and Doris, SO that between til
: three circuses the state came out abou
, even.
petition for special town meeting
to GUST the grand jurors and elect FIRE
rum men, was circulated at BELOW
I Falls and received over one hundred an
sixty signatures. The town officers cal
: ed special town meeting for August 8.
g At Essex Center last Wednesday ey
q ming Simon Cunningham, farmer, in
wagon with his wife and child attempte
to cross the railroad and was struck |
the locomotive. Cunningham was kille
Q his wife fatally injured and the child's Il
! broken.
e The Bristol branch railroad. to extel
# from the Central VermonAat New Hay,
to Bristol about which SO much was sa
last spring,as yet exists only on pape
The scheme worked well until it came
e raising the money, when cold wa
J. struck it..