Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-08-27
STATE NEWS ITEMS

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/ Gently fined 81, 800 and costs for selling
/ liquor.
/ The state Sunday school convention
holds it's annual session at Mortified
! September 18th and 18th.
| The state teachers association holds its
! annual meeting at Montpelier the third
! or fourth week in October.
A Mrs. Davis of Danville has been fined
| fifteen dollars and costs for abusing the
| children of the man for whom she was
keeping house.
Curtis Brown, the noted Belvidere bear
hunter, has killed two bears this summer,
which increases his number to 81, and is
one more bear than he is years old.
Work on the new dam at Swanton is
being pushed rapidly. Over 100000 feet
of square timber is being used and car
| load of iron. The structure will cost
about $1,000.
! Governor Barstow has appointed the
| Hon, d. E. Nicholson delegate to the
I! educational convention, to be held at
/ Louisville next month during the south
! ern exposition.
| A Guildhall correspondent says that
| the editor of the Coos Republican has
| gone to parts unknown, the property has
been attached, and the publication of the
| paper is suspended.
| An year old son of George Brooks, of
| Norwich, was drowned in the Connecti-
cut river at Hanover, N. H., the 10th.
He fell from boat which was tied to the
bank. His body has not been found,
The present season has been remarka-
! bly, favorable for honey in Addison coun-
! ty. The market price is now Is cents
| per pound, but dealers say they will soon
/ be able to purchase cart loads of it at II
| cents pound. The copious rains through
/ the spring and summer mouths have pro-
| duced splendid growth of red and white
| clover, which is favorable to honey.
| The Farmers Mutual fire insurance
company at Montpelier has had SO losses
during the year ending Aug. 1st, amount
| ing to $50, IA, eight of these aggregating
$40, 45s. The company has consequently
leviedTan assessment of So per cent. and
the directors have decided to give their
services the ensuing year, while the Of
ficers will contribute portion of their
salaries on account of the unusual bad
luck of the company.
Wesley Deal, dock master at Maquam,
fell from the new coal elevator, Saturday
afternoon, and was seriously injured.
He was trying to stop the delivery car,
when his foot slipped and he fell Il dis
lance of 40 feet, striking some timbers
and then canal boat, finally falling into
the lake. The engine Essex was sent to
Swanton for medical aid. At last ac-
counts the injured man Is UNCONSCIOUS
and it is feared he cannot survive.
At a meeting of the South Eastern rail-
| road directors at Montreal last Tuesday,
T. 81. McKinnon was appointed general
manager, i'll place of Bradley Barlow.
Mr.. Barlow still remains president, but
this action of the board makes McKinnon
the man Of authority to make contracts,
issue orders, etc. McKinnon has been
assistant manager for some years, knows
the road and its interests in their bear
ings, and the directors knew exactly
what they were doing when they made the
appointment.
Burglars blew open the Woodstock
postoffice safe Tuesday night and got
away with about $40 worth of stamps
. The noise they made caused an alarm, the
, thieves fed, leaving money and Other
! valuables on the floor. One man wa:
shot at, but escaped with the loss of Ian
tern and hat. The men stole the tool:
they used from blacksmiths shop in tn,
2 village, and they were evidently not pro
fessionals. Suspicion falls upon coupl,
of strangers who had been hanging
about the place for a day or two.
Barlow's total Indebtedness is som,
So, $780, 900. If he could sell the Soutl
Eastern for So, 800, 900, he would have
4 margin above debts of $350,0OO. TIL,
Canadian Pacific last March offered Bar
a low So, 750, 900 for the South Eastern. Sine,
q the failure they step down and out from
that offer. A syndicate of New Yorl
money men, not railroad men, have look
t ed over the road with view of buying
e to speculate on. Mr.. Chapman, who rep
n resents that syndicate, has reported tina
d if they buy the road it will be for a sun
= under So, 100000. If they make and offe
it will be made next week. In addition
> to the South Eastern, Barlow has Wash
{ ington property to the amount of 500,
t 900, and as much more in st. Adams ant
elsewhere in this state, Barlow is no
= confident of saving anything for himself
g but expresses the hope that his creditor
may get all due them.