Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-01-01
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

A New YORK paper says Irenof W. |
Park left S7,O0O,OOO.
Norman Taylor of Vermont won the u |
hour handicap walking match at Williams
burg, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Dunton of Walden |
celebrated their golden wedding recently,
and so did Mr.. and Mrs. Langdon Kim
ball of Passumpsic.
NJ. Severance, conductor on the Brat
tleboro and Whitehall road, attempted to
commit suicide at Brattleboro on Satur-
day by taking an overdose of chloral.
The act is attributed to domestic troub-
Ies. He will recover.
Elmer Clark of Mortified has a dog
which like Mary's lamb, goes wherever
the boy does, even following him to school.
While there he behaves with appropriate
decorum, except when Elmer reads or
spells, then the dog takes its position be-
hind the boy in the class and barks or
growls every time the boy recites.
Judge Redfield in the case of a Barre
man refusing to make an inventory of his
property gives pro forma decision for
the town. The listers doubled their esti-
mate of his property, but he claims that
under the law they have a right only to
double the value of property absolutely
known to be his. The case goes to the
| supreme court.
Ex-Governor Redfield Proctor, Fred
erick Billings, and E. J. Phelps have been
appointed on the Forestry commission
for Vermont, under the law passed at the
last session, ''to inquire into the subject
of the forests of Vermont, as to their eX-
tent and condition, and what, if any,
measures should be taken in respect to
their protection; and to report the same
at the next session of the legislature.
A portion of the appropriation OF
$4,000 for the state prison will be used tc
build barn and piggery, and to replace
the old wooden doors of the prison cells
with iron grated doors of modern style
which will admit more light to the cells
and so arranged that the door of eacl
tier of cells can be locked and unlocked
simultaneously by lever worked at ont
end. Each convict now has to be LOCKED
in and out of his cell separately by
turnkey" which takes considerable
time On Sunday, when the prisoner
are allowed to read in their cells, it il
necessary to furnish kerosene lamps t.
enable them to read.
The following are a few facts wit
regard to the famous ''crow' case, at
tracing so much attention in the stat
papers of late. One day last Novembe
two young men living in Pownal wen
out for hunt, and one of shem shot
tame crow belonging to a Mr.. Montgom
cry. The crow was shot on Montgon
ery's premises few rods from the house
| Suit was brought by the owner agains
E the two Nimrods, but, although the tw
O parties have met for trial twice, there ha
been continuance eff the trial each time
The civil case is set for Dec. %, and
Jury and criminal case for January
: Each party has strong hackers, and tn
r contest will be an exciting one.
! A union meeting of the Method.
t preachers of the Montpelier, st. john
!. bury and Springfield districts of the We
Il mont conference was held at Groton +
Gently, and series of strong resolution
y ~, bo ,oracopt acnaat of tba tomparap.
e cause in Vermont were adopted, callr
e for the indoctrination Of the young
!. temperance principles, approving the su
port given to constitutional prohibitit
If in the recent legislature, and deploril
7 the unreliability of the majority of tt
house of representatives, who, by a
= verse vote or by lodging, allowed t
70 proposed amendment to be defeate
S, cy in the legal profession to permit t
n prohibitory law to be shorn of its for
bv practical notification.
- The boiler at Silas Mason & Sons sa
mill in Hartwellyille, exploded Tuesda
io killing one of the owners, Marshall
ld Mason, age twenty-four, and engine
in Frederick Williams, age thirty. 1t
IN feared two other men were fatally injur
T The mill was used as chair factor
Williams and Mason were standing
Nc front of the boiler looking at the engi
Ill when the explosion occurred, and tn
u were instantly killed. Mason's arm a
ed leg were broken, his chest was injure
n and large hole was bored in the back
his head The top of Williams's he
was blown completely off. When t
L boiler went up, the head of it we
nd through into the chair factory adjoini
NC and blew out windows and doors. Q