Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-03-05
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

OF SlelSnlnS.
Middlebury has voted to erect town
house costing $4,000.
Harris Whipple has been appointed
postmaster at Fair Haven.
A Middebury firm of spectators have
an order for IL, 900 calfskins.
Vermont is represented in the Mime
sofa legislature by six of her sons-three
in each house.
Mrs. Meaker, the Waterbury murder
ess, will be hung in the state prison at
Windsor, March %.
Some of the Woodstock farmers have |
lost valuable stock from over feeding |
with cotton seed meal.
Rev DR.. Alfred Stevens of Westmin-
ster celebrated the fortieth anniversary
of his pastorate recently.
The soldest inhabitant" of Grand Isle
is reported as declaring he never knew
Lake Champlain so low as it is now.
There are sol pestoffices in Vermont.
Only ~ of these are salaried offices, the
postmaster being appointed by the pres
| ident.
| Bishop DeGoesbriand of Burlington has
written book, in the form Of a series OF
lectures, on the Holy Land, and it is now
being printed.
E. L. Pierce's grist mill, chair and car
riage factory at East Putney were burned
Monday morning with loss OF $4,000
to $15, 1000; no insurance.
A citizen of Castleton, who has six or
seven sons and daughters, three or four
| of them married, has been compelled to
go over the hill to the town farm for sup
port.
A Sydney Needham aged about 70, one
of the oldest residents of Montpelier, and
well known as the proprietor of the Yer
mont house, Nantasket Beach, died Feb
ruary 23d.
Authority for the organization .of the
| national bank of Lyndonville has been
received. 1t is to start with cap
ital of 100000, with authority to increase
to S15O,O00.
Henry Douglas fell from wall into the
wheel pit at Newton Brothers pulp mill
at Readsboro the other day and broke his
skull. He will not live. He has wife
and two children.
Henry w. Putnam, of Bennington, has
entered suit agrinst the Eagle Iron
| of oil mil Or
SIC, 900 damages for alleged Infringement
of barbed wire patents.
The death is announced of Simeon
Dewey, of Montpelier, aged SO. Mr..
Dewey was member of Company G,
10th Vermont Volunteers; he took part
in twenty-seven pitched battles.
Exchange: A Vermont editor gave a
banquet the. other night. Some hotel
keeper must have owed him for an adj
, vertisement. Else why such unprece-
denied journalistic prodigalityp
j.. T. Marston, formerly a prominent
citizen OF Montpelier, where he was the
editor of the Vermont Patriot, died Feb
10th, at Madison, Wis, where he had
lived for the past twenty years, aged Il
: years.
: The Windsor County Mutual fire insur
= | ance company, located at Woodstock
, | owing to a falling off in business has de
cided to close up its affairs by March 10th
The company has done business forty
three years.
j Bishop Simpson, in response to an in
t vitation to preside at the coming session
t of the Vermont M. E. conference, pro
, vided Bishop Peck is not able to attend
says that he will be pleased to do so
his health will permit.
ST. ALBANs' Butter Market Feb 81
} Attendance and receipts light, marke
q dull. We quote winter made butter,
= to % cents per pound; selections at
Y higher price. Shipments 500 packages
O Eggs, % cents per dozen.
I The first national bank of FairhaveI
= whose charter expired Saturday, has
;, new charter extending its existence
: years. The bank started 10 years ag
u with 100000 capital, has paid $3.50, Al
1t in dividends, and has now surplus {
d | $50, 273.
d William III. Farrell of Pownal, a youn
" and inexperienced brakeman on the Bo
= ton, Hoosac Tunnel and Western raj
road, was crushed to death at Mechanic
- vile recently while Stacking an engil
re to caboose, another engine having pus
( ed the caboose against him.
): The most extravaganza man in Vernon
1t probably is Mr.. j. L. Shirly. He recen
n ly went hunting with $500 in bills in h
pocket, carelessly mixed with paper us'
= for wadding. Before he discovered b
III mistake, he had shot away some Sc
* thinking it to be newspaper scraps.
IL In attempting to board moving ira
1t on the Montpelier branch of the Cent?
le Vermont road, recently, Nathan M. Pa
~ sons, aged Is, fell beside the rail al
was rolled over several times by t
}, truck frames striking him. He was n
aS seriously injured, though cut and bruis
~ considerably.
T. The republican caucus has fixed
IS Senator Edmunds for president pro te
a He is not so hefty as Senator Davis, b
30 he is irritable, gritty and brainy, a
8, likely to keep things in working tri
~ But it is bad policy for the republica
u. to shelve their strogest man in the cha
TT -Neao York Star.
lis Senator Morrill,, who has passed
it'll ! seventeen milestone, adds to his ma
.st other good qualities that of being u
ba formly present when the senate is in s.
), sion and giving his constant attention
W / the public business. He is in this
81 spect an example whom many of the o.
ne er senators would do well to initiate.
s. Last Thursday night at IL o'clock, as
as party of nine Grand Army Republic me
te- bers belonging in North Hoosac, N.
fer were returning to that place from can
IL fire in Hoosac Falls, their horses
away, throwing them out and break
90 the neck of a man named Burke, W
on was formerly of Bennington. All 9th
ing were more or less injured. They were