Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-04-16
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

STATE NEWS ITEMS
The Caledonia national bank of Dan
vile has declared dividend of four per
cent.
Postmasters appointed: Warner L. De-
lano, East Shoreham; Charles T. Gray,
Newark; William E. Peck, Passumpsic.
Edward M. Ide of st. Johnsbury has
ben promoted to clerkship in the PEN
sion office at a salary of 81 200 a year.
Frances E. Willard, the noted temper
ance lecturer, is lecturing in Tombstone,
Arizona, which is said to be the wicked
est town in America.
The county court at Rutland in the
case of F. d. & D. w. Mullin, charged
with keeping intoxicating liquor, finds
judgment for the full amount, 81, 900.
Perley of the Boston Journal states
that ''Miss Josephine M. Stoddard of
Vermont, clerk in the office of the reg
lister Of the treasury" has been promo
ted.
Chauncey Warner of Cambridge has
decided to build school building at Cam
bridgeboro, to cost not less than S., 900
and endow the same with a sum not less
than $4,000.
A baby born in Brattleboro few days
ago weighed only two and a half pounds,
and a common finger could be slipped
fol nd nd TO ha no
baby is smart and healthy.
All old soldiers of the Vermont Brig
ade will remember General Thomas HI.
Neill, or ''Bucky' Neill, as he was best
known to them. He has just been retired
as colonel of the Eighth regular cavalry.
A Brandon farmer lately took room
in the Bates House at Rutland and on re-
firing at night blew out the gas. The
employees Of the house broke open the
door and rescued him more dead than
alive.
Two Braintree youths named Luce,
aged 10 and IA years respectively, went
into the barnyard of Earl Cushman while
no one was about the place, and killed
one sheep with number of fowls. They
are to be sent to the reform school.
A prospective marriage at Chester be-
tween Il man of ninety and woman OF
seventy-seven years is suddenly broken
off by the son of the bridegroom appear
ing on the day set for the wedding and
putting stop to the preparations.
In wrestling match in East Saginaw,
Michigan, one night recently between
Adon Butler of East Saginaw and w. W.
Montgomery of Fairfield for $500 side
and the championship of the western
states and New England, Montgomery
won.
Cornwall bears off the palm at the
sheep shearing this year, in heavy tieeces.
Rollin Lanes ram 'King alright, shear
ed a fleece of eleven months and fonr
| days growth, weight SO pounds and 3
ounces, and William McCauley's ram
Fortune" just one year old, fleece of
| "a pounds and 2 ounces, claimed to be
the heaviest lambs fleece ever shorn.
On the adoption of the Vermont con-
| stitution amendments the votes were as
follows: On the first, providing for the
election of secretary of state and auditor
by the people, for the amendment II, 1875,
against, $50. On the second, providing
for an additional oath to members of the
| legislatures that they hold no United
| States office, for the amendment 11,056,
against $50. The vote was canvassed by
the governor and secretary of state in
Montpelier on Tuesday.
Up to the present time Vermont has
had thirty-five elected governors. Three
| times has the office been vacant from as
many causes; resignation, failure to elect
and death, the duties being assumed in
| each case by the lieutenant-governor,
making in all thirty-seven different men
who have served the state in that capac-
| ity. The greatest number of elections
received by any one man was eighteen.
another had eleven, another four, and
| three each. OF the remainder who re-
ceived their first term only four previous
to 1870 failed of reelection. Seven have
been lieutenant-goverors, one state treas
urer, five speakers of the house, and
twelve members of the supreme court
seven acquiring the title of chief justice
nine have represented the state in the
lower house of congress and five in the
upper. One also was United States min.
lister to Spain for a period of ten years.
Brduleboro Reformer.