Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-02-26
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Mayor Hatch unexpectedly withdraws |
from Burlington's mayoralty contest.
Joseph Greene of Swanton is 102 years
old and in good health and clear mind.
Charles Morgan of Rochester. is said |
to have made $4,000 in hops the past |
season.
A B. Valentine will build a larger knit |
ting mill in place of the one burned at |
Bennington Monday night.
The loss by the burning of the Central
house at Burlington, Thursday night, is
placed at $50, 900; insurance $4,000.
Rev. John H. Hincks of the Congrega-
tional church at Montpelier, Yale grad
uate, is called to the Presbyterian chnrch
at Buffalo.
Dogs damaged sheep in Weathersfield
to the amount of 1852 last year. There
was about $50 dog money to meet the
damages with.
Rev. VIM. Greenwood, of Cambridge,
Mass, has accepted call to the Congre-
gational church in Windsor, and entered
upon his labors Feb. Is.
Hon. Kittridge Haskins, of Brattleboro,
will deliver the address in Burlington
next Memorial Day. Lieut.. Haskins was
an officer in Col. Veazey's regiment.
Messrs. Gregory and Jones, of Ohio,
are stopping at West Hartford, purposing
to take between 90 and 80 cows, of the
Jersey blood, home with them in few
days by rail.
The population in New England per
square mile is as follows: Maine, 21.7l;
New Hampshire, 1858; Vermont, 1888;
Massachusetts, 221.7S; Rhode Island,
254.S7; Connecticut, 1852.
The death is announced of Lafayette
Ranney, a prominent New York physi-
clan. Dr.. Ranney was brother of Con-
gresham Ambrose A. Ranney, of Boston,
and both were born in Vermont.
Rutland is to have a new national bank,
with a capital of of 500, 900 and the
privilege of extending it to $1,000
This bank and the Rutland Trust compa-
ny will occupy together the same quar-
tiers.
1t is reported that the Boston and
Northern telephone company will build a
trunk line this spring, between Burling-
ton and Montpelier, and that A. c. Brown
will string wires on the same poles to
Waterbury and Middlesex.
Rev. FL. A. Spencer, of Montpelier, has
obtained a valuable relic of early Metho-
,dism in Vermont, being the frame of the
4 window over the outer door of the first
Methodist church edifce in Vermont,
erected in Vershire in 1908.
John H. Dutton of Sherburne, an old
bachelor, besides being shoemaker, har-
ness-maker and carpenter, makes his
| own clothes and spends his spare mo-
ments in piecing up bed quilts. His
sboss" quilt contains 1876 pieces.
Hon. Ira Hill of Isle La Motto had 8
slight shock of paralysis on Sunday
which interfered somewhat with his pow
ers of speech, but was not considered Sc
rious. Mr.. Hill is 80 years of age and
has lived in Isle La Motto since 1903.
| Senator Edmunds will, on the adjourn
ment of congress, go to the south, where
his wife and daughter are visiting, ane
then cross to the Pacific coast by the way
of New Mexico, and from thence go tt
the Northern Pacific.
The st. Adams Messenger says that Mr.
A. S. Baker, of A. S. Baker & Co., Chica
go, is looking over Franklin county 10
calities with view to locating a butte
box mandatory somewhere in this re
gion if prospects are favorable. Richfort
people are said to be anxious to have tn
industry located there.
William Walker, aged %, was killed b,
blast at Readsboro' Monday, Will
walking on the highway, fifty rods from
buC pldCC VI DldSGlHS. oOOO pOunu IOCl
flew from the blast across Deerfield rive
and struck Walker, crushing him into
jelly. A mother and two sisters were de
pendent on him for support.
Valentines knitting mill at Benning
ton, with a large portion of the contents
was burned Monday night. The los
will exceed $780, 900; Insurance, $50, 0OO
Chas. Lindon, hosiery manufacturer, oc
, cupying portion of the mill, loses all hi
machinery and stock, all uninsured. TIL
cause of the fire is unknown. Five hun
dred hands are thrown out of employ
ment.
Willie Hathaway, thirteen years old
son of Timothy Hathaway, was frozen t
| death on Lake Champlain recently. H
went out with his sled, and was last see