Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-05-21
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Hon. Henry Ballard is to deliver the |
Memorial day address at Wolcott.
Hon. H. II. Powers is to deliver the
Memorial day address at Cambridge.
L. M. Read is to deliver the Decoration
day address at White River Junction.
The Moultons of Randolph recently |
sold, at the Kellogg auction in New York
city, eleven calves at prices aggregating |
$4,000. Blood will tell.
Frederick Billings of Woodstock and |
New York has lately erected handsome |
brick church in the Montana town on the |
Northern Pacific railroad which is named |
after him.
Caledonia county court contains 146 |
cases Of which II are state, divorce, Al !
cases in chancery. The term will UNI
doubtedly be short.
Lucius G. Howe, who left Keene, n. III.
eight years ago, and was supposed to
have been killed by railroad accident in
Kansas, has unexpectedly turned up to
find his wife remarked and living in
Windsor. He has beeu on cattle rancho |
in the west.
1t is not generally known, says the
Free Press, but nevertheless a fact, that
Vergennes dealers buy more butter than
is bought in any other town in the state,
except Richmond. No less than 1000
pounds of butter are shipped from there
every week to the Boston market, and
large amount to private customers.
Fifty thousand dollars were distributed
last week among the heirs and legatees
of the late Spencer Warner of Chicago,
most of them living in Vermont. Thir-
teen thousand three hundred and fifty-six
fell to the Warner families in Pawlet, as
follows: Mark Warner, $6,42S; W. S.
Warner, S3,214; O. L. Warner, 1924.
As much more will be coming to these
heirs when the estate is finally settled.
Martin Jacobson, while fishing in Rut-
land, heard some firing in the woods, and
he endeavOred to find the cause of it, and
while on his search was struck with a
bullet squarely between the eyes, pen
etrating into the skull more than the
thickness of the ball. He was somewhat
dazed and bewildered but not seriously
injured. The ball was partially spent,
else the result would have been serious.
The dead body of Daniel Ellis of North
field was found in Roxbury last week,
clared that he died from exposure on or
about September 4. He was subject to
fits of insanity, land last September he
disappeared, as he had frequently done
safe, and, in fact, heard of some one re-
semblng him as at work in adjoining
town. He was about 20 years old.
At half-past one o'clock Sunday morn
ing, the premises of David Dodds OF
North Hero were discovered to be on
fire, and, in spite of every effort, they
; were burned to the ground. They includ
ed a farmhouse and ten outbuildings
|
sheep, Jersey bull, a number of hogs
1 40 tons of hay, $500 pounds of meal, etc.
e and all the farming implements. Thu
: loss is estimated at $4,000; insurance
ed by boys smoking or playing witt
matches.
Julia, daughter of Josiah c. Burroughs
= of Belvidere Corners, aged 80 years, VIII
e has recently been at work in the famil
J. of James w. and r. n. Goodspeed, 0
n Montgomery, drowned herself early las
!. Sunday in the Trout river. She was cor
- sidered odd and eccentric, being frequent
ly very much depressed in spirits becaus
y of the death of her mother some year
l. since. She had collected her clothing
@ and procured a bottle of morphine, whic
le she evidently took Saturday night, ant
~ it not acting as she anticipated, she the
threw herself in the river.
The Montreal express leaving Bosto
last Thursday morning via the Lowe
Is and Central Vermont railroads met wit
Sc a serious accident at East Granville, eau
es ed by misplaced switch The engin
Is mail, baggage and two freight ca
80 were wrecked. The engineer, Thom'
Buck, was badly injured in the bac
A Mrs. Lucia Spaulding, a widow, Il
O. boarding house keeper in the depot, WI
i'd standing on the platform and was knoc
k. ed through the side of the building al
m cannot live. The mail and baggage mi
were somewhat scratched. The dep
- was badly wrecked, one side being crus
III ed in by the freight cars driven into
n that were standing on a side track. No
[r. of the passengers were seriously injure
I'm The responsibility, apparently, rests
az, the freight men.
b,, During the recent term Of county cot
a gentleman from neighboring toy
VI who had some court business on hand p
he up at the American house; and as he W
els not accustomed to gas, the clerk went
di- the room with him in the evening to
struct him in its use. On the follow
80, night the gas was again lit for him, blu
speck of something in the burner caus
'''' the flame to split and spread lit
ter This mystified the occupant of the roo
md and after studying on the matter anvil
I'VE and trying in vain to solve the Difficult
he went down stairs and accosted
clerk thus: s'What ais that light
o'' there, anyhow? The flame is all split
Clle and spread, darn it all; and PUe b
que trying for the last halt hour to pull up
his acick r This was too good a thing
di- keep great while, and he had to Civ
90 away. Trying to find the wick in a
burner is what may be called reach
after the unattainable. Messenger.
'lel Fred Childs told the following story
has the Springfield Republican of last S
sed day Gan amusing case Of mistaken id
les. tity is reported from White River Ju
,or ton. Judge Poland was returning fl
Washington few months ago, and
. usual, stopped at the Junction depot
II lunch. While quietly enjoying his CO
60 he was accosted by tall, ditfident yo
W l. I'll 4.