Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-01-22
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

STATE NEWS ITEMS.
The White River Agricultural So
ciety at Bethel closes the year about $500
ahead.
William P. Black has been 43 years
cashier of the Battenkill bank Of Man
chester.
Widow Cordella D. Paige's house in
Bennington Centre was burned Saturday.
1t was over a century old and one of
the landmarks Of Bennington.
Richard Booth or Vergennes recently
slaughtered a Cotswold sheep which
dressed 1OS pounds. The tallow on the
ribs was . inches thick.
Ransom H. Perkins, who was arrested
recently for forging S765 note payable
to the First national bank of Chelsea,
pleads not guilty and is held in $1,000 for
trial at the June term of Orange county
court.
Four fertilizer companies have compli-
ed with the state law requiring them to
file a bond for So 900. If their goods are
not up to the standard, as represented by
stamp on each package, they forfeit
81 900 for each offense.
Farmers throughout the Champlain
Valley are still suffering from the search
ty of water for stock and household needs.
They complain that it takes about all the
time to drive stock to water and get the
chores done before dark.
The Vermont Academy at SaXtons has
just received gift of $4,000 from four
prominent Vermonters- 900 each from
Lawrence Barnes, julius J. Estey, Jacob
Estey and Levi X. Fuller. This puts the
school on a good financial basis.
Fines and costs imposed on rumsellers
at Rutland since August Z, 1882, amount
to $40, 456. Not all this has been paid,
| however, as some of the respondents
| worked out their fines in the house of
| correction and others took appeals which
| have not yet been heard.
| John A. Edwards, colored, who ran
away with the white girl from Rochester,
and was apprehended and returned week
! before last, had his examination Friday
afternoon, before Justice John S. Brown
on the charge of larceny of the team and
robe and was held to appeal In the sum of
I 500.
/ William Gallagher was held at Wind
sor, recently, for murderous assault on
Henry Barrel for 81 900 and Ed Gaffiney
for 900 bail. They were committed to
| Woodstock Jail. John McClinton, Frank
| McClnton, George Fields and Frank Gal
lagher were each bailed in $4,000. Bar
rell is getting better.
Mr.. Chaplin, the speaker of the New
| York assembly, is young man of 30, and
a son of the late E. A. Chaplin, formerly
/ superintendent of the Rutland and Bur
lington railroad, and later of the CheSh
ire. Young Chopin has always been {
democrat, but refuses to be a tool of the
4 party leaders, and has made up commit
tees in way which commands genera
approval.
While VIM. Smith was engaged rolling
logs down steep bank at Calvin Nor
ribs mill, Victory, he fell backwards be
fore a log which rolled upon him crush
!, ing his head and killing him instantly
went over him and probably never knew
what hurt him. He was a steady, indus
l trious man and leaves wife and tire
children.-Cale
The recent death of Frank Fisher a
Pownal, who fell from a wagon an
was kicked to death by his team has bee
: announced. j. Fletcher Bemis of Brat
: tleboro, went to Pownal last week and IT
cognized the body as that of his son, VIII
had run away from home at the age {
twelve years, because his father wante
to apprentice him to trade. He ha
changed his name from Bemis to Fishe
s and had lived during the nine years {
q his absence within fifty miles of h
home.
the champion collar and-elbow wrestl,
= of the world says that he has been wres
/ ling for twenty years, that he is now 70
,e ty-one, and that he intends to retire.
f. is willing, however, to give anybody
&c last chance, and has deposited with Ric
ard X. Fox 500, accompanied by chs
lenge to the world to a collar-and-eldo
i, match, best two out of three square ba.
la falls. He says that he is also willing
is wrestle Whistler, Bibby, Acton, or al
re other man in America, one fall at cola
- and-elbow, one at catch-as-catch-ca
with jackets on, and one at side-hold, t
~ best two or three to decide.
. new marble company has recent
IS been formed by Vermont capitalists,
of be called .sThe Black and White Mari
IN company" with capital stock of $50
no OOO The officers of the new compa
are VIM. 2. Nash of New Haven, pre-
dent; j. NJ Haven of Rutland, treasure
III Aldace T. Walker of Rutland, clerk. T
'er directors are WIN. p. Nash of New T
in ven, III. L. Sheldon of Middlebury, E.