Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-05-19
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

hon. Il. >. Dana OF New Haven, VINO
has been seriously i'll since November, is
gradually failing.
f. w. McGettrick of st. Adams has
been appointed inspector of Grand Army
posts for Franklin county,
Colonel Kittredge Haskins of Brattle-
boro has drawn arrears ofpension amount
ing, it is said, to about 50, 100.
Joshua Fletcher of Chester, Vt. was
fatally injured by being thrown from his
carriage recently at Ludlow, his horse
being frightened by bicycle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Royce, of Per-
kinsville, were recently thrown from their
carriage by the jumping of the horse.
Mrs. Royce had one hip broken, and Mr..
Royce one leg.
The Supreme Court ofCaledonia county
was begun and ended at st. Johnsbnry
on Tuesday. Only three Judges were
present-Chief Judge Royce and Judges
VeaZey and Rowell.
Mr.. Cockerill in announcing pair in
the Senate with Mr.. Morrill, of Vermont
on Tuesday, said that it was the first
day that Mr.. Morrill, had been absent
from his seat in 30 years.
The troubles in the First Baptist church
in Burlington, in relation to which there
has been a good deal of talk about town,
have eliminated in the expulsion from
the church Of seventeen Of its members.
Albion N. Merchant, editor of the
Rhode Island Democrat, died recently at
Providence, after Il brief illness, in his
forty first year. He had previously pub
| lished the Democrat and Sentinel of Bur
| lington.
The Vermont delegation to the repub-
! lican national convention at Chicago will
have their headquarters at the Palmer
house, the parlor and rooms assigned
to them being adjacent to the quarters
occupied by the state delegation in 1880
Senator Morrill, has offered resolution
which was agreed to, calling on the see
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age done to the breakwater in the harboI
of Burlington by the recent gale, and To-
an estimate of the expense necessary tx
repair the damage.
A. w. Edison, principal of the stat
Normal School for a number of years
has rendered his resignation, to take eff
feet at the close of the present term. IL
has accepted the position of superintend
ent of schools at Attleboro, Mass, Whic
has over fifty teachers and two thousan
three hundred scholars.
The New York and New England Bo
Manufacturers Association held its annu
al meeting at Burlington on Tnesda
evening. About dozen firms were req
resented, who are the consumers Of abou
, 800, 000. 900 feet of lumber per year. The
report their business as good, and til
prospects for the coming year very eli
couraging, but the supply of stock
+ short. Tho following officers were elec
ed /: A. L. Brown, President; DC. French
Secretary and Treasurer.
There was fight and stabbing aflra
near the hotel at Enosburgh Falls, I'll
, 9Th, the result of an old feud betwee
Jim Brown and Joel Whitney. Brow
e stabbed Whitney twice, once in the fat
5 and in the back, cutting cash six incht
long through his clothes, but injuring hi
only little. Whitney then got posse
sion Of the knife and pounded Brown u
i til his cries for help awoke the neighbor
: and they were separated. No arrests
: yet. Brown has served one term
c States prison and is hard character.
# The disease which has attacked
40 many horses in the western part of t
state is spreading, and causes much alal
to horse men. Its nature is peculiar,
/ it is confined exclusively to the feet. I
lt first symptom is lameness, and in a fl
+ hours small sore is discovered near t
l. fetlock. This sore is of an ulcerous L
ture, and grows rapidly absorbing ter
ons and tissues, and when the ulcer reas
es its height the dead flesh sloughs
$ the animal absorbs poison from the 81
r and dies. There is no specific yet
it. covered that will arrest the disease.
.ir is thought to be caused by parasite a
:, is contagious.
!; There was a narrow escape from
terrible accident at Mrs. John T. Dire,
house the other day. A boarder had i
ed vacated his room and in making the us
r clearing up three large sticks of gil