Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-02-11
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

The Central Vermont is to use some of
the new paper wheels on its new engines.
Wells, Richardson & Co., of Burling-
ton, have had ninety tons of almanacs
printed for advertising purposes.
Addison county one week recently
sent to Ohio and Missouri 566 head of
sheep, 500 of them being registered Me-
rinoes.
Charles j. Weston of Windsor, 80 years
old, died on Tuesday. He was leading
hardware merchant and deacon in the
Congregational church.
Prof. Lewis A. Austin, professor of
latin in Middlebury College, has been
compelled by nervous prostration to sus-
pend his labors for the remained of the
present term.
DIR. Dudley B. Smith of Plainfield, has
been fined ten dollars and costs for cru
city to his horse by cutting its mouth.
The doctor represented Plainfeld in the
Legislature of 1880.
1t is reported that Mr.. N. P. Simons
has resigned his position as superintend-
ent of the Vermont marble company, and
that Governor Proctor has bought Mr..
Simons stock in the company.
Twelve foreign insurance companies
have paid up their tax, under the corpo-
ration tax law, without the formalty of
a protest. This would seem to dispose
of the doubts as to the validity of the law
Railroad men say that the present is
the dullest season for the freight bust
ness that has been known for ten years.
The Central Vermont has reduced its
force on freight trains to conductor
and single brakeman.
Wooster Flood, in Jail at st. Adams
for burglary, and prisoner named Ellis,
in for train-wrecking, tried to dig out,
one night recently, and Flood succeeded.
Ellis was caught while crawling through
the hole. This is the second escape at
the Jail within short time.
Hon. Frederick Billings and family have
been spending few days of midwinter
at their summer residence at Woodstock,
| coming up from New York week before
last. Mr.. Billings endures we'll the great
mental strain which the care of his bust
ness interests necessitates, and, in the
town of his former humber life, displays
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business circles throughout the land, and
he has the respect Of all who appreciate
first class business talent, sterling char.
acter, and the heroism that carries boy
from poverty and obscurity to high sue
cess in business and social eminence
second to none in his native state or il
New England. Mr.. Billings, having de
clined to allow his name to be used as {
candidate for governor, is no longer tron
bled by the talk of the press as to his gu
bernatorial prospects.
A sad case of suffering from apparen
inexcusable neglect is reported from
Dummerston. Chester, the middle-ageC
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over 80 years of age, both residing in al
isolated farmhouse on Dummerston hills
was found dead in the house one nigh
recently. On the night of January 30th
Chester was taken i'll, and being told b,
his feeble mother to lay down upon tn
foot of the bed he did so, but soon afte
fell upon the floor and died, his age,
mother being wholly unable to assist hin
or to summons help. The old lady bein:
an invalid, lay helpless upon the be-
without food, drink, or even fire, with
a few feet of the body of her lifeless so
until February 1st, when some of tn
neighbors, who, it is said, had been Ell
gagged by the town authorities to admir-
lister to their wants, came to the scene
Mrs. Stockwell is an esteemed and oil
resident of that town, and the affair caus
es wide comment. 1t is inferred that til
son froZe to death.