Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-04-28
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

David Roberts of Burlington has been
appointed receiver of the First National
bank, lately suspended.
Ernest Kendall was sentenced Tuesday
at Burton to state prison for six years,
for robbing house at Shelburne.
A. G. Stafford, Esq, of Burlington, has
accepted an invitation to deliver the Me
mortal day address at Bakersfield.
Ratchie & Warden's store at West Bar
net was entered Saturday night, and mon
ey and goods to considerable amount
were stolen.
The Central Vermont camp meeting at
Mortified will commence June %, and
and the state temperance camp meeting at
Morrisville, on August 10.
A steam tug 119 feet long and 90 feet
beam, capable of towing 80 boats from
New York to Albany in 40 hours, is ex-
pected at Burlington to work on the lake.
A young man named Long, at work in
a saw mill near Plainfield, was struck by
a chain used in hauling logs Tuesday af-
ternoon aud thrown upon circular saw
and beheaded.
In tearing down Rythers old building
on Main street at Brattleboro recently, a
copper penny coined in 1885 was found,
on one side or which is turtle bearing a
hinge safe and on the other is donkey
with tho ssT follow in tha foot OF
of my illustrious predecessor" This pena
ny figured quite prominently in the Van
Buren, campaign.
The house of M. f. Burke, in Bartons-
vile, was struck by lightning recently,
and considerably damaged, the electric
fluid playing some curious freaks with the
crockery in the pantry and about the
house. No flame was started, and no
one seriously injured The house was
we'll supplied with lightning rods, but
they were cut and torn off by the bolt
Mrs. Lyman Barber of Fair Haven, who
| died the 14th, from the effects of dose
of Paris green which she took the day be-
| fore, admitted to her friends that she in
tended to have killed her daughter, and
endeavored to induce her to go to the
woods with her for that purpose, but the
daughter declined to go. She confessed
when dying, that she ''wanted to kill hel
| so she would not be left alone
The Ides have commenced work on the
| foundation Of tbatr now urict-n,iu The
old foundation will be used with some
improvements to be added. The build
ing will be 55x3O and 70 feet from bottom
of frame to ridgepole. The frame vii
be of heavy timber and put together tc
sustain all the machinery and grain which
can be crowded into it. This, we believe
will be the first roller grist-mill in Yer
mont.
On the afternoon of Apr. II, trail
was wrecked at Fairlee Mountain by
large stone which heavy rains had wash
posed or coach, baggage and smoking car
and contained about twenty passengers
The engine was thrown off the track ant
entirely ruined. The baggage car turne'
half way over and lay partly on the track
while the coach stood on the road-bed
The engineer and fireman were badl
bruised. No passenger was seriousl
injured.
Col John B. Mead of Randolph ha
sold all but two of his Red Polled herd
Two COWS and one calf sold for $1,000 t
go to Dayton, o. The bull Romeo brough
5000 and goes to Hartland, Wis. Th
, July bull called Volney brought $500 an
Simkins $500. These with Is head {
cows and heifers were taken by Ellwoo
& Murray of Maquoketa, Iowa, who pro
pose to cross them on Shorthorns, thu
insuring deep red Shorthorn withol
5 horns, of increased milking and superiC
e beef qualities. The 81 head were a
shipped in one car on Apr. Z.