Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-02
STATE NEWS ITEMS

hC INuuiohA is ill dSSuI-
ed fact, as all but 81 200 of the $2S, 900 in
bonds have been disposed of.
The first load of freight passed over
the completed part of the Pittsford and
Clarendon Railroad on Monday.
Colonel L. F. Copeland, a western ora
tor, has been engaged to give his lecture,
"The Mistakes of Bob, in reply to niger
soil, at Rutland, November 4.
The last family has moved form Pine
Valley, near Woodford, and the place
which has been SO busy spot for the
past fourteen years is wholly abandoned.
Dan Giddings, native of Fairfax and
former well known sheep speculator
and wool-grower, died recently in Ohio.
He had resided in Westford and Essex
Junction.
Charles Carlisle, seventy-fve years old,
of Woodstock, committed suicide Sunday
afternoon, the 25th ofOct. He had lived
many years alone on a small farm but
had just sold it.
d. L. Moody, the evangelist, will be in
st. Adams on Saturday and Sunday, De-
cember and 6. 1t is expected that he
will speak ON Saturday evening and four
times on Sunday.
The Rutland First Congregational
church has extended a call to Rev. DR..
Samuel H. Virgin, pastor of the Pilgrim
Congregational church at Harlem, New
York city, for Is years.
William Lloyd Garrison has presented
the Free Library in Bennington duplicate
volumes of the life of his father, and w.
r. Morgan has given Bancroft's History
| of the Pacific States, in thirty-nine vol
| umes, seventeen of which have arrived.
Col. Nathan Lord died at Cincinnati
the present month. Col. Lord was u
son of President Lord of Dartmouth col
lege and brother of the late Rev. VIM.
H. Lord of Montpelier. Mr.. Lord was
made colonel of the Sixth Vt. regiment
by Gov. Erastus Fairbanks.
Mr.. Ely Goddard has prominent men,
ton in the New York papers. He is en-
gagged in heading off a project for street
railroad through fifth avenue, and in Sc
curing the consent Of the property own
ers along the street to the establishment
of a line of coaches to run through the
avenue.
1t is believed that Z. A. Sowles of St.
Adams has fed. After his. release at Rut-
land he went from home to Pittsburgh,
n. Y, ostensibly to arrange with his
brother to bail him if he was arrested
in St. Adams, and it is said that he IS
not at Plattsburgh.
Cornelius Reeds barn in Hyde Park
containing sixty tons Of hay, moving
machine and two horse-rakes, was burn
ed Wednesday morning, the 21st Oct
The house opposite, occupied by Charles
Stowell and Orrin Williams was also
burned. The cause of the fire is unknown
but is supposed to be the work of an in
cendiary.
Three Richmond youngsters took ;
loaded pistol into the woods with then
Sunday for Il lark. The weapon would
not 90 off, and while fixing it the ham
mer slipped and discharged the piece.
bullet struck rib of Allie Hall, 13 years
old, and followed it around to the back
bone. If blood-poisoning does not Sc
in the boy may recover.
: Vermonters having met Gen. Logrl
] will take an interest in the book which
he is writing and proposes to publish
sometime in January. The title will b
''Treason's Pathway to the Rebellion.
An enormous sale is anticipated, particu
larly in the western part of the country
The General has spent about one yea
; and half on the book, writing at inter
walls as he felt in the humor.
, The annual meeting Of the Vermont Oh
ticer's Reunion Society will be held i
Burlington January 20, 1866. Colont
Thomas O. Seaver of Woodstock, of til
q old Vermont Brigade, has accepted th
t invitation to deliver the grafton. Th
T Cavalry reunion and state encampmeI
of the Grand Army OF the Republic, whic
: will occur the last week in that city, wi
. call many veterans to Burlington an
e make the third week in January Il livel
Y and interesting time for soldiers and CT
+ liens.
n The funeral of Ex-Gov. J. B. Paige VIZ
held in Rutland Tuesday afternoon in Col
gregational church, Rev. j. G. Johnso
> of New London, Ct, and Rev. C. C. M
5 Intyre of Pittsford officiating. The schoo
t and factories were closed and bushes
# oenarally suspended. The church VIZ
II crowded with people and many could NJ
j get in. The employees of the Howe sea
works, fire department, Kingsley guar
> and representatives from the village go
IS eminent and business houses attende
and Joined in the procession. Gov. Phi
J. gree and members of his staff, ex-Go
T. Smith. Lieut-Gov. Ormsbee and mar
: prominent men, including railroad Off
ers from all over New England we
:. present
= A Rutland dispatch says: "a revolt {
|, the democratic masses of Vermont again
t, the dictatorship of Hiram Atkins