Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-07-06
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Springfield, VT, has three brass bands
and drum corps. Unfortunate town.
Two carloads of marble have been
dumped on the Memorial Hall lot at Rut-
land, apparently intended for the propos-
ed building.
1t is estimated that the annual product
of the marble quarries of Vermont is l.
200, 900 cubic feet, with an increase of
about $4,000 feet year.
The whole number of volumes now in
the University library at Burlington is
JAP, including S5S which have been
added during the past year.
S. B. Pettingill, formerly of Rutland,
has bought the Portland, Oregon, Stand
ard and announces that he will continue
to publish it as Democratic daily
Oscar Meyer, the condemned murderer
of Krause, seems to have recovered from
his suicidal tendencies and is quietly at
tending to his duties in the shop at Wind
sor.
Senator Enmund's fee of $4,000, re-
ceived in the Drawbaugh telephone case,
has been invested by him in his new
house on Massachusetts avenue, Wash
ington.
The late Dudley P. Hall of Lyndon
willed 5000 to the Lyndon Literary Insti-
tute, the income to be devoted to the ed
ucation of poor scholars at Lyndon, Burke
and Kirby.
Rev. H. M. Tenney, formerly of Nor
risville, but recently of Wallingford,
Conn.,, has received call to the Madison
Avenue Congregational church of New
York City,
Rev. Samuel w. Dixie of Royalton is
announced as one of the lecturers at the
summer school of the American Institute
of Christian Philosophy at Asbury Park,
New Jersey.
Hon. B. d. Harris has been invited to
deliver the address of welcome to the
Vermont Press Association at the BAN
QuCb w OC given W ohS ioSoi S>iAooho eshNt
printers of Brattleboro.
Hastings Follansby's store at North
Concord was entered Thursday night, the
safe blown open and few dollars taken.
S. E. Groups express agents safe at West
Concord was tempered with.
Lightning lately struck the barn of E.
E. Andrews in Berlin, and it was destroy
| ed, together with yoke of oxen, some
swine, fifteen tons of new hay and lot
| of farming tools. The loss is over $4,000
partly insured.
Rev. J. M. Hull, for more than five
years pastor of the Baptist church and
chaplain of the Vermont state prison at
Windsor, finding that these combined la
bors are overtaxing his strength, has re-
signed, the resignation to take effect the
last Sunday in July.
Eddie Billiard of North Hyde Park, ar
rested at Burlington last week Wednes,
day, had hearing at Hyde Park, Satur-
day, on three charges-first, Of stealing
horse; second, of forging an order on
Stearnes & Son for $11, and third, fol
house-breaking and robbery. Examina
ton was waived and bail fixed at So, 900
The supreme court at Brattleboro has
| given a decision denying the motion o.
Silas NJ Waite for re-opening of the
case of the First National Bank of Brat
tleboro against his insolvent estate. The
i courts heard the motion last February
and it was their decision that the comp
troller of the currency awaited before
paying the forty-fve per cent dividend te
the stockholders of the ruined bank.
The first number of the Burlington In
dependent has made its appearance. 1t il
patent one-sided sheet, published by AL
derman Alger, and will make a gallan
struggle for life. The publisher has hat
some experience as a journalistic writer
has abundant means, and will make sue
cess of the paper if any one can. 1t viii
probably be democratic paper, notwith
standing its name, and local music witt
J the Clipper may be expected for awhile.
: The eighty-frst commencement of TIL
University of Vermont had brilliant ant
fitting conclusion in the levee given b.
president Buckham and the faculty Wed
nesday night in the new Billings library
The building is an editice to be proud OF
For dignity, gracefnlness and adaptatio
5 to it's use. it will compare with any co
: lege edfice in New England. The ARCH
, lecture is Romanesque, the material
Longmeadow sandstone, rock finished
The structure is l67 feet in length, wit
a graceful central tower 80 feet higf
a The main entrance brings the visitor int
Y q spacious and lofty reading-room, whic
. has at one end a large fireplace of orn;
: mental brick and thing and mantle
piece of oak deliberately carved, and ha,
ing for a center piece the portrait Of Hol
= Frederick Billings, which was place
u there by the university trustees. To til
e RIGHT IS a room AZ feet in size and so fe'
in height, designed for the Marsh librar.
The main library room is on the left an
I is oblong- shaped and fitted with corridor
and alcoves with broad central aisl
t. The interior is finished in southern pir
n and the work is solid and artistic.