Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-11-30
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

quietly feeding with some cattle in pas
ture.
Assistant Judge Edison A. Doud, of
Addison county, has resigned, because
of i'll health.
81. N. Tracey, an Essex farmer, was
gored by an infuriated bull recently and
died from his injuries.
]. j. Randall of Rutland has received
his commission as National bank exam
liner. It is dated the 18th
Peter Morrill,, of Holland, claims to
have raised 800 bushels of grain on ID
acres OF land the present season.
During the month of September there
came into Bennington $50 barrels of ale
or beer and $50 barrels of -four.
Capt. John C. Stearns of Bradford has
been appointed Assistant Inspector Gen
eral for Vermont on the staff of Com
mander-in-C Chief Burdett, G. A. r.
A man was fined the other day for kiss
ing member of the salvation army. AS
this 'sarmy'' has begun campaign in
this state it will be well for impressible
yonng Vermonters to be on their guard.
The Burlington Free Press says that
very little running after the street cars
has been noticed as yet, with the excep-
ton of the small boys. Another excep-
ton was young man who tried to over
take car Il block away with something
less than dozen lengths Of stovepipe in
his hands. The car won by six lengths.
The Salvation Army of three has not
found Brattleboro people so appreciative
of their work as was hoped, and Capt.
Dealand has about decided to move on
to Rutland, as perhaps more fertile field
for his laborS. The meetings have been
SHINY attended, and the army has been
reduced to one member most of the time,
he mere boy from Haverhill, Mass.
The Rutland Herald says that Gov.
Pages life insurance was more than $780,
| 600. Besides the 1000 which was n.y.
| pothecated during his lifetime, he held
| policies amounting to 500 1893, of which
| $4,000 is in cooperative companies OF
| the assessment plan and could not be n.y.
pothecated, and of this $50, 900 was taken
out in July and August last.
| United States Marshal Henry arrested
Frank Libby at St. Johnsbury, recently
on the charge of obtaining a false affida
Wit to aid him in securing his pension
| The prisoner was taken to White River
Junction and held in $1,000 bonds. Lib
by was arrested on the Information of his
father, who says that he contracted the
injury for which he claims pension aftel
the war closed.
There are four mugwump papers il
Vermont. The Brattleboro Reformer is {
democratic mugwump sheet. The St
JohnsburY Cdledonidn is Springfield
an-Cleveland-St. John mug
wump paper; the Swanton Sentry is ;
feeble echo of the mugwump press in gen
eral, and the Richford Guttersnipe is o
even less account. The mugwump papers
OF the state endeavor to make up in brag
buster and impotence for their lack o
strength and influence -M0ntpelie
| Wdtchmdn.
Martin Scully of Rutland, aged 45 years
an employe in the Vermont Marble com
pany, was killed on the new Clarendon
and Pittsford railroad at Shaugran quar-
rY, near Proctor, Friday evening" the cot
of Nov. He was standing on platform
car which started down the grade by it
own momentum, and before he could ge
at the brakes it ran off switch down
steep embanking. Scully's fellow-work
men shouted to him as the car started
but he seemed dazed and paid no atten
ton to them. His head was crushed an
he lived only an hour after the accident
He leaves a wife and two children. !
: little son on the car with him was unhurt