Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-07-13
STATE NEWS ITEMS.


STATE NEWS ITEMS.
The Congregational church of Brandon
will celebrate it's centennial July 10 and
20.
T. j. Boynton OF johnson has passed
the examination and been made post-office
inspector.
Several hundred thousand slate pencils
have been sent from the Castleton mill to
market since June LIST.
Frank H. Rice, who had his leg crushed
under a train at White River junction
Monday evening, died Tuesday.
United States Minister Phelps celebrat-
ed the Fourth Of July by an afternoon re-
ception at his residence in London
Not less than three hundred students
were graduated from the college prepare
tory schools of Vermont this season.
The New England Dental Association
will meet IN Burlington, October Z, and
the session will continue during two
days.
The Sons of Veterans are making ar
rangements for holding union camp at
Lake Rescue, Ludlow, sometime in the
latter part of July.
Rev. Amos Merrill, of East Haverhill,
N. H., aged rs years, died last week.
He has supplied Methodist pulpits in Yer
mont and New Hampshire for so years.
Cyrenus Houghton, an old and promi-
nent farmer of Woodstock, was instantly
killed Tuesday by kick from horse
which he was attempting to catch in his
pasture.
The semi centennial celebration of the
founding Of the Black River Academy is
to be held at Ludlow, August 26. Histor-
ical addresses, etc., will be delivered, and
it is expected that there will be large
gathering of alumni and friends.
Train men on the freight arriving at
st. Adams early Sunday morning found
the badly mutilated remains of man on
the track near North Georgia station. 1t
is supposed that the man was struck and
killed by one of the night trains.
T. w. Baldwin, ESQ.,, of Barton is pre-
pairing biography of the members of the
Orleans county bar from 1900 to the pres
ent time. The list comprises about 160
different names. The book will contain
engravings of the prominent members.
The alert manner in which the rumored
way of the senatorial contest in Vermont
indicates proper appreciation of the
popularity and weight of the venerable
senator Mr.. Edmunds will succeed him.
SELF
X. X. Wilson's fine residence in Brad
ford was struck by lightning Sunday ev-
ening, July s.. The bolt entered the pan
try window and penetrated every room in
the lower part of the house. The inmates
were knocked senseless by the shock.
| Damages estimated at about $500.
Edward T. Owens was killed in the Eu-
eka slate quarry at Poultney by mass
of earth and rock falling upon him. His
felloW workmen dug him out as soon as
possible, but he was quite dead when
found. He was about 55 years old, and
| leaves q widow and several children.
| There seems but little doubt that with
in few days two hundred fifty Edison
incandescent electric lights will be in op-
Grafton in Rutland. The total cost of the
plant, put in, is $4,000. The lights are
thirteen candle power, and can be turn
ed off and onpike gas, and can be put upon
gas fixtures.
The grasshoppers have appeared at
Chelsea in myriads, and threaten more
serious ravageS than heretofore, especial
ly in localities not affected by them very
seriously in previous Yeas. The farm
ers are becoming alarmed in view of the
| prospect of very short crop of hay 1t
| will be much less on the hills, they say,
than it was last year.
The new democratic international rev.
enue collector for Vermont, Geo. L.
Spear, announces the following appoint
ments A. J. Sibley of Montpelier, clerk
and deputy collector of the home office
James A. Brown of South Hero, deputy
collector at Burlington; James A. Mills,
deputy collector at Brattleboro; E. d.
Reardon, deputy collector at Rutland.
Dr. L. M. Bingham OF Burlington, who
has been elected professor of surgery in
the medical department of the University
of Vermont to succeed the late DR.. James
private soldier in the ranks of the 2d!Ver-
mont volunteers during the whole war
!. He was wounded at the first battle OF
Fredericksburg and second time at the
bottle of theWilderness. He is nephew
of William F. H. Bingham Of Stowe.
The tenth session of the Sauvenr Sum
mer School of Languages opened in Bur
lington last Monday and continues unit
August IA. Over 800 pupils are already
) registered and many more are expected
, to be in attendance before the close of thu
week. The school was removed to Bur
lington from A mherst, Mass, last year
and the success attending its establish
ment last summer resulted in the perma
1 nent location of the college of Language
I at the University of Vermont.
9 The first yacht race of any Importance
which has occurred in Burlington ba.
for years took place Thursday evening
between the sail yachts Mystic, owned b.
- Edward johnson, Gipsey, owned by Will
: lis Phelps, and Sandy, owned by Messrs
u Pease and Kendall. The course was fror
+ the north end of the breakwater to tn