Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-09-14
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

to crops in that vicinity by a recent rain
at 200 or more.
Two Bellows Falls restaurant keepers
were recently fined S126 and S1O2 respect
lively, for keeping liquor.
The safe of the Mississquoi Touring
mill at Enosburg Falls was blown open
Monday night and $500 in money and
checks taken.
Manager Beals of Rutland has taken
out twenty two telephones on account of
the raise in rates, including one from
the court house.
Rev. II. T. Wood, pastor of the Bap-
fist church at Dover, N. H., who has
been called to passionate IN Lyndon, has
declined to accept.
There were 103,41 pieces of matter
handled in the Burlington post-of1ice in
August. This was falling off as COM
pared with the month of July.
J. E. Clement of Barnet has been APP
pointed to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Fred w. Farnham on the
mail route between Springfield, Mass,
and Newport.
The total number of deaths from small
pox in Montreal last week were one hun
dred two-all but ten being of French
extraction, and one-half of children I'M
der five years.
The Fairbanks scale company at st.
Johnsbury, who have run their works but
five days Il week for some time, are now
running full time and are unable to fill
orders on time at that.
The thirteenth annual fair of the La
noble valley fair ground company is to
be held on their grounds in Lamoille,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
September %, 90 and "a.
Joseph Chase of West Berlin, aged ca
years, was crushed by log on Monday,
dislocating his right knee and necessitat-
ing the amputation of the left leg above
the knee His condition is critical
A Lyndonville man recently went to
Boston for a steady job, fell in with a
| crowd of ''good fellows" was knocked
| black and blue and robbed Of all he had,
| $25. He proposes to go back to the
| farm.
| A curious freak of nature is to be seen
at the old Rutland depot in the shape of
| a cottonwood tree growing out of solid
brick wall on the north end of the build
| ing, some ten or twelve feet above the
ground. 1t is in a tlourishing condition,
has healthy looking foliage and is nearly
five feet high.
Judge Poland recently lost from his
| coat pocket note for $500 signed by one
man and endorsed by four others. Two
or three hours later piece from the mid
die of the note, sufficiently large to iden-
tify it was picked up in front of Atwood's
store on Main street, but the rest of the
document was not found. Some boy not
old enough to realize the value of il prom
issory note probably picked it up, tore
| III III pltCcS ttlld bHtCW III ava
C. r. Witherell and J. A. Wright of
| Middlebury intend to go early next week
to Eldorado, Kansas, with a carload OF
cattle-Jerseys-mad up of heifers and
one bull, the latter registered Cherbino
& Williamson at the same time with three
carloads of Merino rams, two of which
| TO nd tr
Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr.. Williamson
started for Chicago Thursday and will re
main there till the stock arrives and ther
go on with it.
Since the organization of the state sen.
ate in 1896, Chelsea has had Il county sen
ator eight times, Bradford eight, Brook
field seven, Strafford six, and Corinth
Topsham, Washington, West Fairlee anC
| WilliamStoWn five each, BrainLree an6
Orange two, Fairlee one, while Tunbridgt
has never had one. Newbnry and Yves
Randolph have been the most favored
towns of the county, the former having
had a member of the state senate Is time
and the latter 10. Thetford and Vershir
have had four each.
Darwin C. Pierce, farty-three year
old transfer mail agent in the depot a
. Rutland for eighteen years, was arreste
the Sd inst, charged with robbing th
| mail, and was put under $4,000 bonds
Valuable letters have been missing ther
since March and nearly the whole mai
Of July 18th, with bank papers, etc.
amounting to 1000, was lost. Detect
ives have been at work several weeks
and postal card dropped in the freigh
ward gave clue Pierce has stood we
in the community He has wife an
three children, and denies his guilt. H
l was released after hearing. He prove
I he was in Salem, n. Y, July 18th, whe
J the mail was stolen. His son, Henry {
Pierce, was afterward arrested, an
made full confession of his guilt and e1
onerated his father from participation
his crime.
Lawrence Brainerd, the defaulting pre-.
2 ident of the st. Adams savings banl