Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-08-31


ly suggestive, and memorial art
could make it all that could be desir-
ed as monument to Grant.
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
The Salvation Army have given up
work in Burlington in disgust.
Preparations are being made for fire.
mans muster at Rutland to be held Sep
TENDER Is. 1t is hoped to offer $500 in
prizes.
A drunkards carelessneSs caused the
burning of Worcester's hotel buildings
Sunday night; loss $1,000, insurance ST.
900.
Hon. William P. Dillingham; Of Water
bury will deliver the address at the Mad
River Valley Agricultural Fair in Waits
field, September Sd.
Receiver Hendee announces that depos-
itors of the late lamented Vermont Ma
tional may expect, about the 10th of Sep
TENDER, dividend Of ten per cent.
AS Warren Hulett of Pawlett, was
reaching for piece of pork in barrel,
day or two ago, he caught a spotted adj
der three feet and two inches long.
The safe OF George t. Porter's store at
Walpole, was blown open about two
O'Clock Tuesday morning, evidently by
oIyc
about $50. No clue.
Ex-Governor Redfield Proctor has been
appointed by the governor to represent
Vermont in the American Forestry Con-
gress, which will meet in Boston, Sep
TENDER %, % and "a.
| Colonel B. B. Smalley has rendered Mr..
Henry E. Randall of st. Johnsbury po-
sition in the customs service at Island
Pond. His many friends will congratu-
late him on his appointment.
| The Vermont Central Baptist associa-
| ton holds its next annual session at West
Randolph, September and 8. An extern
sive programme has been prepared. Sew
eral prominent speakers will be present.
Telephone subscribers in' Burlington
are signing q petition against threaten
ed rise in rates for that service. In the
| Queen City, as in St. Adams, there has
been falling off in the number of tele-
/ phones used.
Steps have been taken by the Benning-
ton Monument Association to secure the
payment of the appropriations voted by
| congress and Vermont, Massachusetts
and New Hampshire, and it is hoped to
get the foundation laid during the COM
ing year, ready for the superstructure.
The safe in the depot at Lyndonville
was burgarized on the night of the 18th
inst, the thieves obtaining $3.50 thereby.
The night operator left the depot as the
night train came in, and, returning TWEEN
ty minutes later, found that the money
which was in the safe had disappeared.
The outlook is good for good repre-
sentation from Vermont at the New Or
leans exposition which opens in Novem-
|
ferent parts of the state having already
been promised Col. John B. Mead of Ran
dolph, who is on the board of manage
ment
Charles O'Neil, a machine tender in the
Fall Mountain paper mill at Bellows Falls,
was caught on pulley Wednesday and
carried over the shafting. One thumb
was torn out from the socket, the cords
being torn out to the elbow and leg was
badly bruised 1t was a remarkable es
cape from instant death,
A horned toad came to F. G. Tuttle o.
Rutland, from Southern Kansas by mai
Tuesday 1t is about two inches and &
half long, with II lzard-like tail running
another inch. Except for the tail an(
the spines or sshorns'' OH the head anC
body it looks much like common toad
and in color is notified so as to clearly re
semble the prairie where it lives.
VIM. Johnson, formerly of jamaica,
I. carpenter at Brattleboro, was run owe
| recently. When hit johnson took a com
, plete somersault, his head was badl,
, gashed, and his shoulders, arms and leg
: badly bruised. He seemed to be recov
ering from his physical injuries, but h
was afterwards taken violently insane
' and two men were required to hold him
The Christian Messenger. the Method
J list denominational organ of the state
e which has been published at Northfiel
e for the past seventeen months, has bee
4 sold to Charles C. Morse of Swanton
!. who takes possession September lst, an
will, 1t is said, move the paper to Swan
ton. Mr.. Morse was formerly conneote
" with the Neacsdealer of Hyde Park, Blu
e has of late been running in the railwa
# mail service. 1a
n The Vermont Association of Road an
Trotting e-breeders has issued pan
phlet stating the aims of the association
a list of officers, general regulations an
: the programme for the two days mee
a ing to be held at Howard Park, beginnin
lie Wednesday, October z. The constitutio
o prohibits pool selling and all kinds
gambling, and the association has ais
decided that no Intoxicating liquors, a
L or lager beer shall be allowed to be sol
IL on the grounds.
n Petitions signed by prominent either
% in different parts Of the state, have bee
+. sent to the manager of the Vermont stat
70 fair. calling attention to the annoyant
!. caused at previous joint exhibitions
intoxicated persons, and asking that pa
81 ticular attention be given to preyentin
ID the sale on the grounds of intoxicants
any form. The petition suggests TIL