Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-05-25
STATE NEWS ITEMS


One thousand cords of wood belonging
to the Boston and Lowell Railroad, Yer
mont Division, were burned at North
Concord recently. Loss $4,000.
The Vermont state prison contains six
persons serving life sentences for murder;
three others are serving ten, twelve and
twenty year sentences for manslaughter
The greatest number of loaded cars ever
hauled out from White River junction
over the Summit by a single locomotive
was hauled by ''Paul Dillingham;" May
18th. The train consisted of forty cars,
of which thirty -nine were loaded full
equal to seventy-nine empty cars
Mrs. Maggie E. Smith, wife of John H.
Smith, pilot of the steamer A. Williams,
threw herself from state-room window
of that vessel while the boat was sailing
from Essex, N. Y, to Burlington, Thurs
day, and was drowned. She is supposed
to have been temporarily insane.
George L. Spear of Braintree, appoint
ed collector of internal revenue for Yer
mont, vice j. G. Stearns, removed, is
native of Braintree, forty-three years old,
and d somewhat extensive lumber manu-
facturer. He was a member of the legiS-
lature in 1879, bnt made no special mark.
He was selected for the place by Mr.. Small
ley and Mr.. Atkins, some weeks ago, and
there was naturally no other applicant for
the office.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Central Vermont Railroad was
held at st. Adams, Vt, the 18th, and the
following Directors elected: J. Gregory
Smith, James r. Langdon, Joseph Hck-
son, B. p. Cheney, Ezra H. Baker, w. H.
H. Bingham and Edward c. Smith. At
a meeting OF the Consolidated Railroad
day the above-named gentlemen were
| elected Directors.
The committee to locate the Vermont
| colony in Dakota has made it's location in
part of the committee have returned, the
Others remaining to look after the inter-
ests of the colony until it gets there.
They speak highly of the location and
think the colony will be satisfied. Mr..
Bowman will get the members of the COL
ony in readiness as soon as possible for
their new homes. They will be located
near a railroad and not far from Aberdeen,
a thriving village.
Hon. Luther Adams committed suicide
at his home in North Chester, by shootin g
with a revolver, last Monday. He was
an ex-state senator, ex-state's attorney
and one Of the foremost lawyers in the
state. He had held many other offices of
trust, being highly esteemed. He had
been i'll all winter, but Monday seemed
better than usual. His daughter had just
left the room but Immediately hearing q
shot, returned, finding her father with 8
bullet hole in his breast and barely con
scious. Being asked the cause of the
deed, he replied: ITO avoid further suf
fering." He died without struggle.
Item from the Vermont statue of inter
est to bad boys: ga person who inten
tionally shoots, or otherwise wounds
kills or destroys, entraps, ensnares, O
captures a robin, blue bird, yellow bird
cherry or cedar bird, cat bird. king bird
sparrow, lark. bobolink, thrush, chicka
dee, peewee, wren, warbler, martin, lin
net, plover, tattler, phoebe, creeper, hunt
ing, swallow, night-hawk, whippoorwill
ground bird, humming bird, or destroy
the nest or eggs of any of said birds
shall forfeit ten dollars, which may b
t recovered in an action of debt, with costs
{ by any person who sues for the same"
e dividend of Is per cent is about to b
q paid to those stockholders of the RUNE
First National Bank of Brattleboro, VIII
paid the assessment of % per cent levie
by the receiver soon after the failure {
: the bank, to pay the creditors. This
: the first dividend to be paid the stockholt
O ers, and it will amount to nearly one-ha
o of the assessment collected. The amour
in the United State Treasury to the cred
- of the bank is about $50, 900, while tt
J total sum realized from the assessment
: was $64, 600, or about sc per cent of Il
j. full amount levied. Another dividend
= expected from the assignees of the inso
vent Waite estate as soon as decisit
is given by the Supreme Court in an a
L peal from Judgment obtained by tt
bank against the estate.