Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-12-28
STATE NEWS ITEMS,

A Dung Mems Christian Association
has been instituted at Winooski.
Lawrence H. Button has been appoint
ed postmaster at North Sheldon.
Caledonia county court closed the 18th
inst. Three divorces were granted.
Skinner & Hall Of Orwell have recently
sold four-years-old mare for $4,000.
The Rutland street railway is patron
lied by from 500 to 800 persons daily.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Jenney OF Leicester
had their golden wedding on the 10Th
inst.
The plans for a new town hall at Bel
lows Falls provide for structure that
will seat twelve hundred persons.
Cannon Farrar has an article on the
Church in America in the January num-
Der Of the North American Review
The Battle of Gettysburg was present.
ed at Rutland, recently. Nearly one
thousand people witnessed the play.
The valuable Mills farm in st. Albaps
L
by the heirs of the late Lansing Mills.
There were one hundred ten inmates
in the house of correction last week, the
largest number that was ever in the in
stitution.
Colonel John B. Mead of Randolph
represents Vermont on the staff of COM
Of ho Am
London.
Middlebury College and the University
Of Vermont closed last week The win
ter term at both colleges will begin Janu-
airy 9th.
Jackson Smith, the burglar captured at
Royalton, recently was sentenced last
week to fifteen years Imprisonment in
the state prison.
A. G. Bowley of Newport has been ap-
pointed health officer and authorized to
inspect dwellings and order such sanitary
| measures as he sees fit.
Rev. John Newman, d. D., of Lincoln,
Neb., has given to the trustees of the
Troy Conference Academy. at Poultney,
| his large and valuable library.
A Frenchman at Jeffers' mill, in Victo-
ry, fell upon a circular saw and cut his
leg off near the ankle, last week. 1t was
the mans first day in the business.
Mrs. Patrick Agan of Fairhaven was
seized with a fit of coughing, recently,
and choked to death in few minutes.
She was the oldest person in that town.
The President has sent to the senate
the appointments of T. w. McGettrick
| for postmaster a st. Adams and John
Robinson Bloomington for United States
marshal of Vermont
1t is said that Vermont soldiers who
were drafted in 1868 have concluded to
hold convention for the purpose Of con-
sidering their interests in connection
with pensions. Where are the commu-
| tation men?
Caledonia county court gave judgment
for the plaintiff ef 81 900 in the case of
| Shastney against the Farmers Mutual
Fire Insurance Company, which refused
to pay loss on some buildings on the
| ground that Shastney fired them.
| The Marquis of I.orne, Col Ingersoll,
Millionaires Aston and Carnegie, an Irish
Member of Parliament elect, John Boyle
O'Reilly, Cassius NJ. Clay, Sir John Mac
Donald, and Frank B. Sanborn have arti-
cles in the January number of the North
American Review.
The annual meeting of the Vermont As
sociation of Road and Trotting Horse
| breeders will be held at the Van Ness
House, Burlington, January 18th. Mem
bers who go over the Central Vermont or
Burlington & Lamoille roads will be fur
nished return checks by the secretary, F.
w. Brownell.
The inside editor to the Rutland Herald
thinks that a nomination and election to
congress in Vermont does not cost the
successful candidate to exceed 800, but
that congressman is paid sosmall 4
salary that no poor man can afford to go
to congress and keep his hands clean of
corruption.
Col. B. B. Smalley, Collector of Gus
toms, is Of the opinion that there is no
necessity for the continuance of the Sani-
tary safeguards instituted on account OF
the smallpox epidemic, after January
first. Since October first it is estimated
that the Sanitary Inspectors have vaccin
ated 10000 passengers on trains entering
New England from Montreal.
The Rutland bicycle club skating rinl
was sold at auction Saturday forenoon
the 10Th inst, to James E. Greed fol
So 1926 The rink was built and finished il
+ 1884 at cost of about SIS, 900 by Il stool
company. 1t was the largest and fines
rink in the state. The skating craze seems
to be on the decline 1t is well.
A young fellow claiming to belong il
Newark, was given Il room at the June
i tion house, at White River Junction
/ Thursday night, and when he left tn
next morning, he entered a room oppo
site his, stole a suit of clothes belonging
3 TO Scott Clark, and crossing into Ne,
Hampshire, walked away. He was CAP
= tured by Sheriff Wolfe, n. H., and ha
!, been lodged in Woodstock Jail.
!, Four of the 13 eX-governors of the stat
S who were living six months ago are deat
e HiIand Hall of Bennington and Rylan
U Fletcher of Prootorsvile, who died recen
", being the oldest. The other two WI
have passed away this year, are Juliu
+" Converse of Woodstock and John ]
1t Page of Rutland. Those now living al
q Frederick Holbrook of Brattleboro, ,
, Gregory Smith of st Adams, Paul Di
bingham of Waterbury, John w. Stewa
of Middlebury, George w. Hendee
= Morrisyile, Horace Fairbanks of
III Johnsbury, Redtield Proctor of Procto
"a Roswell Farnham of Bradford and Jol
i'll L. Barstow of Shelburne.
o. Custom officers in Brooklyn, n.
70 have prevented the shipment of a quaint
ty of arms and ammunition on the steam
'sCity of Mexico" on the suppositi,
E that they were intended for the revol
ld tionists in Cuba.