Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-09-07

Ex-Governor Paul Dillingham;, since
the accident by which he broke his leg.
has been dangerously i'll with pneumonia.
He is now recovering slowly.
A loss of three weeks of time and dam
age to the extent of hundreds of dollars
was caused last week by thousands of
tons of earth sliding into the pit of the
Union soap-stone quarry at Chester, fill
ing it up.
Justin Greene fell from q mowing-ma-
chine at Maquam Bay last week, and re-
besides having one finger amputated
The Boston & Lowell is going to re-
grade portion of the st. Johnsbury &
Lake Champlain railroad, and finish law
ing steel rails. It is probable that before
long the business of the colored lines will
be resumed over this road.
An Essex man had occasion, the other
| day, to pay debt of Sc, 900 to Williston
man, and by way of agreement he paid it
| all in silver. The box weighed three hun
dred sixty pounds, and the Williston man
was obliged to call in the assistance of all
his hired men before he could remove the
coin to his vaults. .s8
The man who was appointed to weigh
the mails on the Central Vermont road be-
tween st. Adams and Rutland, has Just
been suspended for not attending to his
business. A man has been sent up from
Boston to take this delinquent weigher's
place. As this is distinctively an era of
reform" comment is altogether unnec-
essary.
The .Universalists held convention at
Bellows Falls the last week in August.
At the business meeting A. T. Foster of
Derby Line was elected president and
Rev. F. S. Rice of Springfield, secretary
The convention was much pleased with
the work being done in Rutland and vot-
ed to continue the aid another year. The
sum of 1886 was raised for home mission
airy work. Addresses were made by Rev.
Walter Dole, DR.. A. B. Miner of Boston
and Rev DR.. G. L. Demarest.
The smallpox scourge, which is raging
in Montreal, has reached West Farnham,
P. O., just across the line from Richford.
Thirty cases are reported there. All the
Vermont towns along the border are STIR
ring themselves to ward off the plague.
The railroads leading south from Mon
treal, including the Central Vermont, are
| ordering cars disinfected, employees vac
cinated and enforcing generally strict san
| itary rules, to prevent the transportation
| of the disease from the infected districts.
| Orders have been given on the Grand
Trunk road to discharge any employee who
refuses to be vaccinated.
| Colonel Eden A. Tilden died in Allston
Mass, on Sunday morning, the 3Oth ult
He was born in Barre, VT, March 18th
1871. At the breaking ont of the rebel
lion he enlisted in the Second Vermont
Infantry as a private, and, after ser
vice of between three and four years, re
turned as colonel. He served in the Army
of the Potomac through the battle of the
| Wilderness and all that series of battles
being wounded severely several times. II
1871 he went to Boston and entered tn,
service of Brown, Durell & Co., where h,
continued until January, 1884, when he
with 9th ers, formed the house of Wheeler
Conant & Blodgett, Summer street, i'm
porters and jobbers of dry goods.
There has been a large amount of thiev
Ing in Southern Vermont and New Hamp
shire during the past few weeks. Store
have been entered in Walpole and Mar
low, N. H., and four dwellings were en-
tered at Bellows Falls one night recently
In each case the burglars entered tn
sleeping-rooms, taking money daringl
from the occupants clothing. Team
have been stolen at Putney, Middlebury
Proctor and West Randolph, two horse
from the farm of A. Mr. Jefts in Langdor
N. H., and others are reported missing i
other localities. In many cases reward
have been offered, and the officers are US
ing their best endeavors to detect tn