Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-07-27
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Samuel S. Brewer OF Mendon, 65 years
old, hanged himself the 18th inst. No
cause known.
Harmon, the Swanton bigamist, last
week pleaded guilty, and was sentenced
to two years in the State Prison.
L. w. Scott and son of Barnet, were
arraigned last week, for fishing on Sum
day, and were fined 50 and costs.
The London Times says that Mr.. Phelps
is the ablest Minister that the United
States has ever sent to England.
Mary McDonough of Rutland, 20 years
old, fell down stairs recently and broke
her skull She died in a few hours.
A Walden woman recently had eight
tumors, varying in size from pea to a
turkeys egg, removed from her head.
The steam mill of Lyman Nevans of
Bennington was burned on the morning
of the Esd inst. Loss $1,000; no insur-
ance.
The veterans of Windsor county hold
their reunion at Windsor August II, and
a large attendance of Grand Army men is
looked for.
From 1000 to 100000 slate pencils are
made daily at the pencil mill and quarry
at Castleton, where thirty persons are
employed.
George B. Howard of Windham, 81
years old, shot himself on Thursday night,
the 10th inst, on account of ill health,
and died the next morning.
st. Adams is mentioned as the next
meeting-place of the Vermont Press As
ISOLATION, and it is suggested that Sag
uenay be the scene of the next annual ex-
excursion.
Mrs. C. Drake, of Castleton, while out
berrying on the 18th inst, was taken
suddenly and violently i'll. She was NOV
ed to her home in an unconscious state,
and died in half an hour.
Edwin Billiard, horse thief, broke
Jail at Hyde Park Sunday night the 10Th
inst, by digging hole through the CELL
ing of his cell. He was evidently assist
ed from the outside.
The Vermont National bank expects to
pay ten per cent dividend August L, and
had paid their assessments it would have
had 80 per cent dividend to announce
at that time.
Some Montpelier rascals daubed the
doors of five respectable residences with
black paint and insulting Inscriptions,
recently, and the whole town is indig
nant. A reward is offered and detectives
are at wotk.
A Dummerston man has a cannon-ball
which his step-father picked up on the
Bennington battlefield seventy-five years
ago. It weighed four pounds, and was
undoubtedly fired at the battle of Ben
| nington in l777.
Workmen recently begun digging on
the site chosen for the soldiers mOnu-
ment at Brandon, but the digging was
postponed, as Deputy Sheriff Stearns of
Rutland served an injunction, forbidding
them to do any further work.
| Fred Yarmouth of Bradford, aged Ii
years, arose in his sleep the other night,
opened second story window and crawl
out, when he fell to the ground. He was
picked up in an unconscious state, but
| it was found his injuries were slight.
The safe of Hastings & Follnsby OF
North Concord, and that in the depot al
Concord, were broken into one night last
week. The burglars, are thought
to be the same ones who operated at Lyn
donyille the week before and got nothing
but little change.
The claims already filed in the Wind
ham county clerks office against S. M
Waite's insolyent estate amount to about
1924 900, while to Offset these the assign
ees return $4,000, which with othel
claims to be filed and necessary expenses
out, may pay 10 per cent to the creditors