Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-06-21
STATE NEWS ITEMS

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the parade at the French celebration at
Rutland June 9th
| The semi-annual meeting of the Yer
mont State Medical Society will be held
/ in Burlington, June oath aud 18th.
The Vermont Marble Co., at Rutland
| has the largest grand list of any one con-
Germ in Rutland It's assessed valuation
is $1,226, 600.
Several young men in South Richford
were recently arrested for disturbing
religious meeting, and were fined So and
costs each for their amusement.
The Ryegate granite works have put
in the stone turning lathe, which cuts
round work, twelve feet long and TWEEN
| ty-two inches in diameter, and does the
work OF four men.
The body found at Springfield Monday
was decided at the inquest to be that of
Patrick Hackett of Chester, aged so years.
He had been missing since May 90 He
was drunk when last seen.
The Medbury mill at Wilmington, ope-
rated by w. E. Jordan for the manufac-
ture of wooden bench screws, was burn
ed Friday, together with the machinery
and stock. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
The Vermont officers reunion society
lier November 3. Gen. Francis A. Walk
er Of Boston gives the Grafton on the life
and services of Gen. w. S. Hancock.
Burlington is preparing to celebrate the
fourth of July with big yacht race, bal
loon ascension and unusually elaborate
fireworks. The city is now draped in
Stannard.
Department Commander George T.
Childs, of the Grand Army has issued an
order eulogizing the late General STAN
nard and ordering all the post flags and
charters in the state to be draped in
mourning for thirty days.
Matthew Parkinson, the son of ST.
Adams man, who shot and killed farm
er near Deer Trail, Colorado, about Is
months ago, has been found by jury to
have been insane. The insanity was
caused by epilepsy and is continued.
Fred Waite of Brattleboro expects to
pick from his nine-acre strawberry patch
fifty bushels of strawberries daily during
the season, most of which will be shipped
to Montreal. In addition to this the flo
list, c. E. Allen, expects IL crop Of from
ten to twelve thousand quarts.
Dr. Sunderland, who performed the
marriage ceremony at the White House,
is nearly sixty years of age. He is Yer
monter by birth, and went to Washing
ton before the war. He was pastor in
New York of a congregation where the
members of the Cleveland family attend
ed service.
The body of a man much decomposed
was found recently by Bennington fisher
men in the widest nook of the state, in
Somerset. 1t is supposed to be that of
the peddler who had been missing since
last November, and whose pack was
found some days ago near this spot. His
leg had been broken and he had probably
persisted because of the accident.
Curiously enough the Stannard Grand
Army Post of Burlington on Memorial
Day, and "a hours before the death of
Gen. Stannard at Washington, received
an offering from Mrs. William A. Cutler
of Natick, Mass, with a bit of unwritten
history to the effect that her husband
stood by the generals side on the para
pet of Fort Harrison when the rebel bull
ct struck STANDARDS right arm, necessi-
tating amputation.
Frederick Douglas, when a slave, was
dragged to Easton, Md, behind horses
his hands tied put into Jail, and offered
for sale for the offence of intending to eS-
cape from slavery. Forty-five years latei
he was invited to deliver an address al
the court house at Easton for the benefit
of some association in that place. The
The old sheriff who locked him up on the
former occasion was Oh hand to give hin
, a warm and friendly welcome at this
, time.