Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-01-11


that the ice went out of Bartlett's
mill dam, doing considerable damage.
Above Jim Grants the ice came into
the road and made regular block
AIDE, which had TO be removed before
teams could pass. just below Mr..
Grants it damned the river and
turned it across Charley Marshall's
meadow, injuring his land quite bad
ly. Above Ira Sturtevant's it form
ed another dam turning the water
into the road and washing it ont in
places so that brush and gravel had
to be carried in. Below the Landing
the water was so high the road was
also impossible.
A LETTER.-The following inter-
esting letter has been received, which
we give as it is written-some are
particular to have no changes made
that our readers may have the bene-
fit of the "discovery," as well as the
pleasure of perusal:
Jan. 1, 1886.
Mr.. EddOr,-Please have little
patiants with me for / have made a
CRATE discovery, which has long been
CRATE study to know who 'sThey Say"
is. Nobody has been able to tell
what sect it was, wheather it came
over in Noah's ark, or what was its
origin, but it does exist. Well, l
find it to be of the feemail sect. and
it is one of my nearest neighbors.
Now as / have found her out hope
our next Legislator will form law
that will either exclude her from So
clety or put her to death.
From one who has long been a
suffer from old "THEY SAY"
Ps. if I had not found her out as
l did and found they cald her old
"They Say" | should cald her what
it speaks of in Habakkuk l chap
verse.
The annual village meeting occur
ed on the evening of the 18th inst.
The meeting was a very quiet one
and it proved a difficult matter to
find men who wanted to put in a
great amount of work with no pay
except the curses of those who feel
themselves capable of doing the work
better than those in office. The COR
poration is out of debt with some
money in the treasury. The amount
of money raised and expended last
year was something over $500. II
was voted to raise ID per cent over
and above the amount raised by tho
town-15 per cent-for the current
year. The following are the officers
Moderator, w. w. Miles; clerk
j. L. Twombly; trustees, O. V
Joslyn, Geo. H. Blake, Charlie.
Hubbard; treasurer, H. G. Pierce
collector, S. F. Bickford; fire war
dens, j. N. Webster, f. F. Dutton
Henry Gay; auditors, j N. Web
ster, 0. ID. Owen, B. M. r. Nelson
attorney, W. w. Miles. 1t was vot
ed to have the tax collected by tn,
treasurer.
Our beloved friend Camp, of tia,
EGpress, does not seem to be willing
to let us alone. Our apparitiol
haunts him, and when he does tel
the truth about Newport matter
he seems to do it snappishly ant
gingerly. His closing remarks il
the paragraph quoted below are en-
tirely uncalled for, as every reade
of the MONITOR knows. Had it nc
been for this paper the facts relativ
to the "scourge," as he calls il
would never have appeared in print
Note the spirit of the quotation
zone death of diphtheria the pas
week, young child of Mr.. Lapien
living on Lake street. There al
still few light cases of thros
trouble, but we don't know of an
genuine cases of diphtheria. w
think this must be so as tine MONITO
admits as much and this has bee
about the first time it has been di:
posed to say there was an abatemer
of the disease or any possibility {
its diminishing. Blake has our syn
pathy, for we have no doubt he di:
likes TO chronicle the removal of an
scourge or general trouble that migl
happen to aff1ict Newport.
!. We need none of your sympath,
. Had we the power we would not onl
remove every vestige of the diphth'
ria from Newport, but that other NJ
torious 'scourge," known as Davi
} M. Camp.
ALBANY.
; Mr.. and Mrs n. M. Darling al
visiting in Peacham, on runners, an
waiting for snow.
w. X. Annis, Sen, slipped on IL
ice, sustaining partial dislocatie
of bis right shoulder.
The donation visit at the Cong
church was a very pleasant affai
and resulted in about $40.
Charlie HI. Smith has bought Il
Sanders farm on the river road abo
three miles north of the village.
f. X. Lord and wife, who went
Iowa from this town some ninetee
years ago, have returned, and pr
pose TO spend their declining yea
among the green hills of Vernon
We are glad to welcome them bacI
AS O. M. George was at work {
Lowell mountain some time since,
was honored by an exhibition pc