Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-08-23

were burned the morning of the goth.
The alarm of fire was given about
2.3O, and the fire was under such
Roadway when discovered that the
inmates of the hotel had barely time
to escape, very little of the furniture
beng saved. Lucinda Ladoo jumped
from the chamber window to the
ground without any injury; Lutte
Connal also jumped but had his
hands and feet badly cut in breaking
out the glass of his window. G.. L.
Sleeper saved the larger part of his
goods, but of course IN damaged
condition.
Troy.
Geo. Martin has returned from
Worcester, Mass.
j. S. Young is painting his store
and buildings.
The Band played at the Democratic
convention at Newport Thursday.
Mr.. E. Porter with his "Diorama
of Astronomy appears at Opera Hall
Tuesday, eve.
VIM. Paren has moved into one of
Stevens & Co.'S. houses.-Chas. Fox
has moved into the vlllege.
Nettie, oldest child of w. Field died
Thursday, after protracted illness
of several months, aged "a yrs.
Westfeld.
Mrs. S. S. johnson is better.
Geo. Dusham and Florence Morey
have committed matrimony.
G. A. Barry has bought one half
of lot Is in I'd division, paying 500.
James Hovey IS putting in a silo,
and building stable addition to his
barn.
Work is being pushed on the M.
E. parsonage, C.. P. Stevens & Co.
having the job.
The civil board are struggling with
the check list and find some legal vo-
tiers ia town, after all. They meet
again on the Goth, inst.
WestmOre.
| Remember the checklist will be
revised Sept 4, see that it is correct
in every way.
Tommy and Mabel Averill and
Porter and Eta Lyon are going to
Derby to school this fall.
E. n. Gates, son of J. n. Gates,
who is here from Holyoke, Mass,
on his farm west of the Lake, has
invented a valuable apparatus fol
heating and warming houses, hotels
mills etc, by the use of hot water
which promises great results. 1t Is
something on the principle of steam
heating, except that hot water is the
heating medium which is caused tC
circulate through pipes and radiators
Young Mr.. Gates was born in this
town and we are glad to hear of his
success in the sphere of inventions
| CALEDONIA COUNTY
The prohibitionists have put the name
of III. R. Mack of Hardwick, for higl
sheriff on their county ticket, in place o
Isaac M. Smith resigned, Mr.. Macl
has accepted the nomination.
The diver who found the body O
young Moody in the Barnet pond says
that he never suffered so much from colo
while under water as in this case, though
he has often been under ice in mid-win
ter The pond is fed with large mum
Der of very cold springs.
St. .JOhnsbury.
The Ely Hoe Co., will enlarge theil
works.
N. NJ. johnson offers for sale his real
estate in st. Johnsbury, and stock il
trade. He proposes going to Honolulu
in October with his family, acting under
advice of his physician.
Oscar Brown has returned from Mad
ison. All efforts to find the body of his
son George, have proved fruitless. The
affection seems all the more sad in the
fact that the whereabouts of the body
must remain forever unknown.
The Fify-third annual session of the
Universalist Convention of Vermont ane
Province of Quebec will be held in the
Church of the Messiah, in this place, OF
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
August oath, and Goth, 1886. The firs
meeting will be held at 7 O'Clock, Tues
day evening. In behalf of the parish 6
cordial invitation is extended to the
members of the convention and friends
to accept it's hospitality during the ses
sion of the convention. All who pay
| Iuil Idfe 10 Tile CUuNcuGlOu OVcT tllc Ccu
trail Vermont, Passumpsic, Montpelier
and Weeks River, will receive free leturn
checks of the Secretary. On the Yer
mont Division of Boston and Lowell road
round-trip tickets will be sold at the
principal stations at half rates.
The contract for the Brattleboro sol
dier's monument has been awarded Car
rick Brothers of this place. It will bt
built of Dummerston granite. The base
will be 10 by feet and l foot 6 inches
thick and will weigh Is tons. The sec
ond base will be nine feet square anC
will be heavily moulded. The die viii
be five and a half feet square and nearly
five feet high and will contain 146 cubic
feet of granite. On each of the four "a
ces will be heavy bronze panels for the
Inscriptions, A moulded cap rests or
the die and still another above this to re-
ceive the figure which will surmount the
whole. The figure, probably that OF g
soldier. will be of bronze and eight feet
high The granite work is all which the
Carricks will have to do and the con-
tract calls for the delivery Of this part Of
| the business by Nav /, The monument