Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-10-11
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Burlington proposes to have carnival
of winter sports the coming season.
The old courthouse building at Rut-
land will be sold at auction soon. 1t was
erected in 1775.
Arthur Fairbanks of St. JOhnsbury,
who was graduated from Dartmouth Col
lege last June, has been appointed in
structor in Greek in that institution.
Hon. Josiah futile of Essex, who went
to San Francisco on the G. A. r. excur-
sion, is so seriously afflicted with muscu-
lar rheumatism that he cannot as yet re-
turn east.
At Brattleboro Henry Fletcher's two
story brick and wood saw and box mill,
with a quantity of finished and unfin-
ished lumber, and about seventY-fve
cords of wood was burned soon after two
o'clock Sunday morning. Loss about
$1,000. The building was insured for
$4,000.
Orison Butler, the Plymouth fat boy,
died recently. He was fourteen years OF
age, weighed three hundred fifty pounds,
and measured sixty-one inches around the
waist. He has been on exhibition at Rut-
land and was taken with pneumonia and
sent home on Thursday. Notwithstand-
| ing his obesity, he was bright boy ana
of good intellectual faculties and intelli-
gent.
A second trial of Oscar Meyer, for the
| murder Of FL. Krause on Lake Champlain
| in January, 1884, ended at st. Adams
| with verdict of murder in the second
| degree, and the prisoner was sentenced
| by Judge Royce to Imprisonment at hard
| labor for life. Meyer was convicted In
| September, 1885, of murder in the first
| degree, but the supreme court sent the
case back by reason of defect in a jury
1 mans qualifications, and the neglect OF
| the Judge to charge with discrimination
concerning what constituted murder in
1 the second degree. The plea made in the
| present trial was justifiable homicide.
! The eighteenth Annual Convention Of
4 the state Sabbath school Association of
| Vermont is to be held in the Congrega-
| tional church, Chester, October %, 26,
and %, 1885, General conductor, L. B.
! Lord, President of the Association; Bur-
lington; Musical Director, Charles S.
| Cornell. Order of exercises; Monday
100 p. M, Music; 7.45, The Dual Minis
try of the Sunday School, Saving and
Teaching the Scholar, Rev. G. w. Phil
lips, Rutland; SIS, Singing; S.25, What
can be done to increase the number of
Teachers? Tuesday, a. m, Devo-
tional Service: $50. Address of We'll
come, Rev. E. L. Scott, Chester, Re-
sponded to by the President; 1000 Sing
ing; 1915, The Relation of the Teacher
to the Moral Life of the Scholar, Rev.
Charles A. Reese, Rutland; 1915, What
use shall the Teacher make of Lesson
Helps, by Convention Ills, Study of
the Bible, B. F. Jacobs, Chicago: 11.45,
Announcements; 200 p. M, Song Ser
vice; $50, Doctrine in the SundaySchool,
Rev. Charles F. Carter, Burlington; 800,
Temperance, To be presented by the la
dies of the w. G T. u; $50: Singing
$40, Principles of Instruction, A. E.
Dunning, d. D., Boston; 40, Question
Drawer; 100, Song Service; $780,, The
Religious Aspect of Sunday-School Work,
Homer Eaton, ID. D., Burlington; 500,
Training of teachers, A. E. Dunning,
Boston: $50, International Work, B. F.
Jacobs, Chicago. Wednesday, 900, am,
Devotional Meeting; $50, Annual Bust
ness Meeting; 1890, Singing; 10.45, How
can scattered families in Country Dis
tricts be brought into Sunday-School,
Rev. E. S. Fisk, Bethel; Ills, How to
study the Life of Christ, A. E. Dunning,
Boston; 200 p. m, Promise Meeting
2.3O, Question Drawer; 800, Christian
Endeavor, Rev. S. L. B. Speare, Middle
bury; $50, How to make the Sunday
School attractive without loss of Spirit
ual Power, Rev. H. A. Spencer, Ran
, dolph; 100, Song Services 7.30, Address
: B. F. Jacobs, of Chicago, and others