Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-01-18
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

Colonel A. +. Walker of Rutland is very
| low with rheumatic fever.
| Gymnastic training is to be given TIT
| girls in St. Johnsbury Academy.
Judge and Mrs. L. P. Poland expect tt
spend the winter in Washington.
| New sugar was made in the vicinity of
Bellows Falls during the warm weather
| of last week.
| The next general term of the supreme
court will be held in Montpelier, com
mencing May Sd.
J. r. Harris of the Burlington Clipper,
are in Washington. !.
Rutland has the largest Grand Army
| post in the state, and Bellows Falls next
with membership of 10Y.
E. f. Wood, for twenty years mer-
chant in Passumpsic, and prominent in
| church and town affairs, died Jan. Sth.
The customs officers at Richford collect
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amount of free goods entered was S33, 500.
The Burlington city directory has 1900
more names than last year. The Rutland
directory has 5000 more names than the
previous year.
There was not fire in Montpelier in
1884 or 1885, the last fire in the village
being the burning of barns at the foot of
Clay hill Sept. Is, 1888.
The Rutland county Record, repub-
lican weekly paper, is to begin pubica-
ton in Fairhaven about February LIST.
Frank w. Redf1eld is to be the editor and
manager.
piece of marble driven from blast
at the Espertanaa quarry in Rutland, en-
tered the body of Edward Kinney, pierre
ing the liver and probably lodging in his
back. His recovery Is doubtful.
widow named Templeton, aged 65
years, while running upon the track to
see her nephew recently, at Middle
sex, was struck by passenger engine
and instantly killed.
The Salvation Army, reinforced by To-
cal followers, visited the saloons in Brat
tleboro the other day where they were
permitted to sing and exhort, surrounded
by curious crowd of. towns people.
Miss Mary Glynn, of Brandon, while at
the Revere House in Troy, N. Y, blew
out the gas in her room and then inhaled
it for several hours. Strange to say she
was conscious when found in the morn
ing, and recovered.
The register shows an attendance of
one hundred forty-six scholars the pres
ent term at the Montpelier Seminary.
This has been surpassed but by one win
ter term in the history of the school. 9th
ers are still expected this term.
Bennington's local committee has rails
ed 81, 900 for the battle monument, and
that sum will be increased several hum
dred dollars. The appropriation of 81 500
by the Massachusetts legislature has
lapsed, and efforts are being made to
have it renewed.
Montpelier has a first-class military
band just equipped with IA full set of
triple silver-plated instruments. The
band will clear $1,000 from their concerts
and dances this winter and accompany
the Grand Army posts of the state to San
Francisco next summer
The funeral of three oys''drowned near
Pawlet New Years day, was the largest |
ever held In that vicinity, from three to
Two of the boys were drowned while try |
ing to save the other, and it was only by /
force that the mother of the last two /
was prevented from sharing their |
fate.
dividend of 1919 per cent will be
paid by receiver Writers of the defunct |
First National Bank at st. Adams some
time this week. The checks are now in
the hands Of the Controller for signature,
and are expected back in day or two.
This dividend amounts to some $50, 800,
and leaves surplus for any contingency
which may arise hereafter.
One night recently tramp named Carr
entered barn on the Frank Grout place
in East Gilmore and killed one of the best
COWS in a most brutal manner. driving
nine different articles, consisting of an
iron horse-rake tooth, a shovel handle,
and several pieces of board, some Of
them three feet long, into the abdomen