Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-02-15
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

lDou0i III ieSlSueu, fellneu, ana aD-
solute grief
STATE NEWS ITEMS.
Five children in Vergennes have died
of whooping-cough this winter
Edward Smith Of Richford sold $1,000
worth of fish-poles last season.
The Ketchum mare, in Salisbury, three
years old, has been sold for 81 900.
Good hay is worth $3.50 a ton in
Swanton and rye straw $11 per ton.
The Salvation Army claims to have
made sixteen converts In Burlington.
There is to be a Teachers Institute at
Mortified the oath, 25th and Goth of
February
Fifty-four persons were received into
the Methodist church at Island Pond on
a recent Sabbath.
About 100000 feet of spruce logs
have been yarded at Lexington to be
| foated down the river.
| A little son Of John Ladd of East RoX-
bury was recently badly scalded by fall
ing into tub of hot water.
The Passumpsic Railroad Company
will put seven of their locomotives into
coal-burners as soon as possible.
| Bishop Hurst has changed the date of
| the next Methodist Conference for Ver-
mont to the goth of April from the ODD
The whole number of pupils in the
| three Normal schools Is 2l0; whole num-
Der of graduates the past term, twenty
six.
State Treasurer Dubois is making the
first annual distribution to the towns of
the state for school purposes of the Hunt
ington fund.
Ira Church, formerly of Swanton, has
presented ruler to Jewett Post of that
place made from board taken from the
Andersonville dead-line.
Benjamin F. Greenbanks has bought
a large factory and some twenty tene-
ment houses not far from Providence, R.
l., for which he pays $25, 900.
The Central Vermont railroad has is
sued an illustrated programme of the
Burlington carnival, which occurs this
week from the 18th to the 10th.
An animal has been seen in WoodfOr(
whose favorite diet is the blood of cats
several having been killed by it. 1t ha'
: also been seen up tree with a rabbit il
: it's mouth.
| The citizens of Richford have petitione'
, the governor to prevent, by some means
the introduction of smallpox from Cana
da. Several deaths occurred last weel
. just over the line.
Sarah j., widow Of the late David B. Ly
1 man, aged so years, and native of Roy
e alton, died the 9th Of December at Hilo
: Hawaiian Islands, where she was mis-
:. sionary.
q The Vermont International Telegram
company, whose line runs from Luner
burgh to Swanton, 120 miles, is said
IL be the only telegraph company in th
: United States that pays dividends on ii
t. original stock.
d A number of the finest farms in She
( burne, all lying on the lake shore, hay
q been bought, it is reported by DR.. w.
Webb and his brother-in-law, II. Mel
:" Vanderbilt. They intend to build fiji
al summer residences on the land.
u People in Stanford are somewhat e
al cited over the discovery Of a strans
l. shepherd dog in vacant lot. He is a
D. parently guarding small spot of groun
-, They believe that some person has bee
secretly buried there, and will invest
- gate the matter. The bowling of the dc
has been heard for some time. He WI
Id nearly starved when discovered.
d In Bethel several fine blocks and hous
/ have been put up the past year, and it
re estimated that $35, 900 has been spe
pr on buildings, while several new blocl
IA are to be up this year. One of the chi
enterprises of the place is the tannery
| d.
~ cords of bark a year. Bethel has ia
I'd put in some excellent water works at
IF cost of $500, and is well protected
~ case of fire.
,r At meeting of the trustees of Il
" Soldiers Home, held in Burlington Jan
airy Goth, the president and secretary we
y directed to solicit proposals from town
societies, grand army posts and individ
n ais for such aid as they may be pleas
he to make towards purchasing, erectin
IL locating or maintaining Soldiers Hor
III in Vermont Communications should
addressed to William Wells, presideI
Burlington, Vt
James R. Langdon of Montpelier h
NC been elected first vice-president of t
al Central Vermont company and charm
of of the finance committee, and Edward
rs Smith of St. Adams second vice-pre
ha dent The latter has been connect
with President Smiths office for sol
time past. Herbert Brainerd of st. /
~ bans has been appointed general bagga
at agent to this road, to succeed G.
be Swift, deceased.
'e- Surgeon Austin of the Marine Hospi
he Service returned, Feb 10, from Freigl
- burg, Cowansville and Sutton, P.
where he had been to investigate the
cent outbreak Of smallpox which h
nc caused some excitement on the bord
ne He reported that only very few cases {
sct | ist and that these have been carefully
I'm olated, and he does not fear any furtl
trouble from this source. He was ST
:, there by the Government in response
~ an urgent request of our state authO
us ties.
III Charles st. Peter, aged Is years, |
pit the house of his father in South Burlil
re- ton recently, to go into the woods, taxi
iii with him hand sled and an axe. Up
reaching the hill ne got on the sled
slide down, and had gone part way wi
" the sled struck an obstruction, and
tor was thrown against the blade of the q
of in such a manner as TO infict won
tho six inches long on one thigh. The won
l,Ja5 ,,rofucolv apd tho how faintn6