Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-01-04
The liquor saloons in St. Johnsbury


to $164, and sixty bottles of beer were |
confiscated.
Governor Pingree has appointed Frank |
lin Scott of Bennington special prosecut
or of criminal offences under No. TIP of
the acts of 1884.
Captain j. II. Simonds, proprietor of
the Windsor House at Windsor, died De-
cember 18th. He was eighty-three years
old and leaves no family.
The death Of Hiland Hall leaves va
cancy among the United States Commits
sioners for the district of Vermont. He
occupied the position So years.
1t is said the insurance companies will
reduce rates twenty-five per cent in Beth
ell, because of the effective apparatus re-
Gently put in for fighting fire.
The Passumpsic railroad ticket office
at Wells River was broken into at noon
the other day, and robbed of $15, while
the station agent was at dinner.
The musket used by ''Sim Scudder' in
the play of the ''Battle of Gettysburg
at Rutland, recently, is Ethan Aliens old
fowling-piece, now owned by DR.. Charles
Allen.
The Burlington commercial travellers
association that has 136 active members,
100 of whom represent Burlington firms,
held the fifth annual reunion in that city
Monday.
Ebeneezer Perkins, of Walden, has
walked from the Pacific coast to Wiscon-
sin, distance of 5000 miles. He thinks
he can walk from Boston to San Francis
CO in $50 days.
An italian, name unknown, was found
badly frozen in boX-car at Sunderland
recently. He was taken to a house near
by, but died soon after. He was buried
by the selectmen.
Edwin w. Smith of Chester, was SEN
| fenced, the oath ult., in the United States
court at Rutland to one year in the House
of Correction, for stealing a registered
letter at Gassett's Station, the 4th of No
vember.
| Alfred Gale, formerly of Newport, was
| found dead on the oath ult. at the Metro
poltan hotel in Brockton, Mass. Mr.. G.
had been i'll, and was being doctored for
rheumatism of the heart. It is supposed
| that an overdose of medicine caused his
| death.
The house of Elias R. Palmer in Hines
| h, ho1 fc I'm wit
mysterious rappings and other uncanny
| phenomena. People have fiOcked from
miles around to hear the sounds. Now
it is learned that 16years old girl in the
family has been fooling them all this time
by series Of clever tricks.
George B. Davis, of Danville, has just
finished threshing 256 bushels of ''Lost
Nation wheat grown on five and one
quarter acres of land. 1t was sowed with
Missouri grain drill. The quality is as
good as the quantity. Talk about raising
wheat at the West! They do not get so
bushels to the acre out there.
Col. w. L. Greenleaf, Department COM
mander, has issued a general order an
nouncing that the annual encampment of
the Department of Vermont will be con-
vened in City Hall, Burlington on Thurs
day, Jan. II, 1886, at O'Clock p. m. 1t is
expected that the commander-in- CHIEF
and other national officers will be present,
and as the cavalry association and Yer
mont officers society are to hold their
meetings in Burlington on the 10Th and
20th-making it a soldiers week-it is
hoped there will be a argeattendance.
All the railroads will carry for half fare
and the hotels will give reduced rates.
The supervisors of the insane at their
recent meeting at the Brattleboro asylum
found several improvements, completed
ana in progress, which they deem worthy
of special mention. Some 400 hair mat
tresses and their woven wire accompani-
ments have taken the place Of the old
style of beds, so that nearly all of the
dormitories are now supplied with them.
Part of the rooms are being thoroughly
renovated with paint, each suite being
finished in a different shade. The sewer
age system is now completed. 1t is now
all beneath the surface and finds exit at a
considerable distance from the building
Some 1900 cords of wood are used in gen.
Grating the steam, which supplies uni
form heat throughout all the buildings.
The arrangements for heat and ventila-
ton are as near perfect as they can be.
Entertainments, consisting of lectures
and dramatic exhibitions in the chapel,
dances and gymnastic exercises in the
gymnasium, are given every week and
, are largely attended by the inmates, who
seem to be interested and entertained by
them and are quiet and orderly during
their progress. These exercises in the
winter take the place of out door exercise
: upon the verandas and in the courts hut
do not wholly supersede it. The number
, | of inmates now in the wards is 434.