Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-04-09
State News items.

Ex-Governor Proctor has purchased
the Prince Marble Company near Bran
| don
Rutland has fined the keeper of gam
bling den 5000, land he has shut up and left
town.
| stable in Rutland belonging to Levi
Prelno was burned Saturday morning
with eight horses.
Nearly SIS. 800 was expended in the new
| buildings and furnishings of the Mary
Fletcher hospital at Burlington, last year.
The foundry owned by w. w. Kelsey
| in Windsor was burned, with contents.
Origin of fire unknown. Loss $4,000;
insured.
Charles Olmstead, who has sold tick
cts in the Rutland railroad ticket-office
for twenty-five years, has resigned on &C
count of i'll health.
Hon. C. S. Page of Hyde Park has been
elected director at the st. Johnsbury and
Lake Champlain road in place of the late
Ex-Governor Fairbanks.
Water in the country streams near St.
Adams is higher than known for many
years. The new iron bridge at Sheldon
was swept away recently.
The Normal school at Castleton has l36
pupils during the present quarter, 100 of
whom are in the regular normal classes
and the remainder in the preparatory
classes.
The completed river and harbor bill
contains an appropriation of $25, 900 for
Burlington harbor, one of $4,000 for
Gordon's Landing and one of $4,000 for
Otter Greek.
Congressman Stewart of Vermont has
introduced bill for the payment of $22,
900 out of the treasury for an iron stair
way Inside the Bennington Battle Monu-
ment and work on the grounds outside.
Rev. Hugh Brown, a clergyman OF the
Scotch Presbyterian church, who died at
Salem, N. Y, recently, was for many
years pastor of the Presbyterian churches
at Ryegate and Barnet in Caledonia coun-
ty.
Deputy Marshall Failey arrested d. w.
Nor house of Underhill on The charge of |
sending obscene letters through the mails. |
Morehouse was admitted to bail in the |
sum of $500 for his appearance before the |
supreme court.
The state educational commission is |
making a thorough canvass Of the schools |
of the towns for the purpose of getting
definite and necessary information as to
the condition and work of the schools I'M
der the present system.
Memorial day speakers: Colonel j. II. |
Lucia of Montpelier at Waterbury, Rev
d. Lowell of Albany, N. Y, at Bran
don, Ex-Governor Farnham of Bradford
at Post Mills and Alfred A. Hall of st.
Adams at South Royalton.
Rev. E. Folsom's many friends will be
glad to learn that his health is improving |
He has Tor some time past been in the
Mary Fletcher hospital at Burlington, but
has far recovered that he expects to
leave the Institution in a few weeks.
Paddy Allen, who has lived sort of
a hermit life for several years at Forest
dale, near Brandon, was taken sick few
days ago and the authorities had guard
ian appointed. Two Thousand two hun
dred and forty-six dollars were found ON
his person, besides bag of gold.
Mrs. Benjamin Haskins of Wells has
been an invalid for years, and her con-
slant attendant has been her daughter
Rose, her youngest daughter. Some two
weeks since, the young lady, worn out
with watching, died suddenly of heart dis
ease, and while the bell was tolling the
of her decease the mother
passed away. Both were buried last Sun
lay in one grave.