Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-08
State News items.

State News items.
An Arctic owl has been captured in
Wilmington.
Putney farmers are selling apples at 80
cents barrel.
The steamer Maquam will not be run by
Boston & Maine railroad this year as for
merly.
Rutland has the largest population un-
der a town government in the United
| States.
The most of the owners of buildings
which were burned in Hartford in the
January fire have decided to rebuild.
Senator George Hammond of Middle
bury has bought a lot of horses which he
| intends to ship to So. America some time
| in April.
| Five of the judges of the supreme court
of Vermont were born the same year
1S35-and four of them within four months
of one another.
The case of Calvin M.Inman, the Poult-
ney murderer, who was arraigned of
late in the Rutland county court. has
been continued to the supreme court.
The will of the late Sarah Burr of New
York has been sustained by the court of
appeals. The Burr & Burton Seminary
of Manchester receives 500, 900 of this de
| cision.
A trader of Morrisville loaded car
with potatoes and then put in a lot of
butter and eggs without billing them.
The car was wrecked and the produce
| lost.
The largest meeting ever held by the
Masons of the seventh district was held
at st. Adams Tuesday March 10Th. About
three hundred were in attendance, includ-
| ing many from lodges outside the district.
Preparations are being made to resume
| the work at once on the Bennington bat
| tie monument. The shaft is now 100 feet
high, and the contractor expects to have
| the monument completed before January,
] 1890.
| North Hartland has two elm trees in a
| hourishing condition that were planted
over century ago. One measures eight
cen feet and two inches and the other
eighteen feet and eight inches round two
feet from the ground.
The town of Bellows Falls abolished
| the town system of schools at the March
meeting, aud as the time for holding the
annual school meeting is fixed by law in
July, the town will have no school com
mittee and no schools till that time.
The state board of trade voted re-
Gently to remove from Burlington to st.
Adams, unless the citizens of the former
place took measures to provide for the
speedy naturalization of a building for
cold storage. The Burlington business
men proceeded to hustle and the board
will stay there.
The town of South Hero has voted
50, 900 to aid in the construction of the
Grand Isle bridge. The various towns
within twenty-five miles of the bridge
will be given a chance to contribute, and
the authorities in charge of the finances
expect to bleed each of them to the tune
of two or three thousand.
The ganite quarries of Ascutney noun
tain are to be re-opened this season. The
greater part of the mountain is composed
of syenite and granite of the best quality.
The granite has been shown experts, who
pronounce it the finest in New England,
and predict that it will soon become as
noted as that of Quincy and Barre.
The forty-ifth annual session of the
| Vermont conference will omen at Morris
Vile on Thursday morning, April Is, with
Bishop Ninde presiding. Glasses will
meet for examination the day before, and
on Wednesday evening the annual confer
ence sermon will be preached by Rev. r..
L. Bruce of Springfield.
There is an elm tree at Hendricks Cor
ners, hamlet on the edge of Weathers-
field, which has Il curious history. 1t is
fourteen or sixteen feet in circumference,
with a large spreading top nearly or quite
one hundred feet high. Years ago, when
the first fork was close to the ground, a
workman placed there pint bottle of
whiskey, which was left for few days.
When he went to get the bottle it was
fast, and it was let alone. The wood fin
ally enveloped the bottle entirely, and the
whiskey is now embedded in the solid
wood awaiting the circular saw, which
NAV one day find there the workmans
beverage.