Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-10-07
State News items.


Sabbath School Association of Vermont
is to be held at Middlebury, Oct. 1924.
1t is the desire and purpose of the eXecu-
tive committee to have an interesting and
profitable meeting.
Rev. Howard f. Hill preached his fare
we'll discourse at Christ Church. Montpel-
Ter, last Sunday from Psalms cXXii: 6, z,
s. ''Pray for the peace of Jerusalem"
etc. His sermon was plea for the mis-
sion cause, concluding with a tender ben
ediction on the congregation in accord
ance with the spirit of the text.
Friends of the University of Vermont
will learn with pleasure that the college
library has recently been increased by the
gift of some 500 volumes from the library
of the late Prof. John H. Wheeler of the
University of Virginia. The gift was
made by his widow.
The large two-story barn on Hon. James
NJ. Robinson's estate, Milton, was discov-
cred to be on fire about ) O'Clock Tuesday
morning, and was wholly consumed, to-
gether with horse, several tons of hay,
two pigs, carriages, harnesses and farm
ing utensils. The loss will amount to
$500, on which there is Some insurance.
The fire was probably ofincendiary origin.
G. L. Moo dy has been awarded the con-
tract for FINISHING the brick for the new
asylum at Waterbury. Mr.. Moody will
open brickyard near the site of former
yard in n ravne on the property of J. +.
Sheple, above the Central station and
near by the railway track. One one side
of the ravine is fine quality of clay and
on the other there is an abundance of
sand. The contract price is SG.40 deliv-
cred at the asylum site.
The case of Mott VS.. Central Vermont
railroad which has been on trial at North
Hero, and which excited great interest,
was concluded Monday by Il disagreement
of the jury, which had been out since
Saturday forenoon. Henry Mott of AL
burg was injured in the accident ut Hart
ford two and one-half years ago and he
brought the suit to recover for damage to
his general health in that disaster.
HYDE PARK, Mass, Sept. 25.-The
scandal occasioned by the discovery of
the dishonesty and immoral proceedings
Of c. p. Vaughan, formerly of Wood
stock, VT, has stirred society to its very
depths rs he was prominent and trusted
citizen. He prospered in business, and
lately moved across the street where he
now has good-sized and prosperous
business. 1t is asserted that Vaughan
will leave town before his trial, and that
the bondsmen will be paid what they lose
He has not gone yet, however, but is busy
settling his affairs. He has assigned to
A. H. Miller. +. A. Wyman holds
$500 mortgage on the store, and about
$500 is owed elsewhere, but as the shop
is valued at $4,000, all will probably re-
ceive their money.
The Vermont Methodist Seminary has
the best campus of any school of its grade
in New England. So say many compe-
tent judges, but up to this time very little
attempt has been made to beautify it.
For several years there has been feeling
on the part of the friends of the school
that a fountain would be an attractive
addition, and so when the present engrav-
ing of the seminary was made fountain
was placed in it. Not until this year,
however, has the undertaking assumed
definite shape. The class of 80, one of
the largest ever graduated, determined to
take the matter in hand. It's members
propose to place on the campus, early in
the spring, fountain costing from five to
six hundred dollars, and at Commence
ment, next June, present it to the school
in behalf of the class and the friends of
the institution.
The state curator, Mr.. George w. Per-
nv, has added this year large number OF
animals of the state to the cabinet. He
has just added eighty specimens OF birds,
many of them rare, and all finely mounted
by w. A. Balch of Luenburg. He has re-
| labeled the whole collection of birds in
conformity to Samuers "Birds of New
England" and has checked them in the
copy of that work in the state library.
! The cabinet now contains $50 specimens
of birds, comprising $50 species, all but
two or three being natives of the state.
Mr.. Perry has in preparation an entirely
new line of specimens of marbles and
granite, each to be an eight-inch cube,
/ and each face to be finished differently.
/ Ten of these blocks have already been
/ placed on the shelves. These, together
/ with the new birds and all the animals,
have been arranged in the old Historical
/ Society room, which will be hereafter an
annex to the cabinet. 1t is already, to
the majority of the visitors, the more at
/ tractive room.