Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-01-07
State News items.

new post-of1fce has been established
at North Winhall.
Senator Edmunds is in North Carolina
on hunting expedition.
Swanton has just completed a system
of water works at cost of $25, 900.
P. L. Lewis and his sixteen-year-old
boy sawed 10000 shingles in four weeks.
Charles III. Farrar of st. Adams has
been appointed deputy-collector of Gus
toms at Newport.
William Tucker, South Royalton far
mer, was killed Friday by a falling tree
While at work in the woods.
! Ex-Governor Proctor intends to spend
the greater portion of the winter in Cali
fornia, and will leave his Vermont home
in few days.
M Mahon of ST. Albans defeated Du-
st. Albans last week, winning two out of
three falls.
Apollo Lodge, Knights of Pythias, st.
Johnsbury, dedicated its new hall Decem-
by the grand officers and banquet fol-
lowed.
A special meeting of the citizens of st.
Johnsbury, held Friday night, sustained
the action of the village trustees in their
contract with the Thomas-Houston Com
pany for lighting the streets with cleo
tricity.
John White, a young freight brakeman,
was instantly killed at Middlebury last
week, by slipping under the wheels, while
trying to make ''fying SWITCH His
limbs were all broken and the head and
body shockingly crushed and man9Ied.
The date of the twenty-second annual
encampment of the department of Yer
mont, G.. A. R., to be held in Brattleboro,
has been changed to Thursday and Fri
day, February IA and Is. Commander-in-
chief Warner of Kansas City and other
well-known Grand Army men will be
present.
DR.. John H. French died at Rochester,
N. Y, Sunday morning, aged siXty-four
years. He was a noted educator and at
one time was state superintendent of
schools in Vermont. He was also at diff
ferent periods principal of the state nor
NAL school at Indiana, Penn, and assisted
in the Albany normal school
The Christmas poultry train over the
Central Vermont carried 3l3 tons and 36l
pounds of poultry to the down-country
markets The Thanksgiving train carried
some A20 tons. There is always little
less shipped at Christmas time than at
Thanksgiving, but the Christmas ship
ments this year are almost double those
of last season.
The trial of John keenan, and James
Gunshannon, indicted for the murder of
John Gunshannon on July 16, was begun
in Bennington county court recently. The
respondents are somewhat the worse for
wear, keenan, having but one leg and Gun
shannon one arm. James Candon, the
principalss'lfaess' has but one eye. They
were fona yguilty of murder in the second
degree, .shev have both been sentenced
to Imprisonment for life.
Governor Dillingham; has appointed
Honr Levi X. Fuller of Brattleboro and
General t. S. Peck of Burlington COM
missioners on the part of Vermont to
make arrangements for a proper repre-
sentation from this state at the centennial |
celebration of the Inauguration of George |
Washington as president of the United |
States. The governor and staff have been
invited to be present at the celebration,
which occurs in New York April 80, 1889.
The annual meeting of the VT. Associa-
tion Union EX-Prisoners of War will oo-
cur Wednesday evening, February 18th,
1889, at Brattleboro, Vt. Maj. Frank
f. Moran, historian of the National Asso-
citation, will deliver an address at this
time. This will be an important meeting
and it is hoped that all eX-prisoners will
avail themselves of it. The 22d Dept.
G. A. R., will be held the
18th and 10Th. Fare one way on VT.
railroads.
The jury in the case of Mrs. f. B.
Smith of Woodstock, who sues to recover
her dover in the property of the late III.
B. Smith of New York, on Friday brought
Smith was an eX-congressman and prom
IN ent in public affairs. After marrying
the plaintiff in 1916, and living with her
for several years, he deserted her and
married a second wife, whose relatives
nave opposed the first wife's claims in
5he present suit. The case had been on
rial for ten days at Mount Holly, n. Y.