Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-11-25
State News Items.

Middlebury will soon be Illuminated by
electric lights.
An eighteen pound bay lynx was recent
ly killed at Weathersfeld.
There have been thirty-one deaths in
Fair Haven from diphtneria within twen-
ty months.
The capstone of the Bennington battle
monument will probably be placed in po-
sition some day this week.
Harrison Hubbard of Manchester, well
known as an extensive buyer of cattle and
poultry for the Boston market, is dead.
Contracts have been let for the third
professors house, built by John FL. Con-
verse of Philadelphia, for the University
of Vermont.
Miss Louise Farr has given 800 to st.
Michael's Episcopal church at Brattle-
boro for a memorial window to her sis
ter, the late Miss Maria Farr of Hins-
dale, N. HI.
Harrison 1. Norton has purchased the
old observatory property on the summit
of Mt. Anthony at Bennington, and in
tends erecting an iron observatory there
next spring.
William C.. Irish died in South Hero
November 10, aged nearly siXty-three
years. He was a member of the Eleventh
Vermont Regiment, and had represented
Grand Isle in the legislature.
The Missisquoi railroad is building a
new depot at East Swanton, to replace
the one burned there some weeks since.
A side-track will also be put in long
enough to store thirty or forty cars.
-Four large barns of Homer w. Carmon
at Swanton were burned on Wednesday
of last week. The fire was caused by
horse stepping upon a lantern. The loss
is estimated at So, 800; insured for 81 800.
Captain George Bartlett and wife of
Guilford celebrated the sixty-eighth ami
versary of their marriage last week. Cap
tain Bartlett is ninety-two and his wife is
| eighty nine, and both are active and well.
w. H. Wells of New York will present
to the town of Brattleboro a handsome
drinking fountain, to be located at the
! junction of Main and Asylum streets. f.
p. Carpenter will give a plot of land for
the location.
! "Cheeyey'' Bererand, the ringleader in
the recent Jail delivery at st. Albans,
was captured at Montreal on Friday of
last week and taken to st. Adams on Sat-
urday. Ricard was captured on the pre-
ceding Tuesday.
Hon. Horatio n. Barber, who died at
Des Moines, Iowa, November Z, was a
native of Enosburgh. He had been in both
branches of the legislature. In 1860 he
went to ST. Adams, where he was post
master under President Lincoln. He
went West in 1882.
The reunion of Vermont veterans which
was to take place at Boston on Thursday
night Of last week was postponed until
January next. This is done to have the
date fall during the annual meeting of the
G. A. r. department, when General Alger
will be present.
"A new mill power has been purchased
at Highgate by the Swanton Electric
Light Company, for the purpose of sup
plying Swanton with electric lights.
The company proposes to put in a power
full water wheel, there being an estimated
fall of thirty feet. The power thus OBJ
tainsd will be transmitted to Swanton.
The December term dockets ofLamoille
county court are out. They contain sew
enty-siX cases-fifty- court and eigh-
teen chancery. The term commences
December B, and will be presided over by
Judge Powers. This will be his first ap-
pearance as presiding officer in his own
county since the rule rotating judges went
into effect, some three or four years ago.