Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-12-02
State News Items.
Dip hthcria is prevalent at RIchford.

Charles Wells lumber mill was burned
Saturday night. 1t was insured for $500,
which will not cover the loss
Captain Eugene Viee OF Rouse's Point
died on Thursday night of last week. He
was Il gallant member of the Ninth Yer
mont Regiment.
Colonel Herbert Il. Taylor of Brattle-
boro has been appointed special Inspector
of customs and assigned TO duty at St.
Adams.
The new Young Mems Christian Associ-
alton building at Burlington was dedicat-
ed last night, and additional services will
be held this evening.
Last week Mrs. Cole of East Arlington
and Mr.. Oatman were united i'm marriage.
The bride is eighty-one years of age and
the groom is seventy-seven.
/ The ST. Adams jail-breakers were SEN
fenced on Friday of last week. Bertrand
and Brooks were each given two years I'm
the state prison and Ricard received four
years.
Montpelier, VT, Nov. 26.-Lillian Will
liams, who attempted suicide by taking
teaspoonful of morphine, don't want TO be
saved, and says if she is she shall swal-
low pint next time.
The churches of Middebury have pro-
tested against the running of trains dur
ing the hours of Sunday services Presi-
dent Smith of the Central Vermont road
has promised to remedy the nuisance.
Montpelier, VT, Nov. 26.-Mary Lamo-
ra, living in the Reed block, and Eliza
Yeatter from Mortified, ate canned beans
last week and were taken violently i'll.
The latter girl is now at the point Of
death.
At meeting Of the Spruce Butter-tub
Association at St. Adams, last week We'd
nesday, it was voted to maintain the pric-
es established last year. These officers
were elected J. l.. Clark, Parishville,
N. Y, president; C. II. Stearns, johnson,
Vt, secretary and treasurer.
Henry f. Cunning ham, principal of the
parochal school at st. Johnsbury, has
sued Matthew Caldbeck for libel in the
sum of So 900. The alleged libel consist
ed of a letter which Cadbeck printed la
local paper. claiming that it was written
by Cunningham. The case will be called
in the Bennington county court next
month. This is the outcome of news
paper controversy between the two par
ties on the parochia school question.
n 4 49, d.
lington occurred in New York on We'd
nesday of last week. Mr.. LiEsey was
native of Middlebury and was fifty-flve
years of age. He was engaged for many
years i'm building railroads. Besides sew
eral in the West he assisted i'm building
the road from st. Adams Junction TO St
Johns, i'm Canada. He had been manager
of the Burlington & Lamoille road sinc9
1880, and was also engaged in the lum-
Der and wood and coal business The
funeral took place at Burlington, on Fri
day.
Captain George b. Dimick died on
Wednesday evening of last week at the Sol
diers' Home, Bennington, after long and
painful sickness, aged ffty-seven years.
He enlisted in April, 1861, and served as
first sergeant, Company b, Woodstock
Light Infantry, First Regiment, Vermont
Infantry. After returning to the state
he was engaged by the acknowledgement
to drill and help organize companies for
different regiments. He again enlisted in
Company b, Twelfth Vermont; was elect
ed second lieutenant and promoted to first
lieutenant, and was mustered out as cap
tain of Company 1. Comrade Dimick
was admitted to the Vermont Soldiers
Home on September 10, 1888, and was
buried in the Home cemetery on Friday
afternoon. This is the ninth death at
the Home.
The Vermont Officers Reunion Society
met at Middlebury on Wednesday of last
week, when the following officers were
elected: President, +. 5. Stranahan, st.
Adams vice-pres idents, ID. Butterfield,
Derby, and S. +. Burnham, Rutland
treasurer, L. G.. Kingsley, Rutland; sec
rotary, Fred L. Smith, Montpelier; exec
utive committee. Fred L. Smith, j. III.
Lucia and p. p. Ptkin, all Of Montpelier.
A resolution, introduced by Ex-Governor
Barstow, was adopted, soliciting the at
tention of the state superintendent OF ed
ucation and county supervisors of schools
to the matter of providing reading-books
for the public schools that shall give
correct statement of the causes of the
civil war and contain selections inculcat-
ing patriotism. Rev. ID. w. Dayton of
Fort Plain, n. Y, formerly chaplain of
the Fifth Vermont Regiment, made an
address at the town hall i'm the evening