Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-12-16

trustees of Lyndon Institute.
Over $50 900 has been invested in new
buildings and improvements i'm West RAN
dolph during the past year.
The state reform school at Vergennes
opens the winter with sixty-four boys and
thirteen girls, all in general good health.
Mr.. Marsh o. Perkins, editor of the
Windsor journal, is president of a newly
organized board of trade i'm that town.
The custom receipts at the port of
Richford for the month of November were
$50 900 against slO,5OO for the same
month last year.
Fork Factory Co, at Barre are getting
out 1000 dozen hay forks to be shipped 10
Hamburg, Germany. and a small order
for GLASGOW, Scotia nj.
Two men, Frank Dale and Sewell
Brown, were Instantly killed by the burst
ing of balance wheel in lumber mill at
Marshneld on Wednesday.
Harry Sweezer pleaded guilty to the
charge of bigamy in the Lamoille County
Court at Hyde Park last week and was
sentenced to two years at hard labor In
State Prison at Windsor.
Surat, Connings & Co. will extend their
shop at Richford and erect a large furni-
ture factory. With water works and cleo
trio lights, Richford has good chances of
becoming a manufacturing center.
Mr.. Judson of Richmond has been
transferred from the Newport and Spring
field postal clerk route to the Essex june
ton and Boston route to succeed Il. X.
Peck of Rutland, resigned. Mr.. Chandler
of Chester succeeds Mr.. Judson, 1t is I'M
derstood
The evergreen slate quarry, Fair Haven,
formerly owned by Cole & Ainsworth, has
been sold at auction for 50 1000, James
Manogue and Thomas Geer being the pur-
chasers. This property comprises build
ings, tools and machinery. The original
cost was $50, 900.
Webster Reed, living near Ascutney
mountain, recently caught lynx in a trap
and shot two others the same day. The
presence of these animals i'm that vicinity
no donbt explains the killing of so many
sheep the past fall. These make make
four which have been killed.
At the the last meeting of Memprema-
COG Masonic Lodgde in Newport, b. w.
Lee assisted in initiating a third genera
ton candidate into the mysteries of Ma
sonry, having three years previous con-
ferred the first three degrees upon his
father and grandfather.
HI. Stanley's barns, in East Berkshire,
were burned on Tuesday night, with 22
cows, horses. all the seasons stock of
hay and grain, farm wagons, harnesses
and numerous valuable farm implements.
The loss is heavy. 1t is said that there is
no insurance; cause unknown.
Francis Shawpan, who died at Essex
Junction on Tuesday of last week, was
one of the oldest veterans in Stannard
Post, being seventy-seven years of age.
He served in Company +, Seventh Ver-
mont Regiment, and at the time of his
death was drawing a pension of $50 a
mon tn for blindness.
Fair Haven possesses the largest COM
bned slate interests of any town In the
United States. The output in all the va
ried forms, such as milled stock, roofing
slate, finished or marbleized slate for
mantels, slate tile and slate for building
purposes, amounts to round million
every year.
While two children four years OF age
were playing in the home of Frank Bragg,
at Smithville, they found a revolver be-
longing to an older brother of the Bragg
child. The other child, son Of James
Bagley, was looking IN the muzzle as IL
was held by the Bragg child. when the
contents were discharged, entering the
head of the Bagley child near the eye.
Should the boy live, he will lose his eye.
The amount of sea green slate manu-
featured by firms represented in the Yer
mont Slate Trust during the past year
was abont $4,000 squares per month; by
outside parties, 10000 squares, making
the total amount for the year 2OO,OOC
| squares, the value of which is S56O,OOO
About 700 Incn were employed in its pro
duction. In addition to this thousands
of feet of tagging for sidewalks have
been produced from the slate quarries.
A boiler explosion in the qnarry o
John Owen, one of the owners, one hun
dred fifty feet, and he was fatally injured
Morris Francis, the engineer, had LEI
broken and David Kennedy was throw
one hundred feet and badly injured. On
of the men, who was injured in the fore
and when asked if he was hurt replied
az am killed and must go home RICH
away as / have the mouth blown RICH
off me and can't talk"
1t is reported that Lieutenant-governo
e Woodbury. and General William Wells G
e Burlington, Percy w. Clement of Rutland
e president of the Rutland & Burlingto
n railroad, Colonel NJ. S. Colburn of MAJ
f. chester, the leading business man Of Be-
: nington county, and James w. Brock {
$ Montpelier, have bought "a large grant
: quarry about two miles from Hardwic
S villrge, and two other quarries In Woo
4 bury. Hints are thrown out OF other oil
). jects in view of great Importance TO thI
: section OF the state.
To OUR SuRscRIBEBs.-The special annonn'
IF ment which appeared in our columns some III
l. since, announcing special arrangement with !
- B. j. Kendall Co., of Enosburgh Falls, Vt, publis
y ers of"A Treaties the Horse and his Diseases