Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-03-11
Fifty-one years ago the first fire.

Fifty-one years ago the first fire.
engine EVER made was tested in New
York. It was invented bv Capt.
John Ericsson.
Fifty years ago the Sirius and Great
Western, the first ocean steamships,
entered New York harbor on their re-
turn trip No. L.
Fifty years ago Joseph A. Adams
for the first time made use of the idea
now embodied in the art of electro
tipping by reproducing from wood
s'cuts."
Fifty years ago (1839) the first
wheat was shipped from Chicago,
amounting to seventy-eight bushels.
1t was sent eastward by the lakes to
Buffalo.
Fifty years ago the first power
loom for weaving carpets was set in
motion by E. B. Bigelow of Boston.
Ten yards a day was its original ca
pacity.
Fifty years ago congress appropri-
ated S $1,000 toward compiling agri-
cultural statistics by the large impor-
tation of breadstuffs shipped to Amer
lea that year.
Fifty years ago the Wing party
held it's first convention at Harris
burg, Penn, nominating Gen. VIM.
Henry Harrison of Ohio as president
of the United States.
Fifty years ago the railroad spike
machine was put into use, making ff-
ty a minute, forming both point and
head. Henry Burden of Troy, n.
Y, was the inventor. It ranked
among the best paying inventions of
modern times.
Fifty years ago the population of
the United States was only 1861
42O. The census cost of the govern
ment $833,427. There were slaves
in all the states except Maine, Mass
%achusetts, Vermont and Michigan.
Iowa had Is slaves; Wisconsin IL
Ohio 3; Indiana 8; Illinois 331 to-
tai in all the states and territories
was 2,486,228.
DIDN'T WANT A GIRL.-Last summer my wife's
health was all run down, and she wanted me to
hire a girl to do the work. In a little while I found
one l thought would suit her, when to my surprise
she said 1 need not hire any one, as she felt much
better, and thought another bottle of Sulphur Bit
tiers would cure Grey, Al Worcester
square, Boston.
THE VERMONT SHARPsHOOTERs.-
There were but two regiments of
United States sharpshooters in the
Union army. To these regiments
Vermont furnished commanding offic-
ers, in the persons of Lieut.. Col. w.
Y. w. Ripley of the 1st regiment and
Col. Homer r. Stoughton of the I'd
regiment, and no less than $40 SUI
perior marksmen-a number much be-
You'd its proportion in respect to pop
ulation. The three Vermont compa-
MES took part in almost every great
battle fought by the army of the Po-
tomac and rendered most efficient SER
vice. They distinguished themselves
at Gettysburg. The Rutland Herald
prints a letter from Col. Stoughton,
who is now manager of the Shelby
iron works in Alabama, in which he
says he was standing by General
Stannard at Gettysburg when the
general was wounded aud that Stan
nard's staff officers will remember
Eli A. Willard of Co. f, who went
by the name of ''Bull's Eye" He
was trying to locate a rebel sharp
shooter but could not, and coming to
Gen. Stannard he said General, if
you'll lend me your glass, | guess I'll
find that Teller" The general did so,
and shortly Willard came back, say
ing, give found him." pointed to a
tree near a shed over the Emmets-
burg road. He then went in front of
the tree near a large boulder, aimed
and fired, and the troublesome ''fel-
ler'' caused no further trouble.