Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-02-24
State News items.

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James Cusach, who died at Rutland,
last week Saturday, was "a member OF
Company A, Thirteenth Vermont Regi-
ment. He was twice wounded and was
in a rebel prison for three months.
Charles Whitaker OF Rochester, a fire
man on the Central Vermont, was killed,
last week Thursday night, at Royalton,
by falling from his engine through
bridge. The body was recovered.
The Vermont School Seat Company
was organized at Rutland, February Ii,
with a capital of 500, 900, for the manu-
facture of school furniture and other arti-
cles of wood and iron. Buildings viii be
erected at once.
Q +. Wiley of San Francisco, former
ly a resident Of Danville, has presented
the Young Ladies' Library Association OF
that town with Il set of Bancroft's History
of the Pacific States. There are thirty
nine volumes in the set.
The lease of the Rutland railroad TO the
Central Vermont, which expires in Janu-
airy next, will probably not be renewed.
If it is not, it is said that the Boston &
Maine road will build line from some
point on the Rutland road to Claremont,
N. H.
Business is booming at the sugar eX-
change at Brattleboro. One order was
received last week for 200 gallons Of syr-
up to 90 to Sioux Falls, Dakota, as soon
as the new syrup comes in. In the past
two weeks nearly ton of cake sugar has
been shipped
Hon. j. X. Batchelder has been boring
for marble in a ledge just north of Arling
ton village, with very successful results.
He has drilled eighty-fve feet and found
marble of fine color aud quality, which
admits of very high polish, as reported
by experts. 1t is proposed to form a
syndicate to open the quarry and place
the stone on the market.
The Northern Caledonia Fair Associa-
ton was organized at Lyndonvlle last
week. The following officers were elect
ed: President, L. b. Harris; vice-presi-
dents, Henry Chase and w. A. Bemis
secretary and treasurer, III. b. Davis; as
sistant secretary, I. A. Sanboln; eXecu-
tive committee, one in each town. The
limits of the society include Caledonia
and portion of Essex and Orleans coun-
| ties.
The following changes in the Vermont
| National Guard are announced: Captain
| Charles E. Nelson is promoted to be in
spector of rife practice, with rank of ma
jor, on the staff of the brigade command
er, vice Spooner, resigned Adjutant Max
L. Powell promoted to be captain and
aid-de-camp to the brigade general, vice
Nelson, promoted E. j. Gray elected to
be captain of Company A. First Regiment,
vice Downing, resigned.
Colonel Il. NJ. Mansur, commander Of
the Department of Vermont Grand Army
of the Republic, having been requested by
General r. A. Alger, commander-in-chief
of the Grand Aamy of the Republic of the
United States, to appoint six aides upon
his staff from the Department of Vermont,
has nominated the following comrades ::
Hiram +. Perkins, post 81, St. Adams (;
Thomas T. Farrell, post 90 Waterbury;
Robert j. Cohey, post AZ, Bennington /;
Henry w. Hutchins, post "a, Bellows
Falls; Elrick Adams, post 3, Panton /;
George II. Blake, post &c, Barton. Colonel
Mansur has also appointed the following
to serve upon the staff of the Department
of Vermont Inspector, w. w. Sprague,
post /, St. Johnsbury; chief mastering
officer, Alex w. Davis, post So, White
River Junction; judge-advocate, L. Hen
ry Powell, post 20, Richford; senior aid
de-camp and chief of staff Seymour IL.
Wood, post 81, st. Adams.
The effort to make a state uniformity
in school books has failed. The Counties
named have made choice as follows
Windsor county has adopted Lippincotts
readers, the Normal speller, Raub's gram
mar, Scudder's history and Swinton's ge-
ography. Addison county adops Green
leafs arithmetic, Lippincott's readers,
Harper's geography, Greene's grammar,
Thompson's drawing, Normal copy books
and speller and Barnes history. The
Board of Education of Windham county
has adopted these textbooks; Buffers
geography, Normal speller, Normal writ
ing course and Miss Hyde's language les
sons The Rutland County Board has
selected as textbooks Franklin's series
of readers and Harrington's supplement
tary; writing, the Normal course; spell
ing, the Meecham speller arithmetic,
primary, Wentworth; complete, Green
leafs grammar, Miss HYde's series
complete, Raub's; geography, Buffers,
Commits geography and history of Yer
mont aud Heaton's romance; drawing,