Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-03-10
State News items.

The reform school has &c inmates.
self week before last
Mrs. L. A. Robinson has been appoint
ed postmistress at East Rupert.
James Baldwin, an old resident of Brad
! ford, died of heart disease Feb. %.
The bill applopriating So 900 for a
public building at St. Adams, has passed
the senate.
| Application has been made for authori-
| ty to organize the First National Bank at
Swanton.
Frank Weston, farmer at Cambridge
Junction, committed suicide last Friday.
He had been i'll.
The spring term of the Burlington
Medical College opened with nearly
hundred students.
Rev. John Ward, pastor of the Advent
church at St. Johnsbury, has resigned.
He goes to Lowell, Mass, this week.
Rev. S. B. Currier of Mechanicsville is
receiving treatment at the Massachusetts
General Hospital for paralysis of the
limbs.
A Mr.. Chessman of Boston has pur-
chased the lime kilus at Highgate
| Springs, and will start up the business in
the spring.
Mayor Crombie of Burlington estimates
that the municipal tax for the present
| year will be one hundred cents on the
dollar.
No. II, a mixed train from Rutland to
Bellows Falls, broke apart, last week
Friday night, causing a wreck which de-
layed travel considerably.
Two large barns and two stock sheds
belonging to S. G. Brown of Swanton
were burned On Wednesday of last week.
Several head of cattle were also burned.
General Edward H. Ripley of Rutland
is manager of the late John Jacob Astor's
estate, receiving, it is said, salary of
S25, 900.
! Thomas Burns of Colchester in return
ing from Burlington one night recently,
! drove his team off an embankment ten
J.P. Mullin, Central Vermont brake
man, fell from Il car near Milton last week,
the wheels passing over one leg and one
arm. He was taken to St. Adams, where
he died soon after.
| At meeting of the trustees of the Yer
mont Live Stock Company, held recently,
it was voted 10 spend Sl5, 900 the coming
| spring for two-year-Old steers to put upon
the range.
! During the week ending March l, the
maple sugar exchange sold nearly $500
worth OF goods in six states. The sales
in New York and Illinois were the largest,
being S231.75 and S1O4,4O.
Nellie Bemis of St. Johnsbury is the
successful winner of prize offered by
| Santa CLAUS, juvenile magazine, for
puzzle. Her answer was the only correct
one out of more than seven hundred.
1t is learned at Rutland that Cassius
Ballou, who at one time lived at Rutland,
has been living at Chicago under an as
sumed name, having contracted a second
marriage. His first wife and two children
| live at Rutland.
The will or Albert Whitcomb of Gays
Vile bequeaths $40, Zoo to that town, the
income from which is to be used for the
support of schools, and, after making
other requests. beQueaths the residue of
the estate to that town, the income to be
used for the support of the poor.
John A. Story, for many years freight
and customs agent at st. Adams for the
Central Vermont road, has resigned, on
account of poor health, to take effect
March l. George w. Burlson, for four
years deputy collector of customs there,
has been appointed to succeed Story.
Hon. Prosper Merrill, Hon. Charles P.
Marsh and f. S. Mackenzie have each
given and paid to the Woodstock Gene
terry Association $1,000, which sum of
5000 relieves the ASSOCIATION of debt
and puts it at once upon a successful
footing.
Colonel Il. M. Mansur, department
commander OF the Grand Army, has
issued a general order in which he urges
that the ritual be strictly followed, and
that quarterly returns to the assistant
acknowledgement and assistant quarter
master-general be made promptly.