Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-02-10

: dispatch from New Jersey states that
Mrs. Eveline Verona Smith of Woodstock
/ has been successful in her suit for one
! third of the estate of her husband, the
late Hezekiah b. Smith OF New Jersey.
! The income Of this third is said to be
! $50, 900 annually.
An effort is being made by DR.. Baxter
to collect facts enough to warrant the
preparation of a history of Derby Line.
! This he proposes to cOnstrucn on unique
! lines-namely, the history of every house
and store now standing and that of other
buildings which, at some time, occupied
the same ground.
The following is a summary of the Gus
toms business of the district of Vermont
during the month ending December 81
last Domestic merchandise exported to
Canada, 1928, 527; free goods imported
and entered for consumption. $I4I, O04 /;
dutiable merchandise entered for con-
sumption, 1911, 1916; duties, 81 ,284.57
William S. Small, who stole the prop
erty and the eleven-year-old son Of Joseph
Ray, in Barnet, on January T. has been
arrested in Maine, and will be brought to
Vermont on the governors requistion.
Small is deserter from the Charlestown
navd-yard, where a reward OF $500 for his
whereabouts have been offered
The result of the vote for postmaster
of Brattleboro, taken on Saturday, was
victory for Captain Childs. The total
vote cast was 866, of which Captain
Chids received 467 and George A. Hines
4O1. Forty-nine women went into the
procession at one time and voted for
Captain Childs. About lightweight wo-
men voted in all.
Governor Dillingham; has issued gem
eral order abolishing the battalion Orga-
nization that was formed last spring.
The companies comprising this battalion
will be attached to the First Regiment,
and will be known as companies L and NJ.
The line officers will meet at Burlington
on February 10 to elect two additional
majors.
The will of Mrs. M. NJ. Kellogg of
Montpelier, who died in New York on
Jan. 30, leaves $685. to build a memori-
al chapel in the cemetery and $4,000 to
build an ornamental gateway to the GEM
etery. After a. few private requests the
balance of probably $500, 900 or $4O0, 900
is left to build library building in Mont
pelier and furnish and equip it with books.
The exact amount is not known but it is
probably enough to give Montpelier the
finest library in the state, if not in New
England.
Gov. Dillingham; and wife, Lieut.. Gov.
Fuller and Col. I. S. Peck of Vermont
arrived in Washington Tuesday and Col.
j. Estey and State Auditor Powell ar
rived there the day following. Tuesday
morning Gov. Dillingham; was taken on
the House floor and introduced to the
members by Congressman Grout. There
was to have been reception at Secretary
of War PrOctor's residence in the even
ing, complimentary to the Vermonters, but
it was cancelled on account Of the calam-
ity in the family of Secretary Tracy. 1t
is understood that the Vermonters are
there in the interest of the Brattleboro
post-ofttce fight, and that they intend to
vigorously oppose the nomination of
Postmaster Childs, the present democrat
ic incumbent.
The location of the state fair the COM
ing season was considered by the COM
mittee appointed by the State AgricuItu-
raj Society for that purpose ut a meeting
held at the parlOrS of the Van Ness House
last week Thursday evening. The follow
ing vote was qasSed: That the Vermont
state fair in 1890 be located at White Riv-
er Junction, in connection with a new
agricultural society to be organized in the
Connecticut valley, provided a railroad
track be seasonably built TO connect the
Woodstock railroad with the proposed fair
ground site, aud provided, further, that
said site be so enlarged as to allow the con
struction of one-mile trotting- course"
The following committee was appointed to
perfect arrangements for the next fair:
j. C. Parker, IL. q. Root, Crosby Miller,
Henry Chase, ii. III. Mcintyre. 1t was
stated that President Frank Jones of the
Boston K Maine railroad had subscribed
50 600 toward the grounds, and that I'M
der certain conditions the road would
build the spur to the grounds. 1t was
also stated that twenty men had pledged
thtms,l Ives to donate $500 each to the
project If necessary.