Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-06-02
State News items.

Lena Russell, eleven years of age, was
drowned in a cistern at Mlddlebury, last
week Wednesday, while playing.
The Vermont State Association held
social meeting at the parlors of Willards
Hotel, Washington, on Monday evening
The General Convention of COngrega-
tional Ministers and Churches of Yer
mont will be held at Rutland on June 10,
IL and -.
S. B. Hall has been appointed treasur-
er of the Bennington & Rutland Railway
Company, in place of c. Z. Houghton, de-
ceased.
Mrs. Carrie L. McFarlan, wife of Rev.
F. G. McFarlan, pastor of the First Bap-
church of Burlington, died at Burlington
on last week Tuesday.
The Central Vermont Convention of
Universalists will hold its annual session
in the Universal church at Marshfield on
Wednesday and Thursday, June and D.
Hon. w. G. Veazey gave an address on
" Vermont at Gettysburg" in which he
described the part that Vermont troops
took in the battle in a very interesting
manner.
Mrs. Mary E. Fisher, aged eighty-three
Oldest sister of the late Dea. Jacob Estey,
died of pneumonia at her Brattleboro
home week ago Sunday. She leaves
one daughter.
Cavendish recently held a town meet
ing to see whether the vote in March in
favor Of free textbooks should be Tecin-
ded or not. BY vote of two to one it
was decided to purchase the books.
Master Workman Powderly of the
Knights of Labor addressed a meeting of
working-men at Rutland on last week Fri
day evening. A procession of thousand
men paraded the streets previous to the
| lecture.
It has been decided to hold the annual
muster of the Vermont National Guard
one week earlier than at first decided up
| on, so that it will not conflict with the
! Horse breeders Association meeting.
The regiment will probably be in camp
from August 20 to 26. The breeders
meeting will be held August q, % and 80
G. H. Paul, long known as one of the
ablest democratic leaders in Wisconsin,
died at Kansas City week ago Sunday.
He was born in Vermont in 1926 and grad
uated at the University of Vermont in
IS47. He was editor of the Burlington
Sentinel for time, with John G. SAKE
the poet, as assistant editor. Under
President Cleveland he was postmaster
of Milwaukee. 8.
Sheriff Miles, who has been investigat'
ing the mortgage in debtedness in Or
leans county for the census bureau, finds
that during the past ten years there have
been 5 III mortgages recorded. Taking
into account the population and grand
list, the average in the different towns
has not varied greatly. Though no exact
showing can be made of the mortg ages
paid during the ten years, he is inclined
to think fully one-half have been Cancelled.
We hear from Wilmington that the
Swedish immigrants located there are
creating a very favorable impression
They have gone about their springs worE
in a diligent and handy way, are getting
in their crops like other farmers, and are
cheerful and contented. They take kindly
to American ways and are ready and anx
ious to learn. Their inability TO speak En-
glish causes some amusing episodes, bu'
when they once understand what is wan
ted of them they do their work as If tc
the manner born. Some of the young
women of the colony are employed by
families in the village where they giv'
good satisfaction. Favorable reports
come also from the Weston colony.