Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-02-01
is better; Ephraim Taylor, who is suf-
fering from gangrene of the foot, is
nearing his end, it is feared.

nearing his onO, IL Is reared.
At the meeting of Orient Chapter,
No. 13 O. E. S. the following officers
were installed for the ensuing year:
III. Z. Seaver, w. P; Mrs. S. M Bald
win, w. NJ: Mrs. NJ A. Skinner, A
NJ; Mrs. L. E. Rand, c.; Mrs. V. J.
Jenness, A. c.; Mrs. S. III. Currier,
Sec.; Mrs. E. F. Scott, Treas; Mrs.
L. Glazier, W.; Mrs. Henry Gay, Sem;
Mrs. J. P. Baldwin, Chap; Miss E..
Cora Murkland. Adah; Mrs. Altha L..
Pierce, Ruth; Mrs. Amanda Seaver,
Esther; Mrs. Ellen Miles, Martha;
Mrs. Lizzie Davis, Electa. Alternates:
Miss Blanche Murkland, Adah; Mrs.
Gertie Grow, Ruth; Miss Marion Cur
rier, Esther; Mrs. Nettie Pearson,
Martha; Mrs. Lois Mossman, E1ecta.
The Vermont Watchnoan says: When
Montpelier's splendid system Of water
works was completed, M. w. Wheel
ock was the first to bring to the no :
tice of the users of power the econo-
my and desirab1lity Of the water mo-
tor. In a short time the motor dis
placed every steam engine in use.
New industries began to spring up,
called into existence by the fact that
there had been provided cheap, safe
and effective motive power that could
be employed anywhere in a building
or outside. At the present time, if
we are correctly informed, there are
now connected with the Montpelier
water works nearly fifty motors, and
the capacity Of the mains and the res
ervoirs is equal to still further de-
mands.
For some years past there has been
living in a little, uncomfortable how
Ell, across Crystal lake in the woods
and among the rocks, family by the
name of White, man and wife, whose
condition has been at times subject
of talk and Indignation in this village.
White is nothing more or less than
brute; he built his house and took his
wife into it out of sheer cussedness.
He has kept her there, much of the
time sick or enfeebled by hunger, in
such a condition as to have elected
the sympathy and the help of many
in this community. She has been prac-
tically without food for weeks at a
time. She has been compelled to
chop her own wood, dragging much
of it to the door by hand; she has
done the larger share of work in Gull
tivating garden, and has struggled,
do, to keep body and soul together.
The authorities have sought to find
some way to relieve the woman of
her troubles, but they have been
baked by the woman herself, who
has chosen to remain with the brutal
husband rather than go where she
could be cared for She seems to
have great fear of White, and chooses
to be killed by hunger, neglect and
abuse by inches, rather than leave
him and go where she can be well
treated. She is a woman from a
respectable family, and is intelligent
and cultured. Recently, while moth
ing has been done to help the wom-
ans case, a starving horse has been
taken from White and cared for. 1t
was ascertained that the horse was
tied in shed, little or no better than
out Of doors, and had nothing what
ever to eat excepta few potatoes that
White gave him occasionally. A COM
plant was made out and the starving
horse is removed. The aUonlGn re-
mains and chooses to live or die, as
may be, with the heartless scoundrel,
who claims to be a husband.
Barton Landing.
O. II. Austin has sold his tenement
house to Henry F. Wiley for about
$1,000.
David ellis sells lot Of COWS, young
stock, sheep, farming tools, ETC.,
at auction on Thursday of this week.
Henry D. Fairbrother will cut ice
for farmers this week Friday and Sat-
urday at the Mcfarland place, two
miles north of this village.
East Albany.
Della Moore, who has been away for
the past few weeks, is home to remain
through the winter.
Rev A. J. Dutton was called to
Craftsbury Jan. % to attend the fun
eral of his brothers. wife, Mrs. Ira
Dutton.
The community is in sadness over
the death Of Timothy Hughes, which
occurred Jan. 25. He had the grip,
took cold and had pneumonia.
South Albany.
F. o. Pierce has hired the Hogan