Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-05-01
State News Items.

In0fo are dU pr0S0uU 0ISuCy prlSOu-
ers in the house of correction, ten of
them women This is large number
for this time Of the year.
Rev. Edwin M Haynes D. D., of
Rutland, is revising for publication,
his history of the 10th Vermont regi-
ment. The first edition is out of print
and scarce.
Gen. James M. Warner, postmaster
at Albany, n. Y, formerly Of Middle
bury and a distinguished Vermont sol
der, has returned from a European
trip.
Elmer E. French, for several years
principal of the Ladies' Institute at
Newbury, has been chosen president
of the McGraw normal institute at
Reeds Ferry, N. I'll.
Lawyer Henry G. Ide has given st.
Johnsbury academy $1,000 to found
the Mary M. Ide scholarship. Mr..
Ide was principal of the academy two
years, and his wife, who died last year,
was former teacher.
In the case of Ida Godette and
Mary LaChappelle, for criminal Sc
verify of punishment in school, the
jury returned a verdict for $2S66
damages against the teacher. The
case goes to the Supreme court.
Frank B. McNulty, a freight con-
ductor on the Passumpsic railroad, was
instantly killed while making up
train at Lyndonville last Thursday
morning. He was about % years old,
married and lived at LyndonviHe.
The town of Castleton has offered a
reward of $1,000 and the insurance
companies $1,000 more, for the appre
hension of the party who caused the
incendiary fire in that village recent
ly.
Pensions have been granted to Yer
monters as follows: Original, George
Coulter and Milton Crossman; in
crease, George A. Wales; reissue,
George Fischer, William w. Huff,
Orange Kingsley and Orrin Willis;
original widows, etc, Mary A. Coult-
er, minor of Harrison Coulter.
The coming season promises to be
the most prosperous in the history of
Burlington. 1t is estimated that $780,
600 will be invested in buildings and
improvements. Among the invest
ments are $3.50, 900 in the new military
post and 1926, 900 in an electric street
railway.
The st. Johnsbury Atheneum has
received $4,000, constituting the Isa-
belle Fairbanks FarWeH memorial
fund, the income to be used to pur-
chase books for the art, literary and
Juvenile departments. Mrs. Farwen
was the youngest daughter of eX-Gov.
Horace Fairbanks, the founder of the
Atheneum.
Mrs VIM. Mulchaley Of Middlebury
committed suicide by hanging Apr. %,
at noon. She had been in usual health,
and after getting dinner, went to the
granary and was gone so long as to
cause her people to look for her.
When found life was extinct. She
had tied a hammock rope around her
neck, thrown the rope over a beam
and stepped down the stairs Mrs.
Mulcahep was daughter of the late
James Macdonald, who was town
years. She was about IS years of age.
A box which arrived at Adams Elk
press Co.'s pier in Jersey City, n. j.
Apr q, was found to contain the bod
les of two negroes. The bodies were
shipped from Charlottesville, Va, and
consigned to FL. @. Turner, Burling
ton, VT, and was marked on one side
sEBooks'' and on the other "Glass." A
despatch from Charlottesville says the
bodies were intended for the Univer-
sity of Vermont and were shipped by
proper authority for anatomical pur
poses.
A few weeks ago fox and litter of
ten were discovered by hounds in the
root of an old tree on Shelburne
Farms The mother endeavored to
escape and was shot. Two of the lit
tie foxes are being brought up on
bottle, and eight are being nursed by
female coach + dog, which it3 aft after ian an
foxes, became very fond of them, and
growls at the approach of any one
who comes near. The foxes are grow
ing rapidly. The other two little foxes
are thriving well.