Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-05-20
State News Items.

An artesian we'll has been sunk in
Burlington. The water will be used in
manufacturing gas.
During the past year there were 191
deaths, 1913 births, and 65 marriages
recorded in Rutland.
Nora Shannon of Rutland, who kept
out of the way of the officert until
the county court had adjourned, was
arrested last week on six different
bench warrants. The charges against
her are for selling liquor. This is the
greatest number of bench warrants
on which any one person has ever
been placed in the House of Correc
ton.
L. L. D. Eldredge, treasurer of
Middlebury college has received a
check for $4,000 from the Emma Will
lard association of New York city, an
organization composed of alumnB of
Troy Female seminary, of which Mrs.
Russell Sage is president. The money
is given for the establishment Of an
Emma Willard scholarship in Middle
bury college.
The heroes of the hour, says the
Burlington Free Press, are Geo. Gill
more and Geo. Prim, who last week
landed a sturgeon weighing in the
huge fish gave the two men all they
could do to hold it and when it was
finally landed in the boat one man had
hold it while the other rOwed quick
ly for shore. 1t is the largest catch
made this season.
At the annual meeting of the E. &
T. Fairbanks company these directors
were elected: Henry Fairbanks, st.
Johnsburv; William S. Wells and j.
G.. Gardner, New York; S. n. Brown,
Boston; Charles P. Morse, Chicago;
HI. N. Turner and John @. Clark, ST.
Johnsbury. The directors organized
by electing Mr.. Brown, president;
Mr. Fairbanks, VIE president; Mr..
Clark, secretary and treasurer.
Geo. J. Bond, town clerk of Sears
burg, is something of a wit, as his re-
port of the vital statistics of his town
to the secretary of states office gives
evidence. His returns show one birth
and no marriages or deaths in that
town during 1894. The accompany
ing note speaks for itself. "With
tax of 384 cents on the dollar of the
grand list of the town, we cannot af-
ford to die or get married and births
are avoided as much as possible"
Work was begun last week on the
additional building at the state asy-
1um. The entire ground is laid out
for building of modern construction
and will be as nearly freproof as brick
partitions and adamant plaster will
make it. The system of plumbing
and drainage will be most complete.
The interior will be finished in white
pine. The entire building will be 900
feet in length and will be composed
of 10 wards. The basement will be
of broken Aspier granite, and the
superstructure of red brick with
granite trimmings. The contract was
let for nearly 100000.
Between 50, 800 and $4,000 worth
of Canadian reprints Of American
copy right music which was sent to
st. Adams by mail, in violotion of the
international copyright law, was seiz-
ed recently and has been confiscated
and will be sent to the dead letter Of
flee at Washington and DESTROYED.
The bags containing the publications
have been accommodating there during
the past three months, during which
time investigations were being made,
and which finally resulted in the
seizure. 1t is presumed that similar
mail matter has been sent to other
American towns along the frontier,
to be forwarded to other places.