Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-12-07
State News Items.

DR.. Giddings of the Waterbury Asy-
lum has resigned his position as the
head of that institution and his resig-
nation has been accepted.
Alonzo Spooner of Bethel reports a
champion half acre of land that was
accurately measured and produced
the past season 200 bushels of onions
and 300 bushels of carrots. 'a o
Gov. Grout has appointed G. A.
Bunker of Peacham, F. w. Pierce of
Chester, w. E. Howard of Middle
bury and @. III. Darling of Bennington
a board of normal school examiners.
supervisors and commissioners.
DR.. John E. Osborne, formerly
governor of Wyoming who was re-
Gently elected to Congress from that
state, is remembered at Bristol as a
clerk in one of the drug stores there.
He studied medicine and then went
West.
The 25th annual session of the Yer
mont state grange will be held at
Burlington Dec. go and II. The pub
lie is cordially invited to attend the
evening session of the first day. The
railroads and hotels will give special
rates for the occasion.
A lady from Chateugay, who was a
guest at the Weldon, ST. Adams, over
Wednesday night blew out the gas in
her room. The night clerk discover
ed the mistake before a fatal result,
though the woman remained uncon-
cious for several hours.
Swanton is to have big hotel and
the residents are exceedingly happy
has already been commenced and it
is expected that the structure will be
pushed right along, being such a
good thing, until its completion.
The museum at st Johnsbury has
bought of Prof. Perkins of the Uni
versity of Vermont a collection of
Vermont fossils, which was obtained
largely from beds in Lake Cham plain,
where so many fossils exist. This is
one of the largest collections of Yer
mont fossils ever made.
A man by the name of Cline was
struck and terribly injured Sunday
morning by a special train, carrying
Chauncey NJ. Depew, few miles
north Of Rutland. DIR. Depew order
ed the man to be taken into his pri-
vate car, while the train was backed
to Rutland. The man may live.
The large barns on the premises of
Charles Rockwell, near Bennington,
together with their contents, were
burned Dec. 1. Little assistance
could be given, as the location is
about two miles from the village. The
loss is estimated at 50, 500 to So, 900,
The origin of the fire and the insur-
ance are unknown.
Death is a luxury denied the aged
in certain parts of Vermont. A North
Mcmillan, man who is one hundred
years and four months old, passed
through this place last week on his |
way to Randolph, walking most of |
the way. He was in one of the cars
on the express train that was wreck |
ed at Hartford bridge few years ago |
and tells thrilling experience" 81
Adam Heath, a 13-year- old boy Of |
East Warren, committed suicide by |
hanging last week. When found he |
was on his knees and could easily |
have taken his head out of the line by /
which he was hung. There was no
apparent cause for the act. His aunt |
sent him to get the eggs and he had
been gone about half an hour when
his uncle came home and found him
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breathed only a few times after his
uncle carried him into the house.
By an order just issued from the
of agriculture, st. Adams
has been added to the list of ports at
which cattle and sheep from the Do
minlon of Canada for export from
the United States may be entered, in
bond, for Portland, Me-, and Boston,
Mass, for export from the two last
mentioned ports only in accordance
with the regulation in the order of
February IL, 1889. The transporta
ton companies carrying cattle or
sheep in bond from Canada for Port
land and Boston for export have es-
tablished at these points special stock
yards for export cattle and sheep and
such yardsIare to be used for no other
purpose. All such cattle and sheep |
to Boston must be unloaded |
only at the Mystic Wharf stock yard.
card on the outside of office door says |
'Gone to lunch. Be back in ten Minutes
And, the man Will be theae on time. That is
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