Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-10-18
State News items.

MONTPELIER, Oct. 12.-Joseph Cod
man attempted suicide to-day at his
home on Shady Rill by taking rough
on rats. He is still alive, but proba-
bly, will die. He was 80 years old and
unmarrid The cause of the attempt
was melancholy verging on insanity
BURLINGTON, Oct.13.-G. s. Gardner
of Lowell, Mass, student at the
University of Vermont, died at the
Mary Fletcher hospital this morning
after a brief illness. The young man
was in the freshman class and was
taking classical course. He was 70
years of age.
State Treasurer Field has received
from the Secretary of state the grand
list for 1897. with one gore missing,
and he is now sending out the notices
for the state tax of 15 cents on the
dollar, which was assessed at the last
general assembly. Two thirds of the
amount of tax apportioned to each
town is to be paid into the state treas
ury on or before November 10, and
the remaining third on or before June
10, 1898. The grand list of the state is
$1,743, 764- "a, as against 81, 746, 972 %
two years ago. The tax will give the
state about 1921, 1854.
The October term Of supreme court
convened at Montpelier last Tuesday.
The docket shows 1O6 cases which are
set for hearing, but it is probable that
at least half of these will be contin-
ued. Washington county has 10 cases
set for hearing, the largest number of
any county in the state. The most
important of these is state VS. Isabel A.
Marsh and William BuZZell, who were
convicted at the March term of Wash
ington county court of the murder Of
George Marsh, of Northfield. An APP
plication for new trial for respond
ent Buzzel1 will be argued before the
supreme court.
Gov. circuit has pardoned condition
ally from the state prison Rober Fit
ton of Cavendish, Charles T. Walter
of Lyndon, Philip Bedard of Burling-
ton. Fitton was committed for II
years and had four years longer to
serve, Morsey for two years and had
one month longer to serve, Walter for
five years and had one year longer;
Bedard was an equal associate with
two others in crime for which they
sentenced by the County court five
years each, while he was sentenced
by the Supreme court 10 years; his
term by the release is made the same
as that of his two associates.
The work of wiring the State house
for electric lights is practically COM
pleted, though none of the feed wires
have yet been placed in position, and
this work, with the finishing off after
the wiring, is liable to take until the
1st of December. The greatest amount
of skill was required in putting the
wires into representatives hall which
is to be lighted by 152 lamps, arranged
in the form of a horseshoe about the
interior of the dome The glass lamp
bulbs will have to be placed in posi-
ton from the vacant space over the
ball, and Mr.. Anon W vs. compelled to
invent movable arrangement by
which each lamp could be allowed to
drop into it's exact position and still
be raised enough to be cleaned or to
change the bulb. When the carpen-
tiers have completed the finishing
process none of the wires or conduits
through which they pass will be- visi-
BILE. The big chandelier in representa-
tives' hall will remain in position to
furnish light in case there should be
any trouble with the electric current.
It was good advice: ''I had dyspepsia and
was unable to get even temporary relief from
the medicines 1 took. I had about given up
all hope of cure when friend advised me to
try Hoods Sarsaparilla. did and it has
cured me. My stomach now does not trouble
me in the least" Laura Kendall, STAFFORD, VT
Hoods Pills cure all liver ills. Mailed for
Csc by G. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.