News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-20
STATE ITEMS.


Geo NJ. Clark of Felchyille, gets
$1700, back pay, and $3.50 per month
pension.
A pair of horses belonging to E. A.
Holcomb of Isle La Motto, broke
through the ice and were drowned.
Mrs. Freeman of Readsboro had an
ovarian tumor of SO pounds weight
successfully removed recently.
Gertie, daughter of Horace Bean of
the Bellevue house Newport was bur-
led Fast-day,
Our typo made 'Eappreciated' read
appropriate" in speaking of Miss
DORIS Eastern poem last week.
A Bellows Falls grocer is selling
potatoes bought in Scotland. They
are said to be of good quality.
Jennie Davis of West Concord, who
helped herself to piece of fichu at a
st. Johnsbury store, was brought up
for trial and convicted. The sentence
imposed was a fine of some S38 or
one hundred and seventy-nine days in
the workhouse at Rutland. Not COM
lag to tinao with tho fno eho was taken
to Rutland.
Alfred Rice placed Paris green in
flour used in the family of Jared S.
Howard, keeper of the town farm in
Bennington, and was detected be-
cause of the bad job he made In at
tempting afterward to poison meal fed
to horses.
At Cabot the Easter services at the
church were enlivened by cages of
canaries who made melody for the lit
tie people, it being a Sabbath School
concert.
1t seems that the COOL people OF
Chelsea did not hear that thunder on
Sunday. They quote the Thursday
thunder as the first of the season.
Probably they were asleep.
There seems to be much comment
upon the manner of the killing of the
notorious train robber, Jesse James,
and it is claimed by the New York
San that under the assumed name of
Johnson, he went as delegate to Chi
cage.
George Rassell Of Irasburg was re-
Gently fatally injured while wrestling.
Chittenden county court began its
April term last week Tuesday, Judge
Taft presiding.
Alexander Drew, an aged citizen OF
Glover, was found deal in bed last
week Monday.
John W. Bailey of Hardwick, went
to sugaring off, on Fast-day, and got
a pail Of sugar to carry home. But
when he got there, on removing the
cover to his pail, he found only hot
water.
st. Stephens church at Winooski
was struck by lightning and consider
ably damaged during the last thunder
storm.
Byron Reynolds, Vcrmonter living
near Portland, Or, keeps from 30 to
100 COWS, and gets 30 cents pound
for his butter the year round.
y new Catholic orphan asylum is to
be erected at Burlington.
The latest boy burglar halls from
st. Johnsbury. He distracted two
revolvers from the store Of Mr.. f. F.
Fletcher, and then borrowed q team
without leave-to conduct him upon
the war path. He was followed and
captured at Lancaster, n. II.
Chester schools must be allowed &c
take the palm in the matter of public
interest, as evinced by the number o.
visits noted in the registers. There
are l Z schools in town, and the super
intendent made them SO visits, Tho
committee AZ visits, and the citizen:
generally 779
Mr.. Townsend, Vermonter, wa,
shot down in the street at Leadyille
Col, by one Of the prominent lawyer:
Of that place, for matter in dispute
of ten or fifteen cents value.
At Barre pair of horses ran away
and leaping a stone wall one of then
turned double somersault in the air
escaping with only n bad cut on the
shoulder.
Mr.. Hastings at Miles Pond, hat
both legs broken by a passing lumber
train, with projecting timbers.
Frank Hatch became dizzy while
crossing the railroad bridge at Swan
ton, and fell into the river just above
the falls. He was almost exhausted
when rescued.
Freeman Walker of StrafOrd, died
from paralysis while boiling sap in the
woods.
Those who prepare Hops and Malt bit
tiers, 4-ll-44, make no secret of its ingre
dients, but publish them on every bottle
Medical authorities say that these rene
dies are all that's claimed for them for the
cure of dyspepsia, debility, Indigestion
consumption, etc.