News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-29
STATE iTEMS.

AT orceSter q little girl got
fishhook into her cheek and had t.
have an ugly cut made to get it out
Moral-Don't give fshhooks to the
children.
Barnum's great show at Montpelier
on the 10th of August.
/ The Freeman thinks this cold, we
summer is just what the 'SOrn out
meadows need.
At Rochester q panther killed 6
yearling steer, draining the veins and
tearing out and devoming the entrails
There are "some woodchucks" al
Montpelier, SO having been shot by
the boys in one day.
See that your stable floors over the
basement are in good repair and avoid
the fate of G. L. Sabin of Montpelier
who went down II feet with his five
COWS and five cans containing fifty
quarts of milk, making a pretty thor
ough smashup.
Hon. C. S. Dana is about to take
up his abode West.
AS Mrs. Tatro of Addison, was out
for drive, her horse backed off a
bridge and the woman was drowned.
A woman is just as safe driver as a
man unless some accident occurs.
The man who has a coin inscribed
"Before Christ 81" should exhibit it
| by the side of that ''sElull Of Cromwell
when a child"
Dogs killed six fine sheep for Mrs.
E. d. Mason of Richmond.
At Huntington, a nine-years-old
Ellis boy is expected to lose an eye
because he played with powder.
A Huntington woman, Mrs. S.
Norton, broke her leg in two places by
stepping upon rolling stone.
Those bankruptcies at Moretown, the
Hartman children, are proving a
source of revenue, having already re-
ceived a COW and over 500 in pres
ents. Showmen want to exhibit them
but the father objects. He received
1920 pension and back pay ,on the day
A child of Mr. Wells of Hardwick,
had a narrow escape from death re-
Gently, having drank some strong I've.
1t is almost incredible the things that
''little folks" will chew and swallow.
Many of them seem to have a craving
for matches, pencil points, ink, and
for nibbling at pennies, buttons, etc.
1t is wonder how so many of them
contriye to pull through the early
years. Keep your eye on them, moth
ers.
The south part of the State had,
last week, q regular Western blizzard.
Annual meeting of the State Teach
ers' Association, Aug. 9th, 10th and
18th, at Castleton.
At Springfield, a copper coin was
dug up dated 1928; also Mrs. Bow
man was seriously injured by back
room floor giving way.
At Sudbury, lightning followed the
conductor into the basement cistern,
and tore down the one foot thick
brick walls, scattering them in all
directions. Nothing but the cistern
was damaged.
A deaf old lady at Bennington, Mrs.
Hout, walked upon the railroad track
IN front Of a train, and was thrown
down and had one foot badly crushed.
John Whalen, an employee at the
South Ryegate marble works, burst q
blood vessel by oserlifting and died.
The good example set by the st.
Adams BARRIERS in closing" ON Sunday
ought to be followed throughout the
State. The Newport Express says:
{" The public is to blame that the GUS
tom has grown up, for no. man work
ing as many hours in a week as a bar
Der is compelled to, would deliberately
choose to do Sunday work. A little
care on the part of the public would do
away with the supposed need for Sun
day work Of this kind" At Vergen-
mes the saloons and meat-markets also
are closed on Sunday.
Mr.. Lebanon, of Cabot, attempted
to rescue a young colt from a mud
hole, and the ungrateful mother like
some ''humans' set upon him with her
teeth and took a part Of his nose off.
Frank Run of Brattlehoro is aspir-
ing to rival Curtis Brown in the bear
killing business, having just slain his
twenty-third bear.
A girl in Peacham tainted from the
effects of swinging in a hammock
We know from our own observation
that some children cannot endure the
swinging motion of q hammock. 1t
makes them dizzy and produces nau-
sea and vomiting.
Mrs. Jacllman, of Springfield, comes
to the front with ripe tomato.
That panther was last heard from
at Felchville, where he has become
quite domestic in his habits, coming
near dwellings, trotting along roads,
&c.