News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-07
STATE ITEM S.


Cram, II years old boy, who has
been driving the street sprinkler, was
killed by the bolt which held the seat
on the cart breaking and letting him
under the wheel, which passed over
his body lengthwise. The body was
badly mangled.
The Lamoille Association will hold
its next annual meeting with the Bap-
tlst church in St. Adams, September
18th and 18th, commencing at 10
A. NJ. The annual sermon will be
delivered by Rev. J. t. Buzzell, OF
Richford.' 1t is anticipated that it
will be a meeting of special interest.
Richard E. Peabody, charged with
forgery to the amount Of $4,000 and
who jumped his bail in 1889, has been
re-arrested at Woodstock.
S. C. Yeaton, of Brooklyn, and G.
H. Newell. of Mortified, recently
killed a three hundred pound bear af-
ter an all day chase.
The apple crop in the vicinity of
Mortified will be very fair this year
fully up to the average.
A strange accident occurred Sum
day evening at West Fairlee, by
which both DR.. Marshall and DR..
Dickey, of Lyme, n. H., lost their
lives. They were found in Fairlee
Lake, about o'clock P. NJ, one sit
ting in the carriage, the other in the
lake some distance from the carriage.
The unfortunate physicians were
driving along the shore when the
horses took fright and ran into the
water, overturning the carriage. The
accident occurred within sight of the
Lake House and help was at the
scene at once and the bodies recover
ed in a few minutes, but not until
life was extinct.
A case of drowning Sunday even
ing was a lad named Blanchard, at
Bradford, in the Connecticut river.
He went in bathing and got beyond
mis- depth and was unable to swim.
The library of the late George P.
Marsh, our minister to Italy, is by his
desire to be sold entire to this country,
if possible, and Rev, DR.. Nevin of
the Protestant Episcopal church in
Rome, one of his executors, has come
over to effect this. Its fine collec=
ton Of historic, ethnologic and lin
guistic books and manuscripts, much
of it impossible to duplic; tie, and is
valued at SO, 900.
1t seems to be fatal to injure the
hand this year. Jonathan Phillips
of Plainfeld, cut off the end of
finger with a scythe, and died of
lock-jaw.
John Kiley was fatally injured by a
train at North Pownal, and Terry
Brett, section hand, was fatally in
ured by train at Winooski.
Mrs. Collins of Waterbury, hanged
herself with a skein of yarn.
George W. Griffin, disappointed
over" of Coventry, ended his life and
,riefs, by dose of morphine.
Andrew Meylotte and Pearl Bushee,
If E. Dorset, boys aged respectively
A and IL years, started out to ''get
work." walking 81 miles, but Rutland
officers took charge of them and tele-
yraphed their friends.
Amasa Paine of Hardwick, recently
sold valuable horse; price reported
at over $500. The horse was claimed
to be something of ''trotter, or
threatened with speed"
n. p. Bowman, the Democratic
nominee for Judge of Probate, and
Frank L. Page, the temperance lbolt-
er) nominee for States Attorney,
in Caledonia County, both decline be-
ing candidates.
Lemuel Richardson, the champion
fox hunter of Vermont, has made the
statement Between 1921
and 1847, he killed with hound and
gun, ia foxes. From l847 to 1871,
be caugh, in traps, 665, making l 1889
foxes in all. He has during the same
time, killed Of other game, three
deers, II fishers, five otter. and sable,
coons, muskrats and mink, too many
to enumerate. He is now in his SD
year.-Barre Enterprise.
Edward Biggart of North Benning
ton, died the other day under some
what singular circumstances. For
some months past his eye-sight grew
dim. The appearance Of his eyes was
but blindness seemed to
be fast coming upon him. He was
told by the physicians that no help
could be given him, that he would lose
his eyesight entirely, and that the dis
ease would go to his brain and render
him insane. This prediction was full
filled within q week, with the result
stated above.
DR.. A. n. Logan, Of Woods; ock,
extracted from the ear of a young la
dy in Gaysville, on Sunday, the 9th
ult, a common sized pea beau, which
has been imbedded there four years,
causing much pain.-Spirit Of the
Age. A common sized pea "beau"
seems to be very ordinary phenom-
enon with the Age and its constituent
cy, but, in behalf of our readers, we
should like to ask what sort of
young man it is? If it has come to
that pass that the young gentlemen
make themselves so small in the pres
ence of young ladies nowadays as
to crawl into their ears and lie imbed
ed there for four years, we should like
10 caution the girls TO stuff their ears
with cotton wads when they expect
A visit from the valorous heart smash
er. Will the Age please explain ?-I
Free Press.
The town of Andover is interested
in a lawsuit that involves indirectly
the right of a public school teacher to
read the bible in school. 1t is said
that farmer Alyah HaZelton didn't
want his children to hear the scrip
lures read at school, and so the Pru-
Dental Committee arranged with The
teacher to have devotional exercises a
few moments before school opened
each morning, attendance being OPP
tional with the pupils. Everything
seems to have gone smoothly until two
weeks before the end of the term,