News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-08
STATE ITEMS.

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the largest in many years.
Presiding Elder P. N. Granger has
purchased house at st. Johnsbury
Center, and proposes to live there.
Nearly 5000 apple trees have been
set out in Irasburgh during the last
fall and this spring.
The St Johnsbury I1der says that
Rev. A Scribner is very much liked
by the charges of East Burke and
East Haven.
From birch log, fourteen feet long,
Samuel Lyon of Bennington, recently
cut 499 feet of lumber. Had it not
been for some slight imperfections,
the amount would have been over 6OO
feet.
The many friends of the late Gen.
George P. Foster and of his family,
will be glad to learn that Mrs. Foster
has been given pension OF thirty
dollars a month, to date from her la
amented husbands death.
St. Adams has 100 dogs, and only
6S of them are licensed. Now let's
see how straight the policemen can
shoot. The State will probably allow
key of powder to a canine, and fur
nish silver bullets for the invulnerable.
At South Londonderry, early Tues
day morning of last week, Higgins
store, Gales's store, three dwellings
and two barns were burned. Loss,
$40, 900. The fire originated in Hig-
gins store from the explosion of a
lamp.
Two boys who were driving cows,
near Pownal, came suddenly upon the
body of newborn infant, lying be-
side the railroad track. 1t was wrap
ped in a pair of overalls, and had a
red handkerchief tied about its neck.
No clue TO the criminal has been found.
Mr.. o. B. Emery of Bartonsville,
recently found, while working in his
cornfield, an Indian arrow head about
five inches long. 1t was very curious
" marked. This is the third one he
has found on the same farm and near
ly in the same place.
According to just issued census
| bulletin, Vermont has 332,2S6 inhab-
itants, and an. area of 9l35 square
miles Gland surface), thus giving
36.38 persons to the square mile
There are in the State 70 ,O94 families
and &c, $50 dwellings; and an aver
age of 4.93 persons to each dwelling,
and 4.55 persons to each family
There is an average of 1853 acres to
a person and 1899 to a family; and
7.3I dwellings, to the square mile. In
the whole country there are 5O, l55,-
7S3 persons, 9,945,9I6 families, p
9OO,17O square miles of land surface,
aud 8,955,012 dwellings. The aver
age is 1929 persons, 3.43 families
and SOP dwellings to each square
mile; 37.O1 acres to each person, or
1856 So to each family; $50 persons
to each dwelling, and 5.04 persons to
each family.
That little arboreal picnic which the
students of Lewis college enjoyed, a
short time ago, seems to have got them
into a world of trouble. 1t now APP
pears that some of the trees which
they set out interfered with the potato
patch of prominent citizen of North
field, and were taken up on the charge
of trespass, and cast out of bounds.
By way of reprisal, the students help
ed large number of newly planted
potatoes to the surface, and then spent
their surplus energy in thoroughly
narrowing the whole patch. The trees
were then replaced, and the field seed
ed and rolled. Not satisfied with this
expression of neighborly good will,
the students hanged the prominent
citizen in ehigy, and then buried the
well-choked remains, the procession
being escorted to the grave with muf-
fed drums.
Mitchell Frazier, who had his right
arm, left leg and several ribs broken
by the bursting of an extractor in the
Winooski woolIen mill, May 10Th,
died of his injuries, Wednesday, May
30. He leaves a wife and child.
At St. Adams, the other evening,
two locomotives, the Atlantic and
''Gov. Page" got to lodging each
other, as to which should nrstpass a
certain switch, till finally-like two
bewildered pedestrians, they both
started in the same direction at the
same time, and caromed each other
off the track. Then, we presume.
they blushed with all their furnace
fires, apologized foolishly through their
stcam-whistles, raised their smoke
stacks, and passed on.
The body of Peter Stebbins, who
was drowned at ST. Adams Bay on
the 9th of May, was found last We'd
nesday evening, floating in the Lake.
An inquest was held, which resulted
in the verdict death by accidental
drowning" 4 careful examination
was made, but no marks of violence
could be found on the body. Steb-
bins had on a heavy overcoat, closely
buttoned up; and in his pockets were
found bottle about two-thirds full OF
whiskey, little money, and other ar
t:cles.