News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-27
STATE ITEM S.

J O1lce OF Sergeant-at-armS.- Watch
man.
, STATE ITEMS.
Rutland wants telegraphic fire
alarm.
Plainfeld is to have sixteen new
silos.
South Hero farmers are sowing
wheat.
A panther is ranging the hills about
Duxbury.
! Montpelier is agitating the question
of public library.
A Williamstown boy has an auto
graph letter of Longfellow's.
The Green Mountain Trotting Park
at Barre has been sold for $500.
A young lady in Georgia runs a
store and takes charge of Uncle Sans
letters.
| Colchester is to have postotfice at
the north beach-and postmistress,
of course.
Zenas d. Buker has been appointed
postmaster at Pleasant Valley.
Egbert Kathan, reporter on the
argus, has been promoted to a place
in the tub-factory at Waterbury.
The proprietor of the Clarendon
Hotel at Saratoga, has leased the
Lake Dunmore House for the coming
season.
Swanton Center has a piano the
property of NJ. Cummings-wh which has
been banged for sixty -four years, and
isn't banged up yet.
has mare thirty-six years old. and it
isn't safe for the women folks to drive
her yet, she's so frisky.
A peddling jew was roughly ham
died, recently, while on his way from
Rutland to West Rutland, by ruffians
who wanted to get at the contents of
of his pack.
At hose race, to come off at Moul-
ton, Iowa, June IS, G. w. Reagan
and John Shea, well-known through
out the State as professional runners,
will take part.
Rev. V. NJ. Hardy of West Ran
dolph, was able to officiate last Sab
bath, having nearly recovered from
his recent illness.
Miss Voodry succeeds A. NJ. Ans
den, deceased, as post-mistress, at So.
Walden.
Mrs. Huldah Sargent Robinson of
West Randolph, will be l03 years old
the 30th inst.
Mr.. Morse of Plainfield, has Buff
Cochin's egg that weighs six ounces.
Three of them more than make ten
egg pound-cake.
A Plainfield physician recently re-
moved a tape worm 9 1912 feet in
length from an eight years cid child.
Another brakeman, John Welch of
the Bennington & Rutland, had his
| foot crushed by car wheel.
A Middlebury youth of hitherto
good character, has been stealing horse
blankets, whips, etc.
F. A. Stephenson has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Fairfax.
F. p. Hunt, formerly night clerk in
the Van Ness House, goes to Mime
apolis, soon.
At Saxon's River, w. II. Taylor
fell from roof he was shingling, and
broke both bones of one leg.
A pauper at Mortified came near
burning the town farm house. He is
probably insane.
Bert Weston of Montpelier, ate
copying-pencil lead, making medical
| treatment necessary.
Dana House of Waitsfield, had a
terrible accident happen to him on
Sunday, Mar. u. While tying up
his cows, one of them struck him with
her horns, and gored his eye out.
Rutland is to have telephone COM
munication with Whitehall, Saratoga
and Albany.
Thomas Busseno, brakeman, was
badly jammed between two cars at
Castleton, the 18th.
DIR. C. F. Branch of Coventry, has
been appointed examining surgeon by
the pension department.
DR.. J. NJ. Clark, late assistant SUI
perintendeDt at the Brattleboro asy-
lum, has bought a place at Burlington,
where he will open private asylum.
The $500 suit against the proprie-
tors of the White River Junction drug
store, brought by the widow of B. f.
Levin of Plainield, n, H., On the
charge o. the defendants having sold
plaintiffs husband liquor, from the eff
tects of which he met his death, by
falling from his wagon, has been com
promised for $500.
The Pittsficld iron and steel CON-
pany are preparing for very extensive
operations at Bethel They are build
ing coal kilns and large forges, and
have set up powerful crushing ma
chimes, and a hammer weighing over
seven tons. They will be ready for
work by the first of June.
There was drunken" scrimmage" in
Waterbury last week Saturday, in
which the bone of contention was a
S. bill, belonging 10 one of the three |
parties. His companions insisted that
it should he pooled for liquor. Sher-
iff Atherton interfered, and the bellig- |
erent parties were placed in limbo.
1t is announced that the physicians
at the Bratteboro insane asylum are
unanimous in the opinion that McCaf-
frey. the Waterbury murderer now
confined there, is not insane, and the |
case will probably he brought before |
the grand jury at Montpelier, in Sep
TENDER.
The Bradley Fertilizer Company
have sued Dr.. Hiram A. Cutting, sec
rotary of the State Board of Agricul- |
ture, claiming $4,000 damages, on
the ground of alleged public disparage-
ing of their manufactures. The plain
tih's suit was brought by Judge Po-
land, and is rcturhabe to the circuit !
court Of the United States, iG Nav.
When the willow and little daugh-
ter of Conductor Markham were on
their way to keene, whittier the body |
had been carried, neither knew that
the summons they were Obey inc was