News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-02-02
STATE ITEMS,

The Vermont college of teacher.
meet at Montpelier next Friday.
At Charleston, fifty persons hay,
recently been converted.
We have discovered no evidence O
more liquor or more drunkenness w,
tbelieve there is much less of both
business men, generally, report /.
larger and better trade for December
than for many years past our manu-
featuring establishments are all run
ming up to their full capacity.-Mes
Senger on the Situation"
/ The first steamer crossed the lake
from Burlington last season on the 23t
of April, 1881; the last on January
7th, 1882-269 days of navigation out
of 365; Sc days of ice-bound.
A letter was received in the St.
Johnsbury post-office from Pomfret.
addressed, Gal Belley, Horgan mar
and pianos, St. Gonesbelly, VT" The
postmaster studied on it awhile, and
sent it to A. L. Bailey, the organ
man.
The old Twingsville hotel at Barre
has been burned. Loss $500; partly
insured.
Joseph Battell has recently sunk q
well or his farm just east of Middle
bury village and put up a Mast & Foot
burbine windmill to pump the water.
1t is said that others will follow this
example if the experiment is a success.
In three weeks, five of the six chill
dren of HI. j. Talbert, of West Tops
ham, have died of diphtheria.
Jacob Rowell, of Coventry, had a
leg broken while logging last week.
Mrs. Wright, an old lady living in
the east part Of Derby, fell down stairs
recently, breaking both arms below
the elbows. Her recovery is doubtful,
The several cases of smallpox re-
ported in Holland and Derby were at
first pronounced scarlet fever by ply
sicians, and two deaths have resulted
in the former town. The schools have
been closed and a great many have
been exposed, and fears of an epidemic
prevail.
Mr.. Joyce has presented a memorial
to Congress from 1000 women concern
ing the traffic in alcoholic liquors and
Mr.. Tyler one from 81 citizens of
Orange county, for legislation regula-
ting interstate commerce.
Dedham's (Mass.) house of correc-
ton has a man claiming to be James
L. Powers, a Universalist minister
who preached at Calais and at Ludlow
and Woodstock in Vermont. The
loss of his wife and his money is said
to have driven him into vagrancy.
Four men were terribly burned last
week by spilling molten iron, at the
foundry of Brink & Co., of Burlington.
One of the employees of the YER
mont Central railroad is down with
smallpox at st. Adams. Many per-
must have been exposed.
Ex-Gov. Paul Dillingham; of Water
bury, is a remarkable example of the
robust constitution and mental vitality
of Vermont's Green Mountain boys.
He was born in 1899, but is still as
active as many young men. He is at
his law Office daily, where he advises
clients on important matters, though
he has yielded the more laborious part
of his practice to his son VIM. P. Dill
bingham.
Henry Fairbanks is to erect at St.
Johnsbury a building for the use of
the Young Mems Christian association.
The St. Adams Car Company will
build next spring a 5000, 900 shop,
it, perhaps, at Mortified.
Henry Bowers, aged 21, of Mont
is charged with robbing the
mails at that place, and has fed.
Spiritualist Mass Convention at
Waterbury House, Waterbury, VT,
Saturday and Sunday, Feb
ruary 10th. 18th and 18th, 1SS2.-
Speakers engaged, j. d. Stiles, Emma
Paul, Fannie Davis Smith. George
A. Fuller. A. E. Stanley, Mrs. Geo.
Pratt. Music: The Duxbury Glee
Club. Return checks over the Central
Vermont Railroad. Board, 81 per
single meals, 20 cents horse
keeping, 80 cents per day.