News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-18
STATE ITEMS.

Mrs. Maria Goodrich, widow Of
Philetus Goodrich, and daughter OF
the late Rev. Dan Kent, the first set.
tied minister of Benson, died on the
9TH inst, aged 81.
Edwin Besworth of Benson, lost an
arm in planning machine on Satur-
day, the 9th.
Rev. Caleb NJ. Winch of Hartland,
accepts call to supply the Congre-
gational Church in Lower Waterford.
Rev. Joseph Hammond has resign
ed the pastorate of the Congregation
al church in ST. Johnsbury, to take eff
feet July l.
The marble interests of Rutland are
looking up. Old and abandoned quar-
ries are making ready for work, and
the American Company, after several
years suspension, has resumed bust
ness.
o. L. Leach of Fairfield, has a
three legged calf, the surface being
perfectly smooth where the right fore
leg should 90 on. The calf came
in March, and has been doing well ev-
er since.
Thomass- Pierson of Waterbury,
aged IS, on Tuesday of 4ast week,
put biting birdie on a colt and
struck him on the hip. The colt kick
ed him in the bowels, and he died next
morning, after twehty-four hours of
intense suffering. He was the chief
support to a mother of large family.
Hubbard Hastings, station agent at
Miles Pond, has died from injuries re-
ceived from the cars.
At teachers meeting in Bradford,
one Of the immaculate ones Whitfield
desk SO badly as to completely disfg-
ure it. Let every school boy in the
State cut this item out and paste in
his copy-book.
Judge Everts Of Rutland, has re-
ceiyed 5000 eggs of California noun
tain trout, with which he intends to
stock his Chittenden preserve.
A Brattleboro woman has invented
and patented II combination under
garment called the Victoria. 1t
will be manufactured by local stock
company.
Sugar-making in Qneeche has taken
Il new departure. Mr.. Chadwick,
while making the rounds of his
buckets, found in the first a flying
squirrel, in the second flying squir-
rel, in the third a mouse, and in the
fourth two mice. He concluded the
sap run was not exactly to his taste,
and went home to pile some lumber.
A dog in Ludlow has killed sixty
one rats the past winter.
A hen in Bethel, after patient in
cubation of three weeks, succeeded in
Matching one chicken. And yet she
seemed perfectly satisfied.
At Waterbury, on Monday of last
week, Richard Thorndike, an old man,
attempted suicide with butcher knife,
and was only prevented by the des-
perate struggle of two men, who
wrencned the knife from him, but
broke the blade. His wife received |
money from daughter at Lowell,
Mass, and he went into passion be-
cause she refused to give it to him,
and attempted to cut his throat. -
As Eugene Lalime and Geo. Walk
er were sailing on Lake Champlain at
Sunday, the boat was
struck by sudden gust of wind and |
overturned. Both men chung to the
boat, but before assistance could reach |
them Lalime, benumbed by the cold, |
lost his hold and was drowned. His |
companion was rescued. Lalime lea, IS
a wife and young children.
A lodge of the Ancient Order of
United Workmen is TO be organized at
St. Johnsbury.
Edgar Cushman of Waterford, has
a flock of 60 brown leghorn hens,
which laid during the months of March
and April, 2240 eggs.
A drive of sixty-fve million feet of
lumber has been started i'll the upper
waters of the Connecticut River, near
McIndoes Falls. 1t will be driven
down to the Connecticut River com
pany's mills, at Turner's Falls. The
employs 500 men at an ex-
pense of about $500 per day.
Castleton produces 100000 slate
pencils daily. That doesn't look as
though the old-fashioned slate was &C.
ing out of use.
A salmon weighing six and three
fourths pounds was recently caught in
Fairfield pond.
Farmers in Grand Isle ere hiring
laborers.
An economical farmer in Windsor
has extracted eight teeth with a pair
Of blacksmith's pincers. !