News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-03
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We see by the locals in the North
field NeWs, that some Of the force
have oOt the ssmitten

We see by the locals in the North.
field NeWs, that some of the force
have got the "mitten."
One day last week, a large turtle
at Mortified, scooped cut the Sane
and proceeded to deposit a nest o.
eggs of about forty in number and
fabout one inch in diameter. She
buried them one by one, paying nc
attention to the crowd of people who
were in attendance to witness the
novel proceeding.
~EX-Secretary Evart's daughter,
! BERTHE, was married to Mr.. Edward
Perkins, on the I'd inst.
At the Burlington foundry, James
Hallowell had two fingers torn from
his hand while using the grindstone.
Hon. W. H. II. Bingham of Stowe.
is nearly recovered from his recent ill.
ness.
The potato and hay crop in the
lake valley promises to be larger than
usual. 1t '~'squints" that way up in this
country.
William Beeman of Milton, had
new potatoes four weeks ago.
The liquor selling of Pat Carrigan
of Rutland, cost a snug fifty dollars
and another man at that burgh paid
$40 for the same kind of error.
Mr.. Worden of Newfane, gets more
stalks to the kernel, than "auy live
man." He shows for one grain Of
rye, % stalks six feet high.
Mr.. Wheatley of Tunbridge, has a
turkey gobbler, who is doing the set
ting this year for the lazy hen turkey.
She is evidently a strong-minded
Woman's Rights worker.
E. G. Sleeper of Tunbridge, has
81 per month pension, and $500 back
pay, and Mr.. Laird Of Waits River,
gets 5000.
Boys like to mop on and ride when
a team is passing, no matter what it
is loaded with, but a 13-years-Cld
Tracy boy, of Chelsea, got his ankle
badly hurt by riding OF a load of stone.
Richmond folks don't like the plan
of depositing mail-bagS on the train
ION the fly" two having been lost by
the mail agent failing to catch them.
At Williamstown, Enoch Howe and
Warren Poole, ride on horse back,
swing a scythe, and pillow, and yet one
of them is over 80, and the other
over 80 years Of age.
Hon. Friedrich Billings is named as
one of the incorporators in a bill now
before Congress for the Incorporation
of the Nicaraguan Canal company.
John Barber of Waltsfield, was pois-
oned on his hands and face with ivy,
depriving him of his sight for a few
days. He is better now.
L. B. Atwood of St. Johnsburv, is
taking a little drive to get the fresh
air-only to Niagara and back, with a
span.
A hotel porter at Essex Junction
sold two glasses of liquor to a 49,
years-old boy. His employer paid
S2l for the crookedness, and he got a
discharge. That is business.
One Of Gov. Smiths Norman mares
fell into a well, and had to be raised
odt of it with a derrick. She will
probably die.
At Lowell, u little daughter of ia
cob Greenwood was shot through the
head by a target {" shootist." She is
just alive.
Another Vermont brakeman, Wal
lace Angerine of P~oultney, has met
the brakeman's ''destiny." He leaves
a wife and child.
At West Randolph, a little child of
n. l.. Boyden, came near drowning
by falling in a puddle of water, face
downward.
Children while playing with matches
set the house and barn Of Mr.. Down
ing of Northfield, IN fire. Damage,
$500.