News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-05-25
STATEi ITEMS,

LOul . ~ SOu Vi SnaItSS LeOOeuf
of Nergennes, was nit in the mouth
with a ball club, which slipped from
the hands of another lad. Seven of
his teeth were knocked out and his
jaw fractured.
An aged compositor on the Danville
Star sets 5000 ems Of type a day.
Eighty-three years has case-hardened
him, and Father Time will have to Get
a new shooting-stck before he can
level this invulnerable super-annuate.
n. NJ. Johnson of St. Johnsburv.
has a horse which believes in doing
nothing by halves. When, in the
course of equine events, it became
necessary for that horse to run away,
he made a clean job Of it, smashing
two wagons besides the one to which
he was attached, and demoralizing
teams generally. When be got through
he went quietly to his stall in the
barn, and neigbed for some oats.
Swanton now comes forward with
an aged citizen named Joseph Gree
neau. He is lO1 years old, and his
wife is 90. They have lived together
in connubial bliss for 70 years, and adj
mired the budding precocity of y little
Greeneaus and 81 little-little Gree
neauS.
Patrick Reagan of Newport, went
out in small boat to light the Indian
Point beacon on Lake Memphrema-
cog, one night recently, and the heavy
sea caused his boat to break its chain
and left him, without any means of
escape, on the narrow island where
the lighthouse stands. There the
poor fellow had to crouch and shiver
all night, with the cold spray breaking
over him. IN the morning, however,
he was seen, and boat put out TO
his rescue. When reached he was
found to be so chilled and exhausted
as to render him almost speechless.
The Express and Standard, in telling
the story, cruelty remarks: This is
probably the first picnic Of the seas IN
at Lake Memphremagog."
Congressman Joyce will deliver the
Decoration Day address at Lincoln.
Illustrative of the up and down
character of our State Capital, we
note the following incident 'sThe cow
of James Laforte came tumbling some
40 or 80 feet down a steep bank into
the yard of Eugene Laviolette, last
Thursday" We presume she was
trying to Craze in Mr.. Laviolette's
back pasture.
Two little daughters of DR.. W f.
Lazelle got at his medicine-case. last
week, and acting upon the good old
adage that prevention is better tPan
cure," devoured, as they supposed, a
large prophylactic instalment of pills,
which turned out to be compounded of
arsenic. Emetics were promptly adj
ministered, and one Of the children is
recovering; the other lies in critical
condition.
Close shave. A football dashed
through the window Of barber-saop
in Waterbury, and came within one OF
flooring the tonsoriM artist. As it
was his nerves were badly-shaken.
New complication has arisen IN the
contested divorce case Of Avery KS.
Avery, which changes the aspect OF
affairs somewhat. The facts of the
case, up to the present time, are as
follows: Mr.. Avery of Mortified,
suspecting that his wife was carrying
on improper correspondence with one
Frank Haggett of Lowell, Mass, an
alleged former .Gdncee, whose acquais-
lance she had renewed during Il visit
to Lowell, last fall, took letter OF
his wife's, addressed TO this gentle
man, from the po5toliice and opened
it. Its contents confirmed his sus-
picions, and he retained it. Mean
while, ilag5ett not receiving the ex-
pected letter, reported it to the Post
office Department at Washington, and
Inspector Geo. IL. Bigelow was sent
to look it ~. Upon demanding the
letter of Avery, the latter refused to
give it up, claiming that it was neces-
Sary as evidence in the proceedings
for divorce instituted by Mrs. Avery.
MT. Dl9elOW reported Gne lacLS 10 Col. |
Kittridge Haskins, the United States
District-Attorney, who forwarded &
report to the Postmaster-General at
Washington, suggesting that the case
aid not call for prosecution, with when |
opinion the Postmaster-GeneraI coin |.
cided. But Hon. Benjamin IL. Brews-
ter, Attorney-G General, learning of the /.
decision, very strongly disagreed with
it, and Immediately sent directions
that Avery should be arrested and the
case proceeded with, as the Govern I
ment had no right to know anything
further than that letter had been alb /
from the mail. Accordingly
the case has been continued. Mr..
Avery furnished bail, and still holds