News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13
STATE ITEM S.


Mrs. DORIS Easter poem seems t.
be appropriate.
Conductor Henderson's summer.
sault down 30-foot bank, laid hin
off for the present.
Bellows Falls-ites fined the partfci-
pants in a goose fight although they
were women.
Gold and silver ores, on Lake
Champlain shore, are attracting some
notice now.
President Arthur has nominated a
Richford man, S. P. Rounds, for pub
lie printer.
The President recently nominated
Mrs. r. W. Keyes to be postmistress
at West Rutland, and John H. Field
to be postmaster at Randolph.
General L. A. Grant, the COM
mander of the s'Old Vermont Bri-
gade, during the war for the Union, is
reyisiting Vermont.
Rutland has three new cases of
small-pox-in the Patrod family. St.
Adams has one case, the victim beng
Henry Gilbert, q brakeman on the
Central Vermont.
Richard Marrah, employed in the
slate quarry of w. H. Hughes, at
West Pawlet, was instantly killed,
last week Tuesday. While at work in
the pit a large slate rock that he was
trying to loosen suddenly gave away
and fell upon his head, crushing him
to shapeless mass.
The Y. NJ. C. A. at Burlington,
want back copies Of illustrated papers
and magazines for their boys reading
room. We are glad that onr Queen
City is looking out for her boys.
F. Z. Marsh, lawyer of Enosburgh
Falls, has been arrested on a charge
of Incorporating funds
II. G. Maxam, a Pullman sleeping
car conductor on the Vermont Central
route between Boston and Montreal,
fell from the train near Danbury Fri
day and was killed.
''Killed by a railroad train" is the
verdict resulting Saturday at St. Al
bans from the inquest over the body
of Lashure, supposed to have been
murdered at Swanton.
Levi Pitkin, of East Calais, is de-
yeloping a new breed of Jerseys,
having a nice Jersey heifer calf that
has no tail.
E. w. Burnham, Of Putney, has a
COW that has been dry but twenty
eight days for four years and in ten
months of the past year made four
hundred and eighteen pounds OF butter.
The St. Adams Universalists are
to erect new church the
coming summer.
The wife of William NJ. Casey was
taken to the Brattleboro insane asylum
yesterday from Rutland. She was
discharged as cured not long ago and
Casey had just sold his farm at
to Gov. Proctor, intend
ing to move his family to Rutland.
A Richmond man had stone re-
moved from his bladder that measured
So by 1-2 by ii inches in size, he is
now much improved in health.
Mr.. Sherman Of Richmond cut his
foot badly while mile away in the
woods and was able to call the family
to his assistance, even at that distance,
through sheer force of lungs.
4 post-mortem examination Of Ran
som Sargent, of Sharon, disclosed that
the heart weighed 81 ounces, ten to
twelve ounces being normal weight.
Young Vincents death which occur
red at St.Albans last week should serve
as warning to people TO take better
care of their health. lie travelled the
streets of Boston two days without
rubbers, took another mans place on
the express car, and made no fire
until he reached Montpelier, becom-
ing entirely chilled through, and the
day night was taken with diphthe-
ria which proved fatal in a week. He
was taken to Sweetsburg for burial.
The Vermont Merino Sheep Shear
ers' Convention opened Wednesday at
Middlebury with one of the finest and
largest exhibitions ever brought to-
gether in the State. The attendance
was large, and included the principal
merino sheep breeders in the county
and many prominent breeders through
out the Stale. Many buyers and
breeders were present also from West
ern States. The shearing was finished
on Thursday, and the weight of fleece
and quality Of wool are a surprise.