News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-07-13
STATE ITEM S.

The cyclone in passing over the
Lake IN Orleans Co., raised the water
20 feet in It's course.
John Rievet of West Haven, has
had 26 children.
Mary F. Clark is postmistress at
Westminister.
There have been % cases of diph-
liberia in one school district in Jericho.
A Springfield man was freed by a
two-years-old heifer.
"That pail of hot water" has near
ly killed child of Mr.. Lafountain's
at SprinfeId.
Two little fellows at Springfield
played in gravel bank and were bur-
led by its caving in. They were res
cued.
Hon. o. 5. Dana has been very i'll
with pneumonia at the Pavilion at
Montpelier,
NJ. L. Hatch, the ex-Palludium
man, has been selling off his house
hold goods, and is really going to
Nebraska.
At Starksboro, Ben. Ellison pulls
down the beam at $50 pounds. A
genuine Green Mountain boy, no
doubt.
About thirty 6 Montpelierites " are
1'campfng at Hfghgate.
Nassar SOwles, nine years of age,
was drowned at East Alburgh, the
9th inst.
A man in Colchester pays taxes in
seven school districts, if this item is
reported correctly.
The hired man of Lester Porter of
tayston, cut his foot badly while chop
ping, and soon after Mr.. Porter gave
himself bad cut. Guess that axe
has crooked handle.
r. NJ. Clapp of Burlington, pays s25
for not keeping collar on his dog.
The person who stole those twenty
dozen eggs from the Cross bakery
shed, Montpelier, without CARRYING Oft
the basket, must have worked nimblv.
o. w. Cree of Plainfield showed
green peas for the table on the 4th.
Col. Joyce and family are stopping
at Rutland.
Prof. Williams of the Vermont Uni
yerslty, don't believe in drugs. In
his commencement address he saws
The best physicians in the country,
OF whom there are but few, use drugs
sparingly. Students of medicine must
understand that they are entering on
dark path. There is but one thing
they can do with safety-rely on hy-
gienic conditions and careful nursing.
If they depend on the apothecary they
are blind men cropping on the verge of
a precipice."
AT Haverhill, N H., Vermont boy,
Charles Liant, died of lockjaw from a
10Y pistol hurt,
At Braintree, the express train
struck team, killing the horse but
luckily did not fatally injure the driv-
n.
AT Bellows Falls, on the 4th, sky
ocket passed through a window and
ct fire to a bed. i
Camp-meetlng at Mortified begins
Aug. 22d.
-Four children of Brian Foley of
'urhngton, were fatally peiseae4 BY
'atlng green currants.
The Lake serpent is out again, and
Y feet long this time,
Eight hundred dollars pension and
Jack pay to Royal Slack of Chelsea. !
Sumner Rhodes of Windham. at. q
empted suicide by eating Paris green. !
Chas. A. Peaslee of West Topsbam 9
'as instantly killed by logs rolling
yer him. I
MIR. Hartman of Moretown, has
'st one pair of his bankruptcies.
Hon. l.. p. Poland has given ST.
w to the University of Vermont at
To found scholarship in e
onor of his native town of Westford. I
A little child of James MilIen was IL
nrned to death at Quincy, the 4th, b
clothes having been ignited by lire
Judge Poland donated $1,000 to the di
ermont University to found a schol- VI
ship for his native town, Westford ~ u,
AT Calais, bees have no mole honey til
an in the spring.
A Wheelock girl, Jennie Hines, was
fown from wagon some three or .,
ur weeks ago, and has remained I'M ~, ~,
nscious ever since. XII
benjamin Davis of Andover, re- n
ntly saw whrt Is supposed to be a o. p,
nther. The animal was about six
Dis from the road in field belonging
Curtis Warner. Mr.. Davis saw is
lat he supposed to be fox under ne
e. He stopped in the road and Ch'
'ked at it and the animal raised it.
| up and looked at Mr.. Davis some all
'onds, giving sufficient time to get of
good view of the animal be.
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