News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-09
STATE ITEM S.

STATE ITEMS.
Edward Barnes, highly esteemed
man of West Randolph, was buried
Thursday. Hin ran the first job team
ever run there. He had been blind for
several years.
Fred Sautware threshed on James
A. Shedd's farm, $50 bushels of Bar
ley in nine and one half hours. Next !
Daniel j. Milham threshed and
cleaned l02 bushels of oats in one
hdndred and five minutes, and 432
bushels in ten hours, with one team.
Who can beat this?
William Eddy of Brookfeld, COM
mitted suicide by shooting, Wednes-
day. Poor health the cause.
A panther has been seen in South
Royalton, and the nimrods are terri
bly, excited.
A singular fatality seems to have
encompassed the lives of part of
Richard Bailey's family of 10 children,
VINO were born and have generally
lived in Townshend. Henry, aged 90,
dropped dead in his own yarl at that
place last week; Hubbard, 20, drop
ped dead at Montgomery; Dana. a,
fell from load of corn and broke his
back Abisha, 70, fell from a load of
corn at Saratoga and broke his neck,
and Mrs Polly Bailey Franklin was
taken suddenly i'll and died before a
doctor could be summoned. The fam
lily, all of whom are now dead, were
universally respected.
Col, J. j. Estey and wife, of Brat
tleboro recently celebrated the fifteenth
anniversary Of their marriage. Some
40 or 80 friends assembled in honor of
the occasion.
Mrs. T. c. Spauldings boy John,
II years old, shot himself through the
hand, and Edna Wilson, Z, through
the left lung Saturday morning, at
Chester.
Frank Clifford and George Bates,
confined in Washington county Jail at
Montpelier, for the attempted burg
larry of the Mortified savings bank,
picked the lock to their tier of cells
Saturday afternoon, removed a block
of granite from the ceiling, got into
the attic, cut their way through brick
wall and escaped. Both are profess
SIGNALS and have done jobs in Chicago
and Canada.
Fire Saturday morning did SIP 900
damage in the Standard needle COM
pany's building at West Roxbury.
The Connecticut River mutual fire
insurance company has begun suits at
Bellows Falls against the policy-hold-
ers who refuse to pay the Upper cent.
assessment.
The infant son of c. Somers, of
Barnet, was smothered in bed.
Geo. Rhodes, an old man living in
Ryegate, died recently, about eight
hours after the deth Of his son.
Silas Bonet, arrested at w est Con-
cord for a questionable horse transac-
ton, took E'French leave" and got
away from the officer.
The Gates House and part of the
surl ounding property in Bennington,
burnded Friday. The loss will prob
ably reach $40, 900, partly insured.
In Brookfeld, the Goth, William
Eddy, aged about 60, committed sui
eide by shooting himself through the
head with shotgun. Failing health
is supposed to be the cause.
St. Johnsbury girls climb the lamp
posts and blow out the lights. Force
Of home habit.
A gentleman in St. Johnsbury has
in his possession two metallic buttons,
in colonial times, bear
ing date ofI767 and the words
stamp act"
A man in Brain.ree inserts the fol-
owing notice in the Herald and
Ne'cs: Disappeared from the spring
Of John z. Smith, about six rods of
cad pipe taken in the night time
Whoever took it was in so big a hur-
y that they left the strainer in the
spring. The strainer and pipe should
20 together, and whoever took the pipe
IAN have it by calling for it.
Some miscreants forced their way
nto the engine house of the River
ide Slate Co., at Fair Haven last
sunday and cut the large belts on the
Irving wheel, besides loosening the
:eys on the engine, removing the
Governor, etc.
The only occupants Of the Wood
took Jail are three women.
What epicures these editors are
Iast Saturday the scribe of the Man
hester Journal breakfasted on fresh
aspberries and cream, the Gift of a
ady subscriber. Talk about the poor,
alf-starved journalist!
Mr.. w. B. Miller of Pawlet has
one a good thing for that village, in
pening at his own expense, free
eading room, with choice selection
t current periodicals always on file.
his we call good practical benero-
nee.
The Union school house at St. ,
caught fire Friday last .
ON furnace and was burned. The
'ss is $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Crooks Indian Policy. ,
SAN CARLOS, Arizona, Nov. s.
General Crook made an address, to-
ay, to 1900 warriors. He told /
lem that the time had now come for