News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-03-30
STATE EM S.

| broken last week Dy lall from the
high beams of his barn.
Ex-Gov. Redfeld Proctor's house
at Sutherland Falls was burned Fri
day evening.
Stockbridge has had 125 cases of
scarlet fever in the last few months,
II being fatal.
Claims are now being made that
McCaffrie, the Waterbury murderer,
is not insane but merely passionate
and brutal.
John Sherborn died recently at
Wheelock, after he had lain in bed
continually for 43 years, his spine
having been hurt in 1889 by a fall
from horse. His general health, it
is said, has been good.
Barton is building chair factory.
The Free Baptist church at St.
Johnsbury was burned Sunday, the
fire catching from the furnace. The
vestry in the basement is probably
not much damaged except by water.
The house was built five years ago at
q cost of S15, 900. 1t was insured for
$1,000 in the German-American COM
pany and for $4,000 in the Vermont
Union.
DR.. Cutting, secretary OF the board
of agriculture, is very sick with a
bronchial difficulty.
A nurse training school will be or
ganized in connection with the Mary
Fletcher hospital at Burlington requir-
ing only a fee of $40 Il session of four
weeks from May 1st.
A druggist at White River Junction,
sold liquor to man recently who be-
came imbrecated, fell out of his wag-
on and died from Injuries received.
The druggist hes fed.
c. L. Piper of Brattleboro, late
grocery merchant, has gone to work
for Estey & Co.
Mrs. Joseph Soper Of St. Johns
bury, aged 80 years, was suffering
from neuralgia, recently, was given a
dose OF morphine BY her physicians.
From the sleep that ensued, she could
not be awakeend, and the next morning
she died.
John LABEL of Bolton, was fearfullv
injured by the falling Of a tree he was
cutting down.
Another-John II. Brown, of Rut-
land, brakeman on the Central Yer
mont, was cut in two by the cars pass
ing over him. We begin to believe
the estimate of an exchange, that fif-
teen brakemen were killed per week,
in the United States.
One case of smallpox at Ludlow.
At Braintree, Ross Ford is dead; the
rest of the family are improving slight
| ly.
Some one cut down 4 beautiful elm
shade tree for fire wood, at Mortified,
and the editor of the Mortified 1Ne1CS
calls him an sold sinner" He must
have been foolish one, too, to chop
an elm for fire wood.
Maj. Orrin Field died at Cornwall,
aged 80 years; the oldest inhabitant.
The authorities made a raid on the
hotels at Barton, Selling over one
hundred gallons of ''liquid death"
fined the proprietors $50 each, and
one month in the House Of Cor
rection. "Pretty high"
The trial of Peters and wife, the
child-murderers, at Mansonville, is in
progress atSweetsburgh. IT'S thought
they will be convicted.
The argus says that R. A. Tilden,
of Union Village, has just finished
shearing his Registered stock sheep.
Is it not rather early to begin sheep
shearing? Perhaps they are kept in
! warm quarters. azs--
The Vermont Methodist Conference
meets at Ludlow, April goth, Bishop
Merrill Of Chicago, presiding,
Mrs. Maria Church of Waterville,
died of paralysis. The funeral SER
vices were conducted by Rev. Z.
Wheelock. She was 73 years of age.
Some hundred and twenty-five peo-
pie from Johnson, Cambridge, Fairfax
and Waterville, made a visit at 5. r.
Miller's on Tuesday evening of last
week, it being the tenth anniversary
of their marriage. Among the many
presents were fine hanging lamp. q
very nice sofa and an elegant table cas-
| ter.
Many pieces Of winter grain at
Charlotte, are reported looking badly.
There has been too much freezing and
thawing this winter, and many low
muck meadows are so badly heaved
that the grass crop on them can not
be otherwise than light.
Geo. W. Kennedy of Waterbury,
has in his possession Masonic apron
about one hundred years old. 1t or
iginally belonged to Caleb Hull of
Hinesburgh, and is made Of heavy
white silk, yellow with age.
And now they are talking up a rail
road run from Barre by way of Wash
ington, Corinth, Ely, West Fairlee,
Thetford through Post Mills, Thet-
ford Center and Union Village to
Pomponoosuc, and down the line Of
the Passumpsic railroad to White
River Junction.
At the meeting CT the listers Of
Caledonia County, the following prices
were set on personal property: oxen,
4 1-2 cents a pound; three-years-old
steers, $50 pair; two-years-oId, SIG
each yearlings, 50 each thrce-years-
old colts, $50; two-years-old, $50 /;
yearlings, $40; swine, Sc hundred {;
bees, So swarm; hay $40 ton !;
wool, p cents q pound bank stock,
par value,
The Jeannette Search.
WAsnINGrON, March 23.-The sec
rotary of the navy has received a com