News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-10-05
STATEiTEMS.

Hon. Lyman Hinekley, of Thetford,
father of eX-Lientenant-Gover l.. q.
Hinckley, died last week Wednesday,
aged 81 years. He had been justice,
selectman, and in 1861 and 1852 was
elected judge of county court.
The Episcopal church choir convention
which meets in Brattleboro, October p
u, promises to be a very interesting oc-
casion. 1t is expected that over 100
voices will join in the chorus.
Postmaster Kendall Taylor, of Proctors-
vile, completes this season 81 years of
continuous service in that office.
A nineteen-months-old son of Ii. E.
Learned. of Halifax got n bean into his
WlndpiDe and died within an hour.
Three disciples of Isaac Walton caught
100 pounds of pickerel and bass in Lake
Bomoseen recently.
The Fairhaven Mabla anl Marbleized
Slate Company, of FhirnaYvI. an old es-
tahlished and thriving corporation, has
brought a bill in chancery to enjoin the
''isii'saassT-S 4at-A- G.srl1 frGm the use of
such name. The iatfef~is a new corpora
ton. just organized. and the old company
claims the name of the new company as
an imitation of the name calculated TO de-
ceive the customers Of the old company.
Lewis Caissey, police officer, and II.
n. Love, editor of the ReUiel1, each make
claim to the One-folrth moiety of the
$1,000 fine recently paid by Michael Cain,
of Rutland, for selling liquor. Each of
the parties claim to be the informant or
complainant. The Justice, Wayne Bailey,
Esq, holds the money till IL can be de-
termined to whom it belongs.
The body of John Johnson the missing
young man of Barnet, has been found in
the Connecticut riveI. 1t is thought he
committed suicide while insane.
Burlington is to have three days trot-
ting meeting, beginning October II, with
purses amounting to $4,000.
Indictments have been found against
eight men concerned in the 1arrng and
feathering of Paul Ellis at Shrewsbury
last spring.
1t is said that difference of opinion has
arisen in the management of the Benning
ton Battle Monumen; Association, as to
Barre granite or Rutland. 1t is reported
that some Rutland gentlemen arc urging
the latter material.
Luther Leet, hermit, committed sui
eide by hanging at his home in Stamford,
on Tuesday of last week. Leet was a
well educated man, who, through disap-
pOintment. has isolated himself from civ
iliZatiOn.
The gang of men. in charge of Engineer
Fitch of Sheldon, began on Monday the
survey of the new Htrdwick and Marsh
field railroad.
Randolph is the seat of a new industry.
An agent OF Western apple seed COM
pany, is contracting for the seed of cider
makers. and has invented a process by
which about one bustel of seed is seDar-
ated and cleaned from hundred bushels
of apples in about an hour. He expects
to ship 400 bushels OF clean, fresh seeds,
this fall.
Sixty lots have been sold by the Spirit
ualist association at Queen City Park.
Burlington, for building purposes the
coming season, and they are sanguine
that within two years two hundred cot
tages will be erected on the grounds
there.
Three hundred thousand slate pencils
are shipped weekly from the pencil
arc enPlolled ~ t:4e sniif aud qdslfIy -
The Fair Haven Era is "bappy to
state that no arrests were made at the
camp meeting during its entire session."
This is indeed matter for congratula-
ton.
Henry n. Newell, of Shelburn. clerk
of the Vermont House of Representa-
tives, has been appointed to a $1,000
clerkship in the pension office at Wash
ington. a sad ending of a promising
and brilliant career.
The panther which has been roaming
around Windsor county for several months
past. was seen in Chester several times
last week.
The seat of Noah Preston, representa-
tive-elect from Bolton, will not be con-
tested.
George F. Skiff, of Monkton. will be
dOor-keeper in the House of Representa-
tives, and b. c. Bromley. of Richmond,
his assistant