News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-23

! Oduluel L. DdlGlOW VI LII 9uuOhs OhS
of party of New York excursionists,
was drowned at Troy last week.
1t is stated that 5000 bushels oil
corn have been raised in one district
in Randolph this season.
The members of the governors
staff are having their uniforms made
at B. Turk and Bros, Burlington.
The mortuary chapel at Lakeview
Cemetery, Burlington, costly struc-
ture erected by Miss Louise Howard,
sister of the philanthropist John p
Howard, was presented to the city on
Saturday, with appropriate ceremo-
MES.
H. o. Wright of Bartolsville. regis
tered at the Cheshire house, Keere N
H., last Friday night, blew out the gas
and was found dead in his room. He
was 45 years old.
DR.. Samuel W. Thayer died Tues
day evening of last week, at his home
in Burlington, after long illness,
aged IS years. He was acknowledged
to be at the head of his profession in
this state. His disease was blood
poisoning, contracted about fifteen
years ago while performing an ampp-
tation on one of the victims of the
Harlow Bridge disaster, on the Cen
trail road near Mortified.
The venerable Bliss n. Davis of
Danville, now IN his 81st year, argued
a case before the Supreme Court, at
Montpelier, recently.
Ludlow is disguised because two of
its l6 years-old girls have been hauled
up for lascivious conduct and sent to
Jail, while their male companions were
allowed to go scot free.
Workmen at Waterbury have begun
to level off the ground for the new
factory for making wagon axles. The
citizens having subscribed $4,000, the
work of building goes on rapidly. A
side track is built near the old rail-
road shops and west of the engine
hall.
Some of the Lewis college cadets
are going upon the stage with the
classical play The Spy of the At
lanta," for the purpose of replenishing
the college library.
Montpelier is to have a skating rink.
Hon Jewett Adams, who is elected
governor of Nevada. on the democratic
ticket, is native of South Hero, and
resided there until he was twenty-one
years old.
Colonel J. B. Mead, of Randolph,
will sell his entire herd of Shorthorn
cattle.
A Vermont debating society will
tackle the question: (Which is the
most fun-to see a man try to thread
a needle, or a woman try to drive
nail?"
Middlebury has planted a marble
monument on the site of the old whip
ping post and pillory in the village
park.
Egbert r. Davis, a Rutland clerk.
has burned arm and a partially bald
head TO remind him that it isn't always
safe to start fire with kerosene.
The little village of North Pownal
is all in a ferment over a case of sus-
pected wife poisoning. 1t seems that
the wife of DR.. Bailey, a praclicing
physician there, has been for some
time rapidly failing in health and los
ing vitality from no apparent cause.
1t now transpires that her husband
has been administering opiates and
other drugs to her, keeping her in a |
stupor for days ut a time. 1t is also
asserted that he denied her sufficient |
food for subsistence. The neighbors
from her extreme weakness
and emaciation, that something was
not right in her domestic life, and |
after some careful watching they dis
covered the state of affairs which we
have described. AS soon as the cause |
OF the lady's decline was known. n del
egatiOn of indignant villagers waited
upon her inhuman husband and gave |
him TO understand that the quicker he |
left town, the better it would be far
him. This advice was promptly fol-
lowed, and the unhappy wife was sent
home to her friends in Massachusetts. |