News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-14


now given it handsome nickel-plated
platform scales for the judges stand.
| Tuesday of last week, a kerosene
oil lamp exploded IN the hands OF
julius Lane, in the edge of Bethel,
setting fire to the house. The neigh
bors worked hard and finally extin-
| ouished the fire. Mr.. Lane inhaled
some of the poisonous gas of the oil
and was insane for several hours, and
has no. been fully restored to con-
seriousness.
Two young gentlemen from Bur
| lingtOn, John HilIard, Joseph @. Bell
| rose, and Ii. q. EdgertQn. spent
few days hunting at Charlotte, and
they together bagged eighteen gray
squirrels and three coons.
1t appears from the census report OF
1880, that the fences in this country
| cost enormously. The returns show
the large aggregate of S77,765,732,
or aboutS1 80 per head for every man,
woman and child in the country. In
Vermont, the cost of building and re-
pairing fences in 1879 is put at S607,-
962. OF $1.82 for each person.
Royalton voted So times without an
election, and adjourned without date.
At Newport Centre, the other day,
Josie Briggs, aged three years, the on
| ly child of Charles Briggs, by some
means fell into pond, She was not
missed or at least not found, until she
had been in the water about half an
hour, and of coarse life was extinct.
A new block for the post-office is to
be put up at Mortified, Just north OF
the hotel. 1t will be q three=story
structure.
At Proctorsville on Tuesday night,
two robbers entered the railroad freight
station after liquor, but were sent off
by James Corrigan, the Waterman,
who vigorously used his revolver.
Rev. E. P. Wild of the Congrega-
tional Church at Newport, has resign
ed on account of poor health.
1t is believed that the Vermont
Waterman will copyright its notorious
editorial headed'fA Political Cyclone. D."
A West Haven man has been lead
er of church choir A years, and it
is said he is enjoying good health.
Some men can stand almost anything.
5. o. P. Ray, a Winooski lawyer, has
been made clerk of the Chittenden
county court, in place of A. j. How
ard, resigned.
S. T. r. Cheney Of Brattleboro,
has a cotton plant in blossom in his
garden, which he raised from seed OBJ
tanned in the South.
Work has commenced on the, toll
bridge across the Connecticut river at
Brattleboro, and new foundation is
being laid for the center pier. -Four
hundred carloads of granite from
Black Mountain is expected.
Mrs. J. N. Northrop, 20 years Of
age, committed suicide by hanging at
Castleton, last Thursday morning.
The general term of the supreme
court convenes October oath at Mont
pelier.
The Howe Scale Company through
the president Col. Geo. A. Merrill,
has presented a set of scales to the
new Howard park at Burlington.
A committee of the directors of the
Passumpsic and St. Johnsbury and
Lake Champlain railroads have voted
TO build new union depot at st.
Johnsbury.
William S. Jet, the man who led
the soldiers to the hiding place of
Booth after Lincoln's assassination,
has been sent to the Maryland insane
asylum a raving lunatic.
Returns from all but two small
towns in the I'd district, received by
Judge Poland, give him 1867 majority.
The town of Lowell led off with four
candidates for representative, but on
the 8th ballot, Frank Skinner was
elected by majority.
Returns from 23O towns give Bar
stow 81, 152, Eaton IA, JOY, Martin and
scattering 1891 Barstow's majority
1854.
The Freshman class in the Uniyer-
sity numbers 40, and a few more are
expected. This is the largest class,
with one exception, that ever entered
the institution.
A Central Vermont freight brake
man, named Phinney, of West Ran
dolph, had the misfortune to break
leg above the knee, at Rouses Point
on Thursday, while coupling cars.
While wrestling at the town meet
ing at Calais, George W. Houghton
injured himself internally, and had to
be carried home on a bed. His case
is critical.
Z. 3. Sayles, of Shoreham, took
the first premium on butter at the In
ternational Dairy Fair in New York.
His cows are all of the jersey breed,
and he sets the milk in pans II inches
deep, and immerses them in spring
water.
Hon. Henry Ballard has decided to
take up has permanent residence at
the west, and viii shortly remove
thither.
Among the new patents just issued
by the United States Patent Office is
one to Judson A. Bald win, of Shell
burn, for improvements in evapora-
tors.
The annual meeting of the Pas
sumpsic railroad was held at Newport,
September 6. The old board of Di-
rectors were elected with the excep-
ton of Hon. L. z. Redfeld in place
of Lncius Robinson, deceased. No. !
l0l of the Acts of the Legislature of
1873 is as follows: "No Judge Of the
Supreme Court of this State shall
hold any Office in any railroad corpor-
alton in this State"
While two Mortified boys, Eddie
Wright and Irving Bean, were trying
to get the same apple, the former had
8 finger nearly severed by a knife in
the hand Of the latter.
Some s.swap de boss" Canadians
were trying the speed Of their cadav-
erous steeds outside the fair grounds
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