News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-11
STATE ITEM S.

shrewsbury mas Iau anOGueE Oh IIS
outbreaks of ruffianism, which Culmi-
mated in the breaking up Of an Adj
vent Sunday evening meeting, for
which three men have been arrested.
The Barton National Bank has
filed a petition in insolvency at St.
Adams against Bradley Barlow, and
the hearing as TO whether he be adj
judged bankrupt has been set for Oc-
tober 10.
An inmate Of the Vernon aims
house named BrOderick has been ar
rested for attempting to outrage Mrs.
Patrick ONeil last week Monday
night. She made a vigorous resist
ance, her cries brought help and the
villain was beaten away. Broderick
has not yet been tried, as Mrs. O'Neil
is unable to appear in court.
The clearinghouse and barn, with
contents, owned by Reuben B. Wing,
at No. Troy, was burned Monday
night. Loss, $4,000; partly insured.
A fire at St. Adams burned the up
per part of DriscolPs block one day
last week and damaged the Aiming
ton and Gilmore blocks. Several
firms suffer slight losses. Two fire.
men were hurt by falling walls.
Springfield Republican; An unkind
man who saw the recent encampment
of Vermont militia at st. Johnsbury
describes the reviewing officers thus
- One is the Governor, two are En-
Governors, and the other II all want
to be Governors"
The Windham county Reformer
figures out, in support of the new tax
| law, that the railroads of the State
will pay between 500 900 and S97 900
taxes this year against $40 ,349 last
year; while the insurance companies
pay SIS, 200, the express companies
$1,000 and telegraph companies $500
| in taxes where they have paid moth
! ing before. Between 100000 and
100000 is collected in taxes from
interests that have always gone scot
free.
Stephen c. Wyman, of Mt. Holly,
Andover and Weston,is awaiting trial
at Woodstock for a specially fragrant
case of bigamy. He is charged with
living with two wives at the same time,
in the same house, and with inhu
manly beating his children.
The States attorney of Windham
county filed information last week
against dozen obstinate witnesses
who disobeyed subpgnas in the liquor
cases.
The Rutland grand jury adjourned
without indicting ex-Treasurer Joel
NJ. Haven or anybody else for the al
| legged embezzlement of $4,000 from
the Rutland railroad, and the Rutland
Herald has a vigorous editorial con-
demning the failure and asking the
reason for it. This is the money that
Page and his friends charge Haven
with stealing, and that Haven per-
sists in saying Page stole if anybody.
The Herald might do useful stroke
of work if it would find out and then
publish the reason why the indictment
failed. The same jury brought in six
bills against Haven for Over-issuing
stock of the road, but Ravens attor-
neys have claimed that they had a
good technical defense to that charge
because Pages and Ravens sons
made the, over-issue, and that Haven
only cut up that stock into smaller
blocks. So it is possible that no one
will be punished for all this Irregular
ity.
Judge J. p. Kidder, member of
the fourth judicial district of Dakota,
and also a member of the Supreme
bench of that territory, died last week,
aged 67 years. He was lieutenant
governor of Vermont one term. He
was appointed q judge by President
Lincoln, and was elected a delegate to
Congress and re-appointed judge after
ward. Judge Kidder was lieutenant
governor of Vermont in 1858. John
S. Robinson, of Bennington, was then
Governor, and HOratio Needham, of
Bristol, was speaker of the House.
This was the last time that Vermont
had Democratic Governor, and this
result was only obtained by coalition
between the Free Sellers and Demo
Gratis in the Legislature, there being in
1858 no election by the people.
A farmers wife in Germany, max
ing some cherry brandy, found the
fruit unsound, and threw the whole
into the yard. Her ten geese ate