News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-03-29
STATE ITEM 5.

STATE ITEMS.
Gov. Barstow has appointed Mr..
2. Fairbanks, of st. Johns
bury, as Commissioner to represent
Vermont at the Denver Exposition,
next July.
The authorities recently seized six
cases of liquor at the West Concord
express office, and Is packages at
North Concord.
Shoreham has had a large addition
to her citizens recently, in the
shape of a Is 1-2 pound baby.
w. V. Sturtevant, of New Haven,
recently drove a valuable horse into
an open cistern, which happened to
be dry. BY filling the cistern with
straw the horse was got out without
receiving a scratch.-Er.
The listers of Caledonia county met
at St. Johnsbury recently, eight towns
represented, and adopted the follow
ING as fair rates in the appraisal of
property: Oxen, cents pound live
weight; three years old steers, $50 a
woke; two years old, S15; yearlings,
50 COWS, $50; three years old colts,
SEQ; two years old, $40; yearlings,
$40; hogs Z cents per pound; sheep,
$3.50 wool 70 cents per pound hay,
Sl2 per ton; logs, Sc thousand feet;
manufactured lumber Sl2.
The defunct Connecticut River Mu-
tual Fire Insurance Company, has,
through its Treasurer and attorney,
collected $4,000 of the 10 per cent.
assessment. There remains about
$4,000 to be collected.
Eugene 0. Donnell, 40 years of
age, loaded blast in G. +. Crowell's
quarry, at Brattleboro, with too hot
sand, and was blown six rods by the
explosion, dropping dead. He leaves
wife and four children.
Hiram W. Keiser, of West Con-
cord, walked off with the Hardwick
church organ the other night, and is
in jail.
Rev. Moses Patten, of Rochester,
has accepted call the Congregational
church at Ripton.
Rey. J. c. Osgood, of South Brad
ford, accepts a call to the Free Will
Baptist church at Springvale, Me.
Bradley Barlow has changed his
residence from st. Adams to Montre-
al. He has still little tax suit on
his hands at St. Adams, and people
say his dislike for Vermont listers
made him choose to be a Kanuck. As
President of the SOUTHEASTERN rail
road his real residence, for some time,
has been at Montreal.
Rev. W. J. Tilley, of the Episco-
pal church, at DIiddlebury, will accept
call to Brandon.
Marlboro voted G. to p, Thursday,
not to bond in aid of the BrattlebOrO
and Bennington railroad.
Upon final settlement of the estate
of the late Matt Carpenter, the widow
has received about $3.50, 900 in cash.
Wesley Brown, aged %, killed
himself at DummerstOn Thursday,
while temporarily insane, by cutting
his throat with a jack-knife. He had
been insane by spells for five years
past, and his parents rather than put
him in the asylum, had made within
his room heavy oaken cage, in which
he was confined whenever an insane
fit was on him. At three o'clock
Thursday morning he carefully slipped
from his bed, got his knife from his
pocket, and partly severed his head
from the body.
The clothes of Mrs. David COburn,
wife of a Richford farmer, caught fire
while she was sick in bed, unable to
move. Her husband attracted by her
screams, found her enveloped in
flames, and succeeded in eXtinguish-
ing the fire and saving the house from
being burned: But the doctors think
Mrs. COlburn cannot recover
Another of Vermont's horuUle muir
ders is to be taken up next Thursday,
in the County Court at Montpelier.
Michael McCaffery will be tried for
killing his wife and her mother at
Waterbury. W. P. Dillingham; will
defend him on the plea of insanity.
Judge Veazey, of Rutland, deliv-
ers the Decoration Day address at
Londonderry, and Maj. G. I. Childs,
of St. Adams, at Rutland.
The Methodist conference is APP
pointed to meet at St. Adams April
Is, not, as was recently stated, on the
8th; but as Bishop Peck writes that
he can not preside, the appointment
will probably be changed to April %,
to accommodate Bishop Simpson.
The pulpit at Chelsea West Hill, not
at Chelsea, is among those that must
have a change of pastor, and there
are also Al supplies of local preachers
among whom several changes may
occur. No change is necessary among
the presiding elders, whose terms are
four years.