News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-08-09
STATE LEM S.

week.
A. J. Bean. of West Concord,
Jumped from a load Of lumber while
the horses were running away, and
broke his ankle.
Joe" BattelI, of Bread Loaf Inn
fame, has bought 10000 acres of land
in Addison county for the sake of
preserving the forests on it.
There have been raised about two
hundre bushels of strawberries in
North FerriSburgh this season; they
mostly went to Burlington market.
Thomas NJ. Green has brought a
County Court suit against the Bellows
Falls village corporation for the rails
ing of Minard's pond and overlooking
/ his land, destroying some 800 trees.
The State militia have their annual
muster at st. Johnsbury, beginning
September 1. They are trying to get
the semi-annual encampment of the
! Grand Army set for the same time
and place.
Suits were brought against Deputy
Sheriff Door Clough, of Bellows Falls,
recently, by C. w. Town, of Towns
hotel, to recover the liquor seized not
long since. The seizure is Ii able to
end in a long litigation.
Geo. F. Davis, of Windsor, has
sold to Adam Forepaugh a pair of
handsome bay horses, five years old,
and 16 hands high, of 22OO pounds
weight, for $1,000 These horses are
to be presented to the president of the
Penn. Central r. r.
Sheffield comes into the sea serpent
competition with a monster 20 feet
long, in Bruce pond, a sheet Of water
covering about 100 acres, and situated
on the height of land near the village.
Persons claim to have seen it several
years ago, and now the sensation Is
revived again.
The talk of removing Lewis Col
lege from Mortified to Brattleboro
seems to have been abandoned. Prep
arations are being made for the fall
term with two additions to the facul-
tv. Rev. I. p. Booth will act as
dean and professor Of theology and
natural history. and f. c. Wiley, a
graduate of Williams, tutor.
Grading on the Montreal, Portland
and Boston railroad is nearly COM
plete from Frelighsburg, Que, to
Sheldon, and track laying will COM
mence September l. The entire
length of the road from Sheldon to
Farnham is to be laid with steel rails.
1t is said that through trains will be
running before cold weather.
James Brown, farmer aged about
40 years, living en- the east shore,
north of Alhurgh, in Canada, was
drowned the Sd inst. He had crossed
the lake in a small boat to take his
mother and sister to ROuses Point,
and returning in heavy wind the
boat was capsized, and before assist
ance got to him he was drowned. 1t
is reported that he was under the in
duence of liquor at the time of the
accident. At last accounts the body
nau noC Doem found.
The total amount of internal reve
nue. taxes collected in Vermont for the
year ending June so, 1855, is as fol
lows On distilled spirits, S595.54 ;
special taxes, SIS, jO2.Sj; on cigars
and tobacco, SIS, 1851; on banks
and bankers, S8,269.19; penalties,
fines, etc, SOL. OS; total, SIG ,OG2.-
p. The amount collected the previ-
Gus year was SOC, 444.jS, showing 4
decrease this year Of $40, 382.31, but
Of there had been no change in the
revenue laws, the amount collected
would, without doubt, have been at
least 100000.
On Wednesday of last week the ex-
press tram on the South-Eastern rail
road from Newport to Montreal, was
derailed three miles from North Troy
and the whole train wrecked. Two
parlor, one baggage, one passenger
car and a new engine were destroyed.
| One woman from Derby was fatally
injured and some fourteen others were
seriously hurt. Fred Pierce of Stan
stead, r. l., and his servant were
very badly hurt. There were so pas
sengers aboard and it is a great won
der that so many escaped.
A most shocking suicide was com
mitted at Shelburn Friday evening.
George White, of Belcher, Washing
ton county, n. y, brother of James
+. White, went to Shelburn on Fri
day afternoon with the intention of
visiting his brother. For some time
past his mind has been seriously af-
fected by business troubles He was
somewhat better, however, at the
time of his intended visit, the purpose
of which was in the hope that the
change of scenery might forward his
recovery. lie was missed from his
brothers house at about o'clock in
the evening, and upon search being
made about the building, his body
was found hanging to a tree in the
yard. He had taken pair of reins
from the barn, climbed into the tree,
and after securing the ends to a limb,
made a slip moose in the loop and
jumped off. His neck was broken
and death must of course have been
instantaneous. Mr.. White was 80
years old and leaves a family.
A shocking accident, by which two
lives were lost and q third imperilled,
occurred last week on the Burlington
ana LamoilIe railroad, near Essex
Center. As the eastern bound ex-
press train, James b. Henderson con-
ductor, and John Ryder, engineer,
was within about half a mile Of the
station at Essex Center, Simon Gun
bingham attempted to cross the track
in advance Of the locomotive. He
was in 4 buggy and accompanied by
his wife and a four years old child.
The location is known as Peppin's
crossing, and at this point train is
visible for a long distance-half
mile, perhaps. The fireman first saw
Cunningham approaching, and tue bell
was rung and the whistle blown. But
the ill fated man refused to take
warning and drove ahead. The result
was, that the engine struck the horse
in the hip and dreadfulIy mangled it,
smashed the wagon into kinGling
wood, and killed Cunningham instant
| ly. Mrs. Cunningham had both legs
broken and was otherwise badly in