News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-11-01
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lately became So bad that it was
thought best to take him to the asy-
lum at BrattleborO, and in company
with one of the Selectmen started for
that place one day last week. Upon
the arrival of the train at LyndOnville
he jumped out of the car, and with
his pocket knife cut his throat. He
was taken to the Union House, where
a physician sewed up the wound, and
he may recover.
Thomas Boland, of Mortified, a
freight brakeman % years old, and
single, fell from his train near Middle
sex on Tuesday night of last week
and was killed, his body being cut in
pieces.
A will made by the late Trenor w.
Park, of Bennington, p years ago,
has been sent on by San Francisco
lawyer and will be prObated at Ben
nington. The property has been dis
tributed on the theory that there was
no will. Park made a testament
some years ago setting aside the old
will, and it is supposed that it will not
interfere with the distribution already
made.
Newton Durham, of Barton, quar-
relied with his wife and recently aban-
doned her to the care Of the Overseer
of the poor. lie afterward snatched
her young baby from her, and had it
driven away while he dragged the
woman fainting into the house and
left her. The wife is nearly insane
and the neighbOrs are highly indig-
nant over the affair.
The Rutland Herald tells of man
in Castleton who still cIings to an UNI
hTella and clock with which he began
housekeeping in 1928. He also re-
tains an OvcrcOat he bought Of Shop
ard & Ware, dealers in clothing in
Castleton so years ago. lie is one
of the heaviest tax payers on the
grand list of the town.
The old house in which Ethan All
en- spent the night while en- route to
Westminster, in Revolutionary days
still stands in Dummerston, in a good
state of preservation, and is occupied
as a dwelling by family vine take
pride in pointing out the room where
the brave general slept preparatory to
the first revolutionary skirmish.
Moulton Brothers, proprietors of
the Green Mountain stock farm at
Randolph, received last week three
valuable cows purchased at the Coop
er sale of imported jersey COWS in
New York. The prices paid were as
follows: ElDOrado, two years old,
$500; Melville, three years old,
$1,000; Dainty Lady, two years old,
with heifer calf, $3.50.
The State bar ASSOCIATION met at
Montpelier on Wednesday of last
week and elected the following Off
GERS: President, B. f. Fifeld; vice
Presidents, George w. Harmon, a.
f. Walker, Roswell Farnham Sccre-
tary, George w. Wing Treasurer,
Hiram Carlton; Managers, Frank
Plumley, j. j. Wilson, f. j. Orms-
bee and w. c. French. Judge Hoyt
H. Wheeler, of the United States
courts read biographical sketch of
William G. Bradley, of Westminster,
one OF the most prominent early law
yers in the State, and various law
yers delivered addresses.
The boy counterfeiting gang, with
headquarters near Jamaica, was or
ganized last June and seems to have
been managed on the true dime novel
plan, with an elaborate set of officers,
secret alphabets, records, blood curd-
ling initiatory ceremonies, and three
bombastic oaths of which these lines
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cur secret purposes, do you solemnIy
swear upon your honor and by all that
is great and small, by the devil and
all his imps, hell and all its terrors,
this world and ali its dungeons, the
| nited Birds and Brothers and all
their avengers, never to betray or
cause to be betrayed any one Of our
party, but to always defend each and
every one of us through thick and
thin, to the last, upon the fear of
being shot dead in your tracks or
stabbed through the heart with nine
inch blade? So help you God" Ac-
cording to the boy who tells the story,
the last oath was administered with
the applicant kneeling, while loaded
nd 10 1f
head. One boy ran away during in
itiation, but was brought back, and
modified ceremony suited to his ten
der nerves substituted for the genuine.
1t doesn't appear that the gang coined
anything but bogus dollars, but they
are SAID to have stolen a horse or
two, just for practice. Two Of them
are held under $1,000 bail and the Of
ficers are after the rest.