News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-25
STATE ITEM S.

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State fair were $4,000.
Windham County Court granted y
divorces.
The home for destitute children in
Burlington has elected the following:
President, Mrs. L. D. Turrill; vice
President, Mrs. A. G. Spaulding
Treasurer, Mrs. L. NJ. Clapp; Secre-
tarv and Auditor, Mrs. S. c. Cole,
with a board of managers and an adj
visory committee.
Gov. Barstow has pardoned Ed
mund NJ. Stone, of Dummerston,
who was sentenced in 1877 to y
years in State Prison for arson. He
pleaded guilty, thinking he would get
only five or six years, and he impli-
Gated his principal, Harrison NJ.
Townshend.
The dry goods store of Royce &
Golf at No. Troy was burglarized on
the night of the 10Th. The thief Sc
cured five overcoats, one piece Of vel
vet, three or four dozen kid gloves
and some knives and wallets.
The Norwood lumber company is
advertised to be sold at public auc-
ton on November 9TH, the sale to
take place Mt Norwood. N Y.
The Central Vermont road has just
purchased ten locomotives Of the
''Mogul" pattern, the present number
being inadequate for the immense
business now being done.
A general term of the Vermont Su-
preme Court is ordered to be held at
Montpelier, commencing the 23d.
There are SO cases on the docket
twelve of them have been heard once,
but are ordered to be re-argued.
Mrs. Langtry has arrived in this
country in pursuance Of her second
engagement. New scenery and new
costumes have been prepared for her,
and Parlsian art has been exhausted to
furnish forth her wardrobe. Mrs.
Langtrv is announced to appear in
Burlington this week.
Ira Whitney and Addison Webster,
of Plymouth, were before District
Attorney Haskins at Brattleboro Tues
day, charged with illicit distilling in
that town. They each gave bonds
for their appearance 1t court.
Last Friday was the twentieth an
niversary Of the St. Adams raid.
Fred f. Scovel, of Middlebury,
made a bicycle trip last week We'd
nesday to Burlington and return, COW
ering about so miles in all. The dis
lance to Burlington, % miles, was
made in three hours.
Rev. r. G.. Bugbee, of Bethel, has
accepted the call of the Congregations
al church at Randolph, and begins his
labors at once.
Horace Adams, a prominent bust
ness man at Bellows Falls, fell dead
from heart disease on Thursday of last
week. He was about ca years old
and leaves family.
The Woodstock Standard says that
the gold mine at Tyson Furnace is
being theoretically worked. 1t is too
early yet to say whether the precious
metal exists in paying quantity.
The hearing of the petition Of the
Barton National Bank to have Brad
ley Barlow declared insolvent was be-
fore Judge Bailey at st. Adams Fri
day. Barlow was adjudged insolvent
and the debtors appeal taken to the
the county court. The appeal was
taken mainly because the Brainerd in
sOlvency case was appealed, and it
was thought best not to proceed fast
er in this case than in that, as the two
were so closely connected. Barlow
makes no contest against insolvency.
The State homeopathic society met
at Montpelier last week Thursday,
and changed the time of the annual
meeting to June. The present board
Of officers hold over,
Judge Royce rendered an opinion at
st. Adams last week in the habeuS cor
puO CASE vi Law IGICc DIdlnGTu, ulueG
arrest for refusing to make any disclos-
ures IN connection with the failure of
the st. Adams Trust Company, hold |
ing that Brainerd was illegally arrest
ed and unlawfully imprisoned and or
dering his discharge. If Brainerd |
was guilty he should be punished, but
it was the duty of the court to pro-
tect him from false Imprisonment.
The st. Adams Messenger charges
that Lawrence BrRincrd checked out
$4,000 of trust company funds about !
seven days before he closed the COM
pany doors, and gave his note for it.
Gov. Cotton says the Norwood ium-
Der company didn't receive the money.
Brainerd claims that he had only
S2.42 when the company failed, and
the Messenger wants to know where