News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-09-04
STATE ITEM S.

STATE ITEMS.
The tenth annual meeting OF the
Vermont W. G. T. Z. will be holden
in Mlddlebury September II, Is and
19. Free entertainment will be turn-
ished to delegates and return checks
over the principal railroads. All
unions are invited to send three dele
gates and other temperance organiza-
tions one delegate. Churches where
there is no union are invited to send
one delegate each. There is to be a
reception on the evening of the 10th.
Mrs. Hannah Whitall Smith is expec-
ted to be present, also Mrs. Willard,
of the Union Signal. Mrs. Nc
Laughlin, of Boston, will deliver the
annual address.
The Universalists have held three
DAYS annual state convention at
Mortified last week. The reports
show 50 parishes in the state, with a
church membership of 1915, and 40
Sunday schools with 1929 scholars.
Church property is worth 100000 ;
the home missionary collections a.
mounted to $500, and $4,000 was
raised for church work, a gain of
$4,000. The general condition of the
church in the state is healthful and
growing.
Governor Barstow has appointed
Gen. E. H. Ripley, of Rutland, COM
missioner for Vermont to the Ameri-
can exhibition in London. Gen. Rip
ley's wide acquaintance in this coun-
try and England and his Identification
with the industries and products of
this State, make his appointment emil
nently appropriate and fitting. The
exhibition is to be opened May l.,
1886, and will form a complete repre-
sentation of the arts, manufactures,
employments and productions of the
United States.
Recently, while child four years
old, of John Aher, in Brattleboro,
was playing with some children with
matches, the matches took fire, set
ting fire to the Aher child's doll,
which communicated to the child's
clothing. The mother endeavored to
extinguish the flames, but the burns
proved fatal and the child died the
next day.
The town of Stockbridge will ap-
ply to the next Legislature to have a
parcel of land called "no town." ly-
ing between Stockbridge, Barnard,
and Sherburne, which |
contains between 200 and 800 acres,
and does not belong to any town, an
nexed to Stockbridge. The land is
worth very little and has not been
,axed by any town, though the deeds
nave been recorded in Sherburne.
How long will a potato sprout
grow? The writer recently found
stray potato in his cellar from which
me sprout had grown, and it had run
nearly twenty feet on the cellar bot
ON, in the dark, had turned a cor
Ter round a barrel towards the light,
md had climed the cellar wall and
zone out of doors through a crevice
n the window and then leaved out.
The potato was sound and fit to eat
besides. The sprout was not meas
lred, but it must have been over 80 |
feet long before reaching the window.
Col. E. A. Chittenden has in his
rooms at the Weldon House, St. AL |
bans,a clock which originally belonged |
to Gov. Chittenden and was made in |
Birmingham, England. Among those
who have looked upon its dial were
the Marquis de Lafayette, Ira Allen,
Ethan Allen, Remember Baker and
others who were prominentin the organ
ization of the State of Vermont. The
works and the dial were found in the
attic of the house occupied by Mrs.
B. Chittenden, near Governor Chit
tenden's- old homestead in Williston,
and the Colonel has had the clock re-
stored. The case is made of San
Domingo and Mexican mahogany.
In the door is a coat of arms COM
posed of the following woods: The
talbot's head, of oak from a door
built for Gov. Thomas Chittenden
more than a hundred years ago; the
eye, whiskers and shading of the
same are of live oak from the
ship-of- the-line Constitution" C"Old |
Ironsides'') !; the shield of bar wood |
and satin wood, and the crescent |
a red cedar knot from a post on the
farm of his son, Gov. Martin Chit
tenden. 1t was the aim in the res
toration of this relic to initiate the
original case as near as might be, and |
the work has been we'll done. The
clock has musical attachment, which |
furnishes a "concert" every three |
hours.
A North Hartland family had bad |
luck last week. A correspondent |
says Frank Mclaughlin disturbed
nest of wasps Wednesday evening,
and to get away from them ran into
the barn behind horse, which kicked |
him in the chest, cracking several
ribs and rendering him insensible for
several minutes. The next day Mrs.
with the team, went for
medicine for the injured man. When
on her return her horse ran away,
throwing her out, wrecking the car
rage and very badly injuring her
about the head and face. The same
day the hired man was sent to Hart
ford for some help, when he had a
with another team which re-
suited in a smash up.
COOP ADVICE TO Young MEN,
Young men, you are the architects of
your own fortunes RELY ON Your own