News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-07
STATE ITEM S.

has IeCeubll given GuS w aihCl AAN1i4N
of st. Adams a check for $1,000.
ssThe Odd Girls Of Barton have a
society of their own.
Farmers at the north end of Addi-
son county have been troubled more
than usual this year by snow blocked
roads. Prime shipping hay sold there
for So to 50 a ton, and there is an
abundance of stock hay at So to 81.
Oats have gone up to 40 and 40 cts.
Potatoes are 25 to % cents. Lum-
/ bering and wood chopping are active.
Mr.. o. NJ. Tinkham, of North
Pomfret, Is appointed by the Govern
or delegate to the American Agri-
cultural Society's meeting in New
York, February and z. Those hav-
ing matters of interest they wish laid
before the society should communi-
cate with him.
Trenor L. Park, his brother-in-law,
F. B. Jennings, and watch company
of New Haven, Conn, have organ
lied company for the manufacture
of watch cases, and ale to start bust
ness in North Bennington.
The trouble with Rev. j. E. Bruce,
who has been deposed from the Con-
gregational church at Salisbury, is
that his marriages and divorces have
been very much mixed up. He is now
living with his third wife, but the
brethren don't like his back record.
The sessions of the council that de-
posed him were secret.
Wooster Flood, in Jail at st. AL
bans for burglary, and a prisoner
named f lis, in for train wrecking.
tried to dig out Thursday night, and
Flood succeeded. Ellis was caught
while crawling through the hole. This
is the second escape at the Jail with
in a short time.
A Bakersfield man named Alfred
Eldridge, living with Geo. Briteh, at
Franklin was found hung in the cham
Der on Thursday morning of last week.
No cause is assigned except cold
weather and hard times.
The safe of William Spaulding, of
Derby Line, a merchant, was robbed
on Monday afternoon of S2500 in cash
and notes. Stearnes Holland was
arrested on suspicion.
Some of our readers who noticed
the high price brought by Battle
boro postage stamp at the sale of
Hon. L. E. Chittenden's collection of
stamps, may have wondered what the |
stamp could have been. As Vermont |
was the first State to establish mint, I
having coined copper cents in 1875,
before its admission to the Union, an
tedating both Connecticut and Massa-
chusetts in the issue of coins, so one
of the first issues of postage stamps,
after the reduction of letter postage
to five cents for 800 miles or less, in
1916, was made in Vermont, by the
town of Brattleboro. This was
year before the general government
began to issue stamps, in lS47. The
Brattleboro stamp was one of the So
called provisional issues" made
about the same time in Baltimore,
Brattlcboro, New Haven, New York
and St. Louis, and was small buff
label, somewhat smaller than the
present two cent stamp, bearing on
it the words: ''BrattlebOro, VT, p.
o. 3 cents" and the initials of the
Postmaster, F. n. Palmer. These
Brattleboro stamps, of which few
were issued, are among the rarest of
stamps, and very few collectors have
anything but a photograph of it.
The people of Grand Isle are agi-
tated over what they believe to be a
murder mystery, the murderer being
one Oscar Won Blumendale, formerly /
of Burlington, and the victim one /
Hermann Krauser, of Grand Isle.
The st. Adams Messenger tells the
story as follows: Early in January
Won Blumendale went from Burling-
ton to Grand Isle to see another Ger
man named Hermann Krauser, who
worked for a Grand Isle farmer,
Charles Wilcox. He induced Kraus-
er to come across the lake with him,
and they came as far as Lapham's
Bay, since which time nothing has
been seen or heard of Krauser. There
are suspicious Of foul play, and these
are not entirely groundless.
Krauser had about So on his person
and after the two had been away some
time, Won Blumendale returned and
procured an axe, rope, large stone
and a hand sled at the Bay, saying
that he had caught some fish and
wanted to anchor them in the lake.
He afterward appeared at the Wilcox
farm house, covered with blood, and
he explained it by saying that he had
quite a tussel with large fish ald
became spattered with blood, and that
a handkerchief which he left at the
Wilcox place was one which had been
given to Krauser some little time be-
fore. He went to ST. Adams and
asked for Krauser's trunk, saying its
owner had frozen his leg so badly that
he could not come after it himself,
but was in St. Adams waiting for it.
He was afterwards seen with some of
Krauser's clothing on. He has been
arrested.