News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-04-02
STATE ITEM S,

Clark Sanders, who was convicted
of man slaughter at Montpelier last
week Wednesday, for killing Eman-
uel Carr for improper intimacy with
Mrs. Sanders, has been sentenced to
twenty years hard labor 10 State
Prison by Judge Powers.
Rev. S, l.. Blake, of Fitchburg.
Mass, native of Cornwall, will de-
liver the Grafton before the associated
alumni of MiddIebury college at the
next commencement.
Rutland has So lawyers.
A young man named Elmer Wench
was killed in Marshfield ecently while
chopping in the woods. He was
struck by the butt of lodged tree
and felled to the ground. He had
been dead some time when discovered.
The Plymouth gold mine, opened
Sept. II, 1888, had yielded, January
1st, SCI, $50. The working entrance
TO the mine is a tunnel at the base of
the mountain, and extends $50 feet
into the mountain, where it intersect,
shaft 235 feet deep AMI feet wide.
At Mar~hfrlI. a skeleton with a
pair OF hnrt~ oa. was recen' Iy un-
earthr ill., -.Ha Surk Hn"t digging
for the foundation 81 his mil. |
is sup, o,e., to We the skeleton %,
William Vtiiain, All eccentric iudivid-
uaI, who disappeared suddenly and
my>teriously some years ago.
A native four years old heifer Of
Leonard Huutley's, which dropped
her calf the last of February, made
two pounds and two ounces of butter
from two days milking last week.
Her feed was poor quality of hay
and three quarts of feed, one-half corn
meal and one half bran, each day.
Twenty-Five towns in Vermo mt
have adopted the town system of
schools, and of these, twenty have
adopted it within the past three years.
Station baggagemen at the princi-
pal stations on the Central Vermont
railroad have received orders to wear
uniforms after the first of May.
St. Johnsbury is one of the six State
post-offices which is benefited by the
immediate delivery system to go into
effect July l..
Burlington has young women's
cooking club which wisely abstains
from eating its own productions.
A Norwich man who recently re-
turned from Mount Vernon, brought
a white oak lath from the banquet
hall of the Washington mansion, and
his friends are having the wood made
into charms.
The Bradley building at Bennington
which was burned Saturday night,
taking fire from the explosion of
lamp, was insured for $4,000. The
Noyes block, in which the fire origin
aied, was slightly damaged insured.
A boiler in d. S. Potter's mill at
Groton Pond exploded Friday night,
injuring two men loss $4,000.
II. c. Burwell, of Bridport, who
took the sweepstakes prize on sheep
at the centennial exhibition in 1876.
anu HNe HiSG ptcLllitIlS III Lne YER
mont State fair last fall, has been
awarded two sweepstakes prizes at
New Orleans, amounting to 1915
nearly half OF the money offered on
sheep.
The ST Jobnsbury Young Mems
Christian Association will occupy in
about two weeks its new building, the
gift of Prof. Henry Fairbanks The
right side of the building is fitted up in
a store, offices and tenements. On
the left the association home proper
is gymnasium, reading room, par
lors, and large hall, and rooms for the
secretary and janitor. The asso ia
ton WAS organized in 1855. with II
members, which mad increased to 250
in 1872.
Lawte,cg B rpit was once
school toy ,a Lyo'"n | response
to letltr lerently --t't 'hm ny II res
ident ut II .uwa regarding his hoy
hood day 5 MI. BalleIL whites: 81, is