News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-04-23
STATE ITEM G

IWVS.
Joseph Fenno's little girl, four years
old, was drowned in Fletcher's mill
pond at Brattleboro one day last week
while walking on the ice. The body
was recovered.
Julian Roberts, boy of II, fell
in Gusha's mill in Stratford, recently,
and broke his right arm.
The body of Patrick Marooney, of
Charlestown, N. H., who fell from the
railroad bridge at Windsor, January
Z, was found in the canal at Bellows
Falls Thursday afternoon, in a good
state of preservation. 1t had come
down the river thirty-six miles. A
reward of S. had been offered by the
railroad company for it's recovery, he
being an employe.
Gen. Grant is said to be using
Missisquoi Spring water from Shell
don.
The Messenger announces that the
wound of Tobin, the porter of the
Weldon House, St. Adams, stabbed
by young Prouss, on Wednesday
night, is not dangerous, the knife hav-
ing penetrated only to the depth of
about three-fourths of an inch.
A three tenement dwelling house at
White River Junction, belonging to
John Garien, was entirely consumed
by fire last week. The fire originated
in defective chimney. Loss $4,000,
insured for S1700.
George L. Spear Of Braintree will
probably receive the appointment to
the office of collector of internal reve-
nue. for the district Of Vermont, and
A. j. Sibley, the present manager of
the Pavilion Hotel at Montpelier, will
be his deputy. The collectorship for
the port of Burlington will undoubted-
ly be rendered to Mr.. Smalley.
George Mott, only child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Mott of Alburgh, aged -
years, died last week. He was a
page in the House of Representatives
during the last session of the legisla-
ture.
Vermont is the ninth state to make
Arbor Day fixed holiday.
Hon. William P. Dillingham;, of
Waterbury, Commissioner of State
taxes, is in New Orleans on a brief
visit.
Chester is to erect soldiers mon
ument this year with a bronze statue
of a soldier Of heroic size on a gran
lite pedestal.
Montpelier has a new musical soci-
ETY., which has for it's object the CEN
tralization of the best musical and
dramatic talent of the Capital. The
organization proposes to give occa-
sional entertainments, and have Sc
cured fine quarters in Hubbard's
block.
The locating committee of the Ver-
mont colony are to leave Royalton for
Dakota in few days to select a sight
for town the colony is to build.
People in Bellows Falls are felici-
tating themselves with the report that
the town is soon to have a new and
large enterprise in the shape of car
wheel mandatory, which it is said
will employ 1000 hands.
DR.. John M. Currier, of Castleton,
has presented to the University of
Vermont his cabinet of Indian relics.
The specimens have been mainly COL
lected since 1881, and many of them
are from Neshobe Island.
Peter Mayo was found dead in his
saw mill at Westminster recently.
He had probably been struck by a
saw frame.
George May. cashier of the First
National of St. Johnsbury, is soon to
resign his place and go to Boston as
secretary and treasurer of the Reeves
button hole company.
A Vermont horse breeders associa-
ton was formed at Burlington last
week Wednesday.
Burlington has gone back to SPELL
ing and pronouncing matches.
w. H. Childs is the first Democrat
in Brattleboro to receive an office.
He has been appointed signal service
observer.
Charles HI. Severance, Of Montpel-
Ter, died week before last, his funeral
occurring on Monday of last week.
Mr., Severance was nearly eighty
years old, and for sixty-seyen years
had worked at the printers trade.
There are 80 railway postal clerks
in Vermont, and the applicants for
these positions are numbered by the
hundred. The pay ranges from eight
to thirteen hundred dollars year.
The Mary Fletcher training school
for nurses opens at the Mary Fletcher
hospital in Burlington May 4th.
Burlington has a young woman's
cooking club which wisely abstains
from eating its own productions.
The measles are having q run
the medical college at Bur-
lington. IL will be of interest to note
just what kind of luck the measles
will have in a medical college.
A man well known in Rutland is
reported as having made $4,000 by
the rise in grain the past week.
One Braman, a shoemaker of Goulds-
Vile, was wounded in the hand re-
Gently while fooling With . loaded re-
volver.
1t now appears that the suicide of
Miss Hapgood, Of Essex Junction,
was the result of remorse. She left
home in company with drummer,
and her regret for her conduct is be-
lieved TO have induced her to take her
own life by poisoning.
A freight train coming from the
north oyer the Passumpsic railroad
Sunday afternoon, ran over drunken
nan named Moses Bernan yho was
lsieep on hapd-car, inficting injur-
es from which he died at night. He
vas resident Of Newport, and leaves
! widow and four children.