News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-05-20
STATE ITEM S.

A large area of timber land has
been burned over at Eaton Mountain
in the town of Monkton.
S. NJ. Ladd's steam mills and H.
H. Hollis barn at Thetford were
burned last week. Loss, $4,000.
The St. Adams Trust Company
depositors have rec eived a third dlvl-
dend-twelve and one-half per cent.
George Bakers steam mill, two
miles from West Rochester, was re-
Gently burned. Loss, $4,000.
The grand list of the town ofSwan-
ton tor 1886 is as follows: Real es-
tate, is S9271; personal property,
S2531 total, $11, 1902.
F. W. Booth, of Essex, received
5000 dozen eggs from Irving Davis,
of Grand Isle.
L. D. Farr, of Morgan, had the
misfortune to badly cut his left hand
by circular saw while at work in
shop at West Charleston recently.
The town system of schools has
been introduced into South Hero, after
sharp fight, resulting in majority
of one vote. Grand Isle has been
trying the system for year and it is
giving good satisfaction.
A special town meeting was called
at Irasburgh the 18th to see if the
town will deed the old court house
site to E. P. Cotton. There is talk
of building block on the Jail house
and Worthington sites.
AS Charley Lewis, of North Poult
ney, was returning from wood lot
Wednesday afternoon last with load
of wood, drawn by two horses, they
became frightened by some of the
wood slipping forward and striking
them, and running, threw him to the
ground, breaking one leg just below
the knee.
The examination of candidates for
West Point cadetship, held at White
River Junction last week, resulted in
the choice by the examining commit
tee of Fred R. Ross of St. Johnsbury,
nephew of Judge Ross.
The State Superintendent of schools
has carried the Arbor-Day to an ex-
treme by recommending that hereafter
the scholars plant willows around the
school buildings. School boys will
scarcely lie such fools.
H. A. Hale, proprietor of the chair
shops at East Arlington, announced
to his help that the shops would be
shut down last Saturday night for an
indefinite period. He also announced
that when he started up again it
would be at greatly reduced wages.
A most singular accident befell Mr..
John A. Stearns of Vernon, Tuesday
morning, which ended in his death
within 48 hours. Being an expert
enced butcher, he was engaged by
Warren Howe, a neighbor, to kill a
couple of pigs for him. Mr.. Stearns
entered the pen and had stuck one of
the animals, and stood in a bent or
half-sitting posture prepared to stick
the other, when the wounded one ran
against his elbow, forcing the knife
which he held, into his left leg at
point two or three inches above the
knee and severing the femoral artery
and one of it's branches. 1t was some
minutes before his attendants, at his
direction, procured rope and wound
it around his leg to stop the flow of
blood, and about an hour had elapsed
by the time DR.. Holton-summoned
by messenger-arrived on the spot.
Through loss of time and the imper-
feet manner in which the arteries were
bound by the rope, the loss of blood
was large and the doctor found his
patient greatly Frustrated. For a
time he seemed TO rally, but his vital
lity was too far gone for him do
SO permanently. The next day gan
creme set in and he died at the house
of Mr.. Howe about half-past nine
O'Clock Thursday morning.