News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-07-15

X. Bowman, both of Essex Junction.
Miss Williams has been ]preceptress
In Il academy the past four years,
ana though we are sorry to lose hel
services in that position, she is as,
snred of the best wishes of her friends
and pupils.
The Rev. Mr.. Hyde went to Bos-
ton last week, in the interest of the
Morrisville camp-meeting association
with the railroad, and to buy an en-
largement to the canvas that covers
the speakers stand and altar. He
reports excellent success with the rail
road. The camp-meeting commences
August 16. The association is deter
mined to make the meetings this year
better than ever. A full list of the
speakers will be given later.
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUs.-The Demo
Gratis of Morristown, and all others
approving the administration of Pres
ident Cleveland, are requested to meet
at the Town Hall in Morrisville on
Saturday, July II, 1886, at $50
O'Clock, for the purpose of choosing
three delegates to attend the State
convention, to be held at Montpelier
on the 22nd day of this month.
ORDER OF Town COMMITTEE.
Morristown, July 8, 1886.
Several parties about the village
became mysteriously i'll the past week
Immediately after eating cheese pur-
chased at the bakery, and we under
stand that although Mr.. White was
aware of the fact, he continued to sell
the cheese until requested not to do
so by n of our physicians. No
doubt Mr.. White thought that the
sickness was not caused by the cheese,
but this does not clear him from blame
in the matter, and we think that after
.-seveTal cases Of q similar nature had
arisen under circumstances which
pointed to the cheese being the cause,
it was his duty to bave ceased selling
it forthwith. The purity of our food
is q thing that must not be tempered
with, and although, probably, no ac-
ton will be taken in this instance,
we hardly think people would submit
to a repetition.
Although there is yet some work to
be done before the sidewalk to the
new bridge and the new road to the
Brooklyn highway are fully complet-
ed, yet the work is SO near done that
there can be but little more expense.
The bridge is called a double inter-
section, high truss. 1t weighs Sc
tons, is $50 feet in length, with an
Is foot roadway and six foot side
walk. The distance from the floor to
the top of the bridge is Is feet, clear.
The west atutment is q feet high
and about Is feet above low water
We interviewed Chairman Doty, of
the board of Selectmen, yesterday,
and he made the following statement
relative to the bridge matters and the
expense The entire expense of the
bridge above the abutments is S3,166.
Abutments cost SLIPS. Mr.. Doty
said it would be remembered hat the
estimates Of expense were somewhat
less than this. In explanation, he
said that the estimates were made by
Mr.. John Smith, of Stowe, one of the
best, builders of wooden bridges in
the country that no level was used,
and that the estimates were for a
wooden bridge, which would not re-
quire so heavy a wall or wings also
that where they expected to find rock
bottom on the west side, it was found
necessary to go three feet lower to
get a solid foundation, which largely
occasioned the extra expense. The
extra length of the bridge was deemed
advisable by all the bridge companies
represented, as was also the. wings.
To aid in covering the extra expense,
S275 was given in cash subscriptions
and $500 in work. Considerable of
the subscription to be paid in work
it is saiG will be paid in cash, so that
the town will get the bridge and road
to BROOKLYN street, as near as Mr..
Doty can estimate now, for $4,000.
Resolutions by j. NJ. Warner, Post
No. 4, G. A. r.
WHEREAs,-Our much beloved COM
rade, Charles c. Dodge, formerly a mem
Der of Co. F., End Vt. Vols, has passed
away, obeying with c~heerfulness the last
order on earth Of his Supreme Grand
ReSOlUed,-That in his death this Post
has lost a brave soldier, a generous, gen.
ial, loyal eomrade. His love of country,
his flag, his strong adherence to the great
principles for which he fought will ever
fresh in our hearts.
ResOIoed,-That the G. A. r. Hall, Post
and emblems be draped in mourning
for three months.
Res0lged,-That a copy of these reso-
luton be sent the family of our comrade,
and also printed i'll the ReWS and Citizen,
in token of our sympathy and respect.
G. w. DOTY,
J. w. DANIELS,
STERLING.-Our Sunday congregations
the school-house are on the gain. a