News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-05-13
STATE ITEMS.

was severely burned about the head
and face.
Several persons last week paid
$3.50 each, fine and costs, for catch
ing trout in Bakersfield before the 1st
of May.
The house of Moses Cushing at
Island Pond was burned recently, but
most of the effects were saved. No
, insurance on the property.
The ninth annual fair of the White
River Agricultural Society will be held
upon the society's grounds in Bethel,
September %, % and "a.
The May term of the Supreme court,
Caledonia county, began Tuesday be-
fore Judges H. H. Powers, w. G..
Veazev, j. W. Rowell and w. II.
Walker. There are % cases on the
docket, II or Is of which are ready
to be heard.
Frank Barney, blacksmith at Ber-
lin Corner, and Henry Reed went
fishing at the outlet of Berlin Pond
recently, and it cost them Sl0.34 each.
Barney caught a black bass that
weighed six pounds, and Reed had
the fish. The matter came to the at
tention of fish warden f. H. Ather-
ton, who called on Messrs. Barney
and Reed and they each paid S. fine,
with 1914 costs.
The boat race on Lake Memphre-
magog, at Newport June 10, between
Wallace Ross and John Teemer, is
for a purse of $500 subscribed by the
citizens of the place. The railroads
are also interested in the affair, and
it is likely there will be large crowd
present.
The suit of Robert Stewart against
Rutland village for damages caused
by a sewer, has at last been settled
by rescript from the Supreme court
of Montpelier. The decision awards
SIS and costs, amounting to a little
over a hundred dollars to Stewart.
The Bennington Wooden Mill COM
pany was adjudged insolvent before
the probate court at Bennington on
Friday upon the creditors petition in
bankruptcy proceedings. The case
against Richard r. Haines, personal
ly, who is president of the company,
was continued until the 18th. AL
though the bankruptcy proceedings
are taking their course, it is thought
that compromise will be reached
and business continued by Mr.. Haines.
No statement of assets and liabilities
has yet been made.
The ladies of Christ church, Mont
pelier, held a most successful sale of
Easter fancy articles last week. They
realized a little over $3.50.
Rev. Edward Fairbanks, of St.
Johnsbury, was waited upon by mem
bers of the South church committee
recently, who notified him that his va
cation this season would be extended
from one month to two or three
months, as he might elect, thus CIV
ing him an opportunity to secure a
season of much needed rest from pas
toral labors.
Allen St. John, of Hubbardton, re-
Gently killed three four-years-old
steers, the average weight of each of
which, when dressed, was over 1900
pounds.
P. B. Lincoln has just sold to two
persons in Salem, N. Y, four-years-
old Hambletonian colt for 1925. The
colt weighed 1160 pounds.
The annual meeting of the W. c.
T. u. for Caledonia county will be
| held at St. Johnsbury Center June
Is and 16. Mrs. Mary A. Wood
bridge, of Ohio, and Mrs. F. L.
House, of Brattleboro, are expected |
to be present.
On Friday occurs the 25th anniYer-
sary reunion of Co. A, I'd Vermont
volunteer, at Bennington. The adj
dress will be by Col. j. Fl. Walbridge.
Only IA members of the company are
living.
The New England Lumber COM
pany of Victory has been adjudged
insolvent and the first meeting of the
creditors will be held at the probate
office in Guildhall May IS, for the
purpose of proving claims and choos
ing one or more assignees.
While man was working on the
Shepherd farm near Montpelier june
ton, last Monday afternoon, three
roughs from the village attacked him.
The farm hand laid them all out, and
having a fork in his hand used it quite
upon them, and one, Tom
Moriarty, was quite severely hurt
about the head and body.
Alison Mills, of Albany, aged Is,
years, met with quite a serious acct
dent while sporting with loaded pis-
tol the other day. By some means
the pistol was discharged prematurely,
the ball striking his left leg six inches
above the knee, on the inside, and
came out below the knee joint on the
outside of the leg, making a hole
eight or ten inches long. The ball
was found in his boot leg.
R. V. King, a special examiner of
the pension office, has been trans
ferred from New Jersey to st. Johns
bury. For year aud a half-since
Alonzo Weeks retired from the SER
E. Curran, of Montpel-
Ter, has had charge of the work in the
St. Johnsbury district. Mr.. Curran's
work hereafter will be confined to
Washington and Orange counties, his
old field. Mr.. King has been in the
service for over four years, and has
the reputation of being an able and
fair examiner.
A barrel of fish recently shipped :
at St. Adams for Boston, was seized
and found to contain 81 pike and two
mullet. Alva Desc, the sender, was
arrested for handling the fish caught
contrary to law, and fined s. apiece,
to $40 in all. A raid on {
St. Adams fish dealers followed, and
resulted ir fines amounting to $500.
The stockholders of the Queen City g,
Park association, to the number of .
about 80 and representing the fifty /
shares, met last week at the Van Ness q
House in Burlington, and voted funds q
to build large summer hotel imme-
lately, at the park. 1t will be three +
stories high, of wood, the main part =
measuring 35 by 60 feet and the wing o
30 by so feet, with piazzas on three !;