News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-10-28
STATE ITEM S.

Rector Hopkins, OF st. Andrew
church, St. Johnsbury, has raised
over $4,000 towards the church debt.
Less than 5000 remains to be raised.
There is a scheme on foot in Brat
tleboro to raise $4,000 for the pur-
pose of purchasing the fair ground
property, erecting buildings and put
ting it in shape for annual exhibitions.
The Vermont Cavalry reunion So
ciety is to have its meeting at Mont
pelier November 3. Prof. j. E. Good
rich, chaplain of the regiment, will de-
liver the address.
Horace Blood, of East Corinth,
raised a sun-fower the past season
that measured fifty-six inches in cir
conference.
Mrs. James Marsh, aged 20 years,
and her daughter, Mrs. Edward Dut-
ton, aged so, of Braintree, while
crossing the railroad track with a
team between Randolph and Brain
tree, last Wednesday, were struck by
the down express, instantly killing
the ladies and horse.
The Burlington coasting club, under
whose auspices the carnival was held
last winter, have held their annual
meeting and elected the Hon. Henry
Ballard president. 1t was unani-
mously voted to hold another carnival
this winter, but the date is not yet de-
cided upon.
The religious movement now in
progress at Burlington bids fair to
equal in extent and interest any pre-
vious one within recent memory. The
Methodist, Baptist and Congregation
al churches are united in it, and the
meetings are conducted by Rev. Mr..
Mills, the evangelist.
John Knapp, 17-years-old son of
widow Orpha Knapp, of st. Johns
bury, who became interested in the
salvation army ten weeks ago, dis
appeared Friday night, presumably
Joining some detachment of the army.
Mrs. Knapp says he was her sole
support, but for ten weeks he has de-
voted all his earnings to the salvation
army, having in one or two instances
borrowed money to give them, his
mother, meanwhile, getting along as
best she could.-Caledonian.
AS a result of careless shooting a
singular accident happened at Wall
ingford recently, while a young man
was trying to shoot duck. He was
on the island in Otter Creek, opposite
the depot, and fired at duck that
was swimming in the water. The
shot failed to take effect, however,
and went through window of Adair's
marble shop, about 100 feet distant,
and lodged in plug of tobacco in
the trousers pocket of one of the
workmen. Some of the shot also
went through the coat of another
! workman.
Ira Sherman, who is serving q five
years sentence in the house of correc-
ton for assault with intent to kill, is
still industriously at work carving out
objects from marble. He is now en-
gagged on the model of horse power
with an endless tread. He has fin
ished beautiful set of lady's jewelry,
cut out of onyx, in the shape of
horse shoes. The earrings are deli
cate pieces of work. The brooch pin
is about an inch long and has horses
head in the center.
A Chittenden farmer one day last
week saw five full grown bears eating
apples in his orchard. He made no
attempt to capture them.
F. W. McGettrick, of St. Adams,
has gone to Michigan, where he will
take the stump for the Democratic
party. Another Vermonter, Frank
Plumley of Mortified, is doing SINH
lar duty for the Republicans of that
State.
A portrait of the late Gen. Stan
nard, costing $50, has been present.
ed to his widow at Burlington by SUBJ
scription. A similar portrait will be
placed in the State House at Mont
pelier.
Will Lovely, Fred Labelle and
Smirney Patterson who broke into
Arms and Haynes store at Waterbury
recently have been arrested. A large
quantity of the plumber, some 5000
or $500 worth, was found at the homes
of the boys, and they will probably
be sent TO the Reform School.
A gloom has been cast over the
General Assembly by the sudden
death Of Boardman d. Stafford, the
member from Wallingford, Rutland
County, which took place Thursday
night. Mr.. Stafford had been ill and
unable to be in his seat for some days,
but it was hoped until the last that
fatal termination might be avoided.
The cause was heart disease.
Aside from the saving of distance
from Hardwick to Boston, which
would be made by the construction of
a railroad from Marshfeld to Hard
wick, an almost inexhaustible supply
of granite in the eastern part of
Woodbury. would find a ready market.
These quarries have not been devel-
oped to any extent because of the ex-
pense Of hauling by teams to Hard
wick station. The survey of the pro-
posed road runs within a mile of the
quarry. A bill is to be introduced at
the present session of the Legislature
for charter Vermonter.
The question now very much agitat-
ed by all Orange county is, shall the
county have two shire towns, one at
Bradford on the east, and the other at
West Randolph on the west side, thus
doing away with the old Chelsea build
ings? 1t is asserted by one party
that the proposed change should take
place for various reasons: first, that
there is no railroad within thirteen
miles of the present shire town; sec
ondly, the town is so situated among
the hills that it is impossible to reach
it during the winter term of court
without great deal of hardship and
exposure. Every effort possible is
being made at the present legislature
to accomplish change.
The total investment of the YER
mont railroads represent over $4O,-
900, 900, of which amount $24, 549,-
600 is in capital stock and SIS, $685.
900 in bonded and floating debt. The
gross earnings of all the roads within
the State for the wear 1888 annroxi-