News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-11
STATE ITEM G.

About 215 converts are reported
as result of the revival meetings in
Burlington.
Mrs. j. III. Gilman of Vershire, who
was injured two weeks ago by falling
down the cellar stairs, died on Friday
Frank A. Curtis, a nephew of Col.
u. W. Hooker, has been appointed
route agent on the Brattleboro &
Whitehall Railroad to succeed G.. B.
Hyde.
Twelve out of the twenty-four men
elected aldermen in New York city
last Tuesday are liquor dealers, some
OF them keepers of the most notorious
dens in the city.
John B. Lathrop, a we'll known cit
izen OF Rutland, and father-in-law of
Jesse Burdette, superintendent of the
Rutland railroad, dropped dead on
Monday of last week, aged 81.
A five-years-old son of o. A. Sew
cry, of Goshen, recently had his left
leg badly broken by falling from a
wagon.
Asa Fish, aged 60, of East Poult-
ney, was found dead in bed the other
morning, at the residence of Mr..
Whitcomb in Granville, where he had
been visiting. Heart disease was
probably the cause of his death.
Capt. William Fleury, Of the Con-
struction Company's schooner, emo
ble," was recently drowned between
the Rouses Point breakwater and Isle
La Motto shore. Captain Fleury
was an unmarried man, and was con-
sidered one of the best sailors on the
lake.
Asahel Barned, prominent and
highly respected citizen of Addison,
died at his residence at Chimney
Point, recently, in the 18th year of
his age. He was widely and favora-
bly, known, having been for many
years actively connected with public
affairs. He was Postmaster from
1S47 to the time of his death, one OF
the Oldest -1d longest in the service.
W F. Tiffany, of Burlington, has
served thirty-four years as express
messenger. He run between Burling-
ton and Boston for the first ten years
and since then, with slight exceptions,
has served on the local train between
Burlington and Rutland. He has av-
eraged 800 miles a week. and has
travelled in all l 100000 miles.
Reports of posts of the depart
ment of Vermont G.. A. R., at the
close of the third quarter, give the
number of members as 4167, with
seven posts to hear fom. The same
report in 1885, gave the number 1876
a gain, so far as heard from, of POI
The treasury is sound, there being 6
balance on hand at headquarters OF
over $500.
R. G. Smith, of St. Adams, has
made an ingenious travesty on the
tiresome chestnut bell by covering g
bell block with natural chestnuts anC
giving it tongue to match. A clock
is placed on one side of the affair.
Messrs. Robert Alfred Wilson anc
Edward A. Crowley, formerly Of St
Albans, doing business under the
name of Wilson & Cowley, printers
and publishers of Montreal, assigned
Friday with liabilities amounting tc
$1,000.
Alfred Brooks of Rutland was badly
burned about the head and face Thurs
day. He was in the act of lighting 6
fire in a stove with some turpentine
and, as soon as the match touched
the fluid, it blazed up in his face and
burned it so badly that it blistered in
places. His eyebrows and eye-wink.
ers were burned off, and his hail
singed.
The Vermont Knights of Labor are
likely to have district organization
of their owFs at lesst, Mr.. L6chman,
the retiring master of District No. 80.
to which several assemblies in this
State are subject, has recommended
that they be set apart. At present g
part of the Knights of Labor assem-
blies in Vermont are under the juris
diction of districts in New York.
while others reach into Massachusetts.
This move for self-government is sig,
nificant in that it indicates the rapid
growth of the order in the State and
the hold it has taken in communities
not supposed to be favorable to its
development.
The depot at Barnet was unlocked
week ago last Saturday night and
four trunks taken out back of the
water tank and the contents scattered
about the ground. Some property
was stolen and some damaged. A hole
was burned into the money drawer
and some $40 taken out, and various
other things are missing. They left
the depot locked behind them and
also some writings on a freight car,
stating that they were experts, and
signed Bristol Bill and Jesse James.
A vicious looking tramp was seen on
the Saturday before and he is one of
the party supected. The railroad
company will make good the loss.