News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-11-04
HYDE PARK.

The school-house on the river road
near Robert Putnam's is being raised
up and repaired generally.
Apples are selling in St. Johnsbury
for 81 .25 for best Baldwins, and S1.00
for No. 2. They ought not to be
more than that in this section.
A. c. Fletcher, respondent in the
case of Mackie VS.. Fletcher, both of
Cambridge, has been surrendered by
his bondsman, and is now languishing
in the county Jail.
Skunk. are plenty. We do not re-
fer to newspaper dead-beats, but we
mean that four-legged carnivorous
odoriforous animal, which is very
numerous these days.
The dockets for the December term
of County Court are just out. The
court calendar contains SO cases, a
large share of which are civil causes.
The chancery calendar has IA cases.
Now is the time to pull down all
the old and dilapidated fences and
prepare the ground for conversion
into handsome lawns in the spring.
Beautify the village, and save the cost
of fence by not replacing them.
In addition to re-shingling the depot,
the railroad authorities have re-shin-
gled the freight-house and repaired
the fences, &C., about the cattle-yard.
They will also extend the side tracks,
and it is rumored they contemplate
filling in the big trestle.
Among those from this place who
have taken advantage of the Boston
excursion this week are DR.. Randall
and wife, A. V. Wiswell and wife,
Mrs. Thos, Powers, G. A. Knight and
wife, Belle Noyes, NJ. P. Cheney, G.
w. Brown and Glen Stone.
The Sabbath School at this place
has received from Col. Elliott F. Shep-
ard of New York, a son-in-law or
the late VIM. HI. Vanderbilt. a gift
of seventy volumes for its library.
1t is needless to say that the school
highly appreciates this liberal dona-
ton.
Our old friend, Rev. o. S. Basford,
is still a prominent factor in Dakota
politics. Like Banquo's ghost, be will
not down. A late paper from Redtield
contains an account of a Republican
county convention in which Brother B.
was a conspicuous delegate.
V. r. Wright, alias the Deacon"
was somewhat fattened out last FIJI
day by having an eighteen inchlog
roll over him while skidding logs over
on Sterling. He was considerably
bruised, and narrowly escaped what
all who saw him thought would. be
instant death. He is about his work
| as usual. al-s.,
Saturday was the last day to pay
taxes to the treasurer and save the
four per cent. discount. A new bill
has been made out and is now in the
hands of the collector. The amount
remaining to be collected is ABOUT
1925, which is some 1925 less than
last year. The new method of col
Letting taxes meets with almost uni
versal approval.
The two young men who, in a t9k-
ing way, told their boarding mistress
if she would walk to No. Hyde Park
and back last Wednesday evening
they would give her $500, think it is
no joke now, as the plucky woman,
Notwithstanding the darkness, rain
and mud, accepted their offer and
performed the task. Hereafter they
will shave care" how they make
proposals of that kind.
We recently spent few hours in
the pleasant village of Windsor and
took in the States prison. We were
shown about the institution by the
courteous Keeper Spaulding, who
boasts that there has never, in the
history of the prison, been man of
that name put in for crime. Windsor
is a delightful village, - has fine
churches, a commodious town hall,
and handsome private dwellings. 1t
is here that "our own Evarts" of
new 1OTh SIlenuS Il ldISe Shaio VI hlo
time. The village is just now erect
ing school building at a cost of
about $4,000, which, when COM
pleted, will equal any building of its
kind in the State. The Windsor
Journal is printed at this place, and,
Notwithstanding its remarkable age,
= over one hundred years, it is as
fresh and sprightly as any paper in
Vermont.