News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-02-18
STATE ITEM S.
D. B. Merriam has been appointed


postmaster at Chipman's Point.
Frank W. Wheeler, of Richford,
has been granted patent for nail
design.
The Passumpsic Valley Poultry AS
ISOLATION has voted not to hold an eX-
hibition this year.
Mrs. John Simon, of Panton slip
ped and broke her leg below the knee
last Wednesday afternoon.
Rutland Nimrods are excited over
the alleged appearance of a bear IN
one of the suburban villages.
New postmasters At Belvidere,
A. j. Chaffee Belvidere Corners, F.
W. Davis; Ely, Ethan Dimond.
Orrin i. Bennett of Dummerstown,
80 years of age, had a fall on the ice
a few days ago, breaking one of his
hips.
Rev. c. G. Cook, pastor of the
| Congregational church at Mclndoes
Falls, has resigned on account of fail
ing health.
As result of the recent religious
awakening in New Haven over twenty
candidates for church membership
have been accepted.
1t is reported that the Senate post
office committee will report against
the confirmation of McGettrick as
Postmaster for st. Adams.
Robert E. Perkins, who has been
managing editor ofthe Rutland Herald
for the past six months, has severed
his connection with that paper.
Mrs. Hadley, of Monroe, killed a
hen recently and found in its crop q
brass shoe eyelets, white button, a
brass ring and variety of pins and
needles.
The Passumpsic railroad company
will put seven of their locomotives
into coal burners as fast as possible.
These locomotives will run on the air
line and through freight trains.
Second Lieut.. w. X. Sheldon has
been elected 1st Lieutenant of the
Kingsley Guard, Rutland, and 4th
Sergeant M. A. Mcclure, End Lieu
tenant.
The horse breeders association has
decided to hold the next fall meeting
at Rutland, September to 9, because
the citizens of that village have sub
scribed 5000 and offered the free use
of grounds.
Ira Church, formerly a resident of
Swanton, but now living in Kansas,
has presented Jesse Jewett Post, of
| that place, a ruler made from a piece
of board taken from the Anderson
vile dead line.
At the annual convention of the
Chi Psi Alumni association of North
ern New York at Albany on Friday,
Hon. James K. Batchelder, of Ar
lington, was elected one of the Vice
presidents of the association.
Mrs. John B. Hunt, of Peacham,
who is about IS years old, was knocked
down by children coasting, on We'd
nesday evening, and one leg was brok
en- in two places. Her recovery is con-
sidered doubtful.
Alfred Bussino of Poultney, a
brakeman on the Delaware and Hud-
son railroad, was struck on the head
by bridge just south of that village
recently, which gave him slight scalp
wound. Fortunately the train was
running slow.
Deacon Abbott's son, of East Cab
OF, and young man from Barre went
out one Sunday morning recently,
shooting at target. Missing their
aim, the bullet entered the Deacon's
best COW in the stable, and they were
obliged to kill her.
Nine inspectors, stationed at five
points where railroads cross into Can
ada from Vermont, vaccinated near
ly 10000 people in the 124 days in
which the smallpox GU arantine was
I i'm force, at cost, not Including virus,
of about $4,000.
William Deal and wife, of Water
bury, recently came near losing their
lives from suffocation by coal gas.
While fixing the fire just before retir-
ing, the top griddle was accidentally
left ajar, and by morning the room
was so filled with gas that its occu-
pants barely escaped death.
A number of the finest farms in
Shelburne, all lying on the lake shore,
have been bought, it is reported, by
DIR. w. S. Webb and his brother-in-
law, H. NICK. Twombly, relatives of
the late w. HI. Vanderbilt. They in
tend to build fine summer residences
ON the land.
In connection with an account OF
the revival in progress in the Metho-
| dist church of Bakersfield and North
| Fairfield, it is announced that on the
9th inst. a bequest of $1,000 was re-
ceived by the Bakersfield part of the
"charge" from Mrs. Mary Ann Lee,
widow of the late William Brooks, of
Durham, P. Q.
A man by the name of Caswell, Is
years of age, and an inmate of the
poor house in Barnard, attempted on
Wednesday of last week to kill his
wife, who is about so years of age.
He became jealous of her, and in the
morning he procured shotgun, load
ed it with buck shot and going to the
house where she was engaged to work
in the family, shot her. The charge
struck her chest, one of the large shot
going through her body. The woman
was alive at last accounts, but it is
thought she cannot recover. Caswell |
was arrested Immediately, and in de-
fault of $4,000 bonds he was commit
ted to the Woodstock Jail. Caswell
claims that the Evans people were not
such as he wished his wife to live with,
but protests that he has no recolIec-
ton of the shooting. He is weak
old man and quite decrepit.