News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-04-29
STATE ITEM S.

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L. H. Mace & Co., of New York.
Brainerd's steam mill at Richford
was started up again last week after
shut down of several months.
A portion of the Missisquoi wooden
mill at Euosburgh Falls has been con-
verted into glove and mitten factory
and goodiy number Of hands find
employment there.
The Howe Scale Company have
just received an order through their
New York office for $50 platform
scales for the use of the Argentine
Republic.
The Alpha base ball club, of Spring
field have reorganized for the season
of 1886 and will play any club In the
State series of games for the cham
piouship after June 1st.
The average appraisal of stock by
listers Of Barnard is as follows: Oxen
3 cents a pound; COWS, S23 each !;
yearIings So, sheep So head; swine
81 per hundred pounds.
The w. G. I. U. institute of Or
ange county is to be held at Tun-
bridge the first week in June.
Gov. Robinson, of Massachusetts,,
has signed the appropriation bill
whereby that State contributes $10,-
900, toward the Bennington battle
monument.
Calvin S. Alhee, of Ripton, has
bought of the Royalton bank the old
tannery and skating rink property at
Rochester and will at once convert it
into creamery.
There is case of smallpox in
Fayston, near Waitsfeld, but no
trouble is anticipated. Over 800 peo-
pie have been vaccinated there in the
last two weeks.
The annual meeting of the W. c.
I. u, of Franklin county, will be
held at Swanton in May.
A New York electric company
wishes Brattleboro to guarantee 1000
to 1900 lights, when they will invest
$4,000 IN plant. The local gas
works are run by the concern, which
has the Edison rights for that town,
80 when the New Workers get their
patrons pledged, the gas concern may
go into electricity.
The house, barn, milk and ice house
of William Gavin, at Ripton, and a
10 oh of
burned recently, involving a loss of
from $1,000 to $1,000, partially COW
cred by insurance. Most of the con-
tents of the house were saved in a
damaged condition and all of the
stock was got out of the barn, and
about fifteen tons of hay was saved.
The cause of the fire was unknown.
Some sneak thief entered the rooms
of Ulysses s. Grant and Oscar Green
in the Boarding house at the pulp
mill at Lyndon last week and took
S35 from Grant and $15 from Green.
The libel suit of T. F. Leahy, of
Keene, n. H., against the Brattlebo-
70 Ret0rneer, begun in consequence of
the charge that Mr.. Leahy was de-
serter from the Union army during
the rebellion, has been settled, pub
Usher Davenport agreeing to retract
the charge in his paper and the Chesh-
ire Republican, pay all costs and re-
imburse Mr.. Leahy to the extent
of s75.
Leslie Pierce, a LyndonvilIe, jew
eller, has made a curious clock which
is connected by underground wires
with the regulator in his store, and
gives standard time. 1t stands on
post, 13 feet from the ground, the
dial being two feet across.
DR.. H. A Cutting has been in the
eastern part of the State placing
young trout in the brooks. He is one
of the fish commissioners and the stat
ute makes it his duty to Introduce
into the waters of the State valuable |
kinds of fish. He introduced into !
Roaring Brook last year five thousand |
young fish. This year he has placed |
in RowePs brook and its branches
5000, Hardy's 1900, into the brook
that flows into Bradford Center 1000,
gave George Sampson 1000 more to
put into the head waters of the same
stream. Last year he put 5000 in
Halls brook in Newbury and this year
lie gave Frank Bailey 100 more to
distribute in other brooks in New
curry. The statute provides that near
brooks and ponds that have thus been
stocked with fish, may be posted no.
ices by the commissioner, and all per-
sons will be forbidden to fish in such
brooks for three years, but DR.. Cut
ing will not post the streams above
named if they can be let alone for this
year.