News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-10-04
All Over The State,

The State Legislature convened at
Montpelier Wednesday.
State aid is asked for by the town
of Mount Tabor on account of the
recent storm.
The next issue of the Bellows Falls
Times will be published under the di-
rection of the new proprietor, Mr.. F.
II. Brown.
The annual meeting of the Frank
lin county fair will be held at the
Riverside hotel, Sheldon Junction,
the 10th of October.
The docket for the coming term OF
Caledonia court contains 81 law cases,
10 criminal and 81 chancery cases.
The term commences December 4.
A petition is beng circulated at
Rutland which asks the Legislature to
discontinue the present town system
of schools and return to the old system.
Preparations are going on at St.
Johnsbury for the reunion of the old
Sd Vermont, October 10. The adj
dress will be delivered by Daniel
Skinner of Barton.
Edward P. Clark, one of the editors
of the New York Evening Post, who,
with his family, is taking a carriage
drive through the State, notes the alb
sence of guide boards along the high
ways, which the law compels selectmen
to provide.
Rev. n. S. Chadwick, a Baptist
clergyman, died on the 9th inst. at
Bradford, his native place. For sew
eral years Mr.. Chadwick had retired
from active labor, and resided in
Mansfield, Mass. He was in his 61st
year, and leaves widow and four
children.
Major A. B. Valentine of Benning-
ton, Capt. R. J. Coffee, superintendent
Of the Soldiers Home, with Col. G. c..
Kinsman of Rutland, have prepared
report of the Home to be submitted
to the Legislature, covering the period
from the opening of the Home to the
first of last August.
VIM. Cover, an employee of Elias
LYMAN & Co., of Burlington, was hit
by a switch engine and hurt so badly
that he died an hour later. He leaves
wife and four children in destitute
circumstances. The accident was the
result of Covers own carlessness in
driving on to the track.
The store of X. A. Paul at East
Berkshire was entered between one
and two o'clock Sunday morning and
the safe blown open. A little over
one hundred dollars in money and
over five hundred dollars worth of
checks were taken. The checks were
afterwards found in a pile of shingles
opposite the store.
Judson Packer of Mount Holly,
while feeding hay to his horses, fell
through a scuttle hole over the man
ger, and the lantern was broken and
set the hay Immediately on fire. There
were between IS and 100 tons Of hay
destroyed and considerable grain and
other stuff. The damage is estimated
between $4,000 and $4,000.
The Vermont State Teachers asso-
citation will hold its annual session the
third week in october instead of in
January as usual. 1t is hoped by this
change to do away with any chance
of the members being delayed or pre-
vented from attending at all by any
snow blockade, as was the case last
winter. The meeting will be held at
Newport.
The 21st annual convention of the
State Spiritualist association will be
held at the Waterbury Hotel, Water
bury, October 10, 20 and 21. Music
IS 10 bo7urnisied by the Duxtary
glee club. Board at the Waterbury
hotel, 81 per day; single meals So
cents; housekeeping Is cents per
day; single feed % cents. The stage
from Morrisville and Stowe will carry
passengers for fare one way and run
an extra trip from Stowe on Sunday.
Three miles south of Poultney Mon
day farmer named Calvin III. Inman
shot and killed Patrick Sennott, far
mer, with a shot gun loaded with
slugs. The victim expired at once.
They had been at loggerheads for a
year over the division fence between
their farms, and on Monday had a
quarrel over Sennott's cattle getting
on Inman's land. Inman at once took
his family in wagon to neighboring
relatives and delivered himself up to
the sheriff, by whom he was taken to
the House Of Correction in Rutland.
Torrance McCaffrey, some 25 years
an attache of the Pavilion Hotel at
Montpelier, and for some years past
night Waterman, was crushed in the
elevator at the hotel at o'clock Sat-
urday morning and was killed almost
instantly. The accident was the re-
suit of an attempt to board the eleva-
tor while in motion. One of the
guests heard some one groaning and
going to the elevator found Mr.. Nc
Caffrey pinned between the elevator
and the floor and badly crushed about
the chest. The deceased was Sc years
Of age and his relatives reside mostly |
in Canada. He was a general favorite.