News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-16
ALL OVER THE STATE.

Inc pOSIOIilce aG East 0IeehSooio
has been discontinued.
Burlington's Board of Trade is after
a knitting mill industry.
w. B. Winslow has been appointed
postmaster at West Fairlee.
Frank Eastman of Rutland had his
law broken by the collision of a runa-
way team with his sleigh.
Essex junction hotels were on the
9th relieved of 100 gallons of strong
drink, besides a quantity of lager.
A Rutland young mar borrowed"
two baskets of coal, and paid about
SIS for them by order of the court.
At West Rutland Michael Burns,
was badly hurt, and may lose his sight,
by the explosion of a dynamite ear
fridge near by him.
The Middlehury Register refers to
Brandon as a sleepy town." Mid
d!ebury is near Brandon, and has
aspirations and a college.
A St. Johnshury firm have 20 oxen,
20 horses and 142 mel in Victory
WOO S, drawing lumber, and have
already pulled out over 1000, 900 feet.
Franklin BIaisdelI hanged himself
at Hartford while at home alone.
Temporary alteration of the mind
caused by family troubles is the alleged
cause.
The 18th annual report of the Ver-
mont Bible society is being distributed
among the different towns through
out the state. According to the re-
port, Wallineford has given more mon
ey for the distribution of the Bible
Itbsa any other town of RMlland-snd
the county of Rutland less than the
majority of counties in the contribn-
ton 10 The cause.
The minutes of the Vermont Bap-
| list anniversaries for 1887 show that
there are IS3, Oa0 people in the state
who Individually absent themselves from
religious services. There are $50
evangelical churches in the state. 1t
is stated that $50 Baptist churches
have become extinct, though in more
than so cases new churches were or
oanized. Guiltord once had 400 Bap-
lists and the town of SALISBURY 43O.
Other denominations are said to have
suffered loss.
The state monument TO be erected
on the Getty sburg battlefield is to re a
copy of the famous Nelson monument
ia Trafalgar square, says Tie Rutland
Herald. The monument proper will
stand fifty feet high. The base, twen-
" feet square and nearly two feet
high, is a massive block of granite,
the die of Barre granite. and the futed
column, twenty-nine feet long. OF
Drammerston granite, with a carved
cap. 1t will cost in The neighborhoOd
of $4,000.
The native Vermonters in Manches-
ter met II evening recently, and or
gauized the vermont Association of
Manchester" with the following Off
GERS: President, Henry Wheeler; Sec
Rotary, DR.. c. w. Buck !; treasurer,
Carl E. York /; vice-presidents, E. M.
Slayton, A. j. Dirkey, John I. Beach,
Mrs. Emily G. Cooper, Ms. NJ Nj.
RuShlow ; executive committee, Hon.
H. X. Slaylon, o. D. Carpenter. Geo.
w. Bacon, A. 5. Lamb, Maj. i. w.
ChalIis A. A. Ainsworth, H. l.. Par
fridge ;-chaplain, Rev. z G. Crane:
corresponding secretary, Edward r.
Robinson. Over eighty members,
male and female. signed the constitu-
ton, and the association will hold
annual reunions hereafter.
The St. Alhans Hospital was burned
Saturday night, and two of the pa
| ~tients, Miss Susan Gates and Mr..
I Charles Chandler, were s~uffocateh by
the smoke. The fire was discovered
in a closet in the kitchen about ten
minutes before eleven by Matron
James. Mr.. Chandler had been at
the hospital for a little more than IS
months. Miss Gates was 93 years
old. formerly resided at West Rox-
bury. Mass, and had been for some
time a sufferer of rheumatism /; this
was her second year at the hospital.
The total loss is about $4,000. The
ell part is a total loss, and the interior
OF the main part is badly burned. A
goOd!y portion of the household goods
were saved, but in a damaged condi-
tinH. The building was insured for
$500, hut this amount will not make
good the loss in that direction.