News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-05-23
Department of State.

Eighty-nine men have joined the
Catholic total abstinence society In
St. Johnsbury.
The Green Mountain fish hatch
ing company have transferred all their
| fry to their new hatchery near Bran
| don.
The Mary Fletcher hospital at Bur-
lington is to be repaired at cost of
$4,000. There are at present 80 pa
tents.
The next annual reunion of the SOL
| der veterans of Addison county will
be held at Middlebury on Tuesday
and Wednesday, July 2 and 3.
Charles Daily, aged about 40, q
freight conductor, fell between the
cars near Georgia station recently
and was killed. He leaves a widow
and several children.
The storehouse of the Stowell Man
ufacturing Company at Putney was
bnrned Sunday night, together with
the contents. Loss between $4,000
and S5OOU; no insurance.
The hotels at Bennington after a
barricade of four weeks, are open,
the liquor prosecutions against the
Putnam and Stark houses having been
settled. Mr.. Pratt of the Stark
House has settled his case by paying
a fine of 5000.
The Baptist Sunday school State
convention will be held in Bennington
on Wednesday, June 5. The Presi-
dent, Rev. F. J. Parry of Brattleboro,
is endeavoring to arrange to have the
evangelist, D. W. Moody, present
and address the convention.
Several skeletons were exhumed
during the recent excavations for
building the new sewers at Burling-
ton, and there is good evidence that
they were soldiers of the war of 1912.
They were found only a short dis
lance from the old battery, and among
the relics were pieces of an old army
blanket, two iron buttons bearing the
letters gu. ST." and a small green
bottle.
President Smith has issued a no.
tice to the effect that hereafter no
freight trains except those carrying
live stock and perishable property
will run over the Central Vermont
railroad, on any one of its divisions,
on Sundays, between the hours of
a. m. Sunday morning and l a. m.
Monday morning, and that all shifting
of cars in the yards, for making up
trains for Monday morning, must be
done as far as possible the Saturday
night previous.
Amos Noyes, a bed-ridden old man,
lying in the second story of the house
at the poor farm in Waterbury, dis
covered the building to be on fire on
Saturday night, and cried for help.
The keeper was away, and woman,
who came to his assistance, could not
carry him. Noyes' hair and whiskers
we're on fire, when a young man
rushed in and carried him through the
ire and smoke to the stairs, where the
ad fell exhausted. Help arrived just |
n time to save them. Noyes was
but will probably recover
.oss on the building $500; insured
q the Phoenix for S1400.
The executive committee of the 18th
egiment Vermont volunteers held a
leeting in Burlington Tuesday after
DON of last week, when it was decid-
l to mold the second annual reunion
the regiment at Cambridge, June
,. The committee consisted of the
blowing gentlemen: L. F. Terrill,
: Underhill, j. B. Ellis. of Hunting
N, FL. o. Clark, of East Orange, n.
>, Capt. A. G. Fay, of East Geor-
q, and Capt. o. c. Wilder of Waits
I'D. The indications point to a
UGH larger attendance than last year II
hen the reunion was held at Under {
IL and an enthusiastic meeting will t
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