News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-11-13
STATE NEWS.


by 4S majority.
W. H. Curtis of Cornwall raised in
his garden this year a yellow squash
weighing 60 pounds.
The Hotel Chittenden at Burling-
| ton was damaged to the extent of
$500 by fire Wednesday.
Michael Nolan, a section boss, was
killed by the south-bound express on
Thursday morning at East Putney.
Some of the manufacturers of col
lars and cuffs at Troy, n. Y, are con-
templating removing to Glasten,
! bury.
The Presbyterian church of st.
Johnsbury has extended II call to
Rev. W. A. PinkertOn of South Rye
gate.
Tunbridge adopts the cry of 4" No
apples" but proceeds to make a
great deal of cider, says a cores
pOndent.
A dav or two since an East Bethel
man shot, wounded and captured an
eagle whose spread OF wings was
| over elGhU 1eet.
Mr.. Brown of South Burlington
has raised a head OF celery that at
the base measures nearly IL inches
in circumference.
Samuel Williams of Braintree has
raised this season, 200 bushels OF
good marketable potatoes on five
| eighths of an acre.
Mrs. NJ. J. Moloney of Richford,
wife of Editor MolOney of the Ga
zette, died recently of consumption
after a long illness,
His people presented Re]aAE. I.
Sanford of the st. jobs Sbu Aci3aptist.
I CHURCH q purse on ri Js5ss lust 6eI0IF
the departure of Mr.. Sanford and his
wife for California
G. B. Billiards. large barns, silo,
eleven cows, thirty hogs, farm pro-
duce and tools, at White River juno
ton, were burned Thursday morn
ing. Estimated loss, SIS, 900 to $10,-
900.
Rowland E. Robinson of Ferris
burgh a writer of numerous papers
published in Forest and Stream and
reproduced in book form, is now en-
gagged on a history of Vermont for
HOughton, Miffiin & Co.
Liveryman J. l.. Ray of Brattlebo-
no has finally succeeded in capturing,
at Hartford, Conn, the horse thief
who got away with one of his good
teams the day before the town fair,
under the name of John Stanley.
Senator Edmunds has attached to
his handsome residence in Washing
ton an outside stairway, built on
purpose for his favorite dog, which
is not allowed to meander through
the main hall, says the Utica Herald.
On the evening of November 6 the
dwelling house and barn belonging
to Gilbert Wilcox in Montgomery
Center, burned There was about 10
tons of hay burned in the barn.
Cause, a lamp exploding. Insurance
$1,000.
1t is stated that only about one
half of the ice stored along the shores
of Lake Champlain has been sent to
market, and those who secured a
"corner" and held on for a high
price have suffered losses up into the
thousands.
Silas Ayres, of Vergennes, COM
mitted suicide the other night by
taking paris green. He had been
living with a friend, but had been no.
titled that he must go to the poor
house, and rather than go he COM
mitted the act.
At the Windsor caucus to choose a
candidate for postmaster the vote
was as follows: U. s. Comings, 1876 :;
G. P. Floyd, 80; S. R. Bryant, 80 !:
total, 2S2. This seems to be vic
tory of the people, and they are re-
joicing accordingly. --------
During the democratic celebration
at Miller's Falls, Mass, Wednesday
night, a spark from bonfire fell into
a bowl of powder, which exploded,
fatally injuring Harry Robinson of
Windsor, and seriously injuring John
A. Griffin and Andrew Kerbe.
During the last year quite a num-
Der of new marble quarries have been
opened near Clarendon Springs, dis
closing a fine quality of stone. New
York capitalists are talking of put
ting up extensive shops there and
going into the business on q large
scale
A large pulp mill, known as Kins-
ley's mill, and 200 cords of wood
were burned at Salisbury on the
night of the 18th. Three private resi-
dences also fed the flames. The fire
Illuminated the country for miles
around, being plainly visible at Mid
dlebury. The origin of the fire is I'M
known
A little child of NJ. LaFountain, ir..
of Springfield met with a strange ac-
cident on Tuesday. She fell, in play,
and striking her chin on a sewing
machine, bit her tongue so as to
make a wound that had to be sewed
up by a doctor. 1t required two
stitches to bring the several members
together.
Frank Plant, about SO years of
age, IA member of Stannard Post,
g. A. r., late of Co. D., Bird Vt. Regt.,
committed suicide by hanging him
self with strap in the stable of the
Soldiers Home the other night. He
was receiving temporary aid at the
home, having formerly been cared
for, from November, 1887, to Janu-
airy, 1890.
E. II. Barnes & Co.'S. largeice house
at Maquam, containing 5000 tons
of ice, was burned Thursday after
noon. A locomotive spark set fire to
the railroad ice-house near by, and
the flames spread to the Barnes &
Co. structure. The property was
insured to the extent of $4,000 in
Borley's agency, and somewhat fur
Their in a New York agency.
F. A. Fay of East Hardwiek has a
Spanish silver piece about the size of
a quarter, very crudely coined, and
dated I'LL. Mr. Fay's farm is on
the line of the old Hazen road, and
the piece was evidently lost by one
of Gen. Hazen's soldiers while on
their way from Massachusetts to
Canada during the last century. Mr.,
Fay has been offered $40 for the rel
ic; but it is undoubtedly worth much
more.
At the sale of horses belonging to
the estate of the late Thomas Tier
ney at ST. Adams, Tuesday after
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