News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-09-18
STATE NEWS.

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grippe.
Springfield hopes to have the cleo
trio light soon.
Springfield lives in hopes of getting
the electric light for her streets.
Hardwick has appointed a commit
tee to c an act of Incorporation.
The buildings for the new insane
asylum at Waterbury are well under
way.
The st. Johnsbury p~ost-office re-
ceives and dispatches ~ mails per
day.
At West Rupert, recently, Fayette
Green fell % feet and died in two
hours.
A bull-frog weighing three and one
half pounds was captured recently at
Wakefield.
Ludlow's Democratic Representa-
tive is the first since Andrew Jack
sons day.
A generalterm of the supreme court
is ordered to be held at Montpelier
on Oct. p next.
Mrs. George Robinson, Bennington,
narrowly escaped death from an
overdose oflaudanum.
Eta Morey, Waits field, broke a
leg, dislotated an ankle, and rup6ured
a blood vessel by a fall.
Capt. Weld, of Company K, Ben
nington, has resigned and will re-
move permanently from State.
One Luba, who stole fourteen dol
lars from a co-laborer in Coventry,
was sent to Windsor for a year.
Paving stone cutting business is
becoming one of the leading branches
of the granite business at Barre.
The veneer mill at Richford is being
run night and day. The company is
far behind for trays and bobbins.
Tr~Duttie1oro r-r---rail RUIZ
road reports the heaviest traffic in
its history for the monthjust passed.
The Bellows Falls High School
opened Monday, with "a pupils-the
largest number at opening for sever
al years.
In Washington county court eighty
cases have been put upon the new en-
try docket, including Is divorces and
Is state cases.
Early Saturday evening a cyclone
passed over Yershire, unroofing barns
and completely running several fruit
and sugar orchards.
Oscar Myer, on trial last week at
st. Adams for killing his wife, was
convicted of murder in the first de-
gree. Sentence not yet passed.
Mary Howe, of Brattleboro, is
under an engagement with a leading
manager to sing in concert music,
and is to appear in all the leading
cities of the country.
Rev. J. A. Pierce, Baptist pastor
at West Randolph, has resigned. and
will leave for his new field of labor at
Belvidere, ILL.,, about the middle of
October. He was Chaplain of the
State Senate in 1888.
In Rutland county court the Jury
brought a verdict for plaintiff of
S445S.33 in the case of Mrs. Latre-
mouille VS.. B. & R. railroad. Plain
tiffs husband vas some time ago
killed while at orkrepairing a carin
the railroad yard.
Hon. Henry H. Huse, insurance
commissions of New Hampshire, who
died at Concord the 9th, was a native
OF Vermont, being born at West Fair
lee in 1889. He was an officer in the
Eighth New Hampshire during the
war, was Representative to the legis-
lature from Manchester for several
terms, and speaker of the house in
1879.
About two p. m. Friday, while Mr..
Phil HI. Dolan of Burlington, aged
81, was sittingin his office conversing
with another gentleman, he stopped
short in his speech and fell back in
his chair, dead. The supposed cause
was heart disease. He was unmar-
ried, and was the partner of the we'll
known firm of DOlan Bros, fruit
dealers, etc.
The case of the grammar school
landfunds which has been in litigation
some time has been decided in favor
of st. Adams. The Supreme Court
holds that the act of 1884 granting
the rentals of grammar school lands
in Fletcher, Montgomery, and Rich
ford to the grammar school in Rich
ford is unconstitutional, and the
money will hereafter go to the gram
mar school at st. Adams.
1t is reported that the election of
Edward p. Adams, of Swanton, on
the Republican county Senatorial
ticket will be contested by d. G Fur
man, nominee on the Democratic
ticket. The ground of contest is that
many Republican tickets bore the
name of E. P. Adams, while others
had it Edwin p. Adams, and that
enough of the last named ticket were
voted to make the result doubtful.
DR.. w. S. Webb, of Shelburne, does
farming on a grand scale. There are
300 men at work on his farm, includ-
ing 1877 mechanics of various grades.
A e horse-barn just commenced is
to be 41S feet and 10 inches long all
be under one iron truss roof. 1t will
be devosed solely the horse depart
ment, and it will have an exercise
STOullu lOO ny u leeU. 1Defe are
about 175 men at work on the build
ing.
Asa Blanchard, a well-known and
active business man of Montpelier
dropped dead instantly of heart dis
ease Saturday afternoon, near the c..
H. Cross & Son bakery. He was born
in Barre, worked and was married in
Burlington when a young man, went
from there to Hartland and into the
leather business, and later was in the
same business at Norwich for some
II years and during the war, soon
after which he went to Montpelier,
where he has resided for % years.
He built the Blanchard Opera House,
the largest business block in town,
and has been connected with the
hardware business for several years.
He leaves "a wife and three sons.
Vermont's population, 332,S05, is
actually 81 persons less than it was
in 1880, if Supt. Porter's figures are
not inaccurate or inaccurately re-
ported by the telegraph. This will