News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-07-24
STATE NEWS

The annual Caledonia fair will be
held September 16, II, and IS.
Barre people have voted to erect a
new school building at cost of$30,-
600.
Methodist camp-meeting at Lyn-
donville from August 16 to 26 inclu-
sive.
Montpelier diphtheria epidemic
seems to be all over, " says the Watch
man.
William Dutton of Mallet's Bay has
lust died from the effects of fall last
April.
Work on the State fair grounds at
White River junction is progressing
rapidly.
Manchester cheese factory patrons
received SOY cents per hundred for
milk in May.
st. Johnsbury's total grand list for
1S9Ois $3S, 763.05, against $37, Ill
06 last year.
Emery Sage's barn, two calves and
considerable hay were burned recent
ly, in Jamaica.
The population of the town of Al
bany is reported at 994, IA less than
ten years ago.
The Orleans county Republican
convention will be held at Irasburgh,
Friday Aug. Sth.
Potatoes looking well, and bugs
not so plenty, is the report from por-
tions of the State.
In Barnard, farms with buildings
have been sold recently for less than
two dollars an acre.
West Randolph has a building
boom, and expects to put up at least
Is new houses this season.
Forty-ejght-. eaFloads of granite
were shipped from the Barre quarries
to the village in a single day.
Barney Cannon, Jr., is made post
master at Bellows Falls, and Gran
vile l.. Derby at Springfield.
Will st. John, aged Is, had both
hands badly mangled at Salisbury
mills, West Randolph, the other day.
The Universalist State convention
of Vermont and the Province of Que
bee will meet with the church at st.
Adams, Aug. 26-27-2Sth.
W S. Bailey is said to have two
colts at Maplewood Stock Farm,
East Hardwick, VT, more promising
than Helen M. was last year at this
time.
H. F. Brigham, Esq, of Bakers
field Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor, is down for an address before
Rutland county Democrats on the
oath.
ST Johnsbury has 992 school child
rem between five and eighteen years OF
age, against 900 last years. OF this
number, sos are boys and 4S4 are
girls.
A deer was seen in Newport Centre
on the morning of the 4th. The ami
NAL fed contentedly until an APP
preaching train frightened it away.
Rev. B. Fay Mills, the evangelist,
will conduct a series of meetings at
st. Johnsbury in September. His
musical director, Mr. Greenwood, will
conduct the music.
The New England Farmers canvass
of the hay crop in New England
places it at Is per cent. above the
average and 80 per cent. above the
average in feeding value.
An eccentric character named Ezra
LaPoint of Lincoln has been arrested
70 TO
questions. 1t is the only instance OF
the kind in the State so far.
Unofficial census footings make the
population of the fourteen largest
places in this State 81 ,076, a gain OF
1850 since 1880. The entire State
is expected to show a population OF
100000.
James McLeran, Barnet, died July
II, Just after coInpletmg a hard day s
work in the hay field. He went to
the spring and was found there few
minutes later dead. The cause of his
death was undoubtedly heart disease
Alva Robinson, middle-aged farm
or of Chelsea, bought a barrel of cider
to help him through his haying, and
drinking heavily has become insane.
He contracted the habit of drinking
while in California, and drank so
much he became insane and was
placed in an asylum there. from which
he was discharged four years ago.
He has since his discharge been a
quiet citizen until now.
During the year ending June Both
there were SO admissions to the
Soldiers Home at Bennington, and
the total number at this date was SO.
There has been Is discharges and six
deaths. During the year SO received
the benefit of the Institution Gen.
William A. Averell, the assistant in
spector of State and national homes,
was pleased with the condition of
affairs on his second annual visit eX-
cept the hospital accommodations.
A monument now being built by the
Vermont Marble company at Proctor
is deserving of special mention, not
only because of it's size, but that it is
to commemorate the loss of the i'll
fated Jeanette of Arctic fame, and her
captain, the gallant De Long, with
his company. The base of the monu-
ment is of granite, % feet long, II
feet wide and 10 feet high and cut to
resemble as nearly as possible the
cairn erected on the delta of the Lena
river by Chief Engineer Melville, over
the graves of De Long and his gallant
comrades.
The following pensions have been
granted Vermonters: Increase, John
Brassaw, Montpelier; Daniel Prince,
Johnson; Henry Barrows, Brandon.
Original, Elias B. Chaplin, Hancock;
Hatch Chamberlin, Norwich; John
w. Palmer, Waitsfield; Nelson Park
er, Springfield; Henry C. Rice, Bethel;
George Austin, Jericho Centre; Rus
sell w. Cowles, North Craftsbury;
Thomas Glynn, Georgia Plains;
William A. Davis, Burlington; Alex
B. Pringle, st. Johnsbury; Charles
Dunn, Bennington Palmer c. Leach,
Bakersfield; John c. Barker, Pas
sumDsic.
AN EXPLANATION.-Jus Miller,o
the Supreme Court, has written to a