News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-10-02
STATE NEWS.

The Mortified University ball team
defeated the Bethels on Saturday, g
to 1.
The Lady of the Lake" on lake
Memphremagog has made her last
trip for the year.
Mrs. Helen Savage of West Hart
ford raised 20 pounds of potatoes
from two Colorado Gem tubers.
The new literary journal, '"The
Quill" did not meet with an enthu-
siastic reception, and it's life's history
is written with Vol. /, No. i.
The depot at North Sheldon was
opened by burglars last Friday night,
and some money and stamps taken.
Keep a good lock on your doors.
Edward Rhetty, night switchman
at the st. Johnsbury depot, has been
arrested and charged with stealing
tobacco and other articles from
freight cars, and several valises.
S. A. Brownell's dry house at Els
sex Junction was burned Friday. 1t
was a new building and was filled
with material sufficient to make 1000
butter tubs. Loss $500; no insur-
ance.
The grocery store land postoffice)
of w. C. Marsh at Sheldon was
broken into last Friday night and
the change in the drawer, stamps,
two watches and chains, gloves and
mittens stolen.
Owing to last years musical festi-
val at Rutland not being a financial
success, the management has ar
ranged for a series of entertainments
to be given through the winter to
make up the deficit.
Apples are being ordered in Yer
mont from Michigan. A fruit dealer
saws there are not enough apples
in the Otter valley below Middlebury
to make pint of cider for each OF
the inhabitants of the Puritan stock.
The Po1lfret poor farm buildings
with the exception of one barn, were
burned to the ground recently. Moth
inc of the contents OF the building
was saved and three hogs were burn
ed. There is a suspicion OF incendi
arism.
William Pitt Cune, the Oldest mer
chant of Brattleboro, and a much es
teemed citizen, died suddenly at his
residence on the night of the 2Ott
inst, in his Saith year. He hac
held a number ofprominentpositlon'
and was always remarkably success
full in business.
At the opening of the bids for Stat'
printing at Montpelier Saturday TIN
Free Press association was awarded
the contract for printing the session
laws and the Senate and House Jour
nails of the coming session OF tn
Legislature, volumes 81 and 63 o
the Vermont reports and the CRANE
list books and inventory blanks TO
the years 81 and '92. These publ
cations will require about ID tons o
paper.
State Treasurer Dubois Repor
shows balance on hand Aug. /, 1888
SSS, O62. 30. Available for curren
fiscal year, $346,52 The Agricul
tural fund, in bonds of the State
due June l, 1890, $135, 800 has beef
extended twenty years. Amour
paid to towns in Chittenden Co. from
the Huntington fund was 81, 249.4
, of which Burlington had $433. "a
State tax for 1889 $3.50, 412.O1, O
which Chittenden Co. paid $43.119
81 and the city of Burlington, $21
1929 Total received from cor
poration taxes, 1889, $26S, 1875
Interest on bank balances, $4,000.
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We want every mother to know that crou
can be prevented. True Group never appear
without a warning. The first symptom
hoarseness then the child appears TO hav
taken cold or a cold may have accompanie
the hoarseness from the start. After that
peculiar rough cough is developed, which
| followed bV the Group, The time to net