News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-10-16

Vermont Is MI represented on Tie
board of wonSh managers of the
worlds fair inn 5he person of Mrs
Ellen NJ. Changer, of Pomfret, while
Massachusetts Aand Maine are left
out in the coiG
Mrs. Williams, the Castleton
woman who murdered her two chill
dren, and afterwards set her house
on fire, is said to be very i'll at the
asylum at Brattleboro, with her
death momentarily expected.
Harvey G. Ellis of Middlebury, a
former weIl-known Vermont printer,
now Il pension examiner, has been
assigned to an extended district, in
Guiding Clinton, Essex, Warren and
Washington counties, New York.
Apples are being ordered in Yer
mont from Michigan. A fruit dealer
says there are not enough apples in
the Otter Greek valley below Middle
bury, to make pint OF ciderfO for each
of the inhabitants of Puritan stock.
Edmund Tilson. an old man, was
killed Friday afternoon at Ford's
crossing, West Randolph. by hog
train. He was very deaf and did not
hear the repeated whistles. His
horse was killed and his wagon
smashed.
Mrs. A. E. Rankin has presented
the First National bank of st. Johns
bury with an excellent crayon pOr-
trait of her father, the late Judge
Luke P. Poland, who was president
of the bank from it's organization in
1864 until 1886.
Mrs. Horace Fairbanks of St.
Johnsbury, Vt, sent 81 900 to Phil
lips AndOver Academy, Oct. 3, that
being the birthday of her brother,
the late Dr. Samuel H. Taylor, to
found the "James and Persis Taylor
Scholarship" in memory of their
parents.
A catamount is roaming about
South Woodstock in Windsor coun-
ty. More are reported in another
section of the state. These danger
Gus animals never go in pairs. Each
one forages for himself They attack
sheep, horses, cattle or any other
animal. They generally weigh 25O
pounds.
Dr. H. II. Mcintyre, of West Ran
dolph, one of the commissioners from
Vermont to the worlds fair, has been
appointed a member of the standing
committee on transportation, agri-
culture, tariffs and finance. B. B.
Smalley, of Burlington, the other
commissioner from Vermont, is on
the executive committee.
An East Richford man answered
the following advertisement agents
wanted for fast selling articles need
ed in every family. 1t catches them
all. Sample light and clean, and
can be carried in the vest pocket
Send 20 cents for sample and take in
all that's going" By return mail he
received fine tooth comb.
The smallest vote cast in the re-
cent state election was thrown in
Somerset, and the scattering vote in
that place is reported as larger than
the total vote for the two leading
gubernatorial candidates. Three
freemen gave their suffrages to Gov.
ernor Page, two to Mr.. Brigham
and seven went as they pleased.
Friday last, in Franklin, two men
were at work pressing hay in limo.
thy Barney's barn, one of them being
the owner of the hay press. They
got involved in quarrel, and finally
one of them set fire to the barn for
the sake of destroying the Others hay
press. Barn and contents were burn
ed. Insurance $500. The barn burn
er was arrested.
VermOnt's marriage laws are in
vOlved in a suit now before the Uni
ted States court in Boston. Gen.
Butler in counsel for the defence, and
Horace w. Bailey, town Clerk OF
Newbury, is one of the witnesses.
General Butler insists that the laws
of Vermont prohibit marriage be-
tween a male under p and a female
under Is.
Mrs. James Sh9arer, aged sixty-five
years, of Burlington, had been suffer
ing from lung difficulty for some
tiS.e, when on Friday by mistake she
U.s.. teaspoo;sful of ammonia in
-, ~ !! !, pl 2. yee gid lady was
posing tina 50 frightened vsrt eit that
2ol5qn' r sne ed, NJ spite of medical