News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-09-04
STATE NEWS,

. "A Z News.
Woodstock is indulging freely in
concrete walks.
A new bank building is to be erected
at Bradford this fall.
The valuation of Bennington has
increased 5000 500 since 1880.
Springfield lives in hopes of getting
the electric light for her streets.
The st. Johnsbury post-office re-
ceives and dispatches ~ mails per
day.
j. II. FarnsWorth, Windsor, was
struck by an engine August %, and
killed.
There are between 40 and so pupils
in the children's class in physical cul-
ture at Rutland
The Vermont Grand Lodge of Good
Templars meets at Plainfield this
year, Oct. and 9.
Charles Burnham, Newport, was
kicked by horse and had three ribs
broken and the lung tissue badly in
iured.
1t is stated that the Hon. Frederick
Billings of Woodstock is constantly
failing, and probably willnot survive
many months.
Geo. F. Breed, manager of the Co.
roma marble works at Brandon, was
instantly killed by being thrown from
carriage Thursday.
Widow Melissa Towslee, who was
the oldest inhabitant of Bennington,
is dead. No other resident there has
reached the age of 90.
Charles Spaulding of Bridgewater,
acting express agent at Weirs, n. H.,
was badly hurt by a mail hook on a
moving train, and may die.
Mary Howe of Brattleboro is under
an engagement with. a leading mama
ger to sing in concertmu and Isl to
appear in all the leading cities of the
| country.
| News has been received by friends in
Brattleboro of the shooting of Charles
Perham, now the only remaining one
of four brothers who went from Brat
tleboro to Colorado in 1885.
The Vermont Mutual fire insurance
company's losses from August 1,
1889 to the corresponding date this
year were 1876, aggregating $780,
| 623.96. An assessment of Ak cents
is levied upon policy holders.
Commodore Thomas Chubb, ex-
harbor master at Galveston, Texas,
died suddenly Tuesday morning of
last week of heart disease at his sum-
mer residence in Post Mills, Vt. He
was 81 years old and widely known in
naval circles. During the rebellion he
was attached to the confederation naval
service in the capacity above stated.
The post-office at Castleton was en-
tered Monday night of last week No
stamps, cards or envelopes were tax
en-. The burglars got about 81 in
change. The store of Preston Bros.
was also robbed of about 500 in sill
verware and revolvers. There is no
clew yet to the burglars. This is the
| second time the office has been robbed
in ten years.
State Auditor Powell does not sup
port the claim so frequently made
that the enforcement of the prohibit
| tory law carries with it a financial
Oul VII bllc OUllcl IlCtIlO llts says
| that the law sis a source of revenue
to the state and not expense. When
charged with every item of expense
whether direct or incidental, properly
chargeable to it, the law is producing
net revenue of from $685. to
| $3O,000 annually"
Miss Louisa Smith of Plainfield, n.
H., was arrested and delivered to
Vermont officers Tuesday for break
ing and entering the depot at North
Hartland, at midnight, August II,
abstracting several express packages
and setting fire to the building. She
had ordered goods G. O. d. from Bos-
| ton dealers under fictitious names,
and had asked the express agent to
! deliver them to no one but her. Some
I of thegoods were found at her fathers
| house and others on her person when
| she was arrested.
A two years old daughter of Isaac
! Tillser, of st. Adams, who with her
mother was visiting Mrs Tillser's sis
ter in Burlington one day last week,
met with serious and singular acct
dent. Mrs. Tillser was aboutto cross
the street with her child, and meeting
a neighbor stopped q moment when
the child sat down on the ground.
At that moment bantam rooster
stepped up to the child and picked
one of it's eyes out, destroying the
sight and otherwise disfiguring the
child's face before it made any out
cry.
Burlington is excited over a case of
grave robbing The body of Nellie
Liberty, who died August IS, is found
to have been removed from st. JOS
eph's cemetery. The death certificate
made out by the physician gives no
cause of death There was a slight
clue to the robbers and the matter
was placed in the hands of the police,
which resulted in warrants being is
sued for the arrest of r. Dufrense, DR..
S. Patenaude and his hired man and
a Mr.. Snyder, all of Winooski, for i'm
plication in the grave robbing Sny-
der and Dufrense were captured We'd
nesday. The latter has been study
ing in Dr. Patenaude's office, and it is
probable that the body was taken for
dissection by them. 1t is thought
the body was thrown into the river
and search will he made for IL