News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23

MI. a. Il. Jacques, postmaster at Wilton,
n H., Tel ON the ley walk at his home Mon
day, and broke his hip bone.
The deaths in Providence, week ending
11th inst, reached 100, fully one-third more
than the records ever showed before.
Directors of the Marblehead, Mass. Ma
uonal Bank: John #. Harris, Henry A. Pot
ter, Elbridge Brown, J. Frank Harris. Jr.,
John Pitman, John B. ingalls,, Samuel IL.
Brown, Jr. John f. Harris is President.
North Attleboro', Mass, viii ask the Legis-
lature for new town name, as the neglect
the business men of that town no little incon-
venience. Several names are suggested, but
as yet no one is specially urged.
Sanborn & Mann of Bo ton have purchased
the Wentworth Shoe factory at Dover, n.
H., and will start up business Immediately.
The ferry boat on the Upper Connecticut
River at Dalton, n. H., was run this season
until Jan. 1, later than in any previous year.
A reported attempt at suicide at Ware Vii
lage, Mass, on Sunday morning grew out of
the freak of somnambuist-a lady-who
got up, dressed herself, and wandered out on
the street till she suddenly brought up-or
down-in the water, which brought her to
her senses.
On Jan. Ii hog train was thirteen hours
in making the trip from St. Adams to Rut-
land, VT, owing to the storm.
A meeting of the Orleans county (Vt.)
Board of Education was held at Newport the
Sd in t. In the selection of text books the
board will probably act Independent of the
recommendation of the State Committee.
Several books not recommended by that COM
mittee were favorably brought to the atten-
ton of the board by the various su~-commit-
tees.
The twenty-secOnd annual convention OF
the LittletOn, n. H., Musical Association
opened on Jan. Is with Carl Zerrahn as con-
ductor and Mrs. Martha Dana Shepard as
pianist. About one hundred singers were in
the chorus, which is an excellent attendance
for the first evening.
While Robert Pyles of Cumberland Mills,
Me-, was slowing away some bales of rags
Jan. II number of them fell on him, crush
ing and smothering him to death.
General Manager Furber tells deputation
from Lynn, Mass, that the Boston & Maine
Railroad Company is not disposed to eXpend
money in elevating its tracks in that city.
Mayor Jackson is vigorously enforcing the
liquor law in Fall River, Mass.
The town of Brookline, Mass, will ask the
Legislature to take its 70 DIS from the control
of the County Commissioners and give it to
the local authorities.
The annual meeting of the New England
Shoe and Leather Exchange was held Jan.
Is.
The annual meeting of the Young Republic
can Club of Boston was held Jan. 10.
The Central Social Clubs annual ball in
Salem, Mass, was a society event of consid-
cradle magnitude.
The alumni of Dartmouth College residing
in and about Boston. dined recently together.
A meeting was held in Trinity Church,
Boston, lately in the interest of the Colored
Commission of the Episcopal Church in the
South.
The monthly meeting and dinner of the
BosL1n rSr-~--EEade Association occurred at
| the Hotel Brunswick, IecoIItfy-=--
| Gideon P. Brown did not appear Jan. Is.
1 at the insolvency proceedings in Dedham,
Mass. He is i'll at his home in Brighton.
| President Whitney of the West End Road
Boston, petitioned the Legislature for char
| ter for an elevated road.
| The annual report of the Massachusetts
/ Savings Banks Commissioners was made
/ public Jan. 10. There was an increase OF
nearly 100000 in assets for the year.
| The annual meeting of the Massachusetts
| Woman's Board of Missions was held Jan. 10.
The annual reunion of the veterans of the
| Forty-fourth Massachusetts took place lately
| in Boston.
| The Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics
| Association held its annual meeting Jan. 10
The annual ball of the Boston Police Relief
| Association took place in Mechanics Build
| ing, Jan. 10.
Capt. j. Percival, carpenter, fell from tht
| fourth story of a new block on Main street
| Worcester. Mass, the other day, and wa:
/ taken in an unconscious condition to the City
| Hospital
The annual meeting of the Association Of
| Vermont Road and Trotting Horse Breeders
was held at Rutland, Jan. 10. The old board
of officers was reelected, with Co,one
| George W. Hooker as President. Wayne
| Bailey supersedes Z. Bowman as Superin
| tendent of Grounds. 1t was voted to in
crease the prem UNI list to $1,000 for the mex
| fall meeting to be he'd Aug. 20, 81 and %.
Jan. 0, Joseph Roy, farmer of Barnet
vt. gave employment to a man named Sma !
who was a deserter from the Charlestowr
Navy Yard. Small skipped on a night train
going north, taking $50 in money, g, ID
| watch and an overcoat belonging to Roy,
and Rows eleven-year-old boy. The distract
ed father and an officer found the boy at
Derby Centre, VT, 40 miles from home, after
several days search. Small has not been
| fOund