News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-09-25
STATE NEWS.

A tomahawk was found in Centre
Rutland sandpit lately.
There are "a students registered at
Brigham Academy, Bakersfield.
Rutland county's recent fair left
the association $4,000 in debt.
The Pittsford dogs killed and
manned 23 sheep in one flock lately
Z. E. Andrews of Berlin, a promi-
nent nurseryman and fruit grower, Is
dead.
A. NJ. Child, West Fairlee, is using
ice from his ice house stored three
years ago.
A st. JOhnsbury woman pulled a
long-used cushion to pieces and found
23S needles therein.
1t is proposed to establish an cleo
trio light plant at Newport; 1S5 have
pledged their support.
Buildings for tub factory at Lyn-
donville are to be started as soon as
a lease of the ground is obtained.
Milo Whitney, Tunbridge, killed a
crane that stood four feet nine inches
high and six feet across the wings.
At Guilford's freemen's meeting it
was voted to accept the $1,000 be-
quest of Cynthia King for town IL
brary.
The new hotel enterprise at Wood
stock is a success, the necessary
amount of stock, $4,000, having
been secured last week.
In Washington county court F. b.
Smith gets a $175 verdict for Il $500
horse that was frightened by the
Barre railroad and got on to a barbed
wire fence.
Rev. C. R. Webb, who was at one
time manager of the Rutland Iele-
gram, died recently at his home in
North Granville, n Y. His age was
about 80 years.
Nathan Parkeraf sWatSrbury. while
trying to dig out a blasting charge
that did not explode, Saturday, fired
the charge by sparks and his face was
filled with powder and stones. He
will lose his eye-sight if he lives.
The Rutland Herald has received u
letter from Superintendent Porter
stating that the figures given by the
census office Sept. 8 comprised only
the village of Rutland and that the
official count of the town is II, 757.
Hon. and Mrs. William Wright Gel
ebrated their golden wedding at their
home in Waltham recently. Judge
Wright has been prominently identi-
fed with the educational interests OF
the state of Vermont, and has held
many public offices.
Commissioner Valentine says that
the Swedes who came over last June
have saved about $500 from their
earnings and sent it over to Sweden
to pay the passage of their friends
and relatives to this country, and
more than twenty are now on their
way.
As the cases of diphtheria at Plain
field have thus far been confined to
the three families in which the dis
ease made its appearance a dozen or
more days since, the village schools
resumed their work Monday, Sept. 5,
but with diminished numbers, as was
expected.
B. ]. Browns loss by the burning
of his barns in Sheldon, on Thursday
evening, was about $4,000 A large
amount of hay and grain was de
stroyed The fire broke out suddenly,
while the men were near by, drawing
grain, and when discovered the entire
contents of one large bay were ablaze.
Rev. B. Fay Mills, formerly pastor
of the West Rutland Congregational
church, who has been an evangelist
the past few years, is now holding
services in ST. Johnsbury and will be
there until October l. Mr.. Mills ar
rived there last week from Reading,
Mass, where he has been holding ser
vices for two weeks.
The recent decision of the supreme
court of Vermont that the rentals of
the grammar school lands in Rich
! ford Elateher-eHtkAA1aI can
not be diverted from their original
purpose, but must be paid into the
| treasury of the Franklin county
grammar school at st. Adams, is far
reaching in its effect. In Washington
county the rentals of the grammar
school lands were originally applied
to the support of the Washington
county grammar school at Mont
pelier By an act of the legislature
of 1882, the rentals of such lands in
Mortified and Barre were diverted to
the high schools and academies in
their respective towns. In 1886, the
rentals i'm Craftsbury in Orleans
county were diverted from their orig
inal purpose to the Craftsbury acad-
envy And in 1888, those of Calais in
Washington county to her own
schools. According to the decision
of the court, the several acts of the
legislature authorizing the diversion
of these funds are unconstitutional,
and the same can be applied but to
one purpose, viz: the original one OF
supporting one county grammar
school, or academy, in each county.
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