News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-10-09
STATE NEWS.


A Rutland hunter shot ten par
tridges on the wing, the 2nd inst.
At Bellows Falls recently James
Barry was carried over the dam, in
a boat, and drowned.
Birge Phelps of Milton hung himself
on the I'd, in \. ii. Martins hog pen.
Temporary insanity is the cause as
signed.
Rev II. NJ. Perkins of the Congre-
gatiOnal church in Dunstable, Mass,
has resigned to accept a call to
Sharon.
The dwelling house of Mary A.
Woodruff at North Underhill was
burned Thursday night. Most of
the contents were saved.
A grand horse trot is to be held on
the state fair grounds. White River
junction, October IA and 10. The
purses amount to 50, 800.
Riley Watson of White River June
ton, fell thirty feet from the new
coal dock at West Lebanon, n. H.
and received almost fatal injuries.
Slow progress has thus far been
made in grading the Clarendon and
Pittsford railroad to connect at Rut-
land with the Bennington and Rut-
| land road.
There were 10000 people at the
BrattleborO fair on Thursday. One
hundred different turnOuts were in
in the cavalcade. the best ever seen
in New England.
Bv the will of Mrs. S. p. Cowles of
Coventry, the $500 received from
the government as arrears of pen
sions will be given to the American
Missionary Society.
A successful broker on the open
board of trade in Chicago is Miss
Fannie 4. Blinn, a young Vermont
girl, who was a clerk in an insurance
office a few years ago.
The body of Katie Sage, aged %,
who has been missing from Rutland
since Saturday, was found in the Pine
Hill pond on the I'd. Searching par
ties had been looking for her since
Sunday.
The annual meeting of the grand
lodge of Good Templars will be held
at Roxbury, October 10 and 10. 1t
had been decided to have it at Plain
field, but the sickness there necessi-
tated a change.
Rev. Andrew d. Market, late rector
of the Episcopal church at Randolph,
died at Digby, Nova Scotia, Septem-
her % Hewas a prominent member
of Mt Zion commandery and other
Masonic bodies.
Earl Smith, while washing win
dows in the third story, at Bellows
Falls, fell from an outside ledge on
which he was standing, breaking an
ankle and wrist, and receiving other
serious injuries.
In a cemetery in Royalton there
are lying in a row four generations
| of men-father, son, grandson and
great-grandson, each Of whom bear
the name Of Ebenezer Dewey, and
lived to be more than 80.
Mr.. B. Goodrich of Richmond has a
steam pillow that he has used about
three weeks with the best results. He
says that it is not expensive to run,
does not tire out, and may be used
for almost any work where locOmO-
tive power is required.
The Fall Mountain Paper Company
of Bellows Falls have recently pur-
chased over thousand acres of
timber land in Gaysville, as well as
large lots in Rochester, Pittsfeld
and Chittenden, and are negotiating
for more. The pulp mill at Barnet
is being repaired, and will soon be
gin running again.
Saturday morning train on the
Bennington & Rutland railway ran
into and demolished a carriage con-
tanning two daughters of Gen. J. G.
Mccullough, president of the road,
and Joseph Heart of Troy, n. Y,
who was riding with them. The
Misses Mccullough were severely
bruised Mr.. Heart sustained three
fractures of the lett leg and was in
iured seriously about the head.
Within the past week a selfWinding
clock has been placed in the telegraph
office, and others will soon be placed
in the scale office, the Lake road of
fee and the jewelry stores of A. d.
Rowell, T. c. Spencer and W. c. War
ner. The clocks are run by electric
ity, wind themselves every minute,
and are connected by a direct wire
with the astronomical clock at the
naval observatory at Washington.
Every day at noon the hands regu-
late themselves and a gong sounds.
They are warranted to run year
without any outside interference.