News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-06-18

S Charles Madden saw four deer feeding
in the open field.
. C. C. Sawyer of Norwich made 400
y pounds of butter from one COW from
i the middle of May, 1890, till the first
/ of May 1891, beside using what
- milk would be required for a family
> of three.
h A Holiness camp meeting, under
It charge of Rev. William Mcdonald,
&c president of the National Camp
e meeting association, will open at
d Silver Lake June II, and continue
p over two Sundays.
/ A bill fish three feet nine inches
/ long, Weighing about % pounds, was
5 day in Little Otter i'll Ferrisburgn.
l The bill was about 10 inches long,
e with double row of sharp teeth.
The log drivers at Middlebury
have got the last of the 100000
feet OF pulp logs down over the falls
and are now getting the last of them
: out of the eddy below the falls. The
: water is so low as to impede them
greatly in their work
! The Boston Advertiser says that a
New York company proposes to es-
E tablish q $4,000 condensed milk
: factory at Newport, provided local
+ capital can be interested in the enter
prise, and that some subscriptions
to the stock have already been
E made.
| Miss Harriet B. Conant, a former
f principal of the union school at st.
| Johnsbury, has graduated with high
honors from the medical department
, OF the University of Minnesota, and
has been appointed assistant physi-
clan III the insane asylum at Yank-
ton, 5. ID.
r. D. Bridge and wife of West
BrldGeWater were awakened a few
nights ago by a sound as of burglars
boring through the panel Ofthe door.
MIR. Bridge called out, but no atten-
ton was paid to his words, and
the boring continued After a time
Mr.. Bridge went to the door, and
found two large hedgehogs gnawing
An effort is being made by the
Washington County Sunday School
ASSOCIATION to take areli@ious census
OF the county. Ten thousand CARDS
have been printed, and these will be
| given to the pastors of the churches. |
who will make an organized effort to |
visit all who do not regularly attend |
church and get their names and
church preferences.
A force of men are at work at
the old Addison county quarry in
Middlebury putting up a large lime
kiln. Two experienced masons from
Maine are building the structure,
winch will be large and first class
IN all It's arrangements. TWENTY-FIVE |
thousand fire brick are required to
line 1T. A small kiln is already in
operation and experts pronounce the
-l4alae,s,-FsEesitleed-of,-good@eolor= and1
quaIGty.
A syndicate of young men of
Woodstock have bought in Barnard
about $50 acres of land for a fish
and game park. 1t is locaSed in a
deep basin surrounded on three sides
by nigh mountains, some of which
are more than $500 feet above the
level of the sea. II. L. Durham and
assistants are now making a survey
to ascertain the height of the dam
necessary to flow so or - acres
of the above, part of which is now
natural pond.
The government has concluded to
discontinue lot of little cheap post
offices and routes in the State and
among those that have been dispens-
ed with are East Sheldon, Franklin
county, from Sheldon; Fay's Corner,
Chttenden county, from Richmond:
Graniteville, Washington county.
from Barre; Nashville, Chittenden
county, from Jericho Centre; North
Peacham, Caledonia county, from
East Peacham; Pittsford Mills, Rut-
land county, from Pittsford; South
Starksboro, Addison county. from
BRISTOL West Norwich, Windsor
county, from Norwich.
About four weeks ago Hiram
Knapp. OF Bennington, had what he
thought boil on one shoulder, and
pOulticed the swelling for a few DAVIS.
when it disappeared On a recent
morning the same place became very s
sore and examination showed q silver
OF some kind. A pair of nippers
were procured, and in few moments S
q needle ~ inches in length, with the d,
point broken off, was extracted. Mr..
Knapp nearly 20 years ago slipped
and fell, striking upon this needle and |
driving it into his left thigh, from !
which 1T was never recovered
Judge Isaac G. Wilson, one of the '
Oldest men on the bench in Illinois, Y
who died at his home in Geneva h
Monday night of paralysis of the @
heart, was born in Middebury in "
1916. Judge Wilson was educated I
in an academy at Wyoming and at &
Brown university. He was gradual \
ed in 1888. Then he went to Illinois f
and read law in Chicago. In1S51 he
was elected circuit Judge, holding @,
that office until 1867. In 1879 he -
vas again elected circuit Judge and q
vas at once made a member of the 9,
Appellate court of Chicago. Two q
ears later he became chief Justice II
When he moved to Geneva he was
lected to the Appellate court of
hat district
E.. ID. Thayer, the octogenarian
resident of the Brandon national ba
ank, said a despatch to the New
DIRK Herald on Tuesday, mourns the
)ss OF $40, O00inn notes and MORTGAGE
5 stolen from his seat in Rock Is
md sleeping car not far from Chi Al
ago. Mr.. Thayer haslarge interests W. W.
I the West, which he visits every 20
ear. This year he went as far as -,
maha, carrying his well filed satcbeI AZ AZ
his hand. When nearing Chicago C SG
e went into the dining car leaving n n
is satchel on his seat. When he re- 49, 49,
lrned it was gone. The police have S ST'
zen informed of the theft, but have ~ 80
title hopes of finding it. Mr.. Thaver W
at Atlanta telanxiousIy waiting f.,
evelopments. 1t is believed that io -
lie thief followed him from Omaha. \
Capt. Thomas H. Chubb, who has r
r some time been negotiating with G
lrious towns in the state rela- v
We to locating his fish rod manufac- q
Try some where other than Post 7
ills, has at last sold bis business TO Ha
e Montague City Fishing Rod me
'mpany, of Montague, Mass, and ries
g company are to rebuild the fac
ry at Post Mills, on the site of the T
e DESTROYED bV fire Soma rnoptbs wa,