News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-04-23
STATE NEWS,

Inc new MOTEL IN Ludlow is nearly
finished.
A board of trade is talked of in
Bellows Falls.
A Catholic church is to be built in
Greensboro.
There are 1904 children of school
age in Burlington.
st. JOhnsbury furnishes five Me-
mortal day orators.
c. F. Smith has been appointed
postmaster at West Topsham.
Each summer visitor is reckoned as
paying on an average 500 for
board and room.
Lincoln, Starksboro and Ripton
make over 100000 pounds of maple
sugar each year.
There were five funerals in Towns
bend in one week, and the united
ages were 35S years.
j. +. Dickerman and wife of New
port have returned from an extended
trip through the West.
}. ?. Johnston of Mortified chop
ped off one thumb while operating a
peel shaving machine.
EX-Lieut. Gov. E. p. Cotton of
lrasburgh, is at Upper Lake in the
Adirondacks for his health.
The school children of Poultney
have deposited in the Rutland Saw
ings bank up to date $75.23.
OF the Al essays on maple sugar
printed in the Mirror and Farmer %
were written by Vermonters.
A well known Vermont educator
would have education in agriculture
taught in the normal schools of the
state.
The Sabin Machine company of
Montpelier is filing an order for 90
1872 hay-tedder springs from COM
pany in Ohio. J
At a town meeting the other day
st. Adams voted to exempt from
taxation five years the Willard Manu-
featuring company.
Mrs. Orrison Boyden of East Barn
ard fell last week and was very severe
ly injured, her present condition be-
ing critical.
Frank n. White, for years the town
clerk OF Waterbury, was thrown from
his carriage last week and seriously
injured.
An American cent stamp, issued
at BratlebOrO in 1740, has just been
sold In London for $3.50. 1t is said
to be the rarest stamp in existence.
Hog cholera prevails at the Bellev-
IL fap in AIhnnC Tho Dto 10
commission are taking steps to pre-
vent the spread of the disease.
Mark Spaulding's sugar house at
West Concord was recently burned,
with 600 pounds of sugar and a
new evaporation.
A little girl named Shatney, six
years old of Albany, had part of her
knee pan cut off with an axe in the
hands of her brother
The listers of Lowell found a man
who has lived in that town over 45
years and has never been out Oftown
or seen the cars.
The quarrymen of Hardwick are
anXiously awaiting warm weather
when 30 carloads of granite will be
shipped from there every day.
j. NJ. Batchelder a prominent mill
man at Plainfeld had one finger cut
off and the rest of the hand badly
mangled last week by buzz saw in
his mill
Will Kennedy of Orange was last
week fatally injured by the premature
explosion of u blast at the copper
mines in Ely.
Mrs. J. H. Baxter, widow of the
late United States surgeon general,
mas given to the library of Strafford
80 choice volumes of books from her
private library.
Ira Ward and wife of New Haven
are the oldest couple in Addison
county, and if they live until NOvem-
! Der 16. TS3S, PROPOSE to celebrate
| their 10Th or diamond wedding ami
versary.
BY direction of United States Mar
shall j. Amsden of Windsor, Sheriff
d. NJ. Silsby arrested John Lamear
of LyndOnville, yesterday for cores
ponding with the Louisiana lottery
officials on postal cards. Lamear
was taken to Burlington.
J. Q. Pierce of South Londonderry
has sword in his possession taken
from the soil of Virginia, where it was
found, driven into the ground to the
hilt, in 1868, by james Martin,
father of j. l.. Martin, on his return
from Virginia in 1869.
Gorden & Lucia of West Burke are
the patentees of a sawmill dog that
is so constructed as to hold log fast
while on the carriage so that every
board will be sawed true, whether the
log be straight or crooked. Itcan be
worked rapidly.
Hon. Loveland Munson will pre-
side at the coming June term of the
Caledonia County court, the docket
for which contains 93 law, II state
and 23 chancefy cases.
Three boys named johnson, Ryan
and Steady escaped from the Reform
School at Vergennes last Monday
night. All but the last named were
readily captured.
Mrs. Joel Fletcher of st. Johns
bury fell down stairs at the home of
George H. Fletcher, her son, in
Brooklyn, N. Y, last Tuesday and
was fatally injured her back being
broken.
j. NJ. Higgins of st. Johnsbury,
aged 80 years and suffering from
pulmonary troubles, last week start
ed for Toledo, o., but was taken with
hemorrhage on the train and died.
Henry Walker, while at work in a
pit in the Central Vermont railroad
roundhouse at st. Adams Thursday,
was struck on the head by a loco
motive which started Unexpectedly,
and was so badly hurt that he died
soon after.
At a recent meeting of the directors
OF the Vermont Domestic Missionary
society, it was--otei to use the prin-
clpal and interest of the Billings lega-
cy of $4,000 for aggressive work in
the state during the next eight or ten
years. 1t was also voted to send
$1,000 at once to the American Home
Missionary society in New York. The
sum will be taken from the contribu-
lions of the churches.