News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-11-05
STATE NEWS.

of Chlttenden county.
A lodge of Odd Fellows will soon be insti-
tuted in West Randolph.
Mrs. Abner Lull of Granville has cactus
with IS buds and blossoms.
Mrs. Hattie Holbrook. of Townshend, re
Gently broke her arm by fall.
NJ Bassett, of Burlington, recently had his
collar bone broken and shoulder dislocated
The Springfield house which for more than
rs wears has been a landmark, has been torn
down.
orion H. and Wallace Barber, of Burllng-
ton. have been fined for assaulting a 13-year-
old boy.
A Mr.. Perham, of Pomfret, was recently
thrown from his carriage and one OF his ribs
was broken.
The roads in Corinth are better than for 10
years past, and the people say that the labor
tax has done it.
The town of Weathersfeld is said to have
liz e rock, soap stone, granite and marble
within her boarders.
The railroad station at East Thetford, was
recently burglarized of S25 in money ana
several express parcels.
Henry Bssel of Middlebury, started for
Australia few days ago, having IN charge
fine flock of merinO sheep.
The late Edward Chapelle, of Norwich,
Conn has bequeathed $4,000 to the asylum
for the insane at Brattleboro.
The regular quarterly meeting of the life
insurance men of the state Is to be at ST.
Johnsbury early in November
W. NJ. Kellogg, of St. Johnsbury, was
thrown from his carriage few days ago ana
one ankle was seriously sprained.
The weaIthiest woman in the United States
is Mrs Hetty Green of Bellows Falls. Her
wealth is estimated at 100000, 900.
Fred Bruso, aged Is, of st. Johnsbury.
shot himself in the ankle with the ubiquitous
didn' t-know- it-was-loaded revolver.
The state superintendent of education ex-
meets to hold q teachers institute at Brad
ford 1 1th, 18th and 18th of November
Mrs Smell, of Enosburgh, died October p,
aged 90 years. She was thrown from car
riage last July and never fully recovered.
Odd Fellows hall at Proctor is being en-
larged and newly plastered, and when COM
pleted will be the best lodge room in town.
Henry HILL of Greensboro Bend, is hope
lessly insane and two men are required to re-
| strain him. He will be sent to the asylum.
An attempt is being made in st. Johnshury
| to organize a canning factory, with a paid up
| capital of $1,000 and an authorized capital
of $4,000.
| Sophia Wood, of Barre. aged 10, daughter
of Mrs Lucy Wood, aged 1O5, recently Tell
| down stairs at the home of her mother and
was seriously hurt.
George Coulter. of West Wardsboro, recent
! ly received a scratch on one finger from a
rusty nail and blood poison ensued resulting
| in his death Oct. %.
1t is now stated that trains will begin run
ming on the new Bristol railroad about Nov.
| Is. and there will he two trains each way
daily, except Sunday
Sergeant Holbrook, class of '93 at Norwich
University, Mortified, fell ubout Is feet into
the cellar of the new barracks and was badly
but not seriously injured.
The semi-annual meeting of the Vermont
| Homeopathic society is to be held at Rut-
| land Nov. IL, and is to be closed by ban
Duet at the BardweIl house in the evening.
j. Z. Pierce. of st. JQhnsbury Center, while
splitting wood. caught his ak on clothes
| line and the blade came down on his head
cutting a bad cash and severing an artery.
Darwin Turney, of Barnet fell under a
heavily loaded wagon when attempting to
stop pair of runaway horses and his skull
| was fractured, his case being decidedly criti-
| cal.
| At a special town meeting recently Wind
sor voted to expend $500 in laying a high
way to the lately discovered quarries, pro
viding that the parties interested eXpend
| twi:e that amount.
Hazen Hyde. of Passumpsic, was last week
| knocked down by vicious bull and rolled
|
| George Blair rescued him but not until three
of his ribs were broken.
Fred Marks, wealthy farmer and horse
! breeder at East Bethel, is supposed to have
committed suicide October 81 during an at
tack of temporary insanity. He was a veter-
an of the eleventh cavalry.
Dennis Gero, aged so years, an employee
| of the Abbott sash and blind factory, at West
Randolph, was on October %, struck in the
H. Lit hot
volving moulding machine and died the next
| day.
John O'Hare of Brandon, a liquor seller,
! who skipped to avoid the late Rutland Coun.
| ty Court where two cases were held against
him, has returned, and Wednesday he was ar
rested on two bench warrants and lodged in
jail.
| The Green Mountain telegraph line is now
| completed from Grafton to Chester and Wes-
ton. The line runs from Sunderland by way
of Manchester Depot, to Londonderry Graf
! ton and Bellows Falls, with a Chester and
| Western branch.
ag6 f 6eiBt Fg gefn Of mother
and daughter. Mrs. White, the mother, aged
| sc years, died very suddenly from apoplexy,
and the next day Mrs. Clarence Peabody, her
| daughter aged nearly 81 years, died. and
| two days later there was a double funeral
| service.
| Inc mouse, barns and Sheds with contents,
| belonging to Jerome W. West in Simonsvile
were entirely consumed by fire on the 18th
| inst. Mr. West heard noise at the barn, he
| got up and lit lamp, and in reaching for his
clothes he overturned the lamp which caused
the fire. Partly insured. He has been burn
ed out twice in four years.
The twenty-sixth session of the winter
| course of instruction in the medical depart
ment of the U. v NJ. at Burlington, opened
| Thursday Oct. 30. All of the members of
| the faculty were present at O'Clock D. m .
| when the usual opening exercises were held.
| Twenty-Five students had assembled, which
is a very good number. More of them than
| is usual were new students.
J Mrs. Efie johnson, of Windham, had a
fight with henhawk last week. He caught
| a hen and trap was set which caught him.
| Mrs. Johnson then beat him with a pole till
she supposed he dead. In about two
| hours, however, the hawk showed decided
| tendency to get up again, but she finished
| him the next bout, He measured two feet in
length and four feet from tip to tip of wing.
The twelfth annual meeting of the Vermont
branch of Woman's Auxiliary to the board
of missions, held at st. Johnsbury, October
| %, was attended by about so delegates and
| the officers elected were: President, Mrs. H
| III. Baxter, of Rutland; corresponding secre-
| tary, Mrs. c. E. Allen. of Burlington; record
| ing secretary, Mrs. E. p. Gibson, of Rutland ;
treasurer, Mrs. E. L. Wyman of Manchester
| Center; delegates TO national meeting at Bal
| timore in October next, Mrs L. G. Kingsley
| of Rutland, Mrs. Jesse Burdette of Airing
| ton Mrs. II. B. Soule of st. Adams