News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-01-15
CehefaI Vermont News,

'u Gehefal Vermont News.
~ Ihe lroyConference academy is tt
IL have newchapel.
n a camp Of Sons of Veterans has re
# Gently been organized at Craftsbury
it During december the st. Albans
it Ietter carriers handled 6S,529 pieces
of mail.
# Rev. L. j. Ranslow of Swanton /,
It 10 deliver the Memorial day address
f at Waterbury.
$ SWantOn is endeavoring to per
IL Suade a Canadian straw hat concern
r to locate there.
n st. Johnsbury shows a total ex
, penditure of $14, 748. IT for 1890, as
. against $15,337 II in 1889.
q b: II. Albee is to write up Bellows
! rails and perhaps other Vermont
: towns for the New England Maya
zine.
l The Springfield electric company
l has been Incorporated with a capital
OF Sl5, 1000, all of which is taken by
local men.
The Myers & Wylie knitting mills
at Bennington have started up I'M
der full Roadway The firm hope for
long run.
A meeting of he state board of
agriculture will be held at Fair
Haven, Wednesday and Thursday,
February 4lesd 5.
The Univtotalists :. 81 Brattleboro
have engaged A. J Markham, the
well-known singer, to lead their Con-
gregational singing.
The docket of the Orleat county
court for the February ter lust is
sued, contains the smallest hos If
cases for many years.
Memphremag9g lodge, F. & A. M,
| just issued a history of Freemasonry
in Newport fpr9s .ggatury. 1t makes
Mrs. PollyW. Ormsbee, mother of
eX-Gov. Ormsbee of Brandon died on
Friday morning at the residence of
her daughter in Ticonderoga, n. Y,
aged 50 years.
The Newport county musical asso-
citation will hold its annual conven-
ton January 21.and %, with Mr..
Blaisdell of Conceal, n. H., as con-
ductor and Misss,tartha Dana Shop
ard as pianist.
A note is going the round that DR..
Bull of Saltwater, N. Y, who is 81,
is still actively pursuing his profess
sion. DR.. Theophilus Clark of Tin
mouth, who died a few years ago,
was in practice of his profession at
90 and died at 81.
The first test of the Australian
ballot law in Vermont was made at
st. } ohnsbury in the village election,
Wednesday, and is said to have been |
entirely satisfactory. Chief Justice |
Ross presided over the election, and |
everything moved without friction.
F. L. Goodspeed's new dry house,
at Montgomery Center, was burned |
to the ground on January 4 with a
full stock of slaves and headings
which were ready to take out. This |
is the second dry house burned on
that foundation within few months.
Henry Emery, a breakman on the
Cheshire road, lost an arm while at
work in the station yard at Bellows
Falls on Wednesday forenoon. 1t
was taken off below the elbow. The
surgeons were obliged to take it off
above the joint while dressing the
wound,
Gen. Edward II. Ripley, Gen.
William W. Henry and Gen. T. S.
Peck, commissioners to make a con-
tract with Karl Gerhardt of Hart
ford, Conn, for the bronze statue of
Gen. Stannard to be placed upon the
monument in Lake View cemetery.
Burlington, have just closed the con-
tract.
Whitney Post, Tunbridge, and it's
relief corps have purchased a large 4;
building for their use, and halls for
both will be furnished soon. The :
purchase was made by the comrades '
OF. W-hitne1x--Srost. Incorporated by !
the legislature, but the money paid {
in was contributed by the post and {
relief corps. s
The announcement telegraphed I
from Bellows Falls that Fred n. {
of Burlington had been ere {
moved" as stamp deputy of the in
ternal revenue service for Vermont,
and that he had been succeeded by
George A. Weston of Bellows Falls,
is not correct. The office at Burling- !
ton has been abolished and the Yer
mont sub-district has been consoli- .
dated with the Keene, n. H., conting-
emit, and the Office established at Bel I
lows Falls. q
The Delaware & Hudson railroad o
has adopted a novel way of prevent =
ng the snow from drifting back on
5ne tracks after it has been once re-
moved. In those places where it is ii
most likely to drift back to the rails, Il
banks or walls of snow, some twenty .,
eet to one side of the road, are erect q
I'd. The blowing snow comes to these
walls, is arrested in it's fight and :,
ither stays there or Just drops to the la
'ther side OF the wall. The snow tt
vail affords much protection from te
riffs. *
Fire was discovered in the attic of
he rear of the Dixon House at I'm W. W.
erhill about two O'Clock Sunday ex
lOrning. The entire building was st
urned to the ground. The exact lue
ause of the fire is unknown, but it M M
J supposed to have caught from the tic
tOve which was used while they were its
t work there. The piano and much Al
f the furniture were saved. The he
'ss is estimated to be $4,000. ia
here is an insurance OF $4,000 on ne ne
ne house and $500 on the furni- t tIo
ire, insured in 7. S. Peck's Agency, eel
arlington. En-
The 18th annual Advent Christian =
Inference of Northern Vermont and
ew Hampshire and the Province of
uebec has elected the following off
RS: President, Rev. L. C. McKin-
ny of Haverhill; vice-presidents.
aniel Gregory of nanville, Canada,
lillian Brown of North Troy, and
larles MacClure of Derby; secreta-
, and treasurer, H. d. SeIby Kings
tt-~r--4a.-The convention
so appointed conference mission
y, and on Friday Mrs. L. C. Nc
lnstry was ordained to the minis
y, the first woman minister IN e
of 20 ministers attending.
solutions were adopted favoring
ohibition, church organization and
sgressive work
to,
Vermont Pensions.
Original, invalid, Luman Clogston
Falrhaven; additional, Ephraim -.
owe of Newoury, James O. WRIGHT O.