News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-10-15
STATE NEWS.


doves to the Boston market last
week.
DR.. P. B. Parker of Bartonsville,
was fatally gored by vicious COW a
few days ago.
Horace Gle of Windham, recently
caught lynx in one of his traps and
secured a bounty of $40.
The jury in the Rutland County
Court has been on duty for six weeks
and not disagreed on single case.
Lewis White of Windham bad both
bones in one leg broken by getting it
caught between somelogs and a stone
wall.
Fifty-two thousand shingles and
three tons of iron roofing were used
in the village of Williamsville the
past year.
The st. Johnsbury board of trade
is considering a proposition from
man in Maine engaged in the canning
business to move his cannery to that
town.
Caledonia grange will hold fair
of the dairy, fruit and vegetable pro-
ducts of the farm and the culinary
and fancy work of the homes at East
Hardwick on Saturday, October II.
Miss Mary Howe is to sing at Fall
River, Conn, the 18th; New Haven
the 10th; BROOKLYN, N. Y, the 23d,
and Athol, Mass, the 9th, besides
several other engagements for this
month.
j. Mcdonald of Bellows Falls, at
tempted to pass between sections OF
freight train that was shifting cars,
was caught between the dead-woods
and crushed so badly that he died in
a few hours.
l. Major A. B. Valentine. bought
the ''Gilson grove" a beautiful spot
of several acres to the south of the
! village of Bennington and rumor
says that Mr.. Valentine may make
it a public park.
John MERCER of Burlington, has
been convicted of one second offence
against the prohibitory law, and Mel
son Bacon of the same city, pleaded
guilty to two first offences and was
fined $50 and costs.
Dr. G w. Ward of st. Johnsbury,
government inspector, has closed his
engagement at Island Pond, having
been appointed to a similar position
at the ports of Richford and Newport
with headquarters at the latter place.
DR.. w. Seward Webb of Shelburne
Farms has presented the town of
Rutland with his celebrated French
coach stallion Incroyable, which he
imported from France. The select
men have accepted the gift with
thanks.
Roger Woodward formerly of
North Bennington who has been
spending a number of years in Ore
gon, is now in his old Vermont vii
lage. He says there is no better
country to spend your life in than
Vermont.
The Woodbury. Granite company
of Hardwick have the contract for
furnishing 125 carloads of stone for
the new court house in Worcester,
Mass. 1t will cost $1,000 to trans
port the stone from the quarry to
the depot.
Senator George F. Edmunds and
family left Thursday evening in Gov.
Smiths private car Bellevue, which
was kindly placed at his disposal, for
their winter home in Aiken, S. C..
Miss Edmunds is in poor health and
needs a warmer climate to recuper-
ate.
The venerable couple, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ephraim Haskell, aged "a and SO
respectively, will pass the winter in
the family of their son, W. B. Has
kell, in Wilmington. This is prob
ably the Oldest married couple liv-
ing in Vermont and possibly in New
England.
Henry Curtis of Burlington, fell I'M
der a coal wagon weighing 250O1
pounds and loaded with 450Opounds
OF coal, one day last week, but fortu-
nately, the wheel passed over the
f1eshy part of one arm, only and no
bones were broken. The flesh was re-
duced to pulp.
A barn owned by Joseph Lavalle
and situated north of Burlington |
near the road leading to Malletts
Bay was burned Friday afternoon.
A quantity of hay and also 40 bush
els of potatoes were total loss. The |
fire is supposed to have been acciden-
tai, and there was no insurance.
Postmaster Bowman of st. Johns
bury has finished his inspection of Al
postoffices in Caledonia county. He
found them in good condition and
the postmasters capable people. He
found as a rule, the offices presided
over by postmistresses in better con-
dition than those in charge of the
men,
W. K. Melendy of North Thetford,
who has been a private patient in the
Mary Fletcher hospital, Burlington,
cut his throat few days ago while
walking about the hospital grounds.
He severed the Gsophagus, wind pipe
and arteriee, but prompt attendance
from the hospital physicians prevent
ed strangulation. He has since died.
John Cone of Woodstock, died Oct.
5, aged 50 years. He was one of the
oldest of the stage drivers who pre-
;eded the railroads. At the age of II
ne began driving and later owned
5he stage route between Hartford and
Woodstock. He drove the stage for
over 40 years, until paralysis of the I
spine compelled him to give up some
zen years ago.
The state supervisors of the insane
Jay that everything is getting into )
rood working order at the state
asylum at Waterbury, the main diff
iculty being that people take their
harmless insane persons who can :
ust as well be cared for at home.
The supervisors have already dis
harged two or three such cases
rom the new asylum. /
The government comptroller has
Gen. John W. Corcor- v
III of Clinton, Mass, upon his action i
s receiver of the National Bank of C
lancaster. 1t became involved Fl
through large loans to the insolvent I
Vest Rutland Marble company, !
those money and papers Gen. Cocor- v
N found in the woods on Tinmouth S
ills few miles below West Rutland. b
The three-year-old twin daughters L
f Joseph Ryan, of Castleton, strayed :
way from home Thursday after =
Don. A searching party of $50 =
zen was organized and the missing !,
hildren were found in meadow, !