News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-01-22
NnrnGnt State News,


A. n. Stevens of Hartland, 81, is
now the oldest person in that town.
The Springfield Free Reading Room
association is permanently organized
and the room opened to the public.
Mrs. Owen McCabe died at the resi- |
dence of her son Barney. in White
River Junction on the 18th, aged %
years.
Rev. S. F. Croker, a Methodist
clergyman from London, England, is
to preach the remainder Ofthe confer
ence year at Barnard.
f. W. McGettrick of st. Adams will
be the Memorial day orator at
Vergennes.
There is a talk of a Catholic church
being built at Jericho instead of at
Underhill
The first veneer mill at Newport
has shut down till spring, throwing
80 hands out of employment.
The new iron bridge has arrived at
Middletown Springs from st. Adams
and is being put in place.
II. B. Williams of Monkton, cat
tie commissioner, has been in the
north part of the state looking after
cattle supposed to be diseased.
The ice inside the breakwater at
Burlington is now strong enough for
ice boating and already a few satis>t
factory trials have been made.
The wood jobs in the vicini 4 y j
Salisbury, that have given employ
ment to so many teams this winter,
are nearly all closed, and consequent
ly large number of teams arc 4tOf
employment. # ''|
AS H. L. Eosburgb kastrimming
shingles in v. L. MotS" shinG'e mill,
>, A!5la J5..s, ~. IS Ills right hand
ting off his fore finger and badly
mutilating his thumb
DR.. George Nichols of Mortified
has presented the State historical
society with an Indian war club
formerly belonging to Sitting Bull.
1t was recently sent to the doctor by
Loomis Gull of North Dakota, a
former Mortified boy.
The Woodstock Aqueduct CON-
pany, declared a dividend OF four per
cent on last years business. There
are now nearly 200 patrons of the
company.
For the first time in 20 years the
Strafford stage failed to make it's
trip to POmpa on account of the
roads being blocked with ice, snow
and water.
DR.. Hatch of Newbury Medical In
stitute fame, has prepared a state
ment i'll which be defies any one to
prove that he has taken any steps in
the affair that were not entirely
proper.
Mrs. Polly French of East Temple
ton, Mass, who recently celebrated
the 1O1st anniversary of her birth,
was born in Halifax, Vt, in 1870,
and does not look her great age by
many years,
A novel wager was decided at Gro
ton Pond, last Sunday. One of the
Porrell men VENT three miles bare
footed between two camps and wona
bet of 50, which goes to prove that
fools are not all dead yet,
The suit Of DR.. r. Nelson of St.
Johnsbury VS.. the Boston and Main
railroad for injuries received in the
accident at Passumpsic two years
ago will be tried in Boston next week.
The plaintiff sues for $4,000 dam
ages.
Conductor H. F. Sampson, who
has for many years run the mail train
on the Connecticut River road from
Windsor to Springfield, has been
chosen superintendent of that rail
road.
The arrival of seven men, who
were convicted at the recent term of
Addison County Court, at the States
prison, swells the number confined in
the State boarding house to 104,
the largest number in many years,
Abarn owned by John Daley, an
orphan boy sixteen years old, was
entirely destroyed by fire on tie 12thh.
1T was in a village called Sodom, on
the State Line, two miles west of
North Bennington. Two horses were
burned to death. TWO pigs badly
burned will probably die, Acarriage
and sleigh and harness were destroy
Ell. The property was partly insured
George Eaton, formerly a member
of the firm of Parmenter & Eaton,
which conducted the Troy Press.
died on Friday evening in Troy, n.
Y. Mr. Eaton was formerly a resi-
dent of Danville Vt, where he edited
and published the North Star, a pa
per which had been conducted by his
father and grandfather. The de-
ceased. had represented Danville in
the legislature for four terms, and
was once the democratic candidate
for governor of Vermont.
In correction of the report, as circu-
lated in the press, relative to Mr..
William V. Harper, late general
agent IN Baltimore for the National
Life Insurance company of Montpel-
Ter, it is authoritatively stated that
the amount for which he has been ar
rested as having embezzled does not
exceed $4,000 in premiums collected
and appropriated. Whatever other
biAlOuIlOo Dt uut lIOtIl MT, I1aTs
per to the company are secured, and
it is not expected that the company
will suffer loss.
At a meeting of the stockholders of
the Missisquoi Valley railroad com
pany, the following-named were ell
ected directors for the year ensuing
Worthington C. Smith, F. S. Stran-
ahan, E. c. Smith and J. NJ. Foss
of st. Adams 7. H. Perkins, Boston,
Mass, S. p. Carpenter, Richford;
Albert p. Cross, st. Adams. The
directors organized by the election of
Worthington c. Smith, PRESIDENT F.
Stewart Stranahan, vice president;
W. Tracy Smith, secretary and
treasurer.
Foreign News Notes.
Chas. Bradlaugh,. member of par
lament for Northampton, England,
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