News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-10-22
STATE NEWS.

Edward Seeley of Middlebury, recently fell
from a tree and broke one leg.
R. J. Hoadley of Felchville, recently fell in
his wooGshed and broke rib.
Aten-year-old son of Daniel Masters offer
risburgh, broke one arm last Thursday.
sneak thief stole load of vegetables
from the garden of Martin White in Lyndon
vile recently.
Hazel, infant daughter of Frank Gardner,
of Felchvie, tipped over in her chair and
broke her collar bone.
While coupling cars on the Delaware and
Hudson road the right hand of James Bate
man was badly crushed.
| Mayor Chaplin, democratic candidate for
Congress in Brooklyn, N. Y, is a graduate of
the Rutland High school.
Joel B. Harris, of Rutland, was Frustrated
| by apoplexy while on the cars, coming from
| Springfield, Mass, to his home.
But few people in Caledonia county were
nipped by the Cardiff, Tenn, explosion and
fewer yet in Chittenden county
Rutland County Court adjourned without
| day Friday. There has been about the usual
! amount of ca es before the court.
About $500 barrels of apples have been
raised this season in Bristol, Starksboro and
! Lincoln by the farmers for market.
! o. P. Bennett, marble dealer and selectman
of st. Johnsbury, fell from a step ladder
Mrs. Edward Mayhem, of Esgast Haven. died
| a few days since from excessive hemDrrbags
| at the nose. She bled for about twelve hours.
! The st, Iohnsbury Republican is respons-
BILE for the statement that Vermont is being
rapidly given over to our French Canadian
| friends.
Apples are something of drug on the
market IN the southern part of the State and
the crop is the largest in some localities in
several years.
Dr. Huse of Berlin, accused Charles Nichols
| OF stealing box of handkerchief and Nichols
| pounded Huse in amost artistic manner to
| prove his innocence.
Bradford village has voted to have electric
lights for its streets, the vote being 46 for to
Y against. Evidently the bulk of the voters
were not deeply interested.
Charles Folsom of LyndonvilIe will give the
creamery association of that town two acres
| OF land for their buildings. More such men
would help boom Vermont.
Mrs. Harriet Tewkshury ofNewbury recent
ly fell down some cellar stairs and received
such severe injuries that being advanced in
years, render her recovery doubtful
Charles Spaulding, Central Vermont rail-
road freight brakeman, fell from his train in
Burlington yard Friday, injuring ono knee
spralnlng one wrist and being otherwise hurt
The largest stationary engine in the State
| is now located IN st. Johnsbury and will
soon be furnishing power for the Fairbanks
| Scale company. 1t is 500 horse power
| double compound condensing engine
A young son of Edward Holland of Sher-
| burne, Hollow, had one arm terribly lacera-
ted and his hand bitten through BY a dog
owned by j. j. Morse, the animal making an
| unprovokad attack. The dog was killed
St. Johnshury now rises to a question of
want an says that hospital is within her
needs That is one thing that is a nect ssary
| AID to any town and 1T is hoped St. Johns
bury will establish one be it ever so small
Edward Kiburn and Miss Minnie Smith, of
P0ultney were thrown from a carriage down
l6-foot bank last Friday and the lady died
| Saturday from conclusion of the brain Kill
| burn was terribly hurt, his injuries causing
brain fever.
Charles Hicks, who for II years has resided
away from ms native state, is visiting in Lyn-
donvillc Tor the first time in all these wears
lie finds that most of his boyhood acqualnt-
ances are now inhabitants OF the silent city,
to which all must go sooner or later.
L. D. Hazen, leading farmer and promi-
nent business man, of St, Johnsbury, which
town he represented in the legislature of 1888,
| mas been named by the president as one OF
the commissioners to locate the site for the
new government building at Pueblo, Col.
Tine liquor dealers ofMontpAlier, have raised
the S2OO necessary to pay ME fine of their
convicted compatriot Charles a. Spaulding
Dut the Damon and Pythlaz.-hsEsiness stopped
there, none of them otferingso serve his two
months sentence in the haze of correction
whittier he was taken Oct. II.
Various states have laid claim to having
sent into the rebellion the youngest soldier
but it finally settled on Vermont and now
; this state claims the oldest veteran ofthew
l.. W. Young of LyndOnville, who enlisted AT
90 and is now IS years Of age, hale, hearty
and not appearing to be over Is.
| +, W. Sberburn of Barre, won the 25-mile
bicycle race at Barre on Thursday, beatino
, ii. {. White, of Brattleboro, in one hour and
forty-one minutes and five seconds, The race
was for $500 and the championship of the
state. The tipe was three minutes faster
, than the best previous state record
A fire was discovered recently in the room
occupied by Harvey Pierce in hist in sbon in
Dauville Mr.. Pierce had been smokinfr in
bed and had set il fire. He was nnShIf
to put it out; and when it was discovered II
had assumed quite serious proportions. The
neighbors put tn fire out after it had done
considerable damage.
Ethel, the handsome and Accumulated
9 daughter of John e.. Temple, a Drominant
marble dealer at Rutland, and one of the vii
e lage trustees, eloped with w. G. Homes on
express messenger running between Rutland
, ! and Troy. They were married in TROY. haI
/; parents, who had strenuously opposed the
= match, were not very happily SURPRISED wkar
they learned of what the young people had
done.