News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-07-09
STATE NEWS,

Gov. Page, while attending the
Commencement exercises at Poultney
presented the principal of the school
800 to aid in building a new chapel.
1t is said that Button Bay island,
near Basin harbOr, has been pur-
chased of the government by New
York parties. The island is an out
cropping of a reef of petriied coral
State Auditor Powell is to move to
st. Adams, according to the Messen-
ger, having leased a house there
But he will continue his law partner
ship with A. K Brown who has an
office at Richford.
George Fields, an old resident of
Leicester, was found dead on Thurs
day morning, July ?. He had COM
mitted suicide by taking paris green.
Financial embarrassmentis supposed
to have been the cause.
Lucius Biglow, ESQ. formerly Bur
lington and Rutland and who is one
of the brightest editorial writer's on
the Pacific slope has left the Portland
Oragonian, with which he had been
connected a number of years, and is
now writing for a Seattle, Wash,
paper.
The office of assistant general su-
perintendent of the Central Vermont
railroad has been created, and F. W.
Baldwin, formerly superintendent of
the Odgensburg and Lake Champlain
railroad, appointed to the position.
He will have Jurisdiction over all the
divisions of the road
Gov. Page has granted permission
for military organizations of other
states and the Dominion of Canada to
pass through the state of Vermont,
armed and equipped, on the way to
and returning from the Vermont
centennial and dedication of the
battle monHment, which occurs at
Bennington on August 10.
Simon Holton died at Middlebury
last Wednesday at the age of 50
years. He was noted as an inventor
of clock, which at the stroke of
every hour prOducedin detail the scene
of the assassination of Garfield. He
was also theinventor ola self-register-
ing thermometer, the originator of the
escapement watch, and the maker of
a watch fashioned nearly entirely from
ivory.
As usual, Vermont boys came in
for a good share of prizes at the
Dartmouth College Commencement.
Z. B. McDuffee, of Bradford, took the
third oratorical prize, competed for
by academic and scientific students
A. W. Stone, of Hartford, One-half
the prize for free hand drawing; while
Il. Doty Of Bradford, n. V. McDuffee
of Thetford and B. S. Gilman, of
received honorable men
ton for proficiency in mathematics.
A recent number of the Engineer
ng News" contains maps and a pro-
lie of piece of difficult railway loca-
ion in order to make a descent of |
LOO feet on the line of the Knox
lille Southern railroad in Tennessee,
made by Frank o. Sinclair Of the firm
Sinclair & LeavenwOrth, ChattanOO-
"a, Tenn. The News speaks of the
inc as the most elaborate series of
abroad spirals in the world. Mr..
sinclair is Burlington boy and Mr..
comes from Charlotte.
Congressman Grout has over so
orses and colts, and every one of
hem has blood in them. Out of the
lrge number of colts coming along
will be strange if some of them do
OF, in a few years, give a wide repu-
alton to the Kirby farm. But the
eneral is not all "hoss." A dairy
30 to 40 COWS, a herd of steers pur-
hased every year for feeding, a large
umber of fine-blooded hogs, and "a
lrge flock of sheep, all testify to the
ambition in general agricuI-
IRE.
Three prominent politicians are
shing just at present way up in the
lids of Canada. The politicians in
uestion are Senator Mcpherson of
ew Jersey, ex-senator George T.
dmunds of Vermont and ex-senator
Yade Hampton of South Carolina
dmunds and Hampton are the
Iests of Mcpherson. The Jersey
nator owns an entire river in the
Ominion. 1t is known as the Note
lasquan river and is crowded with
Union. So reads a press dispatch,
1T for all that Senator Edmunds is
lietly enjoying himself at his home
Burlington.