News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-03-26
STATE NEWS.

Newport is to have an overall fac
tory.
There are at present 90 inmates al
the State Reform School
Barre is to have a new public
school building to cost 100000.
The depositors of the defunct
Windsor National bank have beer
paid in full
l.. {. Fisher of Cabot made S27(
pounds of butter from a dairy of p
cows in 1890.
A car load of maple sugar was
shipped from Barre this week tC
Fair Haven, Washington.
Plans have been completed for a
fine capaciOus hotel at Woodstock TIC
cost not less than $4,000.
Preparations are being made at
the \. M. c. A. in Bennington to
have a checker tournament.
c. F. Orvis has about $4,000 trout
in his private hatchery at Manches-
ter that are in fine condition.
Three United States flags have
recently been flung to the breeze over
school houses in Island Pond.
James Briggs of Hartland has con-
tracted with c. W. Backus to furnish
him with 10000 feet of pine lumber.
A L. Cain & Co. and the Bristol
Manufacturing company have used
100000 feet of lumber during the
past year.
Travel on the lake at Newport con-
tinues good; the ice is thicker and
better now than it has been before
this winter.
True & Blanchard's building in
Newport took fire one day last week
from the reflection of the sunlight
from a tin roof.
Mr.. W. s. Weeks of East Clarendon
celebrated his SD birthday March g.
For 81 years he has attended town
meeting held in Clarendon
Six pairs of Fairbanks scales, each
with a capacity of 1000 bushels,
have been placed in the newly -erected
grain elevator at Richford.
A Starksboro man who bought a
farm last year for $1,000 has just
paid for it with the proceeds from the
sale of 21OO bushels of potatoes
raised on the farm, which he sold
this spring at So cents bushel.
Alfred Porter, the noted horse
thief, has been arrested at Glens, N.
Y. He served sentences in the States
prison at Windsor and House Of
Correction at Rutland in Vermont,
besides being acquainted with good
many jails in other States.
Fred T. Harding, of st. Alhans,
aged twenty-five years, shot his wife
dead in the street Friday evening
and then committed suicide with the
same revolver. The couple have not
had a pleasant married life and the
woman had once left Harding, who
married her against the wishes of his
parents.
The Orleans County Historical
society is working up the history
of Derby and expects to finish it by
the middle of October next. Hon. l..
H. Bisbee of Chicago is taking live
ly interest in the matter and is doing
much work in collecting and formu-
lating material. In 1892 work will
begin on the history of Irasburgh.
Ex-Lieut. Gov. Cotton will take an
active part in carrying the work for
ward.
The last Congress appropriated
$4,000 for the construction of fish
hatchery in Vermont The legisla-
ture of this State passed an act in
1890 for establishing a hatchery in
the State, and appropriated 50, 500
therefor. The question ofthe location
of these hatcheries has not yet been
finally determined. 1t squite proba-
BILE that both the United States and
State hatcheries will be located in
the same town. The indications are
that either St. Johnsbury or Brattle-
boro will be selected, both places
having offered good sites for the nee
essary buildings.