News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-05-21
STATE NEWS.

There df0 u1ttiiy CttScS VI AledSltS III
Bristol.
West Brattleboro sheep raisers are
much annoyed by dogs.
There were 13 weddings, 40 births
and 33 deaths in Burlington in April
Six thousand pounds of butter
were made at the st. Adams creamery
Tuesday.
1t is stated that considerable to-
bacco will be raised in the state
this year.
There have been IS maple trees set
on the school grounds in Waterville
this year.
Some farmers over in Westfeld say
that they have not had their last run
of sap yet.
A new set of buildings are to be
erected on the site of the burned hotel
at Hartland.
Two fishermen took into Brattle-
boro 225 trout, weighing q pounds,
as their catch.
Fair Haven has seven slate mills,
seven marbleized shops, and a num-
Der of turning shops.
About 100000 pounds of maple
sugar have been shipped from East
Fletcher this spring.
The graduating class of the Middle
bury high school is the largest in the
history of the school.
Col. Kittredge Haskins of Brattle-
boro will deliver the Memorial day
addres at Bristol, r. |.
Addison county court opens June
2. There are rs court and II chan
Gerry cases on the docket.
Vermont sent to the Boston mar
ket last week 100 cattle, $40 sheep
and lambs and lit swine.
There are 60 taxpayers in Glover
village school district who have no
children to attend school.
An elm tree in a sugar orchard in
Glover measures Is feet in circumfer-
ence, also a maple II feet.
A Swanton man caught the other
day, in an ordinary scoop net, a
sturgeon weighing 40 pounds.
A postoffice has again been sta
toned at Houghtonville, with Mrs.
Emma Martin as postmaster.
The Chittenden county conference
of Congregational churches will be
held at Hinesburgh, May 26 and 81.
1t is stated that the wholesale de-
struction of fish is being carried on
at Winooski by dynamite cartridges.
13-year-old boy named Bennett
from Newport Center, is in jail at
Newport charged with train wreck
ing.
A brush fire on Prince mountain,
Randolph, Sunday, May 10, did con-
siderable damage to fences and tim
Der.
Lodge No. sos of the Order OF
Goethe, composed entirely of Ger
mans, has been established at Bur-
lington.
The United States Clothes Pin COM
pany of Montpelier shipped 1900
gross of clothes pins to Germany the
other day.
Secretary of War Proctor will ac-
cept the invitation of Gov. Tuttle
to visit the national guard encamp-
ment in June.
George Lyons company of Brattle-
bOrO has just quarried a single block
of granite $50 feet long, 30 feet wide
and II feet thick.
The st. Adams Messenger says that
over II tons of butter were shipped
by the Franklin County Creamery
association Tuesday.
The Burlington Gas Light com
pany has just completed the laying
of 300 feet of main pipe and two sew
ers on Loomis street.
Mrs. Mary E. Whitney of Braintree
has just completed a rug a yard and
a quarter long by three-quarters wide
that contains II, 500 pieces.
Joseph Carpenter, while at work IN
a mill in Braintree Thursday, crushed
one of his hands, and is thought that
will be necessary.
The large block of marble taken
from the TacOnic quarry at Manches-
ter has been sawed and shows much
better than any hitherto taken out.
1t is probable that there will be
a term of the Supreme court at Mont
pelier, as all the cases but two
have been continued by agreement.
w. r. Lindsey, formerly of New
port, is now publisher of the Pixies
Peak News, a paper that is printed at
Monitor, Col, near the top of Pixies
Peak.
The travel on the Central Vermont
is increasing rapidly, and especially
is this noticeable on the Lamoille di-
vision. The freight traffic, too, is
very large.
Work has been resumed on the
Bristol railroad. Lincoln is to help
the company to the amount of
$4,000, and the road is to be finished
this summer.
A. D. Paige of Lyndonville, general
train dispatcher, has lately discharg-
ed several men for using intoxicants,
he holding that such men are not
competent help.
Emmons Barber of Wardsboro led
his COW to pasture, and before he
could remove the halter the animal
throwing him down and in
juring him quite badly.
The Hardwick Granite company
a five ton monument to Cut
the other day. 1t is for the
Grand Army post there, and is to be
dedicated Memorial day.
AS three men were at work on a
barn in Bethel the other day, the
staging fell, carrying them down
about 20 feet. No bones were brok-
en-, but all were badly bruised.
Parties from Boston and Worces-
ter, Mass, are looking at the gold |
mining interests of Plymouth, and
there seems to be some prospect |
IF working the mines this season.
The Richardson fish pond at Brat
leboro experienced a washout re-
entity, about 300 cart loads ofearth
eing carried away. 1t will take
400 to make the repairs. Thou
ands of trout escaped.
ihC oOOChholueI6 vi UIle IlNelSlue
frantic company of Mortified or
anized Monday evening. The num-
er of shares taken is 1874, amount
ng to $67O, and it is desired to
lcrease this to $1,000.
William Harrigan's two boys and
boy of Albert Mead's, aged from 8
IL years, were experimenting with
n old log and powder last Sunday
Bakersfield, and all were more I
r less injured in the face and eyes. {