News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-05-11
STATE ITEMS.

stock company has been formed at Brad
ford to engage in the granite business.
| St Adams is to have a lacrosse club this
| summer, which it is supposed will be quite a
| strong organization, as several of the mem
| bers have played in Montreal for several sea
sons.
Rev. Hiram Bingham, of Bennington, who
was Tor thlrty-fOuF years missionary to the
Gilbert Islands, has translated the Bible to
the language of that people, and it has been
published.
In report of the freight traffic on Lake
Champlain, 1t appears that mines and quar-
ries are per cent. lumber g per cent man
ufactures, ETC., 81 per cent. In the table
whitehall leads, Rouses Point stands second,
Vergennes third, Burlington fourth.
The United States has more gold than Eng
land, the greatest commercial nation of
Europe. With $640, 600. 900 worth of the
yellow metal in the country, according to
Treasury estimate, it is absurd to assert that
the exports of gold now going on threaten
the national prosperity.
William Bly, and John Wilson, charged with
committing burglaries in Essex county N. Y,
and at Stockbridge, Vt, and who were recent
y arrested as fugitives from justice and
lodged IN TIE Salem jail, were brought before
Justice Putnam at Saratoga on a habeas
corpus. The prisoners are wanted in both
places.
The contract for the construction of the new
building for the State insane ASYLUM at Wa
terbury, was awarded Monday evening Mt n
meeting OF the trustees, at which Gov. Fuller
presided, to L. W. Rogers of Brandon. The
building will cost about $37 900, and CON
sist OF an administration building charel
laundry and kitchen.
The real estate of the Waldo Marble Com
pany of Fair Haven, was sold at auction
mere Wednesday afternoon. The attendance
was small and the bidding slow. The Waldo
mill went to W. r. Albertson of Worcester
Mass, for S13, 100, the Hampton Falls mills
to Nathan R. Reed of Fair Haven, for So, 700
and the old quarry at West Rutland to J. b
Reynolds for $4,000.
The body of the child found in Montpelier,
May I'd, has been thoroughly examined by
the authorities. 1t has been decided that the
enid was fully IL months old, and that it
met death by blow on the head COngested
blood w9s discovered on the mem brane in the
skull. Strenuous efforts are being made by
the authorities to discover the murderer, but
no trace has yet been found. The identity az
the woman seen hanging around the place
where the remains we're iscovered, several
days ago, has not yet been ascertained
J. B. Taylor, who lives in Barre, has been
annoyed tor several weeks past by some ami
NAL making nightly visits at his barns and
outbulldlngs. Last Tuesday morning he
went to the barn at four o'clock, and dis
covered large coon making for the woods,
which he followed. The coon entered a large
hollow tree, about four feet from the ground
Mr.. Taylor obtained some birthstone, setting
1t on fire at the hole where the coon entered.
In few moments one coon dropped down,
then another, till they all came down-fve in
number.
F. d. COrliss, who lives on the Highgate
road about two miles from ST. Adams. found
a United States mail sack in a clump of bush
es, while at work on his farm recently. The
sack was taken to the st. Adams post-ofice
and its contents looked over. Ii was found
that large slit had been cut in the sack so
than the contents could be inspected. but as
it was principally filed with newspapers they
had not been taken out. The sack had been
exposed to the weather so long that the ad-
dresses on the packages could not be decph-
cred. The tag on the sack showed that it
was made up by F. Y. Lefebvre postal clerk
on the Boston and st. Adams run, on the
morning of October 6, 1892, and was to be
sent south on the morning train that day
1t was probably stolen from the station at
st. Adams.