News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-03-22
STATE ITEMS.

The building of the Rutland hospital Will
be begun in May.
Vermont has the largest average wool clip
of any state. In 1890 it averaged 6.72 lbs.
per sheep.
Rev. Elihu Snow of White River Junction
will deliver the Memorial Day address at
Rochester.
Hon Henry Ballard of Burlington will de-
liver the Memorial Day address at White
River Junction.
The resignation of LIST Lieutenant Herbert
p Warren, Co. q, (Bradford) LIST regt., V.
n G.. has been accepted, and he has been
discharged from the service. An election
to fill the vacancy has been ordered to be
held on or before March 80, Maj J. H Wat
son to preside.
Alpha Messer, Master of the State Grange
and Lecturer of the National Grange, will de-
liver an address at the Midwinter Fair
Grange Congress, San Francisco, April ID
and IA. He will also visit different parts Of
California in the interest of the grange, and
on the return trip he expects to stop IN sew
eral of the Western States The entire trip
will take about two months time.
Reports of annual town meetings from the
principal towns in the State indicate that the
average tax will be about 112 cents on dol
lar The highest tax is 800 cents, in the
town of Ripton; Bridgewater assesses $50
cents; Middlesex assesses 220 cents; Green's
| boro, Stannard and Tunbridge, each 200.
Hinesburg has the lowest tax, 20 cents; New
burg, 25 cents; Wilson, 80 cents; Brattle-
| boro, Colchester, Essex, 80 cents each.
In connection with a munifcent charity
given to the Roman Catholic diocese of Yer
mont by NJ. F. Kelley of the Hotel Proctor
near Winooski, for hospital, the Free Press
SAYS: 90 1t is understood that arrangements
have been made for a detachment of the Sis
ters of st. Joseph from the Hotel Deu, the
grand hospital of Montreal, known there as
| the hospital sisters, to take charge OF the
hospital. These sisters, of which order Fan
ME Allen, famous as the first American nun,
and daughter of Ethan Allen, that Green
Mountain hero of never-dylng fame, and
whose monument Is in sight of the hotel
property, was a member, will In the near tu-
ture be established in this movement OF Mr.
Kelley's charity and public benifeence."
Mrs. Ruth Rowell of Bethel, who is the lin
cal descendent of Hannah Dustin, celebrated
the ninety-second anniversary of her birth on
Friday, Feb. 8. When the Indians attacked
Haverhill, Mass, March 10, 1897, there was
a web of linen on the loom in the Thomas
Dustin homestead. Mrs. Dustin and her
nurse, Mary Neff, with eleven other persons,
we're carried into captivity, and the web OF
linen was captured by the Indians Mrs.
Dustin's babe of seven days was murdered
before her eyes. The scalps taken from the
Indians slain upon the island in the COntoo-
cook river of New Hampshire, now known as
Dustin Island, by Mrs. Dustin, Mary Neff
and the boy, Samuel LeonardgoD, were wrap
ped in a piece torn from the web of linen, and
this piece of cloth has been handed down to
the eldest in the line of direct descent from
Mrs. Dustin, and is now in Mrs. Rowelrs pos
session.
The following statistics of Congregational
lists of Vermont are from the Year Book:
There are POI churchPs-a gain of three.
Thirty-five of these have installed pastors;
- l. toll I
supplied by ordained ministers, eight by Ii
centiates and other laymen, six by ministers
of other denominations, and 20 are vacant.
There are 20,771 church members-a loss of
FIVE during the year. The admissions, l ,235,
exceed the removals, 1,211, by "a. OF the
removals, the unprecedented number of ass
is by discipline or revision OF roll. One
church has dropped 81 names, and another
all its non residents 80 in number Fami-
lies reported are 1861, gain OF 351.
Benevolent contributions, SOL, 1872, show
loss, as also home expenditures, now amount
ing to S200,273. Christian Endeavorers
have Increased from 1882 to 1888. There
is q continued decrease in Sunday School
membership. which now stands at 81, 453,
against 2S,S 500 year ago.
Judge Wheeler of the United States Circuit
Court has handed down an opinion in the
case of the United States against Daniel F.
Beatty, the maker of parlor organs, at
Washington, n. j., in which he holds the in
dictment found in this state is good and that
his trial shall be set for May 10, at Windsor.
The oaense for which Beatty was indicted in
Vermont was thesending of circulars through
the mails Offering to sell an elaborate organ
for $50, declared to be worth 500, and on
account of which representation Ned h. Saw
yer of Felcherville claimed that he was de-
irauded out of his money, claiming that the
instrument was worth about SIS. Beatty
for years was one OF the most conspicuous
characters in the business world. He built
up vast business as an organ manufacturer,
lived like q prince, and was three times elected
mayor of Washington, N. J. Finally he
failed apd was reduced to poverty. With
view of getting on his feet again, he began
sending out circulars Offering to furnish high
priced organs for little money. 1t is claim
ed that he swindled thousands of people.