News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-08-02
STATE ITEMS.

The village nf Middlehury pays SEQ a year
each for 20 are lights.
The Central Vermont C~amp-meetipg ssso.
citation will bold it's annual session at North
field Aug. 1918.
The Vermont State Medical Society viii
hold it's next annual meeting at Montpelier,
October IL ard IL.
Mrs. Hanora MeCarty, who resides in the
town of SALISBURY, not far from the BEN
nington line, recently celebrated her 10th
birthday.
Walter Stillson Of Brooksville was struck
by a locomotive and killed at the Beldens
crossing. three miles north Of Middlebury,
Saturday.
During the two years existence Of the
Kelley institute in Montpelier over 500 pa.
TENTS have been treated and II are now TAX
ing the cure.
L. s.. Adsit Of Burlington has sold to a Mr.
Odgen of Philadelphia his pacing gelding,
Peter Cooper, 2:21K, for $1,000. The horse
will be shipped to Philadelphia in a few days.
The Vermont State Dental Society he's
chosen Do. i. r. Jewett of Woodstock. dele
gate-at-large to the meeting Of the American
Dental Association at Old Point Comfort.
Va, in August.
The States Attorney at Putney made fun
for the crowd in a recent trial of two young
boys for burglary, when he asked that they
he sent to the reform school until the year
POOL. The Judge thought 1901 would do.
At the next meeting of the Legislature an
effort will be made to pass a valued policy
bill. 1t is understood that the Vermont Mu-
tual Insurance Company will favor the bill,
and that they are preparingfor it by valuing
all their risks and inspecting their business.
The young mems Republican club was or
gained Tuesday at Montpelier by the cleo
ton of these officers President, D.. S. Foster
OF burlington; ce-president, j. II. Watson
OF Bradford; secretary, F. G.. Fleetwood of
Morrisville; treasurer, +. d. Proctor of
Proctor.
The annual meeting of Vermont State Sun
day school association will be held at st.
Adams, October 16, II and IS. An outline
programme which has come under our obser-
walton indicates meeting replete with profit
TO all workers in that branch of Christian
activity.
Mrs. Snow of Royalton, who is 81 years
old, sews without the aid of glasses. She had
three sons in the late war, and one of them
never returned. She has during the past
year made three beespreads, besides doing
other work. Her four living sons have hair
well sprinkled with grey.
Gen. John B. Gordon, United States Sena-
tor for Georgia, will lecture before Roberts
Post G. A. r.. in Rutland soon on "The Last
Days of the Confederacy." He will be remem
bered as recently making a patriotic reply to
a speech by PETER in which the latter inclined
to sympathize with the strikers.
The Grand Isle county Republicans have
nominated the following ticket: Senator,
Edwin Adams; assistant judges, J .McGregor,
II. +. Holcombe; judge of probate, VIM.
Haynes, North Hero: states attorney, Jed
?. Ladd, Jr., Alburgh sheriff, John F. Allen,
South Hero high bailiff, E. F.. Fleury.
T -- 49, II n
found in Vermont was recently discovered in
the West River valley in Windham county.
Rock opals, onyx, aud other precious stones
have been found on Globe Mountain, in that
county. This region is upon the same strata
as the gem fields of North Carolina and
Mexico.
The annual reunion of the Third Vermont
regiment will be held at st. Johnsbury on
Tuesday, August IA. A dinner will be served
at noon by the Woman's Relief Corps, and
the business meeting will at 2
O'Clock. After the routine business will come
the speeches by the comrades and invited
guests.
The Ninth Vermont Veteran association
will hold their seventh annual reunion at Brat
tlehoro August 16, at the tent of Gen. II. S.
Peck, on the muster ground of the Vermont
National Guard, the same ground where the
9th Vermont volunteers were organized and
muSUeTPu HUI Ile UulUeu States service IN
July, 1862.
The directors of the Caledonia County fair,
which is to be held at st. Johusbury Septem-
Der Ills, have engaged Edward F. Griswold
of st. J%ohnsbury to make a balloon ascen-
sion the second day of the fair. Capt. Girls
void has bought a new balloon and the fact
that he is one of the leading business men of
st. Johnsbury will add to the interest in the
ascension.
Solomon James and Mrs. Efie Spaulding,
who we're convicted of poisoning Mrs.Spauld-
ing's husband at Bethel last winter, have
taken up their abode at the States prison
for 10 and eight years respectively. Before
their Incarceration they were overheard eX-
changing eternal VOWS of faithfulness to each
other and they only waited the expiration of
their sentences to go to living together.
In compliance with the war department or
ders issued March Z, 1891, the names of the
three regular graduates of the class of 1894
who stood highest in military science and
tactics, in each Vermont school giving in
structions in that branch have been sent to
the war department at Washington as posi-
BILE candidates for second lieutenantcies in the
United States army. They are as follows
Vermont Academy, SaXton's River-Willlam
]. Forbes, Shoreham; Charles A.. Brown, New
port; Dallas T. Pollard, Proctorsville. Nor
wich Observation-Disclosures, Raymond
U. SmlUnj CdueU-OdpNdln Leroy ". nulDurui
Cadet-First, Lieutenant and Adjutant, How
ard c.. Holden. University of Vermont
First, Egbert Jackson Armstrong, Castleton;
second, Frederick Mellin Knights, Burlington;
third, Stephen Freeman, Montpelier.
Windsor county court has just adjourned
after a long session. One of the last cases
heard YVES that of Mary II. Willis, admins
traitor, VS.. Smithtown Cheese Company. This
was an action to recover six per cent. inter
est, or dividends, on ten shares of stock in
the defendant company, located in West Rut-
land, owned by plaintiff s intestate. The de-
tense was multitudinous and ~equalled in orig
inality the defense in the amous Bugbee
kettle case which originated in Pomfret That
was trover for a kettle borrowed, broken and
never returned. The defense ~was-frst, the
kettle was never borrowed; second, it was
cracked when borrowed third, it was whole
when returned. In the cheese case the de-
fendant contended-frst, that it made no
promise second, that if it did promise it was
not a corporation; third, if it was a corpora
ton, the right corporation had not been
sued. The court held that the plaintiff s
remedy, if any, was in chancery court.