News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-08-23
STATE ITEMS.

David Murdoch OF Winoosk was droWpedip
the river Sunday night, probably by accident
Saturday, August %. is TO be vermont
Day" at the grand horse fair in Portland.
| Me.
Camp meetings will be held on Paramount
Park, Fair Haven, beginning August % and
ending September ?.
Remington county farmers have organized
THE Battenkill Valley Society for the Apnra-
hension of Horse Thieves"
Between 5000 and 10, 900 lake front ba,-o
been secured from the State hatchery AT Rov-
bury to stock Fairfield pond
d. A. Baker has bought the Valley Hotel
| at Middletown Springs Of W. II. HAYNES and
will take possession September /
A. y. Drew, contractor and builder at 81
Johnsbury. has filed petition in insolvencv-
Liabilities $500; assets nearly $1,000.
Eighteen Vermont postoffices have been
burglarized and their safes blown open with
powder or dynamite during the present sum
mer
Charles Raymond, Ludlow boy. has re-.
ceived the appointment as cadet at the Unit
ed States military academy at Annapolis, Nd.
from Congressman Grout
Frederick +. Vaughan, Of Rutland. has
mysteriously disappeared and has not since
been heard from. He is 20 years old and
married. He is supposed TO have been insane.
The new buildings and repairs on the Shell
don fair grounds are nearly finished The
society has now as good a set of buildings as
any fair association in the State, and the ex-
hibition next month will doubtless eclipse all
| former efforts of the Society.
A son of Judge Thompson of Irasburgh left
home about a week ago and is still missing.
The boy, who is about 1 years old, left home
without any cause and was traced to Mon
fraa -.
Rouses Point He had about $50 in his
pocket when he left home, but no reason is
known for his leaving.
| Professional burglars gained an entrance
to the Casleton postoffice by placing a ladder
| against the back end of the building and
| opening a window. A 7-16th inch hole was
bored midway between the dial and the bolt
| OF the safe. One charge of powder was ex-
ploded, which proved unsuccessful, but awoke
| n. ). Preston who lives next door, and he
scared the burglars away.
The April term of Chittenden county court.
which recently closed, is unparalleled in the
history of Vermont as regards the amount
paid to jurors The jury debenture was
$4444.4O, and there were only eleven Jury
trials, SO that the average for each trial was
over $500, not to mention other costs; and
two cases, the trials of which occupied some
forty days, must be tried over again.
The maple sugar bounty on 1000 cases is
being computed at Montpelier. The largest
sugar maker applying for a bounty is
George NJ. Soule of Fairfield, who tapped
1900 trees and made Is, $50 pounds of sugar.
Of this 1850 pounds tested about so per
cent, and Mr., Soule will receive S3OO12 from
the government. 1t will take some time to
compute all the bounty figures and the pro-
ducers will not receive their money forseveral
months.
Application will be made to the next session
of the legislature to do away with the town
of Westmore, as per vote of their last town
| meeting. The plan contemplates annexing
the town to Charleston and Barton, in the
county of Orleans and to Newark in Caledo-
MIA county The population of the town is
less than 400, having decreased nearly 100
in the last decade. In the last election it
cast ~ Republican and II Democratic votes,
and its grand list is S124644. Willoughby
lake is located in this town, and is a famous
| summer resort.
A cause of litigation has arisen in Montpe-
| ler, the exact counterpart of which has never
been before in Vermont court SO far as is
known. 1t is over a spring on land owned by
| Wheeock X Dawley which they purchased of
Eben Scribner. Thespring had been previous
| ly purchased by Oliver Wheelock, who paid
Scrloner SoOo Tor 1t ~ years ago when he
| purchased the place where he has since lived.
The deed of Scribner to Wheelock & Dawley
expressly states that they have no claim on
the spring, and Oliver Wheelock has had unin.
terrupted possession oft for22 years. After
ward Elmer Jacobs bought piece of land
formerly owned by Scribner, and has been
| trying to find water on it to flow to his
house. lie finally struck an underground
spring which, it appears, furnishes the supply
of the Wheelock spring, and has laid pipe
from there to his house. He has been served
with an injunction to prevent him from TAX
ing the water, though all the work he has
done has been on his own land.