News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-03-29
STATE ITEMS

Gov Fuller has designated Friday, April 6,
to be Fast Day.
Harvey Burbank of Danville will deliver
the Memorial Day address at that place.
st. Johnsbury is to have a grand Fourth
OF July celebration, the greatest it has ever
had.
NO criminal prosecution or even complaint
wa was made IN Barnard during the past year.
1here are no Justice courts there.
Hon. Seneca Haseton, ex-mayor of Bur
llngton, is candidate for appointment as
United States Minister to Venezuela.
The following Vermonters have been grant
ed pensions: Original Cyrus W. Morse,
Sharon; reissue, Otis Warren, Bennington.
Vermont Lodge of Odd Fellows will appro-
prlately celebrate the 18th anniversary ofthe
order, which will occur Thursday, April 26.
Rev; John S. Lyons of Fairhaven has ac-
cepteu u call 70 the Baptist church at Bristol,
conn lie VIII begin his duties there next
month.
Fire Sunday morning destroyed one store
house and damaged another owned by the
ran Mountain Paper Co., at Bellows Falls
Loss $4,000 or $4,000.
Ara M Carlisle, late Company D, 9th YER
mont Regiment, died at the Soldiers Home
frluay: lie was admitted from Chester,
Aug. 26, 1893. His is the forteth death.
Col. Henry o. Kent of Lancaster, n. H., of
to deliver the grafton before the trustees at
the annual commencement of Norwich Uni
versity in June.
The report of the Superintendent of the
vermont Soldiers Home for the present
quarter to date will be as follows Admitted
IL, discharged +, died 3, furloughed ), re
turned from furlough 5, gain g. total So,
present IA, in hospital 16
b. NJ Sutton of Burlington, Inspector of
Chlnese, stationed at Richford, has been Or
dered to report to Colbert Weed at Platts-
burgh, who will assign him to duty in the
IMAM PLAIN district. Inspector Tippets of
Plattsburgh will succeed Mr. Sutton at Rich
| ford.
+. E. Knott of Burlington has been ap-
pointed Commission to receive aft iavits or
| testimony to be used in the courts ol records
| in and for the Province of q uessssxisx
| dictlon throughosySe6heS-snA
appOintment is< rom aell
| ernor of the Province bf Que
| The Franklin county listers had a meeting
at st. Adams Tuesday and decided that all
| second-cass real estate be valued at 10 per
| cent. less than at the last quadren Iial APP
prasal owing to the depreciation OF proper.
| ty on account of hard times. First-cldss real
estate should be valued the same us four
years ago. Cows should go in at SIS each,
| horses at the discretion of the listers year
| llngs, 81 to IS, two-year-Olds, SO to $12,
| sheep, -, swine, So per 100 lbs, OK n, SO
| per IOO lbs.
At the 18th annual meeting of he Yer
| mont Dental Society in White River l Icton,
| March 21-23, w. Ii. Wright, Brau n, was
elected president; E D. Blanchard, West
Randolph F. P. Mathers, Chester, vce-presi
DENTS W. H. Munsell, Wells River, treasurer;
/. Mound, Rutland, secretary; c. W. Staples,
LyndOnvlle, G. W. Wheeler, White River
junction, J. A. Robinson, MorrisviIle, execu-
tive committee; G. W. Hoffman, White River
Junction, state prosecutor. The next meet
ing will be held in Brandon,
At the first visitation of Bishop dall at
Middlebury, Rev S. B. Blunt's you y child
was baptized, using the Weeks family baptis-
NAL robe. The history of this robe is tradi-
| tional. 1t is made of white figured silk. 1t
| is about yard square and apparently as
| white and glossy as when new. 1t is over
| 20O years old, came down in the families of
John Alden, the Pilgrim to the Weeks family,
and afterwards to the Sheldon family. 1t is
said to have been brought in the Mayfower,
and to have been used at the baptism of 100
persons.
The first reunion of the Sons and d III ghters
| OF Vermont in So, birmingham fMa~s and
| vicinity was held in the rooms of the Masonic
building last Friday evening. One hundred
| and forty native born Vermonters participant
| ed in the exercises of the evening. Many
prominent Vermonters from the nearer large
cities were present. Tribute was pal / to the
many notable names that grace the annals
OF Vermont in original poems and addresses.
| Mention was made of praise of her numerous
| industries and the sterling worth o! her pro-
gressiveness and enterprise. The occasion
| netted about sixty dollars for the object of
| the Union, the furnishing of a Vermont room
in the new hospital at South Framingham.