News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-01-24
STATE ms.

The Roman JatnOllCS OF Manchester expect
to build a church this summer
New earding machinery has been placed in
W. II. H. Slack & Bros. wooden mill at
Springfield.
Repairs on the Bennington court house
and Jail, authorized by the last legislature,
will soon be begun.
The next local union of the Y. 2. s. c. E.
of Franklin county will meet at Swanton
Wednesday, Jan. 30.
George Franklin has been appointed post
master at South Newbury, Orange county,
vice A, j. Knight, removed.
Ira Woodcock, of Marshheld was proba
bly, fatally injured Wednesday, his skull be-
ing crushed by falling limb.
Repairs are being made about the Wright
health underwear mills at POwnal after
which active operation will be resumed.
Brig. Gen. Julius Estey has appointed Geo.
D. Reed of BrattlebOro, brigade quartermas-
ter sergeant. vice F. D. Dewey, resigned.
There have been entered on the docket of
the March term of the Rutland county court
$40 cases. A large number are appealed
liquor cases.
B. W. Braley has been elected president of
the national bank of Barre, in place of l.. F.
AIdrich and George Lynde, vice-president in
place of B. W. Bradley.
Mrs Lydia Stevenson, of ST. Adams, is
under arrest charged with performing a Grim
inal operation upon Mrs. Charles Gonyeau, a
young French woman.
Rev. C. 0. Day of Brattleboro, has been
made chaplain of the first regiment Vermont
National Guard, vice Rev. Howard F. Hill
removed from the State.
Gov. Woodbury. has appointed Fred A.
| Rowland of Montpelier, a member of the
state library commission in place of Alfred E.
Watson of Hartford, resigned.
Judge George Shea of the Marine court of
New York, died in New York of neuralgia of
the heart. Judge Shea has spent his summer
in Brattleboro for many years.
The new mill OF the Lincoln Lumber COM
pany in Lincoln is 44xS4 feet, and will be
| ready for operation soon. 1t is better ar.
ranged than the one burned recently.
The building for a town library at Man
chester will soon be completed The semi
nary library contains 1000 volumes, and
there is also good pastoral library with the
Congregational church.
The apple crop of Grand Isle county for
| 1894 is estimated at from 81, 900 to 40, 900
worth at the market price between S65 900
and $75 900. This sum would give SIS per
capita TIC the population.
| Pensions have been granted to Vermonters
| Mount Holly. Reissue. Lorenzo FrizzelI, of
| Brattleboro Walter E. Jaquith, of Towns
| bend; Hollis Wells, of Albany, and Edgar B.
Stone, of Morrisvie.
| Col. ". Seward Webb uniform as ad-de-
camp on the staff of Gov. Woodbury., has
been completed at a cost of nearly 81 500.
| The braid on it is of real gold and the lace is
| from Paris direct. The colonel's sword has
a diamond in the hilt, is a Damascus blade,
and stood the military man a cool $2.700.
Max Kallenbach started from Middleburv
| for South Africa Saturday night. He took
! one high bred Morgan stallion raised by John
L. Buttolf, and forty Angora goats which he
bought in California. This is Mr.. Kallen-
| bach's second trip to the Cape of Good Hope.
| He has been two trips before to the Argentine
Republic.
A Brattleboro stamp issued by postmaster
| Palmer in 1916 has Just been sold by Chi
cago woman to a New York collector for
| $500. The stamp had never been removed
from the envelope, which was addressed to a
former resident of Brattleboro, where it was
originally mailed in 1916 The stamp was
engraved by the late Thomas Cbadbuck
then a resident of Brattleboro, and was used
q year before the first government issue.
Ex-Gov. Frederick Holbrook, of Brattle-
boro, has just completed an interesting sketch
of personal "reminiscences going back to the
year 1916, when he was but three years old
and noting many of the most important
events from that time on till the close of his
administration as governor of Vermont. His
memoirs include period of the war with its
stirring incidents here, and his connection of
fcially with President Lincoln and his cabi
net.
Hugh Hughes of Rutland, man about &C
years old, committed suicide Wednesday
morning by cutting his throat with razor
He left his home about s O'Clock and at ! !
was found in the lot west of the old Catholic
cemetery. The razor with which he did The
bloody deed was in the dead mans hand. al
was also a string of Catholic beads TIT
deceased was we.to-do, but since the deati
of his wife which occurred about two year!
ago, he has been respondent. There is ne
doubt but that he was insane. He leaves sly
grown-up children.
Lydia E. Stephenson was arrested at st
Adams Saturday charged with malpractice
which resulted in the death of Miss Estellt
Houghton, of SwantOn. Miss Houghton haC
always borne an excellent reputation. Sht
was 20 years of age and had just finished
term as teacher of school in East Fairfield
Miss Stephenson has long had the reputation
of being an ahortionist. OnSuDday evening
Dell Leach, of East Fairfield, was arrested OF
charge of being a party to the abortion
and at a hearing Monday waived eXamina
ton and gave bail to the amount of $4,000
: Albert H futile of Rutland, one of tn,
leading citizens of Vermont, died last Satur
day evening of pneumonia, complicated will
Bright's disease. He had been proprietor o
the Bates House, Rutland's leading hotel
several years, and for more than quarter o
a century a recognized leader of the Vernon
Republicans. He had practically held ever!
office in the gift of the city, and had been
member of the State Congressional Commit
tee for years. He was well known by amos
every commercial traveller in New England
and had their respect. He was veterat
journalist, and had taken part in many New
England newspaper meetings.
In answer to the question, eff you
had it to do over again, would you
engage in politics." Col George W
Hooker of Brattleboro, eX-mcmbet
p of the Republican national committe,
from Vermont, who thinks ex-Sena
tor Edmunds is the Gladstone o
America, replied as follows: "Grea
Scott No young man should engage
in politics who is not Independent pc
cuniarily. The reason we have pecu
IatiOns and scandals in public Office
is because too many who are no
financially independent go into poll
tics. First, independence as regards
business matters, and then politics
Every citizen should read the papers
and know how to vote, but that i,
not politics. | would 90 in again