News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-11-21
-1TE ITEMS.

Wnlcn Drought uiIu 20.
Carl Gildings, night clerk at the Bardwell
House, Rutland, while out hui ting recently,
hit his head against tree as he was running
through the forest, causing u partial paraly-
sis to one side of his face.
Ralph E. Stevens of Bridgewa'er, tie four
year.old son OF Ebert Stevens, is the cham
pion chopper of his age. He can cut limbs
fifteen inches in circumference and handle an
axe as handly as TIL Sc Of ripper years.
O. P. Caylor, the veteran writer on base
ball subjects, predicts that DOhDey, one of
the New York pitchers, has come to stay and
that in a few years he will be- in the frontranks.
Donkey is a Mortified granite cutter and last
season pitched for st. Adams.
John Presley of Barre had a valuable
Jersey cow swallow a whole beet last week
which choked her. After every effort had
been made to remove it without avail Dr. C..
n Barber ives summoned who made an incis-
ion in the neck and removed the beet, which
measured 8 by 3 inches.
As Melvin Chambprln of Beth was coming
down the hill from his house the morning of
the 9th inst, two large American panthers
gamboled by him. He describes them as be-
ing as large as the famous Barnard panther
and of yellowish tin2e. There is no ques-
ton but that Bethel woods are full of some
pretty good game.
A. J. Jacquith of Woodstock tells the story
of a remarkable yield of corn from a single
kernel which came up by chance in his patch
of beans this summer. From this keroel of
western corn came up four stalks, which bore
three ears of twelve-rowed corn, and Mr. } ac-
quith carefully counted nineteen hundred and
ffty-six kernels thereon.
=. The following Vermonters have been grant
ed patents: George W. Lepper, assigner of
one-haIf to H. E. Wheeler, of st. Adams,
paper bag holder; Albert G. Plumley, of Sher-
burnR, snow plow; Charles Westail of Middle.
bury, Formulation lock; Nathan Williams.
of Bellows Falls, centrifugal liquor separator
and Grin B. Read, of Charlotte, a design for
line supporter.
Complaints have been made to the Canadian
fishery department that the United States
fishermen are working havoc among the fish
ers of Lake Cbamplain and Memphremagog
by the use of senes. Some time ago an agree
ment was made with the authorities of Yer
mont aud other border states for the prohibi-
ton of the use of senes in those waters, with
a view to preserving them for sportsmen.
Gov Wondtl.y, i'll response to rcqu st
of the management of the Mexican eXposi-
ton of industries and fine arts to be held at
the City of Mexico the coming winter, has APP
pointed Hon A. B. Valentine of Remington,
Hon. H. D. Holton of Brattleboro, Hon.
Charles Dewey of MONTPELIER Hon. John A.
Mead of Rutland, ard Col. Z c. Smith of st.
Adams, commissioners to represent Vermont.
The annual meeting of the Vermont Horse
Breeders Association was held at Rutland
Wednesday. These members of the executive
committee were elected |or three wears: W.
Seward Webb, Sheldon; W. S. Bailey, East
Hardwick; W. W. GrJut, st. Johnshury; E.
R. Hayes Brandon; G. Y. Chaffee, Rutland
E. S. Adst, Burlington. The executive com
mittee will meet at Brandon Dec. 10 to
choose officers.
W. s. Bashaw of st. Adams, brakeman
on the Central Vermont road, lost two fingers
of his left hand while coupling cars near Rut-
land, Thursday. He was taken to the office
of Drs. Hanrahan and Stearns, where Drs
Ross and Stearns dressed his wounds De
returned to st. Adams in the afternoon
Frank Flanders, yard man at Rutland, was
caught between two freight cars the same
day and his collar bone was broken. He was
otherwise uninjured.
The will OF Mrs. W. H. II, Baxter of Rut
land distTit utes the bulk of her estate to rel
atives and friends, Hugh H. Baxter, her son
being the residuary legatee. There are foul
public requests: To the Trinity society o
Rutlnnd in trust for special purposes, $500
to lions church at Manchester Center, il
trust for the support of the rector and hi,
successors, 1900: to the Domestic anC
Foreign Missionary society, the income to be
expended in Vermont $500; to the Rut
land Missionary Association, $1,000.
Abraham Ploo of Shelburn, who was sen
fenced last June to the house of correction
for one year for breach of the peace, was par
uo ce nu' G9ay ny Wv "orcupu'y' lo'
70 " ysaio ~ onu d Yo'eIah vi tne clT,l war
paru vi we vll,e i,i Tue navy ne wa
oI unt mou iI Olty' d VI lPpl gun Doat
Mllen ~ !, was was pi1"n up auq 10y men loSt.
the three survivors The remaining two ART
q man named Mcdonnell of Brooklyn, n. Y
and Terra Schever, shoemak +, of Troy N Y
MI 49,. u. .-.tn
lne e"sU sue vi NJ Antuohy' near pen
nlus Coh, Is ne sctne VI lhlninE operatlons,
ven VI erapulte peliig souguI Ior' ne mn
t Has no M, pee oieneu ~ a uePln vi ap1uC ~
i ieeu. ne u.gelnR anu p.as'il,g nave pee. II
lniFse en auu ullch sen's ~ EVlneDcts Oh
fiop luu were app"'1ut III lne carry Stages .
Ine Morh' anu DIS the eAcaVu'l on becomes
ueepe[. tne Rrospsc.S oeconle sun more Il
courasinR. ne aPni.e rs now .ounu III III
crustatl?ns, out growing IN quanllty ana I'M
it is hoped that a vein of the free minera
may soon be struck
traVellng swlhdler recently Vlctimzed th'
people OF barton, ana mace lIsoh' the pho
togFapher, an innocent accompl ce as well al
loser. lie pretended TO be taking orders
Tor charging pictures, ana engaged wilson tt
40 some OF the WORK, the agreement belni
that wilson should receive all the money
paid for pictures which he enlarged excepting
90 cents TO be retained by the canvasser
Inc man TOOK some specimen pictures iron
WILSON, studio, and started to canvass tn.