News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-12-12

The Dorset Mountain Marble Go. are talk
ina Of building mill at Mani hester Center,
that will employ about $50 men.
The Grand lodge of Odd Fellows will meet
at Rutland the second Wednesday of Nav
for three days session, during which the
"Gill Old Fellows Home" at Ludlow will be
dedicated
Frank Thihault %, driver of milk cart,
committed suicide by shooting in The head
with a shotgun at st. Alhans Thursday.
Dependency, caused by his int, mperate t alb
its, was the cause.
The state of Vermont his year heads the
list on potato yi'ld per acre. TIE town OF
Bristol rep, rts G04 bushels per acre; and a
field III Stowe 49,. This is fully fqnal to tn
yield Of New York state potato f,lds
One hundred gold souvenir spoons have
been given by the tiunal sncHty OF the
Daughters Of the American Revolution to
dIu9hters ot Revolutionary soldiers. an"
among the re i,fi hts are Nrs Emily Nchol.
~ of Rrattl, boro, and MS Laura bsrts
SO, Of Putnty.
The following Thanksgiving story is toll
concerning a yOur & Bethel lad. He ha,
watched with in crest the preparing of th
Thanksgiving fowl for egoking, aud then ask
ed, Papa do angels have winRs?' Being tOl'
that they did, he next asked, Who pin.
feathers the angels?'
1t is reported that William McDermot
Tyson shot partridge the other day from
an apple tree beh nd his fathers ba n. A
the bird dropped to the ground fox hitf
had been hiding near seized it and got saipl,
away btfure Med recovered from hIt
surprise sufficiently to use his guu. =. :
Adeline CIafflin, aged 49, Brook field tow,
charge, was found dead Sunday with her head
in brook and he ice frozAn about her neck
| and shoulders. She was climbing over d
fence, fell and broke her leg. Her head stuck
| in the stream aud she drowned in SIX inches
| of water. 1t was two days before ehe was
| found.
James G. Howard,a prominent farmer, w8s
accidtntIy killed last Sunday in TIL woods
while drawing logs with his horse. The bod
VAS recovered about : O'Clock at night with
hi nrck broken. Howard was il he EN-
poY of the E~tey Organ company many years
and was an old soldier. He lraves a wife and
| one sister
Mr. Henry Brockway's little child and a
child of v i'll Reeds of West Hartford ate a
quantity of Paris green which they found in
the woods one day last week. An emetic
| brought the Brock way baby out all tight in
Il short time, but the Reed b by has suffered
| from the effects of the poison, but hop are
nov entertain' d OF It's lu recovery.
John Davis of Bennington has record OF
|
ing, 10 say nothing Of other smaller gam
Every one OF The foxes was shot He has
also illed three bears and helped to kill the
four h. During the past season Davis and
his friend, jesse egg, have shot more I han
] 81 woodcbucks, as W II as many Other
game birds
A Washington dispatch states Judge
| Powers OF Vermont viii introduce u hdl il
III" House authorizing an txpendtute al
ton h.p I.n + a1..,.
at st. Adams I he rk is 80 lIuptIHtIv
hat he will urge he committee on public
| buildings, as soon rs appointed, to make q
prompt report aud will then try to secu
its early consideration by unAhimou, Goa.
sent.
Miss Laura Miner, aged 20 ytara, whose
b me is III Rutland county. died last Wednps
day While attending par yOn HalIowe IN
she was tod that ii she sNa Lowed u
chickens heart any with that she made
would come true The heart stopp' d III ten
windpipe, causing an absresS viii h after
weeks of suffering brought about hath Aro
this i'll the closing years of the niuett entl
century.
A copy OF the sermon preached at he ord
nation of Rev Jacob Allen, Oct, 6. 1913 ha.
been placed With the r. cords of lie CougrpgH
tonaI church in Tunbridge the past eek
Iephaniah Swift Moore NJ, professor q
|
ser mon from Romans 10: The charge Was
given hy Rev. Dr. Asa Burton of Thetford
h. right hand of fellowship by Rev. calvin
Noble of Chelsea.
Hon. John Il. Corlss, who represents the
First (Dptroi) ConprpssionaI dist let q
Michigan in the present Cungr S. Is IA ma i've
OF Vermont. and is one Of the ourg men q
that dy. Mr.. torIisS was horn in R'cht, rd
June Z. 1851, and WAS educated at he Yer
B.,,t i.t Sl,r,
Later he graduated from the COlumb an Law
School at Washington and engaged ia the
practice of law in Detroit.
In the report of the director Of the Unifei
States geological survey for 1895 il an in
teresl ing OF the stone industry in 1894 by
William T.. Day. Vermont ri, nds bird il
he list of states arrange ace riding to the
value of stone production. The state pro
dured $50, $40 in grant, S65S 1877 ia slate
and S 500 800 in marble. Vermont hea
the Irt in he output marble, which, no a
ever, is be smallest for several YEAR,.
E Beruaseoni & Co. of n ,iufi.ld sh pptd
to New York last Thursday hands, mt
granite monument weighing 30 900 pounds
on which they have bees at work for thr
months. 1t was about 20 feet Ugh ard al
polished work. rney are now cutting d
monument to be placed in OakIawn cemetery
New YORK, which has three large bases, sur
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handsomely ornamented with scroll work.
Benjamin Markham of Sherbu me- who difd
recently, died while sitting in his chair would
have been eighty hix years old his next birth
day. He has been a resident OF She burnt
about sixty years, aud was stmaster a bout
thirty. five Yeas of the time. For many
yeats he kept the village hotel, which was ia
nous for it's trout dinners. he enjoyed the
esteem and confidence of his fellow towhstnen
and served his town often as a faithful anc
efficient officer
Two Porter brotN ers were arrested at South
: Framingham Thursday night aud taken to
, Brattlpboro where they will be arraignpd with
another brother now in Jail at Newfane, on
the charge of attempting to wreck trains OF
the Boston K Maine railroad two miles NORTH
of Brattlphoru last month. One of the al
lrged offenders escaped the OF GERS who track
ed him to his fathers home in Chesterti, h
last Sunday, when several shots were fired
alter the fugitive.
Some bright Green Mountain boy has fig
: ured out the following; Among the TIVE
hundred aud fifty odd towns in Vel mont it il
Gu iously noted that only eight bear names
taken from the Bible, viz: Goshen, Jeriebo
Canaan, Eden, LorIuth, Athens Bethel aut
Sharon. Avery great ma ority oithe nHme
are derived romiotd Eng ,shl sources, eithe
after some EuRlsh town, like Rochester, Rnt
T land, aud Manchester, or after Stone En- .l-l
family, like Dor ct, shrewsbury, Essex, 81
; Albans, and others.
: Peecham's pills for COnsti.