News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-11-03
STATE NEWS.

coOns this fall, one OF which he secured weigh
ing over twenty pounds.
Daniel W. Bromley, the well-known propri-
etor of the Franklin Hotel at PaWlet, com.
mitted suicide last Saturday.
Francis Jacques of Westfeld recently found
one of his COWS in the pasture with a broken
leg and the animal had to be killed.
Rev. c. p. HoQle of East Arlington. who
recently shot himself in one foot while hunt
ing in Rupert, has had two toes amputated.
Alvah Day of Coventry was kicked in the
by horse the other day and was I'M
conscious for over two hours as a result He
has recovered
Adolph Hattie, a German. sent down from
Burlington to serve a sentence in the House
OF Correction for selling liquor, escaped last
week Tuesday.
Rev. j. Ellsworth Fullerton, pastor of the
| congregational church at Bellows Falls, Vt.
died last Wednesday from injuries received
| by falling downstairs.
Louis Goldsmith, a negro, who has been
doing a tailoring business in Woodstock, for
a year, left the place last Wednesday, de.
sorting wife and several children.
Two sportsmen of Berkshire "treed" a
gray squirrel and expended a fair magazine
OF ammunition shooting the limbs all off fine
maple, only to discover the supposed game
to be a small toadstool.
julius Hall of Chester was hunting for
partrdges one day last week, whenhe caught
sight of a deer. Although his gun was loaded
only with bird shot he fired, and brought
down a buck weighing two hundred and
eighty-five pounds.
President Titcomb has called the annual
meeting of the Vermont Fish and Game
League at the Berwick House, Rutland,
Wednesday, Nov or : az n IN Tho bo,
quet which follows will he a table d'hote din
ner and very enjoyable occasion is antici-
| pated.
Harry NJ. Goodwin, Windsor clerk in Tux
burys store, made mistake in the "cider
| jug one day last week, and accidentally took
a swallow of washing fluid Fortunately no
more serious consequences havefollowed than
a severely sore throat and a badly disturbed
gsophagus and stomach.
George A. Tasker, the champion bee hunt
| er OF Wndham county, from four trips this
season has located five swarms, one on Fall
Mountain and one on the mountain toward
South Charestown, and secured $50 pounds
of honey In all he has secured about $50
| pounds this season, most of which sold for / )
cents a pound.
Will OCOnnell of Benson was working near
blast at the black slate quarry last week
when it was accidentally discharged, throw
ing an iron bar, which he held in his hands.
40 or 80 feet into the air. He suffered severe
injuries. his clothing being partially torn
from him and set on fire.
Ninety years ago Davis Grswold went to
! the grist mill one morning. cutting a siding
| switch on his way. When he returned be
| stuck it in the sand in his yard. 1t is there
vet, but it has changed somewhat n point OF
size, for three feet above its roots it measures
II feet and inches in circumference.
The roster of the Soldiers Home at the
close of the quarter ending Sept. 10, shows
the following change since the last report
June 3d. admitted, nine; readmtted two
| discharged, seven; died. three; furloughed
twenty; returned, twenty three; present
membership, one hundred cared for in hos.
pital, twenty; total number admitted to
! home, one hundred.
Farming pays, even in Vermont, if you
know how. David Lumsden of South Rive
| gate prepared this spring four acres of land
| for corn. The first time he went over it with
his weeder he sowed it down with orchard
! grass seed. The first of September he har
| vested his corn and got good average croL
| of nice sound corn. Last week he let the hay
that grew on the four acres to Hugh G. Peach
to cut at the halves. They claim that they
got ten tons of nice No. l hay. Can any one
else give any better experience in the line O
| farming?
party of Massachusetts young men pass
ed through Barnet recently, taking a canoe
trip down the river. They had come from the
upper waters of the river and were returning
from their hunting expedition. They were il
two canoes and just before they reached The
| junction OF the Passumpsic with the Connect
cut one of the canoes struck rock and was
overturned. The young men lost in the ac
cidept their valse, about $40 in money anC
a gold watch which was in vest They
searched for their property quite a while, but
found no trace of it.
W. b. Smith is the name of buncoer who
did Bennington a few days ago. He arrived
in the village and told people that he was
son-in.law of H. Bradley, who went to New
Jersey D years ago, but who had sent hin
(Smth) to buy a house so that the old maj
could spend the remainder of his days at Ben
nngton. Smith bargained to take a houH
at $500. Smith then went away, leaving
large board b,ll and livery bill, promising tt
pay when he returned to occupy the house
but he never came back and is 1925 ahead O
the game. Bradley, the alleged father-in
law, died five years ago.
The LyndonviIlo Knitting company ha
been formed with l.. B. Harris, s stern AM
s. Woods owners of the $4,000 stock
onestory brick building, 20 by 20, will b
erected a. once. 1t will give room for the Oh
GRAFTON OF % girls, who with $4,000 worth q
machinery, will be able to turn out 100 doz
en- OF childrPn's and youths cotton stock
ings daily. Egyptian cotton is the materia
to be used. Philadelphia man, who ha
been in the business all his life, has been en-
gagged as foreman OF the factory. AS tn
stockings sell to dealers at 81 dozen, til
output at the start will be 500 a day, an
this output in a year will be quadrupled an
20 more girls employed.
Twenty.seven years ago this fall the mea
market and safe off L, Smith in Montpeie
was broken into and robbed by Timoth
Hanlon. The thief was discovered in the &C
by c. II. Cross, who attempted to captur
him. HanlOn grabbed a long steak knife tina
lay near, drove Mr., Cross away and mad
good his escape He ran toward the arc
bridge at the foot of State street, brandishin
the knife, and keeping his pursuers at a sal
distance. When he reached the Berlin side
threw the knife into the river, where it wa
found by the workmen engaged in buildin
the abutments to the bridge. The knife is i
good state of preservation, NOTWITHSTANDING
it has lain under fourteen feet OF water an
mud for more than quarter of a century.
CENTREVlLLE.