News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1899-01-18
STATE NEWS.

The late Gov. Fuller's collection of tuning
forks, which includes more than 300 speci
mems from all over the world and the first
tuning fork ever made. cost $4,000, and is
said to be the largest of it's kind in existence.
There are at present in the Industrial
school at Vergennes, 100 boy and 2S girls,
the largest number of girls in the history
of the school. The last consecutive Der
OF boys is 1881, girls 1876. Children have
been committed from New Haven, st. Al
bans, Monkton and Salisbury.
The number of books in the Norman VII
liams pupic library at Woodstock was in
creased by the addition of 544 volumes dur
ing 1898, making the total II ,145 at pres
ent. On January II, fourteen years ago,
the library building was opened to the public
with 4,217 volumes on its shelves.
There will be a gathering Of the mem
hers of Mount Sinai Temple of Mobiles Of
the Mystic Shrine in Rutland, Tuesday, Jan.
"a Headquarters will be held at the Bard
well house. A business meeting will be. held
at 7:30, and degrees will be conferred in
the city hall during the evening. A ban
quet will follow.
The 18th annual convention of the Yer
mont State Spiritualist association, which
will be held at Montpelier, Jan. 20, 81 and
%. will be addressed by Mrs Helen Palmer
Rassegue, a noted lecturer of Hartford,
Conn. Other Vermont speakers will be pres
ent, and the business common to annual
conventions will be transacted.
Deputy Warden Nathan d. Allen of the
Massachusetts, state prison at CharlesUown,
the former Bratteboro man, who was muir
derously assaulted three weeks ago, by Sem
brel Harris, an inmate OF the prison, has
been visiting his sister in Greenfield, Mass,
the past week He will return 20 his duties
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supposed would result from his injury.
Darwin Howard of Dover met with ter
rible accident while coming from Wardsboro.
He got off from the sled to break out the
road for the horse. Having his gun with him
he laid it down while breaking the road and
when he got on the sled he took up his gun.
The hammer hit box that was on the sled.
The gun exploded, the charge passing
through the cheek and neck, making pair-
ful wound.
There are on exhibition in Bennington the
heads of two elk which we're killed in Wyom-
ing on the western slope of the Rocky noun
taius by J D. Curtis Of that town. One Of
these is an unusually fine specimen in 1.-The
velvet" These two heads with those of the
moose shot by Judge e. l.. Sibley, and the
caribou by E. T. Griswold makes quartette
of interesting studies for the Enthusiastically
to be met with outside the large museums.
o. T.. Norcross, while on his way home from
Brattleboro, drove to the Fall Brook bridge
where his horse got out of the main track
and went off the upper side OF the structure
The sleigh remained on the bridge, but Mr..
Norcross was pulled over the embankment
with the horse He was made unconscious
by the fall and when found by Myron Evans
his head was partially under the water. Mr.
Evans rescued him from his perilous position
and took him home.
The annual reception and dinner of the
Vermont Association of Boston will be held
at the Hotel Vendome on Wednesday next
Business meeting at 4:30, reception at 5, din
ner at 6. The theme will be Vermont in the
Navy" and IA Vermont led all the States in
the naval achievements of the recent war, of
course her loyal sons aud daughters will as
semble and rejoice Gov. and Mrs Smith
the Hon. j. L. Martin, United States District
Attorney for Vermont, and Mrs. Martin Ca
niece of Admiral Dewey Commander Allan
d. Brown and Mrs Brown and Lieut.. w. g.
Fletcher and Mrs. Fletcher unexpected Let
tiers will be read from Admiral Dewey, Com
mander Converse and Capt Clark. 1t will be
ladies night and the Hon. Alden Speare will
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