News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-08-15
STATE NEWS.

y tn annual reunion of the Third Yer
fWReglment will be held in the q. A r.
st. rIohnsbury, on Thursday, Aug. 80.
lrJHs9er will be served by the Woman's Relief
Corps and short speeches and a social time
will follow.
Dexter Tracy, the prosperous farmer of
Monkton, who was recently confined in Bur-
lington in the county Jail as the defendant in
a $4,000 suit brought by a woman, who
claims she was damaged when Mr.. Tracy shot
a dog in her neighborhood, has brought suit
against the owner of the dog for $1,000.
Mr.. and Mrs G. R. Andrews of Mortified
have a remarkable collection Of old bills and
coins. Among the lot is a Continental dollar
bill 1t is about one-half the siz9 of the pres
ent day bill and on the front of it are
printed the words The bearer is entitled to
receive One Spanish Dollar or an equal
amount in Gold or Silver according to a res
olution of Congress on the l4th day of Jan.
1893.
Walk, Mason of Bethel met with a peculiar
experience while wheeling from Gaysville, to
Bethel Sunday, When near W. Z. Latimer's
he heard a strange click in his machine and
on dismountng to ascertain the cause found
that his bicycle frame was pierced bya bullet
Further investigation showed that the bullet
passed through his clothing also Mr.. Mason
afterward discovered the reckless narksman
who was located across the river.
d. A. Guptill of Montpelier has taken con-
siderable pains to learn about the old Pavil-
ion coach he recently purchased Its history
shows that it is almost 90 years old. Not
withs anding this tact the woodwork is al
most as good as it was when the coach was
first built. The coach was built by the Alb
bot Downing Company, OF Concord, in 1851
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Quoted a livery business in Montpelier. A
letter received from Lewis Downing, Jr., of
Concord, says that the original color of the
coach was claret with drab gear.
A drowning accident happened at Isle La
Motto Thursday evening about nine O'Clock.
Baptiste Jarvis and Dolphis Blondin, Jr,
were in bathing near the dock. Jarvis is a
good swimmer but Blondin could not swim a
\ stroke. The latter's legs were seized with
cramps when he was only in about two feet
of water, and he went back to shore and Jar
Wis went out around the dock when Bondin
went to the front OF the dock and jumped of
into about seven feet of water. jarvis was
unable TO help him and he drowned before
help could arrive. The young man was 26
years old He leaves wife, who was Miss
Maggie Menard and a little daughter about
one and a half years old, beside father,
mother, one sister and four bro theirs. Blon-
din was stone cutter.
Professor George H. Perkins OF the Univer-
sity of Vermont, has returned to Burlington
from trip to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and
then inland some 20 miles to Kemptville to
examine a gold mine in the interest of the In
ternatonal Mining Company. large part OF
the stock in which is owned in Stowe, Water
bury and other Vermont towns. In the par
ty taking the trip were 16 people, most OF
whom were stockholders the property. The
mine was found by Professor Perkins to carry
considerable gold and is, in his opinion, worth
working. 1t is in the gold belt which crosses
q portion of Nova Scotia, and was purchased
not great while ago by it's present owners
Vermonters are obliged to go outside theiT
| own State to engage in gold mining success
fully In this connection Professor Perkins
says he does nor believe there is anywhere in
the State gold h sufficient quantities to pay
for working