Cote Hill, Mar. 12.—Ferry Burt, of Torpedo, was on the Hill with a paper entitled The National Tribune Civil War Pension Bill Thursday. He was getting signers for a petition to increase the pension of all old civil uar veterans and widows of civil war veterans. It is needless to say that everyone signed.The home of Mr. anM Mra. Walter Covell at Bos3 Hill caught fire Monday at noon while the family were eating dinner. Mr. Covell ran out doors and fired a gun several times which attracted the attention of several neighbors who seeing smoke hurried to their assistance. The well was dry but they happened to have some water that they had hauled, that with snow they managed to extinguish the fire. Considerable damage was done however. One bed upstairs near where the fire started was almost entirely destroyed.The Covell family are having almost more than their ?hare of , trouble at present, Mrs. Covell uti- j derwent an operation at the War- j ren General hospital at Warren ■ Friday and will have to remain in .1. - f .a n 1U _vw A fmTl - ft I