The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-10-24

are side BY side, You old stupid-then
they make twenty-five don't they
The japanese government has Is
sued a notification limiting the rate of
promissory interest to an extreme of
20 per cent. per annum on sums OF
500 and under, to 10 per cent. ON
sums between 800 and $1,000, and to
lI2 per cent. for sums above $1,000.
When no agreement is made the legal
rate, six per cent, is to be under
stood, and what is known as relkeR,
or bonus. is abolished.
A mystery of ten years standing
has been cleared up at Waterbury,
Conn, by news of a young man of
good character and position who sud-
denly disappeared and was thought to
be murdered. 1t seems, however,
that he knew nothing of his doing till
he found himselfin Springfield, Mass,
and read an account of his disappear
ance. Fearing the jokes and sneers
to which he would be subjected, he de-
cided to stay, and changing his name,
he went to Winooski, entered a store,
finally became partner and married
happily. But a little while ago he
died of consumption, just after telling
his story to his wife and sending for
his brother.
Lovers of the noxious weed will be
panied to learn that they are likely
soon to have to pay more than present
prices for thir "imported Havanas"-
from Connecticut. The biggest kind
of strike is now in progress among
the cigar makers, and it threatens to
he obstinate. Many thousands have
already quit work and the number is
rapidly increasing. This movement
originated among what are known as
the tenement house workers. Under
the tenement" system, the large man
ufacturers rent one or two little stived-
up rooms to family, all of whose
members, from five years upward, in
many cases, are employed at cigar
making. BY charging exhorbitant
rents and paying starvation wages
these manufacturers have made great
deal OF money, and have also precipi-
tated the present movement, which is
headed by young Bohemian woman.
In the course of Tweed's eXamina-
ton last week, several interesting
items about his private affairs were
brought out. One was that his house
hold expenses were $4,000 a year,
and that the frescoing in one of his
houses cost nearly $40, 900. Another,
that he lost 5000, 900 in two years run
ming the Metropolitan Hotel, and that
his other real estate losses amounted
in five years to nearly a million and
quarter. He testifies that his escape
to Cuba and Spain cost him $40, 900,
and justities the general suspicion that
bis lawyers have been eating him up,
by stating that he has paid various
members Of the profession since his
troubles began, fully 100000. How
much these legal gentlemen have done
to earn this modest sum may be gath
cred from his present position as a
helpless prisoner.
Brandy, hope" murmureda sail
or on desert isle, when he stopped
to pick up large black bottle which
the waves had washed to his feet.
"Beer, | expect" he said softly, paus-
ing in his labor of Juggling at the
somewhat obstinate cork. Tracts,
by jingo!" he Indignantly exclaimed,
when the edifying but scarcely convi-
vial contents of the flask were expos
ed to view" The London Telegraph
tells this story in commenting upon a
singular collection Of articles that
were put in bottle which was placed
recently beneath the corner stone of a
new college building at Nottingham.
In the bottle there were: samples of
lace and hosiery an Italian silk stock
ing, dozen of which only weigh three
and half ounces, as worn by Queen
Victoria; specimens of the present
fashions in ladies and gentlemen's
dress, and few current coins of the