The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-01-07
NOTES.

Snow has fallen IN Italy this winter
for the first time since 1871.
"Is it wrong TO cheat a lawyer"
asks an exchange. No, not exactly.
but it is rather reversing the order of
things.
The Bishop of AchOury, Sligo and
Mayo, in ireland, states that he fed
$50 starving people Christmas eve,
out of his own funds.
Mr.. p. L. Barnum has presented to
Bridgeport, Conn, the city of his res
idence, fine bronze fountain cast in
Berlin and costing $500.
Louisiana estimates this years sugar
crop at about l7j, 900 hogsheads Of
finer quality than usual, owing to the
increased use of improved machinery.
Kansas has school population of
81 900, the increase for the last year
being $4,000, or SO per cent. more
than for any other year of the States
history.
The contest over the estate Of the
late James Lick, the eccentric Califor-
MIA millionaire, has been decided, and
the great observatory he endowed will
now be built.
Three million more postal cards were
issued at the Holyoke, Mass, agency
in October than were sent out in one
month before. The amount is thirty
five millions.
Five pounds of ashes is all that re-
mains of the body of Charles McCree-
ry, the young man whose dying request
was that his corpse be consigned to
the crematory.
A Boston magic healer has got
ahead of competition in his line of
practice. He places his hands over a
broken or dislocated bone, and it inns
mediately re-adjusts itself so he
says.
A bridal couple from Washoe Valley,
at breakfast at Reno, conversed as
follows: He-'shall l skin you per-
later honey?" She-"No, thank you,
deary. l have one already skun. =
DenUer NeUS.
Seventeen lawyers are engaged in a
suit over the will of an Indanian, who
boosted, shortly before his death, that
he had got his affairs into such shape
that when he died the lawyers couldn't
make n penny out of his estate.
A colored Methodist preacher of
Georgia lately fell into a well on Sat
urday night and remained there unas-
sisted until the next Thursday.
Though thoroughly soaked and pretty
well chilled, he was not seriously in
jured.
Some Norwich drunkards got hold
of a former companion who, for eight
months, had kept pledge of total alb
stinence, induced him to drink, and,
when he was helplessly intoxicated,
paraded him through the streets, la
belled ga horrible example"
Two school girls about fifteen years
old, the daughters of wealthy parents,
murdered six-year-old schoolmate
near Centerville, Ind, two weeks ago.
The girls had been expelled for i'll
treating her. 1t is reported that the
murdered girls mother received Il bride
Of So, 900 to keep the affair secret. A
doctor certified that she died Of brain
fever.
A Hartford joker wrote, in letter
to friend in Bridgeport, ''You had
better keep shady for while and not
attempt to negotiate those bonds you
stole, as they are all registered and
the police are watching for them" The
letter was opened by Il wrong person,
who gave it to the police, and the in
nocent man was kept under arrest I'M
til he could clear himself of suspicion.
When the thermometer records SO
degrees below zero, as it did at st.
Vincent, Mimi, on Dec. "a, the fact
is worth mention. AT various other
places it stood at points varing from
Is to As degrees below. On the Pa
cifc coast it fell to 80 degrees below,
most unusal occurrence. In Mime
sofa heavy SHOWS nave fallen, and
trains have been delayed seriously.
John and Caples Burgess, brothers,
had violent quarrel at Camden Point,
Mo-, three years ago, and their moth
err, fearing that Caples would carry
out threat of murder, induced John
to find new home at a distance.
John made a visit at Camden, few
days ago, for the purpose of recon-
citation, but he prudently took along
a revolver. Thus, when Caples fired
at him on sight, he was able to shoot
his assailant dead.
In Chicago, during the year 1879,
permits were taken out for ,125 build
ings (not including sheds, easements,
or additions), having a street frontage
of 32, 525 feet. The cost of all i'm
provements this year will be in the
of Sc, 745,600. In 1878
there were 1919 buildings erected,
having a street frontage of 31,118
feet, and costing 81, 419, 100; in 1877
there were 1898 buildings, with a
frontage of 1898 feet, costing ST.
552 $40; in 1876, 1886 buildings
(ncluding sheds), with street 'front.'
age of 1922 feet, and costing 49,
270,600. The total for the past four
years Isl Number of building, 5,128;