News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-07-20
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A prohibitionist party makes its ap
pearance in Tennessee, and talks Of
Emerson Ethridge for governor.
During the past fiscal year AZ 900
agricultural patents have been Issued
from the general land office, an in
crease over the previous year Of 20, 900.
Secretary Lincoln says there is no
significance in the removal of General
Howard from the superintendency Of
the military academy, except that he
was wanted at Omaha so that Crook
could be sent against the Indians in
Arizona.
More than three hundred persons
have been killed by tornadoes in the
West this year.
Bishop Levi Scott, senior bishop of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, died
at his home near Odessa, Delaware, on
Thursday.
The military department of West
Point has been discontinued.
Col. Wesley Merritt of the fifth
cavalry has been appointed superin-
tendent of the West Point Academy.
1t is now thought that Congress
will remain in session this month.
1t is thought the President will not
interfere in the case of Sergeant Ma
son.
Mary Ann Angel, first wife of
Brigham Young, died at Salt Lake
City, June 81, at the ace of 20 She
was @borHs-in Ontario county, N. y,
joined the Mormons in Ohio in 1882,
and was there married to Young in
1884. She was once mobbed in Mis-
souri,. suffered many hardships while
in Illinois and Iowa, and had been in
poor health for many years. She had
six children, of whom three are living.
The large oil-painting of President
Garfield, by Andrews, used in the
House of Representatives on the oc-
casion of the Garfield memorial ser
vices, has been hung in the main hall
of the White House and the painting
of Mrs. r. b. Hayes, presented by
the temperance people of the country,
has been assigned permanent place
on the wall Of the green parlor.
1t is said that a COW was sold in
England, recently for $1,000.
Margaret Wilsted died at Far Rock
away, l.. l., aged 10S years.
Seventy-fve thousand head Of steers
are on their way from the interior,
West and Northwest.
1t seems hard to believe, that in
this age of the world, when science
throws such light upon disease, as
well as everything else, that sane
man could be incarcerated in an in
sane asylum for nearly TWO years, and
escape the knowledge of the attending
physician, as seems to be the case at
the Bloomingdale, n. Y, asylum.
There's screw loose somewhere in
this ''land of liberty"
Mrs. Lockwood, the woman lawyer
of Washington, had opposed to her in
a case recently a witty attorney, who
was somewhat puzzled as to how he
should refer to her. He could not adj |
dress her as 'my learned brother"
and g my learned sister" seemed rath-
er out Of place. SO he accordingly
extricated himself from his dilemma
and produced roar of laughter from
judge, jury and spectators, by abiding
TO her as . my learned sister-in-law."
More destruction of life and prop
ertv by tornadoes at Kansas, and also |
at Colorado. Zasi..
The Western giant, Col. Orr, died
at Ohio. His body weighed 500 lbs,
and his coffin measured eight feet.
They have new potatoes in Boston
which they generously sell for $3.50
per bushel.
The electric fluid seems to be on a
rampage" over the whole country.
Such strange appearances and such
queer doings were never known be-
fore. In Alabama, 1t tore the shoes
from Almost an entire family. AT
Philadelphia, it dashed the water from
a cistern all over a woman, and at
North Carolina, it did itself up in a
big ball and rushed at an astonished |
housekeeper, but it killed not one of
all these.
The widow of Gen. Custer receives
$50 per month pension.
In Devon, England, as late as 1855,
it was the practice to carry children
who were suffering from whooping-
cough, fasting, into three parishes on
Sunday morning. AS cure for
sore throat the eighth psalm was read |
seven times for seven successive days
over the patient.
A child of ordinary capacity and