News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-11-02
NOTES.
President Arthur has designated
Thursday, Nov. 30th, as a day OF Ma
tional Thanksgiving.

tlonal thanksgiving.
James N. Dolph, Republican, has
been elected to the United States Sen
ate by the Oregon Legislature.
Ida Graves of Marlette, Mich, aged
nineteen, was shot dead as she sat by
: the window Wednesday night. A hi
red man named Sullivan, whom she
had rejected in the afternoon, is sus-
pected of the murder.
The increase OF the receipts of the
postoffice department for the last six
months over the first six months of
the fiscal year was 81 $4,000; the
increased expenditure was S161 900.
The increase in the pay of postmas-
tiers during the last half of the year
was 1924, 900. The salaries of post
masters are fixed by law ana it is be-
vond the power of the department to
regulate them. In the Star-route SER
vice the decrease of expenditure of the
last, compared with the first six
months was S212, 700. The decrease
in expenditures for steamship services
during the same period was $50, 900.
The department was in charge of L.
L. James for the first half, and in
charge of Timothy 0. Howe for the
last half of the fiscal year.
The Star Route trials had cost the
Government up to the time they were
given to the jury over SAL, 900. The
exposure of the thefts will save the
Government much more.
Acting Secretary of the interior JOS
Ign has rendered decision of the ut
most Importance to a large class ofap-
plicants for pensions. He holds in
effect that seven years absence may
he taken as proof presumptive of
soldiers death, and such proof shall
warrant the issue of a pension to his
family, if other requirements have
been complied with. This decision
is a direct reversal of the practice
which has hitherto prevailed in the
Pension Bureau. Proof positive of
the soldiers death was required, which
in many cases it was impossible to
produce.
Since Oct. IL there were added to
the voting lists in Boston 1855
names against 3,143 in 1881. The
registration is the largest known in
the city for State election, except
in 1880, during the Presidential cam
paign.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who
since 1S47 has been a professor in the
Harvard Medical School, has resigned.
The annual report of the superin-
tendent of the money order system
renews the recommendation for the is
suance of new form of money orders
for sums under five dollars at fee OF
three cents.
He'll Gate is to be lighted BY cleo
tricity.
The characterization people might |
learn thing or two by visiting Cincin-
natl. Nearly all the victims of small
pox in that city were among the Ger
mans who, out there, do not believe in
vaccination, either in theory or prac-
tice. The efficacy of vaccination is no |
longer questioned by most intelligent
people, but it is we'll once in a while |
to call attention to where it has been |
of decided use.
Score one for Judge Smell of the
Washington police court. A genteel-
ly dressed man was brought before |
him the other day charged with carry
ing a pistol. The charge was proved |
and it was shown that the gentleman
while slightly drunk had fourished the
pistol in public. Judge Smell gave
him his choice of $50 fine or 80 days |
in Jail. There would be fewer muir
ders if there were more Judge Smells. |
A Taunton boy, IA years old, who
by mistake of the assessors was sent
n Hd f Eel 5 that " the assessors ss5 had
made man of him.
There is no better way of helping
people who need help than by show
ing them how to help themselves. 1t
is good deal harder oftentimes to
show somebody how he or she can
earn or save twenty five cents than it
would be to give a dollar outright,
but it pays in the long run to take the
trouble.
John r. Borgess., Jr., living IA
miles from Clarksburg, w. Va, kill
ed his wife and daughter in fit of
mental arrangement induced by strong
drink. He attacked his wife while in
bed. She called her daughter, who
came and assisted her mother to get
loose from the grasp of her father.
They then fled from the house. Bog
CESS grabbed a large iron poker and
overtaking his wife hit her two blows,
the last proving fatal. The daughter
again came to her mothers rescue
and was killed with one blow. The
other children fed. Boggess was
found in the house intoxicated. He
denied the killing or knowing any
thing about it.
A vague but horrible rumor is be-
ing handed around with blanched lips
that Oscar Wilde will marry and set
tie in America. Just a few more straws
on the dromedary's back and war with
the mother country will be inevitable
EUanSUiUe argus.
Inc poisoned boquet sent to Guiteau
by Mrs. ScoYille the day before his ex-
ecution has been analysed one bud
contained over five grains of arsenic
more than enough to have caused
death.
Chief Clerk Weber of the Treasury
Department at Washington has be-
come very unpopular with everybody
having business to transact at the De-
partment by arbitrary rules offensive
ly enforced.
The total amount of money orders
issued for the fiscal year ending June
80, was Sl19,936, 900, an increase of
over ten millions compared with the
previous year. The amount paid on
money orders was $115, 058, 900. The
gross receipts on this business amount
ed to 81 1879, 00e net revenue 500, 900 I
Travellers all agree that Mormon wo-
men are inexpressibly homely. but any
one might know that. No woman not
ugly enough to smash a stone jug by
looking at it, would consent to put up