News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-01
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James Gordon Bennett has given
the widow of Capt. belong $4,000
III 4 per cent government bonds.
Meanness will crop out in a man
sometimes, land one way of showing it
self is for subscriber after receiving
three or four issues after the time he
has paid for has expired, and who did
not order his paper to be stopped at
the expiration Of said time, to send a
postal to the publishers worded ''please
discontinue my paper at once" with
no offer Of paying for the papers he
has received and read.
A recent German work gives the
following return of the population of
the world, counted by the millions:
Europe, 315, 100000; Asia, S34 ,OOO,-
600; Africa, POS, 100000; America,
10000, 900; Australia and Polynesia,
5,OOO,O 900; Polar regions, under -
100000. Total, I ,455, 900, 000-be-
ing an increase of over 10000, 900
upon the last census.
Archibald Forbes is to marry again.
He possesses all the good qualities to
make a good war correspondent
and an adventurous spirit.-LyRn Bee.
The Union Club of New York has
expelled j. L. Loubat and censured
Mr.. Turnbull, who recently quarreled
and talked about fighting duel.
1t is said that the lockout in the
Pennsylvania iron trade OIL the first of
June, will be one of the largest ever
known. In the Pittsburg district alone
forty thousand men will be idle. with
a loss Of $2,000,000 per month in
wages.
Fitzgerald, the banco swin,ller, has
been found guilty. The case goes to
the Supreme Court on exceptions.
Lieut.. Danenhower and his COM
panions arrived at New York, Sun
day morning last, and were welcomed
by friends and relatives. Danenhow-
er and DR.. Newcomb both denounce
the traducers of Lieut. Melville. They
speok of him in the highest terms as
brave and efficient officer.
George A. Comfy, the well known
opera singer, and Herman Reitzel,
pianist, both members of the Kellogg
Concert Compony, were drowned in
Spotford Lake, Chesterfield, n. H.,
last Friday.
Nine million acres of the finest
land in Dakota hove just been opened
for settlement, and lots of people are
about to settle there, and two railways
are to be built into the region at
once,
The will Of the late Ralph Waldo
Emerson of Concord, makes no public
requests, but gives the property to
his children and his wife. James Ell
lot Cabot is appointed literary eXecu-
tor to acc in cooperation with Mr.
Emerson's children. e. w. Emerson
and William H. Forbes are appointed
executors of the will.
George S. Bell, custodian at Wask-
ington of the dies, plates, ETC., at the
Bureau of Engraving and printing.
has been dismissed for carelessness.
Kate Chase has secured divorce
from William Sprague and been given
the cutody of her children.
Daniel j. O'Brien, an Albany,
crockery dealer, has failed. Liatili-
ties, $50, 900.
Father Cuddyhy of Milford, Mass,
refuses to permit the Grand Army to
enter the Catholic cemetery there Dec
Grafton Day.
A terrible condagration is reported
at Keiff.
The railroad commission bill has
passed both Houses of the New York
Assembly. The commissioners are to
be appointed by the next Governor.
Jacob Veal, alias Poole, was ar
rested at Queenstown, Thursday of
last week, on his arrival from New
York, for extensive forgeries.
Married men, according to statis-
tics, live longer than single ones.
The philosophical Boston Transcript
wonders why in the inscrutable wisdom
of Providence, the married mans suf-
ferings should be so unnecessarily
heightened.
The late James Quinn Smith, con-
testant for the seat in Congress for
the 4th Alabama district now occu-
pied by Gen. Shelley, was originally
named simply John Quinn. In early
life, when he was country shoe max
er, he was a party to an important
lawsuit. The Judge advised him to
employ a lawyer, bat he managed his
case with such skill that the Judge
was led to remark "You have missed
your calling; you should have been a
lawyer" ''Perhaps it isn't too late
yet" replied Quinn; and that very
day he began studying law. In three
years time he was admitted to the
bar, and he was afterwards for u
years United States district judge.
The name Smith he assumed on adj
mission to the bar, but no one knows
why.
The chief of the Bureau of StaLis-
tics, reports that the total value OF the
exports of domestic provisions, tailow
and dairy products during the month
Of April, 1882, were $4,000, 344, and
Turing April, 1881, $8,199,l 1856; for
The four months ending April 80,
1882, $50, 800, 634, and for the same
period in 1881, S52, 470,972. The to-
,al values of the export of provisions
and tallOw for the six months ended
April 80, 1882, were $53, 1913, 1863,
md during the six months ended April
30. 1882, amount to- SIS, 080, 943, aud
or the corresponding period Of the
preceding year S23 1856, 1902.
The Washington Monument has
cached a height Of 200 feet. The q
proposed height is 800 feet. a
There has been heavy decline in c
'as stocks in New York, within few I
weeks.
The long deadlock in the New York 9,
legislature over the Railway Commits it
ion bill has been broken, the Repub- Of
cans surreEderlng to Cue Democrats. c;
AT Portsmouth, Il. L., recently, 5,
ohm Germaiu was killed and one
'rlnnell fatally hurt by tub of fish
llllng into the hold Of steamer
here they were working.
Major Charles Burdett, Il dwarf 50 |
lCneS llpl. and ~ DanrS old IL dead