News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-09-14
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NOTES.
The tide of emigration from Eu-
rope to this country, is one Of the
marvels of the age. During the year
ending lime 30. ancnr1Iiup-LL-E Lsa-otfi-
cial figures, no less than 7S9 900 for
eigners sought q home in the United
States. For the three fiscal years
1880, 1881, and 1882, the arrivals
have amounted to 1.915,69l, or near
ly as many as the total for the eight
years just previous, This is more
than enough to populate any one OF
the thirty-eight States of the Union,
excepting Illinois, Missouri, New
York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. And
the prospect is that the number of
emigrants during the present fiscal
year will be greater than during the
one just closed.
Home again: q met lovely wom-
an from Rome, Ga, yesterday, and
she said: I've been at summer resorts
for month, and all | want now is to
be put in my back porch at home, III
loose wrapper and my face buried in
Georgia watermelon "-At}onta
| Constitution.
W H. Colgate, said to be the son
of New York millionaire, was az
rested at Winfield, Kan, last Satur-
day charged with burning Bliss &
Woods flour mill recently, Colgate
was discharged by the firm and 1t is
alleged he fired the mill out of re-
venge.
Texas expects in ten years to raise
more wool than all the rest of the
United States.
The nobility which was created in
France by Napoleon l. is almost ex-
tinct. Those soldiers and function
aries who became Dukes and Princes
by the grace of Napoleon lived fast
and died out rapidly.
1t is believed at Philadelphia, that
the steaIings of Major Phipps, the
almshouse official, amounted to $l2j,
900 year.
Two men who were climbing over
the railing of the Tuileries Garden, at
Paris, during a display of fireworks,
caught hold of an electric wire and
were Immediately struck dead.
Sporting item: ''Inquisitiye boy
(who has been reading an account of
a fox chase, and turning to his father
for inGormaticnl PA, what do they
mean by the brush? z !" Father, who
is a linen draper. densely ignorant of
field sports, but is determined not to
be blutfed by mere youngster) "A
brush, my son, is-ah-is an article
of domestic furniture used by the
hunters to dust off the fox" - Bro0k
Ign Eagle.
The disclosure of the at tempt to
bride the jurors in the star-route cases
comes at a very awkward time for the
defence, and it is easy to imagine the
excitement in court when Judge wv
lie vigorously denounced the men who
made the attempt, and limited at the
judgment in store for them. 1t would
be perfectly in harmony with the
course of this star-route business that
a browning iniquity like this should be
committed in a desperate effort to free
the guilty. Judge Wylie has proved
himself difficult Judge to confuse or
bulldoze, and his charge to the jury
will be awaited with interest. SO also
will the detailed disclosures which the
the foreman of the jury promises.
A. Oppenheimer, a Buffalo mer-
chant, has brought a suit for $4,000
damages against the Michigan South
ern Railroad Company for being for
chilly elected from train for not pur-
chasing ticket.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher writes
to the Chicago Tribune that his case
Of hay fever is suppressed, but not
eradicated. He has within two weeks
answered over two hundred letters on
the subject. He says that for two
months in the year the man who has
hay fever is no longer free agent,
but an oozy, dripping animal, with
ferOcious tendencies, and not account
able. He feels like killing his mother
in-law, and conscience, like Jobs wife,
tempts him to swear.
Lemuel w. Livingstone, the color
ed candidate for admission to West
Point, has been rejected, his eXamin-
alton having been unsatisfactory. He
was one of fifteen who failed to pass
out Of total of forty-one applicants.
The New York Herald thinks one
hundred and fifty thousand New York
ers have had vacations this summer at
an aggregate cost Of twelve millions
dollars.
Thegreat organ in the Boston Music
Hall has been sold to a church congre- |
CATION in Western city, and is to be |
removed. Years ago This organ was
considered one Of the finest in the
United States. Organ concerts were
given to display the instrument, but
the concerts were not remunerative,
and now the organ is to be sold.
A curious law question has arisen
in Morris, Conn. Mrs. Grant Stew
ems, widow of that place, has great
confidence in answers to prayer. A
little over a week since, in conversa-
ton with Mr.. Benton, she expressed
her faith that she could bring rain by
prayer, lie offered her SO if she
would bring a good rain within three
days. A light shower occurred on
Wednesday night. Thereupon Mrs.
Stevens called on Benton, avering
that she had prayed for rain, that her
prayer had been answered, and claim
ed the SO. He demurred on the
ground that the shower was not up to
the contract requirement. She now
threatens suit for the money.
There are over 600 miles Of tel
nphone wire in this country. and it is
estimated that 80,000,O0O commune
cations are sent over them annually.
? New five dollar notes are to be is
sued by the NATIONAL banks, which will