News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-06
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William H., committed suicide at the
Glemham hotel, in New York, Satur-
day. by shooting himself through the
head. He had been in poor health for
some time.
A New Jersey farmer has found
that dressing of eight bushels of
salt per acre to land badly infested
with white grubs enabled him to raise
good crops of corn for three years
past, which was impossible previous
to this application.
Rev. DR.. VIM Taylor of New York,
in preaching on the theme of the Good
Samaritan, Sunday of last week, spoke
very warmly and earnestly against the
action of Congress in relation to Chi
nese migration. There was no form
Of aFistocraey, he said, quite SO des-
picable as the aristocracy of race, and
the selishness, cruelty and un-Chris-
tian character of this spirit was never
shown more strikingly than in this in
stance.
The Mormons are very anxious to
have ex-Congressional Delegate Hoop
: er, who is homogeneous Mormon,
appointed ON the Utah commission,
but they are not likely to be gratified.
The London Daily Nelcs wants
English ladies TO take lessons of their
American cousins in the matter Of
dress. From its description of what
high art requires in England, one
would judge that the square shoulders
and wasp waists now in vogue would
make a woman's figure look like an
equilateral triangle standing on its
apex. Ladies with gracefully sloping
shoulders now have whalebone stag
ing built to give them the proper an
gular effect.
Secretary Frelinghuysen is known
to be opposed to the Presidents ap-
prevail of the Chinese bill. He has
talked the matter over with the Chi
nese minister, and while the latter ex-
presses himself cautiously, the diplo-
matte corps says that the signing of
the bill by the President, will be fol-
lowed by prompt action on the
part of the Chinese government for
the abrogation of the entire treaty.
The whole interior of Walker Hall,
at Amherst, Mass, the finest of the
Amherst College buildings, was burn
ed, on the night of March Doth. The
estimated loss is quarter of a mill
ion; the insurance was $72, 900. The
Shepard cabinet of minerals, worth
$4,000, the collection of physics APP
paratus, worth SIC, 900, besides fine
collection of paintings and valuable
archives were destroyed. The build
ing contained the lecture rooms for
philosophy, history and mathematics,
the treasurer's Office and the presi-
dents room and neurological cabinet.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
Kate Shelley, to whom the Iowa
Legislature has just given a gold med
al and 5000, is only ID years old.
She lives near Des Moines, at point
where a railroad crosses a gorge at. a
great height. One night there was a
furious storm, and the bridge was car
ried away. The first that the Shell
leys knew of it was when they saw
the headlight of locomotive flash
down into the chasm. Kate climbed
20 the remnant of the bridge with
great difficulty, using an improvised
lantern, and the engineers voice an
severed her calls; but she could dc
nothing for him and he was drowned
Then she remembered that an express
train was almost due, and she started
for the nearest station, mile distant.
A long, high bridge over the Des
AIoines river had to be crossed on the
1ies-an easy thing to do in calm day
light, but perilous in stormy darkness.
Hates light was blown out, and the
stand. SO she crawled across the
bridge, from timber to timber, on hel
hands and knees. She got to the sta
zion bedraggled and exhausted, but in
lime to give the warning, though she
tainted Immediately.
The summer of 1916, the year that
New England farmers called eighteen
hundred and starved to death" is said
10 have cen preceded by just such a
winter as we have been having. It
was a summer only in name, for moth
ing seemed to grow.-Ffee Press.
On Saturday morning of the 18th
rlt., Charles >. Wells of the Dudley
Observatory, Albany, discovered a
bright comet in Hercules, right ascen-
SION, IL hours, % minutes north, de-
ciination 80, so minutes. The comet
has fail about five minutes in length
and nucleus of about the eighth mag
nitude.