News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-08-10
NOTES.

EallOOuCI uOO 5 mistake IN
putting up medicine, caused the death
of a sick child at Somerville, Mass.
The debt statement, just issued,
shows a decrease in the public debt
during the month Of July to be 3d.
960,027.52.
A young lady died at Hagerstown,
Nd, from fright, grief and vexation,
caused by some person entering her
room in the night and cutting off her
long, heavy head of hair while she
was asleep.
An 18-years-old girl at London, is
eight feet and two inches high, and
still growing. Her feet are said to be
enormous.
Two women, Mrs. John White, of
Nashua, and Mary Farmer, of Boston.
lost their lives, last week, by using the
"easy method kindling wood" (kero-
sene), in lighting their fires. Take
warning We housekeepers.
Sixty buildings burned, and over
400 men thrown out of employment,
at Gardner, Me-, by a fire on Monday
last.
Measles and scarlet fever are cpl
demic at Sitka. The people are des-
titute of medical aid, aud destitute of
spirituous liquors.
A Pennsylvania man had a valua-
BILE COW die, and he and his two sons
contracted blood-poison from exam
lining the carcass. The father is dead,
and n son will die.
At Philadelphia, a kerosene lamp
exploded, causing the death of a lady.
Keep your lamps clean and we'll trim
med, girls, and you may escape her
fate.
Mrs. Jesse James is restoring some
of the plumber taken from the passen-
gers on the train, by her notorious
husband. We dare presume that this
woman was not''first in the transgres-
SION"
The great mortality resulting from
the use of toy pistols by boys last
Fourth of July, has already led to
prohibitive ordinances in about half
the cities of the country. The follow
ing, first enacted by Boston, is the
form usually followed: "No person
shall sell to any child under the age
of sixteen years, without the written
consent of a parent or guardian of
such child, any cartridge of fixed am
munitior, of which any illuminate is a
component part, or any gun, pistol or
other mechanical continuance arranged
for the explosion of such cartridge or
illuminate" The penalty varies from
a light fine, to a heavy one with
lmprisonment.-EE.
Three boys, cousins, aged six, nine
and thirteen, were drowned, recently,
at Whitehall, N. Y, and laid in one
grave.
The army worm in the State of New
York, clears off the grass equal, it is
said, to the best moving machine.
Mrs. Geo. P. Marsh is said to be a
lady of rare attainments, and to her
is due somewhat of the fame which
attaches to b G memory of her
illustrious husband. For many a
az invalid, unable to walk, she vet bv
her intelligence and great CONVEX
sational powers, drew around her
the wise and good, who seemed to de-
light to do her reverence. We under
derstand she will remain in Europe.
There is in the State Cabinet at
Montpelier, a piece of old yellow pa
per which was found at Swanton, 80
years ago,by some workman, encased
in a piece OF lead and read as follows:
Nov. 20, A d 1864.
This is the solemn day. | must now
die, This is the Goth day since we left
the ship all have persisted and on the
banks of this river | die. SO Farewell,
May future posterity know our end.
JOHN GRAVE,