News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-13

Gen. Stephen A. Hurlburt, late
Minister to Peru, died at Lima, Mar.
28th.
The date trees are in bloom at Key
West, Fla.
Immigrants are pouring into Win
nipeg at the rate of over 800 per day.
1t is reported that the government
intends to transfer Sitting Bull and his
followers to the Yankton agency where
they can be taught agricultural pur-
suits.
The Ontario court of common pleas
has decided that the shaving of GUS
toners by BARRIERS on Sunday, is a
violation of the laws, it being not q
work of charity or necessity.
An extraordinary story is made pub
lie by the family of Hon. Charles
Francis Adams Of the manner in which
that gentleman was victimized by
"banco" men, and induced to sign
checks aggregating $4,000. Those
who planned the game trusted for i'm
munity TO the unwillingness of the
family to make the matter public, but
in that they erred, for they have been
delivered over to the law and will be
prosecuted.
A strange case of the subsection of
man is reported from the little Welsh
village of Glsis, where man 27 years
old, is kept confined in matched cot
tage by his mother and aunt. He has
never been permitted to know any
thing about affairs, nor to show his
face. Not dozen people have ever
seen him. When strangers come into
the house he retires to a corner of the
room where, concealed by an old cur
tain, he remains until they go away.
He has spent the most of his life sit
ting behind that curtain, and the two
women take every possible precaution
to prevent his exposure, all, so far as
known, because of some idle whim.
A case of terrible cruelty to a child
has been made public by the Halifax
society for preventing such things.
The story is that a two-years-old baby
has been nearly killed by its father
and step-mother, more particularly the
former, who time and again has beat
en- it fercely with strap, knocked it
to the floor with his clenched hand,
struck it with saw, and put it in icy
baths on the cold mornings of a Can
adian winter. The inhuman father
has ended long system of tortures
by breaking the child's arm, and the
puny creature lies bound up in splints
and healing plasters, bearing its suf-
fering without tear, it is said, so ac-
customed has it grown to pain. Its
father swears vengeance on those who
have interfered in his family affairs.
A friendless girl of Is, named Jen-
ME Gross, living with n. Russell of
Belle Valley, Pa, as servant, insist
ed upon going to nurse family nam
ed Stark, who had been kind to her
and who were sick, as was supposed,
with measles. 1t turned out that the
disease was smallpox, nurses were
sent from Erie, and Jennie was told to
go home. But she feared giving the
disease to the Russells, and insisted
on sleeping in the open air for the
first night. In the morning she was
i'll, and went within speaking distance
of Mr.. Russell, told him she had the
and directed him to take a
wagon and follow her to Erie, few
miles distant, while she walked safe
distance ahead. Arrived there, she
babe Russell 90 into the mayors house
and get an order admitting her to the
pest-house, while she waited in the
middle of the street. Then she got
the paper without going near Russell |
and walked off TO the pest-house, and |
is likely to die there.
The suspension of eleven members
of the freshman class in Williams
College, for frauds in examinations, has
created quite 4 stir in that college. 1t
seems, from the reports, that the
freshman class was examined in Lat
in, the other day, in two divisions
the same papers being used for each.
A freshman, III. d. Bailey of Ches-
ter, VT, who was examined in the
first division, made a transcript of the
questions, and, when he left the reci-
tation-room, he handed the questions
and answers to two classmates in the
second division, who passed them
around to nine others, and the eleven
students entered the recitation-room
and gave correct answers to the ques-
tons of the Professor. Henry Gar
field was handed the papers, but man
fully refused to touch them, and James
Garfield, mere boy, wanted to see
them, but did not get an opportunity.
On account Of the striking similarity
and uniform correctness of the an
swers from eleven mediocre students,
the professor suspected some game,
and on questioning, the culprits con-
fessed. They are all suspended for
five weeks, except Bailey, who is sus-
pended for two terms and dropped one
year. AS Bailey was himself a fine
scholar and the prospective valedicto-
rian of his class, this was severe pen
atty for his i'll directed generosity
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