News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-09-20


roe is next, with 7O8 days in eight
years. John Q. Adams was absent
222 days in four years, and Washing
ton 181 days in eight years.
A good deal of bad feeling exists
in the Panhandle region of Texas,
growing out Of the war made upon
wire fences, which have recently been
run around large pastures. These
pastures often have rides 80, 40 and
60 miles long, and without a single
cate or break in them. The owners
thus present to travellers the choice of
riding two days journey out of their
way or cutting their way through.
The latter course is Usually taken, and
personal collisions are of daily occur
renee in consequence. The cattle
kings think it outrageous that men
cut their fences down rather than ride
100 miles. Their position is general
" considered untenable, and will, it
is said, be plainly made SO at the first
meeting of the Legislature.
The prohibitionist, who in Massa-
chusetts is mere malcOntent out in
Iowa, is terrible fellow, to be cOncil-
lated, when he can't be run away from.
Ex-Secretary Kirkwood, who did
stumped the State on the Republican
side every year since the party was
organized, was asked to do so again
this fall But when he said he should
disavow the prohibition plank if any
body asked him his opinion, the old
war Governor was nervously told he
had better not do any work in this
campaign.
The cod fishing in Iceland has been
almost failure this season because
of the ice barriers in the north. This
is another sad blow to an already
sadly Strengthened people, for though
the fisheries are mainly run by for
eign companies the Icelanders have
come to be still more dependent upon
them, since the terrible winters Of the
last few years have almost devastated
their herds. 1t begins TO look as
though the plan of emigration lately
talked of offers the only real relief for
this overEurdened but country loving
people.
A St. Louis reporter asserts that
the meat of diseased cattle and Grip
pied hogs constitutes a large share of
that city's food supply. 1t was ascer-
tanned from butchers that cattle that
die of injuries received in shipment
can, in warm weather, he dressed
within two hours after death, and the
blood so worked out of the meat that
only an expert can detect it. The re-
porter found evidence that lame,
bruised and mangled cattle in their fe-
verish state are dressed and sold to
retail vendors, who could not know
even the condition of the animal when
killed.
Telegraph;c communication with
Brazil has hitherto been had only by
way of London, and a dispatch leav-
ing New York at p. m. one day has
not reached Rio Janerio until $50
the next morning. A direct line has
now been finished, however, after three
years Of labor, and congratulatOry
dispatches were on Monday sent
through in two hours. The new line
comes from the Brazilian city by way
Of Montivideo and Valparaiso on land
wires, crosses the isthmus Of Tehuan-
tepec and connects with this country
by cable at Galveston.
A man named Louis Lacy, entered
a street car in Chicago in a drunken
condition and refused to pay his fare.
The conductor threw him off the plat
form and, seeing he did not move, told
the driver to whip up, and the car rat
tied away and the conductor escaped.
The police patrol was called, and the
body was put into a wagon, taken to
the morgue and placed on ice, while 4
large force of police was sent in
search of the fleeing conductor. At
ter being a short time on the ice the
body began to show signs of life, and
in the course Of half an hour Lacy
was able to walk to the police station.
Examination showed that he was not
seriously hurt, and that his state OF
temporary coma was due wholly tc
liquor.
A deaf and dumb newsman on the
Long Island railroad, known fol-
years to residents of the island, anC
usually called Dummy, had Eeen suf
fering from an aching tooth. A day
or two ago at Jamaica he tied string
around the tooth, and, just before ;
train left the station, he tied the Othe
end Of the string to the rear car
When the train started he ran alon!
behind it until it had gathered head
way, when he dropped on his knees
The train carried the tooth to Lon!
: Island City. An expression Of pain
: on his face was followed by one o
delight when he knew the cause o
: his trouble was gone.
John Heffner,a rag picker, aged GO
: was killed at Reading, Pa, last weel
: by locomotive. He himself is all
thority for the statement that he wa
the father of ~ children. He was
2 small, why, hump-backed, darl
5 skinned man, and was born in Ger
2 many. At 20 he married his frs
: wife in Germany. She lived eigh
) wears, and in that time became tn
| mother of seventeen children-twin
twice, triplets four times, and
single child. He employed woman
I to take charge of the brood Of II lit
! tie ones, and in 1849 she became hi
wife. In due time she became tn
t mother of - children, and died i
1857. Twelve of the little ones died
leaving 30 in the brood. He the
= brought them to America, and in 1875
- married his third wife, widow wit
: one child. She bore him ten children
making AZ in all, small number {
whom are now living. He seemed t
:, enjoy himself aud went through Inf
. apparently contented and happy. ii
= was unable to save much money.
t An English paper, in commentin
G upon the subject, remarks that til
o Cheshire dairy farmer, by free use
It bone manure laid on the grass lands
makes his farm, which at one time
+ before the application Of bone manure
If fed only twenty head of cows, no
q feed forty. In Cheshire two-thirds c
h more, generally threc-fourths, of
@ dairy farm is kept in perfect pasture
Y the remainder in tillage. Its dair
# farmers are commonly bound to la
the whole Of their manure, not on til