News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-08-16
NOTES.

huLu 10 SCNCuGS lure
years old,
w. H. Mallock, the author, is
candidate for Parliament.
Interest lags in collecting the fun
of S25, 1000 for the proposed monu
ment of Senator Ben Hill, of Geor
gia.
Mr.. Blaine has a large portrait o
Garfield hanging conspicuously in TIL
hall OF his new Washington house.
w. B. Astor, of New York, want
steam yacht which shall beat Ben
netts NamOuna and Gould's Atlanti
in every way.
Ex-senator Thurman, of Ohio
likes his glass of whiskey and take
his snuff, and appreciates young PEG
pie and general society.
The Rev. Stephen H. Tying, Sr.
who is "a years old, has no recollec
ton of any thing occurring in the pas
80 years but as TO the events in 1885,
and before he is perfectly clear.
w. II. II. Murray contemplate.
six new books Of Adirondack stories
and one about Texas.
An Englishman bequeathed his two
daughters their weight in fl bank
notes. One of the girls received
f54, 200 and the other f59, 344.
An Iowa editor being asked by {
correspondent If hogs paid, looked
over his subscription list and declared
that they did not.
The second annual meeting of the
National Education Assembly was
begun recently at Ocean Grove, N. j
Some portions of Iowa and Indi
ana were visited on Wednesday o.
last week by TIE most severe hal
storm on record. One locality re-
ports hail five feet deep, blocking the
railways and destroying everything
in its path.
The President was highly enter.
tanned one day last week at Fort
Washable, Wyoming Territory, by 6
large party of Arrapahoe Indians.
who called to pay their respects tc
the Great Father.
1t is over three weeks since the tel,
egraphers' strike was begun, and
neither party is apparently inclined tc
yield. Western Union wires between
New York and Philadelphia and the
West were cut Tuesday night. The
Western Union officials charge the
strikers with the work, and the strik,
ers deny it, charging the Western
Union with it for the purpose of de,
ceiving the public.
The Bennington monument COM
mittee have secured only two-thirds
of their wished for S12, 900. They
propose, however, to remove all build,
ing around the site of the monument
that will interfere with the view of it.
and to put up large, perfectly sim
pie monument-probabIy of Benning-
ton blue lime stone-designed to be
impressive amid its mountainous sur,
rOundings.
A wonderful cave is said to have
been discovered at the base of Look
out Mountain, near Chattanooga.
J. S. Atwater, a well-known bag
manufacturer of New York, has sus-
pended.
A French scientific periodical sug-
gestS q Joint occupation of Mecca by
the several European powers for the
purpose of stopping pilgrimages
thither, and thereby preventing the
further discrimination of cholera
the crowding of people in SO pestilen-
tial city, especially when the Rama
dan falls in summer.
Now Capt. NJ. IL. Mooney, Sheriff
Of Clinton county, \. Y, whom the
pronounce a reliable witness, has seen
the Lake C,amplain ''sea serpent"
At first he Thought it was buoy or a
log, but it disappeared and came up
again within 20 rods of the yacht, and
stood up five feet from the water.
The head was about eight inches
across, and ten inches from the top OF
the head to the jaw. The body was
about as big as stove pipe and % or
so feet long.
After long lull ku-klux outrages
are again reported from the south
this time from the mountainous region
of northwest Georgia, where moon
sinners most do congregate. They
were committed by band Of twenty
five or thirty masked meu, mounted
and heavily armed. The outrages
were perpetrated at night and the
sufferers were negroes, who were driv-
en- from their home, logged and shot.
The Ku-klux desperadoes are believed
to be escaped convicts, and prepare
tons are being made to hunt them
down.