News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-04-26
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The DAUGHTER OF a rich inhabitant of
Chicago answered an advertisement So
Letting a correspondent. That led to an
interview, the advertiser proceeding to
Chicago for the purpose. Marriage was
proposed, but the father of the young
lady would not consent. Determined to
have her own way, the daughter drew
from the bank a large sum of money,
and elopjng with her new friend, they
were married at a suburban town. On
the third day after her marriage she gave
her husband $40 and he left her for the
purpose of depositing it in a bank. That
was the last she saw Of him. In his
trunk were found letters from the vii
lain wife in New York beseeching him
to return to her and their Two children
or she would commit suicide. Shon Of
her fair fame and fortune, the Chicago
girl returned to her father to muse over
blasted life. Efforts to capture the
scoundreI who deceived her have been
futile
THE HANGING or Mrs. Neaker, the
murderess, was q shocking spectacle for
those who stood near the galIows in the
Vermont town of Windsor. The tcsti-
mCny Of the wretched woman's son had
brought her to the gallows. her husband
had forsaken her when she was con-
demned to it, and so had her daughter !;
she had been deserted by everybody !;
vet. lust before being hanged, she wept,
kissed the hand Of the sheriff who was
to be supervisor of her hanging, sent
her love to the folks at home, and shrilly
cried out, Good-byl good-by" Up to
the last she protested her innocence Of
the crime which her son mad fastened
upon her; and one of the dispatches
from Windsor tells of her saying to the
chaplain 7 am perfectly satisfied to
meet our Lord He viii not be ashamed
to have ms II heaven"
THE MELBOURNE correspondent of the
Australian IEcdjcai Gazette, a surgeon.
writes cheerfulIy about "a stroke Of good
fortune which has distributed among the
profession about a hundred and fifty
cases for treatment" He refers to
railway accident which took place there.
THE 'sBIAcK HAND, as the Anarchist
Confederation in Spain calls itself,
counts in Andalusia alone 130 different
centres and IS. 900 members, of whom
more than l 900 belong to the town of
Here's. The destitution in the whole
province IS described as very great. The
working population Of Neres numbers
about 5000. The rate Of wages averages
only two shiIlings a day, and work IS not
to be had for more than five or six
months Of the year. Some portion of
the distress Is attributed TO the falling
off in the demand for the wine of the
province in consequence Of henumerOus
limitations Of sherry now manufactured
in Germany and in the south Of France.
THE REAPPEARAScE OF the star Of Beth
Iehem Is predicted by astronomers for
this year or the next. On November II,
1872, Tycho de Brahe discovered star
in Cassiopeia which equaled Sirius, and
even Venus, in brightness for month,
and then fell back into its former insig-
nifcance. Conjecture has sought to
establish a connection between this
ephemeraI phenomenon and two similar
apparitions inl264 and 945. Anot mnat-
uraI inference was that the same increase
in volume of this remarkable star oc-
CURED before 945, which would bring--u us
to about $50 and 30 and to the date Of
the Nativity. This star IS now again due
STATISTICS OF SUICIDES in Russia that
includes every Province except three or |
four give a total of 1000 persons who de
stroyed themselves last year, and 7,713 /
for a period OF five years. The greatest |
number of cases are credited to the dis
tricts OF Moscow, St. Petersburg, War
saw, and Tkutsk. In the Russian
Army the number of cases has also in
creased. This Is likewise true Of the
Army in Germany.