News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-25
CLIPPINGS.


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, its tail.
Policeman Mcnamara, of New
York, who killed John Smith last Au.
gust by breaking his neck with a club
while arresting him for intoxication
was convicted recently of assault in
the third degree, the severest penalty
Of which is one years Imprisonment
snd $500 fine.
The trustees of the Garfield nation
al monument association invite an in
ternational competition, open to all
artists, for monument in honor of
Garfield. For the design possessing
the highest merit, $1,000 will be paid !;
for the second, $3.50; third, $500.
The monument will be erected at Lake
View Cemetery. There will be a re-
ceptacle for the deceased President
with a vault for his family. The mon
ument will cost about S150,000; to be
Of granite with emblems and statuary
of bronze.
A Maryland man wants divorce
because his wife won't let him read the
bible.
DR.. Charles c. Beatty, of Steuben-
vile, o., had a peculiar method of
disposing of his wealth. At first he
prayerfully set apart one-tenth of his
income for the cause of Christianity ::
but, when the financial revolution of
1887 wrought whispered distress, he
resolved that One-fourth should 90 to
religion and charity. After this, in
view of the fact that, as he says in
the written pledge found since his re-
cent death, the Lord had blessed him
pecuniarily ''beyond what he had ever
expected or desired," and he made a
covenant never TO allow the principal
Of his fortune to exceed $4,000, and
that all above this should be given
away. Accordingly the value of his
estate is $4,000, and the aggregated
gifts amounted to $500, 900.
Tennessee has adopted new plan
to diminish drunkenness by passing
law to prevent the sale of intOxicat-
ing liquors to minors without the writ
ten consent of their parents or guar
dams, or to husbands who are COM
mon drunkards unless their wives give
their consent.
II. G. Linfeld, the inventor of
flying machine, has conducted an ex-
pertinent with his invention between
Coinbrook and West Drayton, Eng
land. The apparatus, which is de-
scribed as a steam sailing machine, is
constructed of light wood, and is
shaped like the frame of four wheel
carriage, with two large wheels in
Motive power is to be obtained by
steam, which will work nine bla6ed
screw, and the inventors idea is to
propel the machine by steam on land
until it attains a speed of thirty or
thirty-fve miles, velocity which he
calculates will be sufficient to lift the
machine into the air, when it will be
navigated by means of the sails with
which it is fitted. From the result of
his experiment he is confident that it
is possible to fly in the air at the
height of mile. By permission of
the Great Western Railway company
the experiment was made on the newly
finished portion of the railway to
Staines, between Coinbrook and West
Drayton, and the inventor was ac-
companled by Mr.. Trevithick, the To-
connective superintendent Of the COM
company at Paddington. The ma
chine was placed on a truck and con-
nected with an engine, whence the
steam was derived, and the gearing
was manipulated from another truck.
The operator succeeded in getting the
machine lifted from the truck into the
air, and expressed himself fully salts
fed with the result of the trial.