News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-11-08

tended to provide schooling for the
children living on canal boats in Eng
land, it is believed that $4,000 chill
dren are growing up on those hablta-
tions without any means Of education
The Grand Hotel at Giessbach, on
Lake Brienz, one of the most ceNe-
brated resorts in Switzerland, was to-
tally destroyed by fire short time
since. 1t was nearly new, and with
its furnishings cost nearly 100000.
1t is predicted that South America
will be the next great beef producing
rcoion of the world. 1t is estimated
that in two years from now the num-
Der Of cattle in the Argentine Con
federation will number 2S,OOO,OOO
against $4,000, 900 in 1877. The
increase in the number Of cattle has
brought down the price so that fat
steers are selling at Sc to IS.
Opposition political meetings in
Paris are now entitled punch din
dignation" gatherings.
The cotton growing South is rejoic-
inc ove2 the invention of cotton
picking machine which successfully
discriminates between the open bolls,
green bolls and blossoms. 1t harvcsts
cotton at the rate of 200 pounds an
hour, and promises to take the place
of hand picking.
Nellie c. Bailey, charged with the
murder of Clement Bathemly in the
Indian Territory, was held by the
United States commissioner at Wich-
tia, Kan, on the LIST inst, for trial.
She is y years old, a handsome bru-
nette and well educated. She moved
in the best society of New York city
and New Jersey and met Bathemly, {
. ! rich Enghshm;,n and nnerr2bcr of tn,
DILltaL association, at st. Louis, an'
arranged With him II 90 to Texas t
start 81 sheep ranch. Before they start
ca she got decd Of his lands i'll Kan
( --.- .., .. nj -'r. 900, and while pass
/ -. ..-- e., .,...,aIs ON the waS
to Texas snoU - ..au4E III he head
She took his trunk containing dia-
monds and jewelry worth $1,000, to-
gether with his outfit, consisting OF
sheep stock worth $4,000, buried
his body at Skeleton ranch and start
ed south, but was arrested nine miles
from the scene of the murder.
All kinds of sensational stories are
being circulated as to the career OF
the late Informer Carey. The Lon
don Observer even claims that among
his friends he had a way Of Boosting
Of his foul deeds. lie is ''mentioned'
as the murderer of George Clarke, a
Fenian iufoYmer, killed in 1866
Carey himself is said to have con
ressed the murder, as he also did thai
of Andrew Mullen, a Dublin gas
| filter, in 1880, while one of the In.
vincibles now in prison claims that il
1880 Carey threw 4 brick layer nance
Behan into the river Liffey. He him
self boosted that he was present a
the attempts to blow up the Prince
consort, and the Lord Carlisle mOnu
ments in Dublin.
The last free shooting match was il
Georgia on Sunday of last week, and
had the novel charm of being conduct
ed under the caves Of a church. L
seems that at a base ball game tue Sat
urday previous, Thomas Sims and Ru
fas McNOrdill had a rather heated al
gument about the playing which served
as a preparatory exercise. All hands
went dutifully 10 church at Hard
scrabble, in Burke county the mex
day, and then business was resumed
in earnest. There were a few pre-
liminary words, and then a mar
named Rogers shot and killed ThOm-
as Sims and MORALLY wounded Frank
his son. Then Duff Sims, another
son, shot Rogers in the face, anC
Rogers, McNOrdill and John Cox re
turned the fire, put four bullets into
Duf's body and the meeting adj
IjOurned.
During the trial of a case in court
at Trenton, n. j., the other day, in
which ex-senator Conkling was ore
of the counsel, the newspaper report
ers who were in attendance were
placed upon the bench of one Of tie
| Judges, who was absent, as there "; s
no other place for them. When the
ex-senator came in, he made bow tC
the row Of reporters, evidently sup
| posing them to be Trenton Judges.
and then, evidently in doubt about
something, asked an associate lawyer
the names Of the dignitaries. lie was
then Informed Of his error, and loud
| laughter arose in the court. Then
the reporters learned what the fun
was about, and laughed, too-and the
more 50 when Mr.. COnkling's associ-
ate, naturally fearing that they might
| feel indignant at being mistaken for
Judges, passed around cigars to them.
and thus appeased any umbrage that
they might have felt.
immigration 50 far this year is less
than it was for any Of the first nine
months Of the past three years, the
figures being about 4j2. 100, against
600, OS6 in 1888, jj2 ,G82 in 1881 and
1914, j93 in 1880. Notwithstanding
the attempts Of Germany to keep her
population at home and her partial
success in this, she continues to send
one-third of all the immigrants, her
contribution being 1888 out Of a.
7I9 who arrived in September, and
IS 1850 out Of 130,327 arrivals in the
last quarter. Last month 8,803 came
from England and Wales, 1898 from
Canada, 1896 from Ireland, 2,342
from Sweden, ,2G7 from Norway and
,Oj9 from Hungary. Scotland, Den
mark, Russia, Austria, Bohemia,
sunny Italy, Switzerland, France, and
many other smaller countries are also
repres ented in the incoming tide.